The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1936, Page 3

SYNOPSIS: The only, curious thing about the man Bobby Jones @nd Dr, Thomas found at the foot of a cliff was the question he asked as he died: “Why didn’t they ask Evans ” But the man has been sat- isfactorily identified by some un- pleasant people called Cayman. And even Frankie Derwent, a friend of Bobby's, can’t find anything to hang suspicion on however hard she tries. Now Bobby is going up to London to help the usually incom- petent Badger Beadon run a ga- rage he has started, for no reason at all. His father is not very much pleased with the idea. Chapter Eight BIG OFFER N THE Wednesday of that week Bobby received another letter. It was addressed in a foreign, slant- ing handwriting. Its contents were somewhat surprising to the young man. It was from the firm of Henriquez & Dallo in Buenos Aires and, to put it concisely, it offered Bobby a job in the firm with a salary of a thou- saf@™{ pounds a year. For the first minute or two the young man thought he must be dreaming. A thousand a year. He re- read the letter more carefully. There was mention of an ex-Naval man’s being preferred, a suggestion that Bobby’s name had been put forward by someone (not named). Accept- ance must be immediate, and Bobby must be prepared to start for Buenos Aires within a week. “Well, I'm damned,” said Bobby, giving vent to his feelings in a some- what unfortunate manner. “Bobby!” “Sorry, there.” Mr. Jones cleared his throat. “I should like to point out to you—” Bobby felt that this process—usu- ally a long one—must at all costs be avoided. He achieved this by a sim- ple statement. “Someone's offered me a thousand a year.” The Vicar remained open-mouthed, unable for the moment to make any comment. “That's put him off his drive all right,” thought Boby with satisfac- tion. “My dear Bobby, did I understand you to say that someone has offered you a thousand a year?” “Holed it in one, Dad,” said Bobby. “It's impossible,” said the Vicar. Bobby was not hurt by this frank Incredulity. His estimate of his own monetary value differed little from that of hi father. “They must be complete mutts,” he agreed heartily. “Who—er—are these people?” ; Bobby handed him the letter. The Vicar, fymbling for his pince-nez, Seered dt itsuppiciously. Finally He read it twice. “Most remarkab! “Most remarkable. “Lunatics,” said Bobby. “Ah, my boy,” said the Vicar, ‘it is, after all, a great thing to be an Englishman. Honesty. Thai’s what we stand for. The Navy has carried that ideal all over the world. An Englishman’s word! This South American firm realizes the value of @ young man whose integrity will be unshaken and of whose fidelity his employers will be assured. You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game—” “And keep a straight bat,” said Bobby. Dad. Forgot you were ” he said at last. ‘HE Vicar looked at his son doubt- fully. The phrase, an excellent one, had actually been on the tip of his tongue, but there was something in Bobby's tone that struck him as not quite sincere. The young man, however, ap- peared to be perfectly serious. “All the same, Dad,” he said, “why me?” “What do you mean—why you?” “There are a lot of Englishmen in England,” said Bobby. ‘Hearty fel- lows, full of cricketing qualities. yhy pick on me?” “Probably your iate commanding officer may have recommended you.” “Yes, I supose that’s true,” said Bobby doubtfully. “It doesn’t mat- ter anyway since I can't take the job.” “Can't take it? My dear boy, what do you mean?” “Well, I'm fixed up, you see. With Badger.” “Badger? Badger Beadon? Non- sense, my dear Bobby. This is seri- ous.” “It’s a bit hard, I own,” said Bobby with a sigh. é “Any childish arrangement you have made with young Beadon can- not count for a moment.” “It counts with me.” “Young Beadon is completely ir- responsible. He has already, I under- stand, been a source of considerable trouble and expense to his parents.” “He’s not had much lucky Badger’s so infernally trusting.” young man had never done a hand's turn in his life.” “Nonsense, Dad. Why, he used to get up at five in the morning to feed those beastly chickens. It wasn’t his fault they all got the roup or croup or whatever it was.” “I have never approved of this garage project. Mere folly. You must give it up.” “Can't, sir. Fve promised. I can’t let the old Badger down. He's count- ing on me.” The discussion proceeded. The Vi- car, biased by his views on the sub- ject of Badger;was quite unable to regard any promise made to that young man as *binding. He looked on Bobby as obstinate and deter- mined at all costs to lead an idle life in company with one of the worst possible companions. Bobby, on the other hand, stolidly repeated without originality that he “couldn't let old Badger down.” The Vicar finally left the room in anger, and Bobby then and there sat down to write the firm of Hen- riquez &-Dallo refusing their offer. He sighed as he did so. He was let- ting a chance go here which was never likely to occur again. But he saw no alternative. Later, on the links, he put the problem to Frankie, She listened attentively. “You'd have had to go to South America?” “Yes.” “Would you have liked that?” “Yes, why not?” Frankie sighed. “Anyway,” she said with decision, “I think you did quite right.” “About Badger, you mean?” “Yes.” “I couldn’t let the old bird down, could I?” “No, but be careful that the old bird, as you call him, doesn’t let you in.” “Oh! I shall be careful. Anyway I shall be all right. 