The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 19, 1940, Page 3

THURSDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1940 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BIND SO ONE NIGHT WHEN THE MOON WAS FULL, MYST SET HIS MAGIC TO WORK AND FROM EYERYWHERE SLEEPING CHILDREN WERE QUICKLY AND QUIETLY CAUGHT UP BY A SOFT BREEZE AND AWAY THEY WENT TO CHRISTMAS LAND. E ALL YOU HAVE TO Do t YESTERDAY: Se DAES A night vigil a Baggie’s mur: ie was ha: ne Now L t Gregory 1s in the house, era: ing host and hostess and apparen willing to share h Chapter 24 The Coroner 7OU are es a typewriter bler’s han his own tele- tenant went on. 1 had been sure enough at time. I took the note and ex ined it again. “Yes, it is Au: Maggie’s writing. I'm as certain @s one can reasonably be.” Lieutenant Gregory went into the routine questions to whether Aunt Maggie had enemies and cause to s le number indicated. feats as a memory as a pianist and ic speaker, he is d as an honor to call out tt Because of hi | wizard, his. sk to do so. Evident- i believed some- is p assistant’ be; is it, Roberts?” Lieutenant ory asked. “Oh, I was quite .” Bill a 5 ‘ou know no one it have tried to blac! dm ane “Who will pi “Profit?” Bill like stupid pa our state and city be used in the- elucidated h e ct bequests, the residue of her estate accrues to her great-niece * |and namesake, Mrs. | —er—residue, what would Welcome Visitors | ae however agreeable Patrol- man Roberts’s thoughts may have been, they were interrupted by a loud and peremptory knock- ing at the door. Lieutenant Greg- re will be con- to go through ing up the estate. There | ¥ ory frowned, but nodded in De | nes eZ customary inheri- swer to Roberts's ques’ = 2 , : look, and the latter, ae ughly speaking, would eloquent in every move Jyou say there would still be a |considerable sum?” “That depends upon what you by a considerable sum.” everal hundred thousand q arose and stalked over to an: Standing outside was our law yer, Mr. Thomas Marshall, and |™ another man whom I did not! ur ALL looked very h ndered his definite . “with= ional appraisal, espe- property. But in ne I should say we count on something g a hundred thou- said Lieutenant yly, apparently lad to abandon the subject gZ some= r. Marsh- sit- and y looked at d n his each other f In fact. we pf and I have a ability and tion. So, af making an ex thing’ ovér on the cor Lieutenant Greg: worthy attempt a “You are rig! put anything agreed Mr. Mar: plained that his purp: ing Mr. Dodson was to have Tor the situation over and i e questio nears more the human voice than the rest of us do, Marshall declared. “Oh, I don’t know,” Mr. Dodson deprecated modestly, but with a is t to his sensitive be I just listen more It is one of the things do when you cannot} depend entirely, upon sight.” t agreed Ri i are ong woman to strangle another to death. even though the victim was a much older woman.” “Mrs. Stuart is city tennis champion,” said Roberts. Outraged, both Bill and I turned on him at once. To be continued (Cobsrigkt, 1939, Medora Field Perkersen) SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—2ée WEEKLY. a Peppers Claim Major Upset In Downing Lions And Threw Cage Cir- SEVEN ORANGE BOWL RIVALS TO TURN PRO (Special te The Citizen) MIAMI. Dec. 19.—Three Georgetown University stars and four from Mississippi State. rivals in the Orange Bowl Classic here New Year's Day, have been claimed by three professional football teams for action next fall. euit Inte Three-Way Tie Fer Second Place By BERKY t night in the High School fair-sized crowd watched _his- n, a <ebtall fans ing t in the m as cellar-oc- cupants Pepper's Plumbers hand- Detroit Lions claimed ed the almost invincible Lions Aguie Lie from Georgetown, Club quintet its first defeat in ie omega aa — > a mm Tripson, tackle, a: il- league play in > years. = BS iferson, te Mis- “Roaring” Lions marched on edie aos sissippi State. the court before the second game Pittsburgh Steelers put in of the twin bill last night without! their claim for Elvin Elrod, a thought of experiencing any Mississippi State’s great All- trouble with thé Prumbers. They American end, and Jim Cas- were due for a rude awakening in the very first quarter. Peppers shutout the Civic boys 8-0 as the whistle ended the initial period. Piumbers played a great man-| to-man defensive game through- out, holding the Lions to just nine points while they ran their total to 14 in the second quarter. ity champions came strong in the third period, dis- playing