The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-23
FOLLOWING THROUGH
BY PEDRO AGULAR

baseball in Key West from late
in the 1905 up to the present.
On April 3, 1882, an An-Star
nine played the Sluggers at FIT
Tay loH field and won, 30. In
was q close, exciting battle.
Joe-7House) Casa, he of the
dark .ballY, and Molina pitched
for the Stars, and Earl (Wrink-
ley Bid Ingraham, famous soft
ball backstop, b caught. Robert
Bethel and William Gates form
ed the battery for the Sluggers.
On April 10 of that year, the
Sluggers again lost to the ALI
Stars. Quintan Lopez was on
the mound for the Sluggers but
even this great pitcher of Key
West couldn't stop the Stars, who
won, 2-1 Molina pitched for the
VictorS.
Lopez allowed only two hits.
He lost the game on errors by his
teammates.
Another 80 victory went to
the Stars when they met the
Sluegers for the third time on
April II, 1892.
Casa came back to the hill to
hurl his mates to the close tri-
umph. NJ Acevedo accepted his
slants behind the plate. So.
Bethel and Fernandez worked
for the Sluggers. Bethel allow
ed just one hit until the ninth,
when three safeties and two er-
rors gave the Stars three runs
and the game.
Finally. on April "a, the fol-
lowing Sunday, the Sluggers,
bounding back from three sue
cesSive defeats, crushed the Stars
I'll. Bethel at last got by the
nine regulation innings without
faltering and without his team
mates crossing him up with err
rors. William Gates caught his
losses. ) Puby Carbonell and Nc
lima pitched for the Stars. NJ
Acevedo was behind the plate.
On April 26, 1882, another
League was formed, with S. Ma
poles elected president, M. Va
rela. ST.. the treasurer. c. Her
nandez the secretary. Oscar Pita
the official scorer. and M. Garcia
and W. Camilla the umpires.
Teams entered were the Young
Sluggers, N. Sawyer, manager;
Pirates. A. Martinez, manager,
and Key West, A Acevedo,
manager Games were to be
PLAYED at Navy Field.
On Nav l the first game of the
league ended in shutout for the
Pirates, 20, over the Sluggers.
Lineup of the BUGS included Acos-
ia, If; Perez, CT; o. Gonzalez, 2b;
Lopez, p; Carbonen, C; Pena, 1b:
Castillo, 3b; Machin, rf, and
Diaz, SIS. The Sluggers used Saw
yer, If; Valdes, SIS; Ubieta, 3b;
Gates, C; Fernandez, ID; Fruto,
If; L. Gonzalez, 3b; P. Gonzalez,
IF, and Bethel, p.
Key West nosed the Sluggers
10 in the second game of a dou-
bleheader that afternoon. Key
West had Molina, If and p; G.
Acevedo, IF; A. Acevedo, 2b
Griffin, CT; Medina, CT; M. Ace
vedo, 3b; Ingraham, C; Artman,
SIS; Garcia, ID; Casa, p. Sluggers
had Howard Gates and Robert
Bethel as their pitchers and Will
. liam Gates as catcher.
On May s, 1882, Key West,
doing the exact opposite that
they did the previous Sunday,
bowed to the Pirates, 81. The
Ccnchs nosed the Sluggers by the
same score on MAY l. Molina,
Casa and Ingraham formed the
battery for the losers, Carbonell
and o. Diaz for the victors.
Sluggers pounded the Pirates
1873 in the second game of the
twin bill. Bethel and Gates held
the BUGS. G.. Diaz, o. Gonzalez
and Fernandez worked for the
Pirates.
On May %, 1892, Key West,
after winning and losing a game
by one run in two previous loop
battles, edged the Sluggers, 5-4
Bethel, Lunn and Gates was the
Slugger battery. Ward, F. Car
bonell, Albury, Molina and In
graham were the pitchers and
. catcHer for Key West.
Key West dropped the second
game. 10. because Quintan Lo-
peg. on the mound for the BUGS,
scattered the six hits he allowed.
Fernandez caught his slants. Joe
Casa, Molina and Vidal was the
losing battery. ..E