Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 97

STORIES SPORTS' ~ 'GAMES PUZZLES e THIS is the time of year when we all like to ‘" have picnics, and we like good things to eat when we do have them. Therefore this picture puzzle should be welcome. “THREE FOODS FOR A PICNIC How many words can you form from the let- ters in “vacation”? Get your paper and peneil and set down all you can think of. The puzzle ediior found 30; maybe you can de better than that, —3— And now for & word diamond. The second Yne is o file & law suit, the third means the front part of the legs below the knees, the fifth is to make an endowment and the sixth is to stitch. B U I BUILDER D E R P . Behead a word for sway and get part of an sirplane. Curtail the latter word and get “be wictorious.” - CROSS WORD PUZZLE. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. 1. City im Peru, 4. Fog. 6. A secret watcher, 8. Ocean. 10. Anger. 312. A comic fellow. 15. Behold! 17. Dined. 18. Anno Domini (abbr.). 19. Indefinite article. 26. Through, by. 21. Personal pronoun. 22. Overturn. 24. Possessive pronoun. 26. Rowing implement. 28. A serpent, 30. Happy. 31. Insects. VERTICAL. . Solidified water, . So. . Belonging to me. . Title of respect. . Voices an objection. . To spatter water about. . Athletic elub (abbr.). . Within. . To make precious. . Laplander. . Part of verb “to be.” ; study of painting. Advertisement. . The Keystone State (abbr.). 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16. 18 2 23 25 2 28 29 | ©4e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE FRCOR et HEB.E‘S 8 game that you can play right here on this page, or you can cut out the draw- ing and paste it to a piece of cardboard. You need, to play, a penny and a few pins with bits of colored thread tied around them to dis- tinguish the pins belonging to each player. Two, three or four players may take part. Each player has three pins tied with his own eolor thread, which he places in one of the big corner squares marked “Start,” each player baving a square of his own. Now the first player—you can “count out” to see who starts first—tosses the penny into the center of the ehart. If it comes up heads, he moves his first pin two squares; if it comes tails, he moves it one sguare. All moves are made from right to left around the board. Only one man can be entered at a time, and the object is to get all of your players “home” or into the center. To do this, you must go clear around the board twice, the first time in the outermost row of spaces marked with the heavy arrows, the second time in the inner spaces marked with the double arrows, and then up your own center path to the whale. No two pins can be on the same space at the same time. Therefore if your man is on any space and player behind you moves to that space, your man is captured and must return to his starting ship and begin over. If a toss of the penny puts you on a smnail, that sends you back two places. A starfish sends you back one square, but a sea horse puts you ahead four spaces. ‘The first player to get all his pins into the whale wins the game and is the champion har- pooner. Let's go! The Gold Medal. A Serial Story in Four Installments. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Jed Mallett lives in the poorer section of a large eity, and during the Summer is working at a whole- sale market. He has not seen his best friend, Joe Pol , recently, and one night he goes to Joe's home, where he has a talk with Joe's sister Mabel. They are both worried about Joe, fearing that he is net doing well on his Summer job at a box factory and that he has fallen in with a bunch of rowdies known as the “Franklin street gang.” The next day Jed goes to the box factory to see Joe, but finds that he has not been working there for two weeks. 8Still mmor: alarmed about his friend, Jed decided to look for him that night in the haunts of the Franklin street gang. INSTALLMENT II1. S soon as he had finished his sup- P per that night, Jed left the house and walked toward Franklin street. It was not a district into which he ordimarily went, for its bad reputa- tlen was city wide. But tonight he had a real purpese in going there. He was determined to find Joe and have a talk with him. Jed hated the idea of seeming to trail his friend, but he thought tee much of him not to make an effort to find out just what Joe was doing. He knew where he was likely to find mem- bers of the Franklin street gang, and he went directly to a pool room on a corner. The doors were open because of the heat of the evening, and lounging about the entrance were several young men of the hard-looking type usually