The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-08
KeyWest Captures Win From Smo.;ers
On Sixteen Hit Attack Thursday rs
Reyes And Hdrig
Hit In Clutch
For Victory

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i With a big run in 9Th inning the
Key West Conchs sailed past the
Tampa Smokers last night for their
first victory in the three game Sc
ries with the upstaters.
The Conchs came from behind
after Tampa's Earl Brucker had
slammed a two.run homer in the
third inning that had put the visi-
tors ahead, 81.
The Conchs knocked Tampa's
pitching mainstay, Dale Matthew
son from the mound in the eighth
inning as the Key West batsmen
piled UP a 16 hit performance.
In the sixth inning, George vi
day started the uprising with sin
gle and Art Bosch duplicated his
effort. Rene Soils helped his own
cause along with a screaming two
Dagger to score both runners. Dun
lap walked and chunky Chuck Har-
ig crossed up Matthewson when
he caught hold Of an outside pitch
and poled it to left field for a two
Dagger and two more coupters. Nap
Reyes then came to the plate and
poked out a double for another
score.
Key West added another counter
IN the eighth when Dunlap led off
with a single, advanced to third
base on shortstop Varonas' error
and came In on a single by Ma
ager Barney Lutz.
The Conchs had scored in the
first inning when Charley Harig
drove in Severino Mendez with a
single.
Soils went all the way for the
Conchs. Rene scattered 10 Tampa
hits. Shaky at times. he bore down
In the clutch to strike out four and
walk a like number.
Harig Stars
Charley Harig was the hitting
star of the evening for the winners,
with a double and two singles in
five trips to the plate while Soils
had two doubles.
Florida international League
batters put on their hitting clothes
Thursday night and pounded out
Sc safeties in three games, COM
pared with only 81 base hits in
four games Wednesday night.
Miami Beach pounded three Mi.
ami pitchers for q dozen hits and
won their game, SO, while st.
Petersburg got 10 blows off two
West Palm Beach pitchers to score
Dick McMillin and Mort Smith
combined to limit Miami to six
hits and the lFlamingos sewed up
the game on four singles and a
long fly in the second inning.
West Palm Beach collected only
four hits off Monte Lopez, who had
q shutout until the ninth when an
error, q walk. and a rundown let
in a run. Billy Seal paced the
Saints bat attack with a bases
loaded double and single to drive
In five runs. The Saints won five
out of seven during their home
stand.
DuGOUT D1GGINGS: Conchs
leave for Miami today for three
games with the Sun Sox and two
with the Miami Beach Flamingos.
They return here on Tuesday for
five game stand against the
same clubs.
Key West fans are plenty irked
about the officiating in the FIJI,
particularly during the Tampa Sc.
ries. Last night, the conchs were
the losers on three close decisions
that could have put a different
complexion on the ball game.
Frank Dunlap made a very pref
~ throw in the seventh to retire
Gonzalez on an attempted steal to
second.
With two outs In the ninth and
the Conchs coasting along on a
two run bumper, the Key West
fans headed for the exits. but Tam
pas Verona singled and Bitsy
Mott drew a base on balls. Both
runners advanced on a passed bali
90 produce a tense situation. How.
ever, after running the count up
on Pecou. Soils forced him TO hit
. towering pop foul which Dunlap
caught hold Of and squeezed for
the final out of the ball game.
With but seven runs on l6 hits.
we wonder II the Conchs might be
doing a little loafing on the base.
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