The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1934, Page 3

ay. FEBRUARY 27, 1934. Baseball’s Little Napoleon: evevccccccceeesesesovevcsescccccccocscccccceoseoeosogoogoceseoce HE BECAME SYMGOLICAL OF GASE BALL AGGRESSIVENESS AND FIGHTING SPIRIT, AND ORIGINATED “MASTER MIND” TRADITION. JOHN McGRAW, who was to become baseball’s most glamorous and in ‘ways most successful figire, got an early start in the game that brought him fame. On his 17th birtliday he started playing. in. organized baseball in the New York-Penn- sylvania loop, two years later he was in the National League, with Baltimore, and by the time he was 29 had started his no yeee seprceae. career at the’ hel York Giants. Once in the’ big show McGraw bixtad building New York from a “joke” baseball town to the best baseball’ city in the nation. His aggressiveness and tru him a colerful figure and his team acquired, in part, his brusque, bristling personality. Argevere | peer MeGraw. was particularly “rough” on players ARMY WILL PLAY FUNERAL AL, HOMERS APPRECIATION FROM HENRY L. DOHERTY sihtiesenaia: GAME TO BE|L, P. Artman, Editor, PLAYED ON THURSDAY, | ihe Citizen, | Key West, Fla. AFTERNOON | Dear Mr, Artman: PEOPLE’S FORUM | [eeeeeeseenseee | eeecccace eseces: 4 Now that the Birthday Ball for the President has come to a suc- | eessful conclusion, I feel that I Arrangements have been made | | would be remiss in. closing this ac- for a diamondball game to be play-! | tivity unless I took opportunity to ed on Thursday afternoon at the! express to you the appreciation of Barracks grounds “between the; the. National Committee for !! Army team and the Lopez Fun-| that you and your associates have eral Home club. The game will | jae in making this success pos- start at 4 o'clock, E cai dahebedh ‘conters:: In - this ‘ot course, no social event is a real success without the coopera- proposed contest, and .it.is -ex-' tion of the press, but in this par- pected there will be a large num | ticular case the newspapers of the ber of fans in attendance to wit- country played a much greater ness the exhibition. j role than the invaluable one of "The line-ups follows: acquainting all of their readers Army—Nodine, c; Sullivan, 6%;! with the event. , Cates, bod Gochring, 2b; Gonsa- Over 3,600 local committees re of} serige: < ham a ats throughout the country were or-j} st oP ‘owell, rf, and 3 ages in practically five weeks, Mr, Carl Byoir, the general <irec- TF saad Dank ihe ‘tor “of the National Committee,! is, ‘vs: Gonaslen, 2b; Albury | tells me that this record of organ. beget wow te BOS " se ization would have been absolute- 3 3b; H, Gates, If; Mc-i iy impossible except for the fact Carthy, ef, and Villareal, rf, | that the local. chairmen, almost Seek nn without exception, were nominat- ed by the local newspaper publish- | _ {ers, Thus we were able to en- Oeecccccesonanceoncosocs | list, almost instantly, A Beaatoe Buntns K, Wheel-| 72°02: fhe, Mepvort: and confi- i dence of their community, on ge peal ibe sui se * [think the most heartening fact | developed by this campaign was; U. S. Senator Hugo Black of that, without a single exception, ' ee born at Harlan, Ala,, 48 the newspapers of this country,! both daily and weekly, joined in} organizing and supporting ‘this! t humane work. This is prob-; gnator Hamilton Fi Kean Sty the first time in the history; J. 72 he by our country: that a nationwide * son organization has keen effecte . Gen. through the: medium ‘of the. press; ant Searle g "arin although, of course. the ‘newspa- sp born ids, pers of the country have frequent- oF Big Ra Mich ly given unstintingly of their space! to many charitable causes. Henry M. Tou of Boston,|. A® soon as returns from local | lawyer, Harvard’s oldest graduate, | committees are complete and have} born there, 95 Smee ago. "| been audited by a firm of nation- | aly known certified public ac Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale,| eountants, full detailed informa noted political economist, born in} ee will be