found in such sections of a city. Some of these men knew Jed by sight because of his athletic reputation and some of them spoke to him. But they regarded him somewhat in surprise as he walked into the pool room. The tables were crowded and a blué¢ haze of tobacco smoke filled the place. Jed paused and gazed about. Then he saw Joe, standing along the wall watching the play on one of the tables. Jed strode over and greeted his friend with a smile. “Hi, Joe,” he said heartily. “Where have you One o} the other rowdies siepped up behind him. * ed. “I won't keep you long been keepn.g yourself? had lied, or something.” I thought maybe you OE'S face held a ok of consternation when he first saw Jed. *Now he smiled rather due biously, pushing his cap Sack on his black hair, “Hello, Jed,” he sald. *How'd you find youg way over here?” “Why, I hadn't seen you for so long that ¥ stopped down at the box factrry today, and they said you weren't working there any more, I couldn’t find you over home, so I thought 3 might have some luck over here.” ' “Yes!” Joe did not seem to feel like talkingy He did not look directly at Jed, but kept watch« ing the game. Several other fellows standing nearby were regarding Jed with questioning looks. Then suddenly Joe turned on Jed. His facd had clouded. “What did you go over to the factory for?” he demanded. “What are you trying to do, spy on me? And I suppose you blabbed to Mabel that I'm not working there. What's the idea?" Jed felt himself growing angry at Joe's tone, But he held his temper and put his hand on the other’s arm. “Let’s go outside a minute and talk, Joe,” he said persuasively. “We can’t talk in here.” - “Why can't we?” said Joe. “You can say anything you want to say to me here.” S‘EV‘EP,AL of the roughs standing nearby were ¥ now regarding them with interested grins, Jed began to feel uncomfortable “Come out for just a minute, Joe,” he repeat- T've got something I want to tell ycu.” Reluctantly Joe consented, but instead of go= ing out the front door, he led Jed through a rear door to an alley. Once outside, he faced Jed defiantly. “Well?” he said. “Look here, Joe,” said Jed, “I don’t know what’s the matter, but it seems sort of rottem for us not to be friends any more. Why don’t you ever come around? And why do you wan$ to be hanging around these places? That’s poort stuff, Joe. I wish——”" “Look here,” interrupted Joe, “did you ever try minding your own business? Why can't I come here if I want to? Are you my nurse orf something?” Jed felt the hot blood mounting to his cheeks, But he kept his voiee calm and renewed hig argument. Joe would not listen, and as Jed persisted he became angry. “Get out of here!” he eried. “I'm throug) with you. You're nothing but a softy, anyway. His loud voice had evidently carried into thd pool room, for now three rough-looking youngd men stepped from it. One of them, whom Jedy recognized as “Jiggs” Lane, leader of the Franke lin street gang, stepped up to Joe. “What's the matter, Joe?” he asked in an) ugly voice. “This bird bothering you? X hel is, we'll teach him some manners.” JE’D was now thoroughly angry. “You leefl out of this,” he said to the gang leader, “This is private business.” “Oh, it is, is it?” Jiggs advanced threatens ingly. “Well, see how you like this sort of business.” With that he swung at Jed, the blow landing on Jed's shoulder. Immediately Jed went intg action. Those arms that had broken recordd with the shot and hammer were equally good at throwing fists. Jiggs hardly knew whaf struck him. Suddenly he was sagging into the airt of the alley, but he grabbed Jed around the waist and pulled himself to his feet. Jed pushed him away and unloosed a blow that would have sent Jiggs down again. Buf§ the blow never Janded. One of the other rowe dies stepped up behind him and with a sho swift swing brought & blackjack down om tI back of his head. Jed crumpled quietly to th@ ground. ' Jiggs Lane bent over him for a momen snarling. Then he straightened up and na.rtg: away. “Let’s get out of this,” he commanded. “He had enough for this time.” Joe, who had watched this sudden with mixed feelings, hesitated, gazing down his friend with fear in his eyes. Then body grasped his arm and pulled him away. The alley was deserted save for Jed's form lying crumpled on the dirty paving. (To be continued next Sunday.) ANSWERS. 1. Sandwich, pickle and fruit. 2. Van, vain, vat, vacant, an, act, at, actiony antic, ant, cat, cot, coat, can, con, cant, coing cain, tin, tan, tom, to, in, into, it, on, on, oaty no, not. 3. The diamond is B, sue, shins, builder, enm dow, sew, R. 4. S-win-g. 5. Cress word puzzle solution. 0 BENEEED-