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Evening star., 1961-12-19
BY Volt Disney

for shovels and pickaxes and
then marched, one thousand
strong. to the narrow plain
between the hills. There was
already a deep depression made
by the Ipswitch's last trip and
the two magicians stood at
the edge of this hole and di-
rected the laborers to enlarge
and deepen it.
The eager workers dug and
dug without stopping and the
hole got deeper and deeper and
wider and wider. Santa and
the King stood at the side and
from time to time waved their
wands, pretending that magic
was being invoked.
When at last the ditch was
large enough they ordered the
workers home and then the
two magicians climbed into the
hole.
"It's huge!" cried Santa. "It's
bound to work"
"Oh, my!" said the King,
waving his wand excitedly, 81
just wish the Ipswich would
come this very minute! I'd like
to see its face when it falls
in here"
Watch that wand!" eau
toned Santa. You never can
tell"
But it was too late. Some
how magic had been invoked
or maybe it was a coincidence
but anyway the Ipswich was
on its way again. Hearing the
distant thuds, the two ma
gicians struggled wildly out OF
the ditch just in time to see
an enormous left foot decend-
ing on them from above.
Panic stricken, Santa and the
King tumbled again to the bot.
tom of the ditch. They picked
each other up and raced for
ward hand in hand. Their
Santa stumbled and both o1
them crashed headlong. An in
slant Later, the foot landed not
two yards in front of them
i Openmouthed, they stared
Evening star., 1961-12-19

cts impossible!" declared
Santa. How could it pass and
not trip over the rope?"
The King shook his head.
1.-THE whole thing is impossible
and I have never known any,
thing to equal it in any mys-
terry story I've ever read"
when we get to the bottom
Of this" said Santa, II shall
have one of my writer's do a
story about it. 1t will be a good
thing to have on the book
list next Christmas"
Perhaps we shall never get
to the bottom of it," said the
King dolefully. And by next
Christmas I won't even be
King"
Nonsense" said Santa. II
have a brand-new plan. We
will dig a ditch and the next
bILue CIle 1pSWlCcn comes around
it will fall into it and that
will be that"
1T will have to be an awfully
big ditch" said the King. 1--WE
couldn't dig it."
1--WE will have your people
dig it," said Santa.
But they no longer do any,
thing commando"
But if q magician COM
mands it?"
"Magician?"
Santa was busily pulling
costumes from his inexhausti-
BILE bag. 1--WE will disguise our
selves rs magicians. Then we
Evening star., 1961-12-19
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Question: The term NOR
ganatic marriage" used to re-
fer to a marriage of wealthy
people. puzzles me. Does "mor-
ganatic" refer to people des-
cended from or as rich as J..
P. Morgan?
Answer: Not at all. In
deed. the term was widely in
vogue long before j. P. Nor
gan made his first million. The
phrase comes from a Latin
phrase "matrimonium ad NOR
ganaticam" and refers to the
ancient custom by which a hus-
band gives his bride q morn
ing gift" on the day after the
ceremony.
In a morganatic marriage
the bride forswears all inter-
est in her husbands worldly
possessions and agrees that the
children of the marriage will
also not share in his estate.
So the morning gift" repre-
sents just about all she can
ever expect to get of her hus-
bands wealth. cts easy to
see why morganatic marriages
have never been common in
AmericaD
II -
Question: To settle an Of
flee argument, is it ever cor
rect to address a letter to:
"Mr. George Jones. Esq."?' I
contend that you can use
either "Mr." or esq" but not
both.
Answer: You contend cor
rectly. The term Esq" was
formerly quite commonly used
to indicate that the person ad-
dressed was of social rank
Slightly higher than that of
tradesmen or workingmen, who
were called simply "Mr." OBJ
viously, then, using both "Mr."
and esq" is redundant,
y \ n 4
Question: Here's one that
shouldn't give you much trou-
BILE. Where did the morris
dances" get their name?
Answer: The Morris dances
were originally "Mooris h"
dances - brought. to England
from Spain about 1850. Adapt
ed from Moorish military
dances, they became very, very
British, with the dancer
mining various roles from the
Robin Hood legends.
Evening star., 1961-12-19
By LUCRECE BEALE

will promise the people to get
rid of the Ipswich if they
will dig a hole"
Before he knew it, the King
found himself no longer a wood
chopper but a magician dressed
in black tails and tall silk hat
and carrying a magic wand
Santa. dressed in the same dis
guise and they headed back
to the town. In no time at all
they were surrounded by towns
Evening star., 1961-12-19

men. These poor people had
often heard Of but never seen
a magician and when they
found themselves visited by two
they were overcome with awe,
When Santa explained to
them what he wanted they
agreed willingly. There was
nothing they would no do to rid
themselves of the cursed
Ipswich.
They rushed to their homes
Evening star., 1961-12-19
SHEINWOLD
ON BRIDGE
California Expert
Executes Trump Coup
by ALFRED SHEINWOLD