renewed fighting spirit, but it slowly tapered off as the Peppers kept up a steady gain. Sparked by big “Butch” Cates and “Bubber” Wickers, the Pipe-! Fitters decidedly outplayed the: “mighty” Lions on both the de- fense and offe All five mem- | bers of the Plumbers played hard the entire 40 minutes the game consum lemonstrated what teamwork and clean play can ac- complish Pinder and Smith, of the losers, ticlia. Georgetown’s battering fullback. Brooklyn Dodgers likewise have claimed Georgetown’s backfield ace, Julius Koshlap, and Mississippi State’s Har- vey Johnson, another back. SLI ssss. back Started Season With No- got “hot” in the last half to score 22 of their team’s 30 points. | a - mie soi = Hitter; Appeared In Pevver’s Plumbers } j a S; wr An SSE Most Games; Lowest F 201 4! Ss 6 0-0 12! Runs Allowed 4 01 8{ 5. 82 aj 1 0-0 21 (Ry Associated Press) — —— —| NEW YORK, Dec. 19—Al ‘ 18 1-4 37 |though he was unable to carry = Lions - rr Tp/his club to the pennant, as so Leta Tao many outstanding pitchers have ae inte done in the past, precocious ae 5 22 12 |Young Bobby Feller of the run- = = 0.1 0 ({Ref-up Cleveland Indians, carted 5 0.0 10 (Off the bulk of the twirling laur- 2 0-0 4 {cls in the American League in 0 0.0 9 | 1940. And that Feller had good Carbonell tlor 0 from his slab mates. in av = up the Tribe is proved by a ars Oo fact that Cleveland was high Totals cuarters.) * fin the league in pitching with a ee 7 a7{elub earned-run record of 3.63 Peppers 8 14 27 37 = 0 9.18 ce " Feller started the ball spin- ning right—right off the bat—* jue to their 33-21 > VP53 cagers, to a three-way e. stepping up e High School and Army when he blanked the Chicago Wh ite Sox without a hit, 1 to 0, on ing Day in Chicago on April he first opening d y ck and sharp- sheoting Solenbarger, the Leath- | P¢™ ernecks led the Airmen from the | “0 opening whistle to the last shrill} blast. VP's t back but were no match for the fast-breakingt phenome evidence for the of the Chicago exposed in their se- fense of their rival government Biffle 0 00 0 rece. Marines kept popping at Latiolais 0 0-0 0 the net from all angles. ‘3 cig) ene te The game was a fitting prelim- a 5 2. 3 inary for the unprodimed bettlep 7" eee hich followed between the Pep- | FG FT TP : Orta, 7 0 8 the Aviators : ip 4 to his credit. 3 1-4 7 Box score: 0 00 0 U.S. Marines Goodwin 201 4 Player— FG FT TP Schoder 0 12 1 Waysack _7 12 15 ‘Clark 2 O04 + Solenbarger 6 24 14) _ _ Rathbun 2 03 4 Totals— 9 3-12 21 Hillman 0 0-0 0 Score by quarters: Skoko -9 @1 0 Marines 3 17 BR Thompson 0 OT 0 , VP53 4 6Uu 21 yoromondl The Year In Sports Feller Cornered — American League Pitching Honors McNEILL DOMINATES TENNIS SCENE By DILLCN GRAHAM. Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YORK. Dec. 19.—There nonball services on England's famous center court at Wimbledon 1. Instead, a bomb threatened its summer. Australia, tco, was at war 2 were no lobs and volleys and can destruction. nd the Davis Cup Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich won the year before at Philadelphia was not put up for competition. . countries were affected European catastrophe. And so tennis, dealt perhaps the hardest blow of any sport, it onal flavor. There were som rks on the home front, however, with cocky little obby Riggs dethroned after a Donald Budge’s by the sor. McNeill Wins Singles lanky, blond Oklahoman, |. upset Riggs to al singles cham- onship. This triumph climaxed fine season for MeNeill. one that saw him claim also the Na- tional court and intercolle- giate singles crowns. McNeill, from Kenyon College, had whipped Riggs in the clay court fnials in four sets in early summer. But the National out- doors, on the grass at Forest Hills —that was another thing. Every one—ineluding Riggs — thought that Bobby, an inspired perform- er when he wanted to win badly enough, would hand Don a dress- ing-down before the swanky so- ciety crowd at the Nationals. And it looked tike Riggs’ day as Bobby took the first set 6-4 and pulled away to grab the sec- cond-place earned run pitching staff percentage of 3.74. The New York Yankees also had good hurl- ing with a 3.89 record, while De- troit ‘won the pennant with a pitching staff ranking only fourth in effectiveness with a record of 4.01 earned runs: scored .on them per game. indicating that since the advent of the lively ball the American League still was more a hitter’s league than a pitcher's league, throughout. 