furnished the publi New York, 67 years ago, rough the press so that all may | sone the extent of the success of the Birthday Ball. David Sarnoff of New York, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN JOHN AS GRAW HUGHEY JENNINGS WILLE KEELERL VAN GROVHERS KID BORM A "TRUXTON, N.Y., ° APRIL 7, (873, HE STARTED PLAYING LEAGUE BALL WITH y LOLEAN AT '7. TWOYEARS 4 LATER HE WAS WITH J “GE BALTIMORE ORIOLES HIS FIRST ME ON BECOMING MANAGER. OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS * WE CAN FINISH IN THE CELLAR JUST AS EASILY WITH AS WE CAN IN190Z WAS TO RELEASE 10 OF HIS ZA PLAYERS. many im of the New culence made who were in- wal GLEASON I4 OLAYERS ae La.” clined to be too mechanical and those who did not “use their heads,” However, for all his brusqueness and keeness to win, McGraw was known to intimates as a truly generous warm-hearted soul, Even with his scorn for the inept and mentally dull Mac could forgive tried and tested members of his teams for momentary lanses, Evidence of this is found in his ready forgiveness of Fred Merkle, whose famo the Giants the 1908 championship, and his remission of Fred Snodgrass after the lat- ter’s muff of a fly ball lost the 1912 series. the bitterest blows to Mac, for it came at the end of the great Christy Mathewson’s career with the Giants. failure to touch second base ost This latter loss, incidentally, was one of WAITS IN VAIN EVANSTON, Ill.—-Mrs. Henry | Borrer of this city sat up all night} to let her husband in, but in the, morning she found him dead onj | the porch. Higher prices for wool have made the economic outlook in New Zealand seem brighter now than at any time in the last three years, Subscribe for The Citizen, leeeecccec-coccccecccccce! Notice To Subscribers Please be prompt in paying the carrier who delivers your paper, He pays The Citizen 15 cents a week for the pa- per-and sells it to you for 20 cents, His profit for deliver- ing is 6 cents weekly on each qubscriber. If he is not paid HE loses, Not The Citizen. Judith Lane inherited the vast fortune—but there were strings “attached: She F rips Neches pe wreck her marriage, wiviees Gon. yng opie ayer a Read the answer in Jeanne Bowman's serial “JUDITH LANE” Starting Monday, March 6 The Key West Citizen bring chairmen (oeerwnsareasereasen i ween try . hefore ypu or not you can afford it. economical it is. This is the only way to decide for yourself whether or not you like electric cooking—whether Our TRIAL PLAN gives you the opportunity of finding out for yourself how much electric cookery costs, how accurate, president of the Radio Corp, of America, born in Russia, 43 years ago. Dr. Ralph C. Hutchison, presi- dent of Washington and Jeffer » College, Washington, Pa., baty at Florissant, Colo., 36 years age. B 4 agrneet “OLD WEDDING CAKE WESTPORT, Conn.—A slice of wedding cake, made nearly 51 years ago, was eaten recently by Mr. and Mrs. E, D, Merriman of this city. The total value of all agricul-! tural products grown in Louisiana annually is estimated at $200,- 000,000. ———— About 200 men have been given employment for six months in building levees to protect Hick- man, Ky., from Mississippi river| floods. It has been a rea) inspiration to | me to have been associated with you in this work and I just want) you to know that I feel very deep- | ly that you can always have a just pride in having played so im ant a part in the fight agai infantile paralysis. Sincerely yours, HENRY L, DOHERTY. National Chairman, New York City, N. Y., Feb. 21, 1934, IPP PPP TPIT I IIIT? TOOL IL Ea ever to you, trial period. Al ASKS DEATH SENTENCE CHICAGO.— speth of this city as a drug addict, asked the court} | te sentence her t to 9 death. A | Key West's First Funeral Home|} |] Key West's First Ambulance | i Georgia Hud- hen arraigned | vo | Service PRITCHARD Phone 548 Never Sleeps | pat Why not have an electric kitchen! Try the electric range for a period of a year and see for yourself its advantages. 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