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i Chapter 41 } ' @2W PROBLEMS \UT Langton had developed'a cun- fh thé bane With @ Jo! fiber rope, hig club and bid stone sifng be bronght game which Fran! vie @ ° ee, n to Aan a San of reo Here the ahkih hetpea them. te aKa meat by fruits from . | tment that was deeper than mere hte them to the and roots, they diet of saltiess meat that ee ok more repugnant ank suggested to Lang- ugh-priest might be to them when once they were able to leave Alek shirt, hér Jaker, her breeches —were Aare to show the rav- j ages of toll. They looked torn and tee ler hands were swollen and red from the unaccustomed severity of working with the coarse fiber. Only her face looked serene and | fit, that and the minted-gold glory of her hair. Langton said softly, “Frank, a girl | of her courage deserves taking | chances for.” Frank turned away. He suspected that his old friend had discerned that he, Grahame, wae in love with Janice, The kindly fellow, however, had not hinted at ft; but certain} Ittle tactful gestui when none were necessary made Frank realize | that bh conscious that perhaps | at least one of his two visitors from civilization might be aware of a sen comrade: The thought was painful to Frank To bim Janice’s decision in Holly: wood hi been uncompromising: AND ALL STARS TO PLAY SUNDAY! BASEBALL GAME TO TAKE PLACE AT NAVY FIELD; EX- CELLENT EXHIBITION OF SPORT IS PROMISED ‘WYOMING TEAM | LONG KEY, #ia,, February 24. + —An all-time world record in catching sailfish with light tackle was made by N. Jerlaw of Chi- ! ago, who caught a 55-pound sail- fish on & 2 1-2-ounce rod and a 6-thread line at Long Key Fishing | Camp, Long Key, Fla., on Feb-; ruary 15. Atrangenients have been made! This is the lightest tackle ever for a baseball ganie to be played | used for so large & fish, the wood Sunday afternoon, beginning 1:30) in the rod weighing only 1 1-2) o’clock, at the Navy Field De- | ounces, the aluminum weighing an there was no further appeal to be made. Any thought or speciation apon what might hive been served only to stir unpleasant memories. Langton had said that she was a girl of courage; to Frank this en foreéd’ Intimacy had given him aj greater opportunity to fudge: she Was magnificent—miraculous. That night he helped Langtov complete the balsa wood jacket. 1 was a clumsy. affair made of two foot lengths of this curious wood thar ts lighter than cork. ( It Was tied together with twisted itrands of cactus fiber: shoulder straps were made of the same ma terial. Frank tried it on. tle resolved that in a day or two he would put ft to use, Esme that night, sleeping sound ly, they were awakened by the » | crashing of thunder. Sheet-lightning flared about te skies. Huddied in the doorway of the shack tha’ screened the entrance of the cave ht | they stood until the sky opened its ‘Be That would |* to hie friends and the frying pan, “A peat th it. aes @ jacket of balsa akg Anished in ‘a day oon long ere fits me,” said Frank tly. replied grimly, “It is not pu hand on the arm of . “Billy, once or twice you ducts and drove them away from un der the flimsy roof. Within the cave, dank with un evaporated water from the las! Langton stared at eact jesinous torches provided in an ticipation of this emergency ‘hac . | Been lighted. The thunderous boom ing without prectuded any possibil ity of sleep. “The rains are here.” muttered be long now,” replied Nghtly. Frank noticed that d's face looked queerly pale & the patches his beard did not them about the curious behavior eae girl had insisted. i morning, it Was Janice whic | Wyoming and Key West All Stars, | tween a team from the U. S. &.! ounce. Before landing the sailfish with according to announcement made hit by Boy Hamlin, team ibtiager. this tackle, Mr. Jerlaw caught two . Hanilin states that the best | sailfish with a 6-dunce rod, ‘using; availible players in the city will) * 9-thread line. be chosen to represent Key West.| The fish caught with a 2 1- 2.4 The Wyoming is represented as! outice rod and 4 6- thread line bent} having one of the best teams in| the rod almost double, and Mr. the navy, and it is expected that | Jerlaw had the greatest difficulty | the exhibition will be hard fought! in keeping, the line from parting, | {suns cua ona (Spectat to celal to Phe Citi Citizen) after is was first hodked’ and leaped. The difficulty of catching heavy fish with this extremely _ light: tackle and what is believed to be the smallest rod.ever used in ang- ling for a sailfish of this size was overcome by Mr. Jerlaw,. he says, ing the fish to, put th line. When’ the ‘fish came towa’ he reeled in, but the me fish went out he fed out the line, not permitting the strain, to, be- come so strong ag to. part | the line. Had the sailfish been permitted to put, a direct pull ypon | fhe, line ja an |. So great is the momentum by these/fishes that one, known to thrust its bill through | the inch planking of a laynch. Mr. Jerlaw is ,generally con- ceded to have held the. world rec- ord for. ¢atching, sailfish with a jtest of the men, that! the mariners, wit throughout. The line-up