Those who hope America
will regain the bridge world
championship must have been
pleased when Lew Mathe and
Ron Won der Porten won
berths on the 1862 American
team. Mathe has distinguished
himself on three previous
American teams and was a
member Of the last American
team that won.
The California expert needed
all Of his skill to find the
right line Of play in this hand
from the team trial tourna-
ment. held a few weeks ago
in Houston:
North dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
NORTH
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3K3
pQ8653
%K97
WEST EAST
AKJ543 AAQ6
% 2J654
0K7 1J94
%J10542 1853
SOUTH
A108
2AQ10872
1A102
North East South West
Pass Pass 10 IA
Pass "a 80 Pass
40 All Pass
Opening lead: Four Of spades.
The opponents started off
with three rounds Of spades,
and Mathe ruffed the third
round. He drew two rounds of
trumps with the king and ace,
discovering the bad news.
1t looked as though the Cali
fornian had to lose a diamond
and a trump, but he developed
a trump coup to rob East Of
his trump trick.
AS a first step he led a low
diamond from his hand. West
stepped up with the king of
diamonds and returned a dia-
mond to declarer's ace.
Overtakes Club
Mathe cashed the ace of
clubs, overlook the queen of
clubs with dummy's king, and
ruffed dummy's other club.
This left two trumps in the
South hand and two in the
East hand.
Mathe finally led a diamond
to dummy's queen. Now the
lead came from dummy, and
East's two trumps were cap
tured by South's two trumpS.
The secret Of the trump
coup, as this hand shows, is
to reduce to the same number
of trumps as your opponent.
Then make sure you can lead
from dummy at the twelfth
trick so that you can execute
a trumpless trump finesse.
Daily Question
Partner opens with one
spade, and the next player
passes. You hold:
AKJ543 % 0K7 10542I
What do you say?
Answer: Bid four spades.
This jump shows strong trump
support. singleton or void
suit, and not more than nine
points in high cards.
4 Z
For Sheinwold's 36 page
booklet, "A Pocket Guide to
Bridge" send SOC to Bridge
Book. The Washington Star,
Boz 1913, Grand Central Sta
tion, NeD York II, N. Y.
CCopyright, 1861, Gen. Features corp)
Evening star., 1961-12-19

Tomorrow: ShoeShine Boys
Evening star., 1961-12-19
Santa and the Flying Shoe
CHAPTER XIII
The MagicianS
HI AND LOIS
MRS. FITZ
MUTT AND JEFF
UNCLE CHARLIE

SYNOPSIS: Santa and King Ferdi-
nand of Polydora disguise themselves
as woodchoppers and try to trap the
giant Ipswich by stretching a rope
across its path. But the monster
passes by without touching the ropeI
Evening star., 1961-12-19

1t was a shoe. But there was
no leg. No body. No head. Only
a left-footed shoe that already
was rising in front Of them to
land again miles away.
GAP Newsfeatures)
Evening star., 1961-08-23
SPORTS ON AIR
Radio
Baseball

Baseball
WI shington VS.. Boston,
WTOP-1500, 1:55 pm.
Baltimore VS.. Kansas City.
WOL-1450, 9:55 pm.
Horse Racing
r acing from Shenandoah
Downs, WEEL-131O, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1961-08-23

sal at a press conference in
his Chicago insurance office.
He appointed Pat Friday, 81,
a vice president of the club
and an official in his insurance
business, to succeed Lane.
Lane, who came here from
Cleveland, also has served as
general manager with the Chi
cago White Sox and the st.
Louis Cardinals. Always a fast
talking, free-wheeling trader of
baseball players, he had fol-
lowed the same pattern here.
He had a four-year contract
and Finley said he would be
paid off on the remaining three
years at $4,000 a year.
Lane commented, 1T was an
absolutely hopeless situation as
far as I was concerned. Those
who I feel sorry for are the
baseball fans of Kansas City
for having to put up with such
an operation as this"
Wants White SOx Job
Lane said he would remain
in Kansas City several days to-
settle his affairs. He said he
had no immediate plans but
that he would very much like
to have the job as general
manager of the White Sox i'll
Hank Greenberg vacates the
post at the end of the season.
Friday said his appointment
came as a surprise.
Evening star., 1961-08-23
By FRANCIS STANN

