The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-25

the game on the mound for Key
West.
Lakeland made the most Of their
nine hits while the Conchs exploded
for fourteen.
Control, or lack of it was the
deciding factor in last nights set
to, with the Conchs giving up an
even ten free passes.
While rain idled the persisten.
Miami Beach Flamingos, the Mi
ami Sun Sox frightened their shaky
Florida international League lead
Sunday night with a 6-3 victory
over Havana. But they were still
less than full game In front.
A four-run outburst enlivened by
double steal in the seventh in
ming gave Miami its win over the
Cubans.
Two runs had scored and the
Sun Sox had the bases loaded when
Humberto Fernandez stole home
and Jim Bragan swiped third base.
Then Rocky Rotzell broke from
first base and as the throw to Sec
ond in an effort to catch him went
wild, Bragan also scored.
The st. Petersburg Miami Beach
game was rained out.
Earle Brucker homered In the
fifth to score the winning run for
Tampa in a 4-3 win over West
Palm Beach. Camille Pascual held
West Palm to three hits but was
| in trouble frequently as he issued
seven walks and wild pitched two
runs across.
DUGOUT DIGGINGS: The Conchs
and the Pilots finish up their three
game series tonight with single
game starting at BIS. Tonight
has been designated Merchants
Night with prizes valued at over
! $500 slated to be given away.
The Conch infield pulled off a
pair OF nice looking double dips
| last night both of them originat-
| ing with second sacker Willie Eel
der.
We sat In on an informal meeting
between Loop President Henry 5.
Baynard and the Conch Board Of
Directors Saturday afternoon at
the home of DR.. il. Lester. Natur-
ally, the senator. making nosie
like a president had to issue some
stern warnings about the obvious
shortcomings in the Key West set
up. but through il all, we couldn't
help detecting hint in the presi-
dents voice that he was more
than a little pleased with the way
things are going in Key West
which happens TO be leading the
league in attendance. All of the
presidents criticism was in con-
structiye vein and he was fair
enough 70 point 0lats that lack Of
experience in operationg q ball
club could be the. cause of some
OF the mistakes made by the local
club.
But the Miami Beach club, where
Baynard Is visiting today, is in for
bit Of trouble according to the
president when he said he was
going to make an investi-
CATION Of the way In which they
have been juggling their player
roster during the season. 1t seems
that their have been a few suspect
ed Irregularities in their suspension
list and Baynard says he wants
an explanation.
The Senator ALSO should look into
this Venn deal. As it looks here,
venn should be playing ball for
the Conchs ii he wants to
play at all. venn jumped this club
and now he is performing for the
Beach. His sale TO that club has
not been announced and now we
learn from Miami Beach sources
that Venn swas returned" TO the
Flamingos on August 18th. ( a month
after he jumped the club for
which he should, have been. Now
lookee here the Key West Of
ficials say that he wasn't sold to
the Beach Tie was our property
until we decided 10 return him or
buy him by September 10th and
the fans tell me that they are q
little sore about he situation. Some
of them even 90 30 far as to say
that there might have been a little
finagling between Ray and Joe
Ryan. The Beach needed catching
and this fellow venn was up there
why not put him to work. But what
about the Conchs-- we needed
catching too. We hope the club
made some money on the deal, at
least enough 10 Get another catch
er.
The official batting and pitch
Ing averages. as Published in the
Miami papers yesterday have been
the source Of no little laughter In
the Key West Clubhouse. Seems
that our boy Charley Harig. who
Is second in the homerun race with
II circuit clouts. has lost six Of
them when he was listed as having
but five. AT the rate he is going.
he viii owe the league u couple
before the end Of the season. And