The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-29
YANKS SHUTOUT
BY Sid HUDSON;
AS, PILLS LAST
Ted Williams Corners
Batting Championship
With Modern Record
Average OF .4O6
.ss.cIaI to The cItis-n'

SHseIaI to The Ciet8~n'
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Base
balls big show came to an end
yesterday as far as all teams in
the major leagues were concern
ed, except two. The 1871 cam
paign saw the return to undis-
puted leadership of the Ameri-
can circuit of the New York
Yankees and the usual ''red hot"
race in the National loop.
The Yanks, VINO dropped a
game yesterday, had already
achieved their Tooth victory and
the Brooklyn Dodgers notcaed
their Tooth triumph by drubbing
the Philadelphia Phillies 81 in
the last scrap of the season.
Ted Williams, the Boston Red
Sox' clouting outfielder, ran off
with the hitting honors of the
big leagues, clipping the ball at
.406. Williams became the
first American league hitter since
Harry Heilman to wind up
campaign with 400 or better
average. Heilman, 10 years ago,
hit the .403 mark while playing
with the Detroit Tigers.
Williams collected six for eight
in a doubleheader yesterday to
shoot his average up to the an
pressive .406 mark. In mid-sea-
son he brought victory to the
American League in the All-Star
game by blasting home run in
the ninth inning with the bases
loaded and two men down.
American League
Sid Hudson, the Florida hurl-
err on the Washington Senator
mound staff, shutout the YAM
KEGS yesterday, SO. Facing the
heavy-hitting junior circuit cham
pions, Hudson set them down
with just four hits.
Boston Red Sox, who split a
bargain bill with the Philadel-
phia Athletics, wound UP the
struggle in second place, II
games behind the Yanks. Bos-
ton took the first game, 12-11.
and bowed to the AS 1T in the
nightcap.
Detroit Tigers, in third place,
were blanked by the Chicago
White Sox, 80. Taft Wright
led the Chisox attack when he
cracked a four-bagger with one
on. Chicago finished "a games
away from New York.
The Cleveland Indians, taking
it on the chin from the st. Louis
Browns, Sd, closed the campaign
in a tie for fourth place with
the Tigers. A four-run sixth-in-
ming put the battle on ice for
the Brownies. Both Cleveland
and Detroit are rs games in the
rear of the Yanks.
St. Louis and Washington are
knotted for sixth place, each
81 contests from the top. In the
cellar rest the Philadelphia AS.
81 games out of first.
National League
Al rookie tosser, Bob Chapman,
got credit for the Dodgers Tooth
victory, the first time in history
a Brooklyn club has reached the
century mark in the won col
umn''. Chapman took over the
Till in the fifth inning.
The crestfallen St. Louis Car
dinals closed the season with
triumph, dispensing with the
Chicago Cubs, 81. St Louis,
fighting all the way for first,
wound UP in second, two-and-a-
half games behind Our Buns
The Redbirds came up with an
other promising rookie hurler,
Ed Beazley from New Orleans
Beazley went the distance against
the Cubs, spacing 10 hits, and
holding the Bruins scoreless un-
til the eighth.
The Cincinnati Reds bowed to
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the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-3, ruin
ing Bucky Walters hopes OF win
ming his goth start of the year.
The Reds, in third, are II games
in back of Brooklyn, and the
Pirates, in fourth, are 10 duels
behind the Buns.
The Boston Braves were de-
feated by the New York Giants,
IL. mainly because Dave Koslo
turned in six-hit job against
them. The Giants. claiming
fifth nosition in the standings,