The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1941, Page 3

vale KEY ¥ T CITIZEN PAGE THREE se {<pacen cna nen eens Tiitt Tiananmen TRADE AT HOME AND SAVE THE DIFFERENCE ‘Downthe Stretch’ Fight t |Luisetti, Magic Cage For Basket Lead Begins Name, Spurs Interest Tonight With Twin Bill = In A. A. U. Tournament City League Enters Final BREAKUP OF YANKEES Week Of Play; Fight In tween Students, Lions (Asnoctated Press Feature Service) the Yankees took ight World Series in s a cry to “break ‘re too strong”. The -up is here—but the idea is to strengthen the club which slip- pe d to third in 1940. of fancy-fielding, hitting Babe Dahlgren caused one of ions of the spring Filling his place | ts an interesting involving several vet- rookies. Some of irudge Opener Be- light- By RABID FANSTER to the} Featured by a four-cornered “down-the-stretch” fight for Island City Basket- toright swings final week leadership, into 4 four problem, | erans them: Joe ball League its cluk che action what eree toots his A civilian enemies of High School of p' possessing ‘ise rarin’ ¢ ther are Sturm, .312 hitter from telling the sign: and no will happen when ay ball” the the league, and Lions Club, will re scrap between natu Expects Good their hot lacks Kansas City, is after job. He still iene Veteran Joe Gordon may move from second to Henrich an outfielder, may also be tri Rookie Gerald Yr Rizzuto, first join rookie first. Rissutos Pr ja double play record Kansas City Blues las Babe. nit .264 (his best league mark) last y ez ed sensational] H out when his saie was an He took over first when Gehrig auit in 1939. the! major Lou Passeau, Under His Old Boss, Year With Cubs »: open the scheduled doublehead- tonight. Nurs ever since the Students them 45-44 early in the half, the Lions will march on the grudge upset cr goa One Of Five Pitchers Win- ning 20 Games Last Sea- Cubs Look second- “blood in their eyes’ in their hearts. A valsity 7 floor with and revenge victory over the will erase the of that defeat and keep intact their full- son; Says Good ‘On Paner’ ignominy By MORTIMER KRIEGER Feature Service Writer LU DALE, Miss., When Jimmy Wilson called his Chicago Cubs together at Cata- lina he pleased to find among them Claude Passeau, one of delphia who has blossomed into one of baseball’s most effective pitchers. a ee The big Lucedale farmer, who wintered here, was one of only five pitchers to win 20 or more games in the majors last season. ‘Vhree of the others were on pen- nant-winning clubs and_ the fourth, Bob Feller, was with the sveland Indians- who finished second by an eyelash. Pa: lace lead the easily game f However, youthful players do not seare and will be in there as hard as the hind the a possibility exists of gain- fighting ju Only a half-game be- they Lions was pacesetters, are his old workhorses leader- pos: ion of the d are determined to make good use of the opportunity. Stu- dents will go abead if they down the Clubbers and Pandora de- feats the Marines. Neither of the coaches, John Offutt of the School five - and Hastings Smith of the Lions, will commit themselves to a defin- ite prediction on e outcome. They simply quote the time-hon- ored “May the best team win”. Pandora Bears and U.S. Ma- the Cubs who came in fifth, other clubs eyeing qropping more games than they first-place, mix it up in the after-!won. His earned run average piece of the evening. Farthest was 2.50 and he fanned. more away from the leading Civic cag- than 100 batters ers, the Bears are out to make a For several seasons clean sweep of their three re- was just another of the hurlers maining games. They will tie ‘who paraded to the mound for a the pacesetters if they win all fow innings as the Phillies lost their contests and Lions divide |,nother ball game. His record honors in their pair of battles. was better than those of his Marines, like the School boys, mates, but—well he was with the are only a half-game away from phils, : the top rung, and are anxious for victory. Their full strength will be thrown against Pandora in a drive for second-half champion- ship, which will automatically clinch the league’s crown as they are first-half titleholders. Bears will have a chance to gain on the leaders Wednesday night when they meet the slip ping VP33 in the only league bat- tle that evening. Arrangements are now under way to have High School and Convent girls renew their fued in a preliminary’ game. The doubleheader scheduled for Friday night will determine final standings. If the Lions get bv the Students tonight, the best other clubs can hope for is a tie. Should the Clubbers lose—well, your guess good as any. rines, t!