of the Key West team will be as follows: Pena, 1b; M. Acevedo, 2b; A. Acevedo, 833) W. Cates, 3b; Fruto, If; Gonzalez, ef; Lopez, rf; Griffin, c; Casa, p; Carbonell and Lucilo, p. |ARMY SHUTS OUT TILT OF TWINBILL UNCLE SAM'S Boys _— PETERSON FoR Wickes, NODINE FOR ARMY, HURLED The Army diay fidball a after suffering defeat ‘at the hand: of the Relief players in the i game of a doubleheader, yester- day afternoon at the Barracks grounds by a score of 11 to, 7, came back strong in the nightéap ahd shut, out the victors th ‘first contest, the score 5 to 0, allowing the wreckers only one hit. vy Peterson, was, 9 mound for Gates behind ‘igh-priest’s attendant. | the pan. however, been deter ok inet therefor they had construc. haven't You'y. lor {eed tus abort ba ole 2 a pallet ih @ corner of the Inner by the girl. When the two wi te Gauajly alept in the outer ack, entered the cave and ited. the Yorches, Janice had welfare of her charge. tin, bis Ae sip fed upright against thé cave's rigid in a state approaching » had shaken his shoulder | ng him In the midst of = dred ae had not awakened, Usyall: ightly. His limbs Fh hy Big marble-stift, His ¥ although ‘his eyes en, but opaque, reported that! it Sounded |: peide Bers imperceptible ¢ 7 ts ‘but by concentrating | Was Ligh aati were Is. t riba bela ih i Langton looked thoughtful. The 3 ; ter soamat press her with tur. ier, taway with the discol- oration of regetation. Tt ran swiftly, defmitety, and dis- of the lower ponges of yel- low foam clinging to the rocky por “With tuck,” stated Grahame éfar Ang speculatively at the stream, “we See Revetdeaseey eebebeor; { oros¢epe; BALTIMORE. — iiss aeatal Today's Horoscope, Today's native ts given to strong friehdships and a lover of social have ‘abodt a week on dry ground ‘Here After that (Copyright, 1934, By Berbers lexven) Frat Bedins, Monday, his great- Dodd of this city has given up her} work as manicurist to become a bootblack “because it Offers more} inteFeourse. You will have many | profits and excitement.” supporters and leave a legacy of} . if wide ‘of incre sab-/ stantial | . Tt is ‘an Aspect} for 1 ed ‘the world at large. Experiments at Cornell Univer- sity show that clothes moths tay! much beloved and bo gid thonth of the year, | th pupils, weet | the eggs will hatch in any Nodine did the hurling tor Uncle Sam’s boys, with Sweeting oh the receiving end. poem games were hard-fought, and proved to be interesting « ex: hibitions tl roughout for the many fans assembled. waveceeoes “CLASSIFIED COLUMN, PADIO REPATRING.. We Fah an makes, Guaranteed phoma J. L, Stowers Music Co. feb1 “FOR RENT FOR RENT—Furnished, house, all. ~eonveniences, $17 menth, Ap- ply 1116 Grinnell street. febs-tf all modern conveniences. “Alp- ply ‘at 827 Duval street, febt $42 SALESMEN WANTED FREE SUIT, liberal commissions, } cash bonus. Fast selfing line of | summer suits; beautiful fabrics, $6.95 to $12.50. Write imme- diately. PATTON MFG. co. Paducah, Ky. feb24-1tk | CHICKS atten apvolaniniae SOUTHERN HATCHED, selected, | Missouri Reds, Barred Rocks, | White Rocks, Wyandottes, Or- pingtons, Leghorns, 100—$7.25;' | Heavy Assorted $6.75. Live de- livery guaranteed. _Soiithern Hatcheries, Jacksénville, Fla. feb24;mar3-10 REPAIRING ed [SEWING MACHINES—We re- FOR SALE 'OLD PAPERS FoR i bandle 5c, containing {Papers ‘The Citinén =e fish miade a series Of and took out almost eight Tei all the line, and made some wild) rushes. The speed of a sailfish has been estimated vari ‘between 40 and 60 miles an hour, | ‘and men who have timed the rashes of a sailfish on a loose i line with a stop-watch say that? out one hundred! yards of line in three seconds, | This would be at the rate of ‘over 60 miles an hour. Of course‘ hundred yards is nothing for a sailfish,;as it will make much | Tonger rushes. Mr,, Jerlaw had landed the rec- | ord oes within twelve minutes MANUEL ARCUDI LODGED IN JAIL “| pssortnk 18 HELD AWAITING} ARRIVAL OF WARRANT FROM TAMPA Manuel Alvarez Argudin is be- ing held’in the county jail in Key West awaiting the arrival Warrant from Tampa. Officials in Hillsborough coun- ty wired Sheriff K. 0, Thompson yesterday that Argudin Was want- ed in Tampa and was suspected to be a passenger on the Florida. of a | light rod, and his achievement comes ‘at the conclusion of years of study of the habits Of the sail- fish and of patient, ‘angling in gn j endeavor to discover a__ tackle which would give the ga}lant bat- S| tler of the Guif Stream the great- | est break in its, effort to get away. | “Fishing with this tackle,” Mr. Jerlaw said, “the breaks were..9 percent in favor Of the sailfish when, the fight began.” But while Mr. Jerlaw, an expert | angler, has. been able to land his ‘sailfish with, the most delicate equipment, fishermen here get a i thrill in angling, with the cystom- ' ary heavier, tackle, and it will per- haps be a Jong time before any- one equals his feat. {vay morning deputi Tocal office were on.” shortly after the ship docked Ar- gudin was in custody. - PASTOR hig Dir in this city to. receive diplomas’ is the Rev. 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