1940, at least. Whereas Ernie Bonham of the Yanks ranked first on the list in earned runs with only 1.91 per game, he pitched in only a dozen contests, so the real leader, of course, was Feller with his 2.62 record for 43 games, 27 of which he won, for the league’s high vic- tory total. as against eleven de- feats. This record ranked him ninth in the won-and-lost column the leader of which was Archie McKain of Detroit with five vic- tories and no setbacks. Closely following Feller in ef- fectiveness was big Buck New- som of the Tigers. with a 2.83 earned run figure for 36 games. 21 ‘of which he captured, as against only 5 defeats, placing y him fourth in the mound percent- ages. Feller and Newsom were the only 20-game winners in the circuit in 1940. After losing his opening game of the year on Ap- Til 16 to St. Louis (in contrast to Feller’'s opening day no-hitter). New came right back with 13 straight victories. It was not until July 28 that he lost his sec- the Athletics who won 13 and lost 3 as a first- vear ma 1939. ranked just be- low Newsom in effectiveness 1940 with a 3.03 earned run rec- ord in 24 games, 8 of which he won, and 3 of which he lost Johnny Rigney of the Chicago White Sox proved that he pitch- ed good steady effective ball all year by ranking just behind Don- ald with a 3.11 earned run rec- ord, although he lost 18 games. as against 15 victories. Two other White Sox pitchers were well up in .too many * '320. He faced the earned-run tables, with} ond 8-6. Few thought that any amateur could spot Riggs two sets and win. But McNeill got his game "under control and began outpoint- ing Riggs. He took the third set at 6-3, the fourth at the same score Surely Bobby had been coast- ing a bit and had saved enough to rush through that last deciding set. But he hadn't. The South- westerner took that series of hard-fought games at 7-5 and the most valuable crown in tennis was his. Marble Leaves Amateurs With Alice Marble at her peak the women’s championship was just a formality. She raced through without the slightest dif- ficulty, dusting off Helen Jacobs Southpaw Edgar Smith enjoying a record of 3.22, and the veteran Ted Lyons turning in a figure of 3.24 as a “Sunday Pitcher,” while winning 12 and losing 8. For the third straight year the two men were first and second in strikeouts. Feller, as might be pected with his blazing speed. was way out in front in strike- outs with 261, Newsom following with 164. In 1939 Feller breezed 246, followed by Newsom with 192; and in 1938 Feller’s strike- out total was 240 and Newsom's 226. Feller appeared in more games than any other pitcher in the league in 1940, taking the slab in ‘ :43 contests, and he also pitched { the most innings, with a total of the most batters, 1,168; and was high in full games pitched with 31. Thornton Lee, Chicago left-hander. turned in 24 complete jobs, and Emil Auker of St. Louis, each pitched 20 complete games. In 1939 Feller and Newsom were tied in complete games, both finishing 24 of the games they started that year. Feller started 37 battles in 1940. which was ten above Thronton Lee's op- portunities, and two above the next heaviest ‘starters, Leonard of the Senators and Auker of St. Louis. Bob Harris of St. Louis and Mel Harder of Cleveland were knocked out of the box 20 times each, while Jack Knott of Chicago was sent to the showers in 19 games. Three pitchesr were tied in to- tal shutouts with four each: Fel- ler. Ted Lyons of Chicago, and Al Milnar of Cleveland. Feller and Red Ruffing each pitched four shutouts in 1939. In addition to his opening day no-hitter, Feller turned in a one- hitter, a two-hitter, three three- hitters, and two four-hit games. His no-hitter was the only one of its kind during the season. al- though Johnny Whitehead of St Louis pitched a six-inning no-hit no-run game against Detroit on August 5. for his only victory of the entire season. Sid Hudson. Washington rookie, came close to the Hall of Fame on two dif- ferent oceasions. On June 2 he shut out St. Louis with one hit and “W August 6 he duplicated this feat against the Athletics: (Compiled by Howe News Bureau, Chicago, IL) Tenni | BASKETBALL i. SET SHOOTIN By CLA SEE Queen Alice p»ired Palfrey to win the les and w mixed dou Riggs pionship- beat McNe y whipped P. take the w VISITING FIVES WILL PLAY HERE DURING HOLIDAYS =~ TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR NEXT TWO WEEKS ISSUED ™ NO BY COACH OFFUTT: LEAGUE GAMES ball game last ui game ni declared oper Mr. Of Triangles w Lions C! 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