« To Cubs In ‘39 In 1939 he went to the Cubs, after winning two and ete four at Philadelphia. The rest of the season he won 13 and lost 9, and his earned run average— which had usually been well over four per game at Philadelphia— dropped to 3.05 and was lowest cf any Cub boxmen. Passeau is especially successful in spiking he artillery. For the past two years he has claim- ed the smallest home-run-per game average of any major league pitcher. As for the Cubs’ chances, the big Mississippian says the club is ‘on paper”, but he realizes come through on the ood it must field, Me ats, Passeau has a old daughtse cand isn't SPORTS CALENDAR ===" BASKETBALL (High School Gym, 7:30 p. m.) TONIGHT First Game—High I ions Club. Second Game—C U.S, Marines. WEDNESDAY NIGHT First Game—To be announced = rried a little more than two 10-month- Worried School vs G.C. Pandora ame—VP33 vs. C.G.C. FRIDAY NIGHT st G Hi Sch *. Pandora G STANDINGS Island City Basketball League ‘OVERPOWERED EDISON, 19, IN FINALS: HOMESTEAD the March 10.—} REDLAND FOR : at Phila-| u won 20 and lost 13 for! 115-6, Passeau! “MIAMI HE NEW 4TH REGIONAL CACE CHAMPS » 35- DEFEATED DISTRICT CROWN (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, March 10.—Miami High Stingarees emerged as new fourth regional basketball cham- pions in the finals p Saturday night. Dor Edison frem the until the d up ami minute of pl tingarces and a istered the firs Edison in three t competition i the former tory of tournar Miami High limite titleholders to a single field goal in the entire first-half of the deciding game. At intermission the victors held a nine-point lead, and increased the margin to 16 in the final quarter. Tucker, four Laskets and three free throws, led the new to victc Swink, ward, and two guards, Lindgren, tied for scoring honors Miami H y fee champs continued its The victors Key West, 47- victim Beach, 36- 32 followed by Edison HOMESTEAD GROWERS DISTRICT CHAMPS (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, March 10.—Home Growers — succes their eighth h basketball crushing the backs, 24-15, finals here § me clubs battlec last year. In the Homers aampionship Redland Diz in the tourna mosning defeate Delray B Diamondbac! the 'N ational prdineee soning, | Tourney Tops Sport’s 50th Birthday Celebra- tions By LOUDON KELLY AP Feature Service Sports Writer DEN a peach basket. ates its 50th and one of basketball anniversary cele its biggest birth- parties will be the national A.A.U. tournament in this moun- country capital March 16-22. week-long cage circus, its ten here for the consecutive year, is near- the game the late Dr. aismith invented with askets at Springfield, , in 1891 to help Y.M.C.A. while away the winter aft- ernoons. e tournament first was held ew York in 1899 with the Knickerbocker Athletic club win- ning the championship. Denver took the event to its rt in 1935, after Kansas City it 14 years, and now S inclination to let it go. n the ticket office was open- ear five weeks ahead of opning game, long lines 1 to snap up preferred seats mail reservations trebled. year’s meet played to 34,000 showed a net profit of $7,- joys One _ player—Angelo (Hank) stti—may boost attendance new high. When the for- mer Standford star, who took a brief movie fling, amateur status by the A.A.U. in December, one official com- nented ‘that “that means an ex- tra $2,000 for the tournament”. Luisetti, now playing for the San Francisco Olympic club, looks to be the best boxoffice at- raction ever to appear here in a basketball suit. He has been scoring better than 20 points a me regularly against leading Califor college and independ- ent teams. This may to be California’s year. In club outfit, eral top teams from the Pacific Coast A.A.U. cir- cuit will compete. Los Angeles Athletic club, winner in 1919, was st West Coast team to be- | national cage champion. last college winner was urn of Topeka, Kas. in ball world se- ye grown too fast trophy for best in the tourney and »d two members on the ict club to one for the Leonard Greer, for- Buddy Lindgren. Redland’s all-star ations, and Ralph Del- guard, represented Home- tead. Other all-district players Roth of Delray, center, and Cope of Pompano, forward. “NO NAME LODGE Famous Bahia Honda Fishing Reef - Tarpon - Permit - Bone Fishing Cottages—$3.50 a day and up ,e Crab Dinners a Specialty Phone No Name Key No. 1 For Information pla ere Come in todax! See the NEW 1941 General Electric Refrigerators DO YOU WANT MOST OF ALL IN A REFRIGERATOR? at-and you get it vag Cost mea: and you get it i ¢ means a lasting invest G-E-a This beautiful new $ 1941 G-E Model THE KEY 12 WEST ELECTRIC CO. 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