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Ever since Cleveland's Pitcher Bob Feller burst on the baseball scene 18 years ago as "the fastest man since Walter Johnson," baseball scouts have combed the bushes and sandlots looking for another speed-bailer. "Faster than Feller" became the standard label for any strong-armed busher with speed, and since "Rapid Robert's" heyday, countless youngsters have been called "another Feller." None has managed to live up to his press clippings. But last week baseball men were finally convinced that another Feller had arrived in the person of burly (6 ft. 2 in., 207 Ibs.) Robert...
...Lightning Bolts." The 23-year-old righthander has drawn raves all over the American League circuit. "He's the fastest thing I've seen since Bob Feller was at his best," said New York Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. "This fellow throws lightning bolts." Baltimore's Catcher Clint Courtney, gingerly waving a sore hand, says, "Turley's the fastest guy I ever caught...
When I read 'em, I jump up, I did, an' durn near swaller'd my quid o' baccy. Seems like them college fellers has it in real bar fer Joe M'Carthy, 'Course, when I think o' some o' th' things Joe says 'bout Pussy an' commie-coodlin' at Harvard, can't say as I blame 'em. An' th' way th' Sen'tor wuz feudin' with thet army feller (heard that one over in th' ray-dee-o), I kin git pretty damn well het up m'self...
Take this here M'Carthy feller, he's ketchin' skunks, lots of 'em. (They's more'n just "an eyeful"!) Maybe some folks don't like how he does it. It's noisy, smelly business. But until some one come 'long an gifts them skunks good--an' gits 'em gooder'n he does--I'm fer lettin' Joe keep right on a-huntin...
...Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since...