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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1940
Page
7
Puzzle clues cover fencing pickets town plan beds Indian tree and many misprints. Readable entries include masculine and feminine terms and various geographic or abstract hints, with scattered garbled words and misaligned letters.
Ken Chase pitched a three hitter for a 1-0 victory in the afterpiece as the Yankees failed to seize a series. Bobby Feller allowed five hits in a 3-1 Indians win moving Cleveland within a half game of Detroit, who lost to Mose Grove’s eight hit performance in a 3-1 or 3-? game. St. Louis Browns beat Philadelphia Athletics 5-4 with a three home run burst.
The report lists multiple early season MLB results with team matchups including Washington vs Chicago, Philadelphia vs New York, Cleveland vs Detroit, and New York vs Cleveland. It notes pitchers and batters such as Leonard Masterson Ferrer Lyons Tresh Dean Beckman Potter Hayes Kennedy Swift Ruffing Dickey Rosar Feller Hemsley Grove Foxx Newhouser Trout Seats Tebbetts with final tallies and innings details for each contest.
The Cincinnati and St Louis games feature line scores and player names. Walters Lombardi Berres and Beggs Shoffner Turner Baker Lombardi Tobin Javery Coffman Strincevich Mass are cited. Shoun Padgett Owen Schumacher Danning and McGee Owen Lohrman Lynn Melton Brown Danning are listed for New York. Sewell Davis Mulcahy L Brown Beck Warren appear for Philadelphia.
Fragmentary OCR lists players Lopez Frye Small S Johnson Millies Warren Brooklyn Olsen French Todd Fitzsim mons Carleton Grissom Hamlin Mancuso Chicago Passeau Todd Casey Tamulis Hamlin Davis Phelps Mancuso with scattered numbers. No clear team, game, or date identified.
Howard Chin challenged Harry Karr with a tax arithmetic problem that required more data. Karr requested details and received them quickly written in Chinese characters.
Batting Danning of New York leads with a .335 average. Frey of Cincinnati paces runs with 76 and F McCormick leads RBIs with 85. Herman of Chicago has 130 hits and F McCormick also leads doubles with 31. Ross of Boston has 11 triples and Mize of St. Louis tops home runs with 31. Reese of Brooklyn leads in stolen bases with 1. Pitching Fitzsimmons of Brooklyn at 102. American League leaders include Radcliff of St. Louis batting .364 and Williams of Boston with 87 runs. Greenberg of Detroit has 95 RBIs and 38 doubles, Cramer of Boston 137 hits, McCosky of Detroit 13 triples, Foxx of Boston 24 home runs, Case of Washington 23 stolen bases, and Newsom of Detroit 13-2.
In Columbus a purse once lost by Mrs. F M Lambert reappeared in her mailbox after two decades. Accompanying note stated a husband kept the money and the writer, who remained anonymous, had saved it from an allowance. The note explained the return.
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