THIS is NOT SERIOUS at this time,
thanks to Johnson and the two good reliev-
ers. First is Jim BroSnan, whom Solly
HemuS kicked off the Cards when he was
manager, and the other is Bill Henry, for
merly of the Red Sox and Cubs.
Until December of SO the Reds had the
Sl1ckeSt ShortStop- base combination
In the National League. They broke it up by
trading Johnny Temple to Cleveland for
Cal McLish, flop; Billy Martin, ditto, and
Gordon Coleman, a minor league first base
man hailing from nearby Rockville, Md.
Gabe Paul made the deal with Frank
Lane when they were general managers of
the Reds and Indians, respectively. At first
it was to have been McLish and Martin for
Temple. II ought to get somebody else,"
Paul hedged. "Ill throw in this kid Cole
man." Lane offered. "He might make it
some day"
Coleman, the throw-in, is the regular
first baSeman. McLiSh and Martin are long
gone.
Mcmillan, best glove man among MI
ShortStops, went in the Jay deal last De-
cember, Dewitt making this move When
he also dealt off Catcher Ed Bailey it was
said, "HeS crazy! He's traded away the CUTS
of the club-the catcher and the shortstop-
second base combination. Next they'll be
dealing off Vada PinSon."
THIS IS THE PATCHED-UP club the
Reds are fielding:
Eddie KaSko wasn't good enough to
play for the Cards. He sat on the bench.
With the Reds he's the shortstop and a
Streakily helpful hitter.
Gene FreeSe was held expendable by
both the PhillieS and White Sox. HE kicks
too many plays, especially with bad throws"
was the consensus He's the third baseman.
Don BlaSingame was warming the
Giants bench. He's the second baseman.
Gus Bell was once Pirate, Wally Post
played for the Phillies. Jerry Lynch, best
pinch-hitter in the league this season, is
another Pirate castoff. Darrell johnson,
this weeks No. catcher, came off the
coaching lines.
Little wonder Cincinnati fans call the
Reds "the team nobody wanted" It's the
only team in baseball that has caused a
front office to enter negotiations for buying
a city street. Dewitt wants to purchase
York street, just behind leftfield, in order
to build 1000 more permanent seats. In
time for the upcoming World Series, of
course.
Evening star., 1961-08-23
PROUD POPPA
Moris Must Slam
Home Run Every
10th Time at Bot

leadoff triple by Albie Pearson
and consecutive home runs by
Lee Thomas and Leon Wagner.
Earl Averill tagged Reliever
Luis Arroyo for a homer in the
eighth for the final run.
Detroit also did it with
homerS, two-run shots by Rocky
Colavito, Billy Bruton and AL
kaline that backed a five-hit
pitching job by Paul Foytack
(8-8). Colavito and Bruton also
each had an RBI single. Jim
Grant Q2-O was the loser.
Nellie Fox drove in the tying
run with a sacrifice fly in the
seventh inning and then won it
for the White Sox when he
singled with two out in the
ninth.
Marv Throneberry's two-run
pinch-homer in the eighth
broke up a three-hit shutout
for AS starter Norm Bass and
gave the Orioles a tie, but Milt
Pappas CD wild pitched the
winning run home in the 10th.
Bill Fischer (4-2) was the
winner in relief.
Evening star., 1961-08-23
PAT FRIDAY As NEW GENERAL MANAGER
Lane Says Firing Is Great Relief

KANSAS CITY, Aug. %
(AP)-Frank Lane, baSeball's
most talkative figure, yester-
day was bounced out of his
job as general manager Of the
Kansas City Athletics by
Owner Charles o. Finley, who
accused Lane of spreading
false rumorS about the club.
"It's a great relief" Lane
told a newSman today. II
knew it was coming"
Finley said one of the ru-
mors Lane started was that
the AS, mired in 10th place
in the American League, might
be shifted to Dallas-Fort Worth
as reported in the Kansas City
Star last week.
Finley denied he planned to
move the club and charged
two Star baseball writer's, who
criticized him, with accepting
payola from a former club
owner. the late Arnold John
son. The newspaper and two
writer's. Sports Editor Ernest
Mehl and Baseball Reporter
Joe McC5uff. denied the
charges.
Appoints Pat Friday
Lane spread rumors all
over the United States and
wherever I went and read a
newspaper I could see nothing
but poison and dirt that he
had left behind" Finley said
in announcing Lanes dismis-
Evening star., 1961-08-23
PunchIess Senators
Hurt Daniels Again

