The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-24
FOLLOWING THROUGH
By PEDRO AcUILAR

The second half of the City
Soft ball league and the Service
league has just begun, and it
seems as if this half will be a
hard fought battle from the start
to finish. The city league contend
ers so far are the A. Legion, a
club that always fights from the
start to finish, at the end OF the
first half they were back in the
box, but reinforcements have ar
rived and Mgr. Mccullough seems
to have the situation well in hand.
Joe Mira and his brother, Arman-
do, have joined the forces and
both are good hitters and fielders.
The Machinist is another club that
has to be watched. They won the
first half and will have practically
the same club for the second
round. Albury, Machin, Baze,
Baker and Sue Griffin are hitting
the ball and weak hitter Cutter
reg has started to hit the apple.
Southern. Eng. Co. has good pitch
ers and some very good hitterS.
Del Vale won the first half bait
ing crown. Higgs, Marsh, GosS
and Sierra have hit good. They
lost good hitter and fielder in
Malgrat, but still have a good
club. The Civilian Workers will
give them all a run for their mon
ey, but another pitcher will make
them contenders. for Valdez, Cas-
tellano, Diaz, Sheppard, Garcia.
Fernandez hit that ball hard and
often. The BIG, are a club that
cannot be figured out just yet.
They have some very good play
ers, in Alonzo, M. Hernandez, NAL
graf, c. Albury, Parks, Sweeting,
Osterhouse, Pie Traynor as man.
ager knows his onions, but lets
see when they play together what
they will do and who are the pitch
ers:: The Daily News has a very
good young club, and can they
hit, we'll the other night against
the Elect. Shop all they did was
hit out Is safeties, 3 were HomerS
and one triple, good for 26 bases.
Cruz Berther, Gorten, Fitch, Kerr,
Solomon, Maader, and Thompson
J. Lewis and even Patterson hit
one for a single and stole base.
The Elect. Shop have some good
players, all they need is for Ack-
erman to come back to third, Sell,
ers, Sartain, Romero, Wells, Glenn
ents, all play and hit well,
couple of pitchers will give them
a good ball club, and the Pines,
a teen age club has some tough
games ahead of them and they
will be ready for competition in
1916.
Alberto Lopez, who died last
Saturday here in this city was one
of the best second basemen in the
Island City from 1890 until 1905,
when he retired from the game.
He played when the clubs were
known as the Reds, Blues and
American Browns, and he also
played in Cuba and toured with
a local club through Florida in
1900. R. l. P.
5sff. - j.
In the service League, the Boca
Chiea club looked good in the only
game they played, and Neal one
hit pitching looked impressive,
and Rowland, Nuskey, and Avery
each hit two safely for the Beach
can. The Marines looked good
and Cardwell did well in the box,
and he is no pitcher, he hit the
only single off Neal. Yurina, JAG
obs, Perry and Glidewell played
a good game. Fl. Taylor has play
ed two games in the second half
and in the first game. Stuart
pitched a one hit game against
his eternal rivals the Barracks
and Bise also allowed the boys
from Battery B. but one hit. Harri-
son, Bice, Wanner, and Reuben
played we'll for the winners. Luc-
angre, Bosco, Yates and Lagesen
played well. In the second game
the Fl. Taylor boys played a
very loose game, and Stuart was
touched for eight hits. Martin,
Bosco, Bella and Lageson played
we'll. For the V.P.B. lib, the pitch
ing of Richardson featured his
first try in the box and he had
beginners luck. Rage played well,
and Bennett hit three safely.
Phair and Alterie two each. In the
first game Sound School won over
the VP.B. 113 by three to two
score and Lefty Williams of the
Sound boys allowed but three
allowed but three hits and Lynn
of the losers allowed three. Phair
and Kammis played a good game
for the losers and Hilvey, Thomas
and Schilling for the winners. All
the clubs seem evenly matched
and any one will win the second
half at the league.
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