The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-31
Memo Castro Walked
Plumbers To Ninth
Straight Victory3- /
Veteran Barber Mounds
man Blew Up In Fifth;
Passed Six, Forcing
Home All Pepper Runs

Memo Castro, tossing cagey ball
and nursing the only run of the
game, blew up like ninedollar
Roman candle at BayvieW Park
last night to nand Peppers
Plumbers their ninth straight
softball victory and drop his own
Sawyer's BARRIERS a game-and-a
half out of the loop lead.
Castro, who had been present
ed with the games first run in
the first-half of the fifth, went
completely haywire in the sec
ond-half of the inning to walk
six men and blow the game,
3 to /.
Rolling along in first place un-,
til they ran afoul of the ram
/; paging. pipefitters last week, the
BARRIERS now are only a game
] Ahead sof the third place Nav
Stas4 who claimed a forfeit in
the twin, bill opener last night
when the Marines failed to APP
pear on the field.
! For Castro and the BARRIERS it
j was a tough one to take.
Playing scoreless ball for four
innings, the clipper boys were
out to bring one home in the
| fifth. Catcher Kiki Hopkins
went to first on bunt down the
third base line, sprinted to sec
ond on passed ball, made third on
Melvin Tynes' single, and brought
home the first score of the
match when Ralph (Flash) Arm
old cracked out another bingle.
The next two players famed, and
the third popped out to Pitcher
Clarence Cigarette Willie) Gates,
but the damage was done.
/ 1t was then that Castro, who
had set Gown the Plumbers in
four innings with three hits and
no runs, blew up.
! He walked Airmen Bennett;
Jackie Carbonell, captain-short-
stop, laid down a bunt along the
/ third base line and was thrown
out at first by Castro, but Ben
nett went to second; Gene Tor
res, second baseman, grounded
/ out to first.
/ With two out and a man on,
Bennett raced to third on pass
ed ball and Castro started walk
ing them. He passed Everett
(Two-By- Four Higgs, leftfielder,
I who made second on a passed
ball; he walked julius DoDo)
Villareal, centerfielder, loading
the bases; Douglas Mccarthy,
shortfielder, walked to force in
Bennett; Early (Wrinkley Bid
Ingraham. backstopping for Pep
pers with an injured finger.
walked to send in Higgs; Charles
Rosam, third basemcn, walked to
score Villareal, and Castro, who
had walked off the mound when
he passed Rosam, tossed in his
glove but was sent to rightfield.
! Aurelio Grip Lastres, first
baseman, grounded out to Dewitt
/ Rusterl Roberts, relief hurler
! pulled in from right. to end the
Inning.
I Roberts walked two and gave
.up a single in the next inning,
but the Plumbers failed to score
again. iaa1iS a4fn r-f& 5oG
i, Castro walked nine in all,
struck out two. allowed three
hits and three runs. with three
left on base.
Gates went the route for the
Plumbers. holding the BARRIERS
to three singles, one a scratch
hit, one run. walked three and
struck out four. He pulled out
of hole in the second when
the two haireutters were walked
after one went down, but the
next batter forced a runner out
at second and the last man up
grounded out, third to first.
Il was Castro's second loss
against six wins and Gates sixth
/ victory TO one defeat
The Marines, who took their
worst beating Of the season Wed
nesday night. 35-2, against Army,
, forfeited their game with the
NaYStas. The Marines have
! been SERIOUSLY weakened bv the
transfer of some OF their star
PLAYERS and injuries 20 others.
Capt. Arthur Sheppard. WPA
navy recreation director. and
League President J. NJ. Vareia
called players for the Plumbers
and BARRIERS on the field before
the game and urged them 10 play
without anv more of the hard
feelings th~v have displayed IN
other games. Sheppard assisted
Varela in directing the game
taking the place az Marvin Lewis.