Danny O'Connell is l for IL,
Gene Woodling is 8 for Is, Dale
Long is l for 10 and Bob john
son is 8 for IL. Woodling got
two hits last night, as did Pete
Daley. Chuck Cottier and John
son got the others.
Daniels now sports an 81
record but in those seven de-
featS the sum total of his bat
ting support added up to 10
runs. Twice, Daniels had no
runs to work with. On two
other occasions the Senators
got one run for him and three
times, including last night, they
managed to get two runs.
Meanwhile, the former Pirate
has been doing his Job. He
yielded two earned runs last
night to shave his ERA to 3.33.
Two were out in the Boston
1lth when Bennie yielded his
first unintentional walk to Pete
Evening star., 1961-08-23

know now, Gordon still would
be my manager"
However, he said Bauer
would not be replaced.
Finley made these other
charges:
DisSension on the ball club
can be traced to Lanes is
suing orders to Gordon and
saying they came from Finley.
He hired Lane on the rec
ommendation of Mehl who,
he says, now is criticizing the
ownership unfairly.
Lane ignored his request that
he (Finley) be consulted be-
fore any trades were made.
Lane has urged him to fire
Bauer.
Lane embarrassed Bauer by
giving him a verbal blasting
in front of his players on a
bus in Minneapolis last week.
Differ Over Expenses
The controversy between
Finley and the Star erupted
last week when Mehl wrote
that there never has been a
baseball operation so bizarre,
so impossible, so incongruous.
If the ownership had made a
deliberate attempt to sabo-
tage a baseball operation, it
could not have succeeded as
we'll" Mehl said Finley, not
Lane, had interfered with
both field managerS-Gordon
and Bauer.
Last night Finley said he
had cut out paying expenses of
Mehl and McGuff when they
were travelling with the AS.
He said the books showed the
former owner had paid these
expenses, and that Mehl was
paid $1,000 a year to edit the
AS yearbook and McGuff $500
as StatiStician.
Mehl said he had never ac-
cepted travel expenses and
that he. not Finley, decided
this season that McGuff's ex-
penses would no longer be
paid by the baseball club. He
said McGuff had accepted ex-
penSes when keeping statistics
for the club on the road.
In denying that he plans to
the team, Finley said he
is confident that this years at
tendance will exceed last years
873,O74 paid.
I'VE have a contract through
1868 with the city on the ball
park which says if we do not |
draw 100000 attendance we
don't have to pay rent.
Finley has said previously
that he has a IS million invest
ment in the AS.
Evening star., 1961-08-23
WIN, LOSE OR DRAW
The Team Nobody Wonted-Port II

EVEN TODAY, many neutral observers
glance over the Cincinnati Reds lineup and
publicly doubt if this team of caStoffs can
hold the National League lead The fans in
RedIand used to wonder, too, if the pre-
season choices to finish sixth could hang on.
Now the buffS are more confident.
Much of the awe in which they held the
Los Angeles Dodgers has been dissipated.
IF they really are great team, how come
they platoon so much?" they ask. They are
nearly as fearful of the Braves and Giants
as the Dodgers.
But more heartening to Cincinnati fans
is schedule freak. The Reds now find
themselves with 10 open dates in September.
They have played six more games than
Los Angeles, six more than San Francisco
and seven more than Milwaukee. If they
were seriously deficient in the loss column,
as once they were, it would be bad
with 10 open dates" the Reds fans
reason, Hutch Manager Fred Hutchin-
SOM can just about finish the season with
his three big starters-Joey Jay, Bob Pur-
key and Jim OToole"
THE RISE OF THE REDS from sixth
place in 1860 (they won only 81 games; so
far this season they've won 75) is conSid-
cred part luck, part uncanny ability to read
the worth still left in player. Except for
Frank Robinson and Vada Pinson, the out
fielders, and Jim Maloney and Ken Hunt,
the kid pitchers, all of the Reds who count
are hand-me- downs.
In fact, it's hand-me-do down operation
starting from the top Bill Dewitt, vice
president and general manager, was fired
by the Detroit Tigers and picked up by Gin
cinnati last November g. Hutchinson has
served time with the Tigers and Cardinals
as manager.
Jay, who never won more than nine
games in any big league season, already has
1S victories after coming in trade from Mil
waukee (along with Juan Pizarro) for
Shortstop Roy Mcmillan. The No. pitcher,
Purkey, is 14-8 and a Pirate castoff. The
current fourth starter is Ken Johnson, who
is about as complete a reject as is possible
to find. He spent seven years in the minors
before getting major league chance-and
then he flopped with the Kansas City
Athletics!
O'Toole is young a $55,O0O bonus kid
from off the University of Wisconsin
campus, and he is holding up But Maloney,
who was bonused $4,000, and Hunt, who
was given $4,000, have tailed off.
Evening star., 1961-08-23

Runnels. Frank Malone hit his
third single of the night to left
field and Pinch-hitter Russ
Nixon singled off Daniels
glove to load the bases. Bennie
worked Jackie Jensen to a g.
and-2 count before giving up
the pass that meant the ball
game.
Two Errors on Play
The Senators, who didn't get
a hit off Schwall, the 6-foot-
512 rookie, until the sixth in
ming, nevertheless took a 10
lead in the fourth. A walk to
Long followed by a wild throw
by Pumpsie Green and a muff
of a ground ball by Malone
put Washington on the board.
In the fifth, Malone got a
tainted single to short. With
one out Cottier picked Up Jen-
sens ground ball and stepped
on second for the force but his
throw to first went into the
dugout and Jensen was on Sec
ond base. After Green was
walked intentionally, Schwall
hit a ground ball to Cottier,
who muffed it. First BaSeman
Long picked up the ball and
threw to home in an attempt
to get Jensen, but the throw
was wild for the second error
of the play and the third of the
inning.
Catcher Daley threw to
shortstop johnson as Schwall
headed for second and johnson
fired back to Daniels, who
tagged out Green at the plate.
A walk to O'Connell, single
to center by Woodling and an
infield out gave the Senators a
FL edge in the sixth, but the
Red SoX came back to tie in
their half on an infield hit by
Chuck Schilling, a double off
the leftfield wall by Carl Yas-
trzemski and a sacrifice fly by
Vic Wertz.
Evening star., 1961-08-23
BY BILL FUCHS
Star Staff Writer

BOSTON, Aug. %. - Th e
Senator's batters are not max
ing a hit with Pitcher Bennie
Daniels. In fact, they're not
making many hits at all these
days and unless matters i'm
prove sharply, they'll wind up
with permanent title to ninth
place.
Daniels has been victimized
by a lack of support all year.
The big Highlander pitched
his heart out last night, finally
walking in the winning run in
the 18th inning as the Red Sox
continued their Fenway Park
whammy on the Senators by a
80 margin.
Joe McClain hopes things
break better for him today as
he pitches against Boston'S Bill
Monboquette GID. McClain
G-14 hasn't won a game since
July 7, but the law of averages
could be on his side. The Sena-
tors have won only one game
here in seven starts.
FOrnieles Gets Victory
Rookie Don Schwall, back in
action after a two-week layoff
due to a kidney infection, gave
up just six hits in 10 innings
to the Senators last night be-
fore 1881 fans. Mike FornieleS
came in in the 18th with run
nerS on first and second and
nobody out. retired the next
three batters and got credit for
the victory.
The victory could have been
Daniels, but not the way the
Senators were leaving men on
base. They left runners on first
and third with two out in the
fourth, on third with nobody
out in the sixth, on second with
one out in the seventh, on Sec
ond with nobody out in the
eighth, on second with one out
in the ninth and on first and
second with none out in the
18th.
But in the light of the teams
recent display of plate apathy,
that is understandable. Their
total hit production for the
last six games stands at 90.
They won the first two with
the help of the Los Angeles
fielderS but today carried a
four-game losing streak to the
park.
Over the last six games,
Chuck Hinton has gone 0 for IL,
Evening star., 1961-08-23

"Mr. Finley called and said
I've held a news conference ur
here in Chicago and have de-
cided the time has come fol-
Frank Lane and me to have a
parting of the ways. BY the
way, you're the new general
manager.
Friday said, I'm Just q
rookie in the baseball business
but I've been in it eight months
and that's long enough to know
that we have a capable staff
here. The job is a matter OF
management and getting along
with others in the organiza-
ton"
Finley, who bought the
club last winter by outbidding
a Kansas City group, hired
Lane last January and called
him the greatest general
manager in the game" But
last night he bitterly described
Lane as a failure with the
Athletics.
Bauer to Remain
I'm my book a general man.
ager is not only a man who can
make a trade over the phone
any damned fool can do that
but he must be able to over
see everything. Lane did not do
this and these other RESPONSE
bilities fell with Friday and
myself" Finley said.
Il was forced to let Joe Cor
don go as manager because it
was impossible for him and
Lane to work together" he
continued. Finley fired Cor
don June 10 and replaced him
with Hank Bauer, then an
outfielder with the club. "If
I had known then what I