1 haven't got any assets.” “That must be rather fun,” said Frankie. “Why?” ‘'T don’t know why. It just sounded nice and free and irresponsible. I suppose, though, when I come to think of it, that I haven’t got many assets either. I mean, Father gives me an allowance, and I’ve got lots of houses to live in and clothes and maids and some hideous family Jewels and a good deal of credit at shops—but that’s all the family, really. It’s not me.” “No, but all the same—” Bobby paused. “Ob, it’s quite different, I know.” “¥es't-said Bobby. “It's‘quite dif- ferent.” He felt suddenly very de- pressed. They walked in silence to the next tee. “I'm going up to town to-mor- row,” said Frankie as Bobby teed up his ball. “To-morrow. Oh—and I was going to suggest you should come for a picnic.” “I'd have liked to. However, it’s arranged. You see, Father got the gout again.” “You ought to stay and minister to him,” said Bobby. “He doesn’t like being ministered to. It annoys him frightfully. He likes the second footman best. He’s sympathetic and doesn’t mind hav- ing things thrown at him and being called a damned fool.” Bobby topped his drive and it trickled into the bunker. “Hard lines,” said Frankie and drove a nice straight ball that sailed over it. “By the way,” she remarked, “we might do something together in Lon- don. You'll be up soon?” “On Monday. But—well—it’s no good, is it?” “What do you mean—no good?” “Well, I mean I shall be working as a mechanic most of the time. I mean—” “Even then,” said Frankie, “F sup- pose you're just as capable of com- ing to a cocktail party and getting tight as any other of my friends.” Bobby merely shook his head. “I'll give a beer-and-sausage party if you prefer it,” said Frankie en- couragingly. “Oh, look here, Frankie, what's the good? I mean, you can’t mix your crowds, Your crowd’s a different crowd from mine.” “I assure you,” said Frankie, “that my crowd is a very mixed one.” You're pretending not to under- stand.” “You can bring Badger if you like. There's friendship for you.” ye sort of prejudice Peninsulai’ & Occidental ‘Erfective December 22nd, 1935. S. S. CUBA Leaves Port Tampa on Sundays and Wednesdays at 2:30 P. M. arriving Key West 7 A. M. Mondays and Thursdays. Leaves St. Petersburg on Sundays at 4:15 P. M, arriving Key West 7 A. M. Monday. Leaves Key West Mondays and Thursdays 8:30 A. M. for Havana, Leaves Key West Tyesdays and Fridays 5 P. M. for Port Tampa, Fla. For further information and rates call Phone 14, J. H. COSTAR, Agent. (OUT-OF-TOWN GAME AT Hl GYM TONIGHT. t TYPHOON’S FIVE WILL PLAY, LOCAL HIGH SHOOL QUIN-; TET; FIRST INVADING CLUB | The basketball game scheduled; jfor tonight at the High School| | gymnasium will be the second for the Conchs with out-of-town fives this season. The locals are confident, too, that they will make it their second victory over invading teams. ! Tonight the Ida M. Fisher bas- ketballers, better known as the phoon’s and said to be a very. strong five, will play their first game in Key West against the local High School cagers, In the last three games the Typhoons have played, they de- feated the Fort Lauderdale five 23 to 16, the Redland High quin- tet 22 to 14, and the visiting Er- win High players from Erwin, Tenn., by the score of 25 to 23. The great center from the Ten- nessee five will make the trip to West with the Typhoons, He is six feet tall. The Fisher players are: Stroth- er, Baida, Murphy, forwards; B. Drury, J. Drury, Powell, guards; Orr, center. The feature of the Tyhoons’ playing is that the guards shoot the, ball as well as the forwards or, center. In the game with Red-/ land, the guards made 10 points; in the game with Lauderdale they | scored eight points, and with Er- win High they rung up 14 out of the 23 scored by their club. Fans will see a different sy: tem of play tonight. So far this season the Typhoons have won eight games and have lost but two. This is the first time a Ty- poon has been to Key West. We have had hurricanes, storms and other such freaks of nature, but the Typhoon tonight will be our first experience. If the boys get bewildered at first, don’t blame} them. However, Key West will] meet this “emergency” and con- quer it. The opening game of the eve- ning will be between the Convent girls and an All-Star team picked} to play an invading girl’s club from Cuba on the 24th of this} month. The curtain-raiser will get un-! der way at 7:30 o’clock. NO SOCIAL LEAGUE! \GAME YESTERDAY) The Social Diamondball League! game scheduled for yesterday aft-| ernoon at Bayview Park had toj be called off on account of rain. This afternoon, if weather per-} mits, the Research Department ten will tackle the Bayview Park; outfit. Today’s Horoscope} An intellectual person is here} indicated, with a scientific mind j eager to experiment, and with; fluency of expression, Under some aspects it may develop a malicious | disposition, which should be curb- ed to avoid danger of frenzy, | to take! 0} ‘lane, Tommy ‘in the hoosegow when the \downpour caused them to scam-; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS BY JOVE ‘DOINGS AROUND THE GOLF LINKS By GRAVY’S GHOST Rain won all the matches oy the golf links yesterday. The! Four Donkeys of the Merry-go- Round, with thier line-up changed a bit, due’ to Hurricane Eddie re-| CONCHS WON FROM ™aining snugged up in his office; made a 26 on the next five. (Eddie is as afraid of rain as he} is of a hurricane), succeeded in} | playing only nine holes when the| them in his imagination, was Os- ‘rain sent them scootting into the| 00d Kemp, keeper of the start- starter shop, j Melvin Russell, who generally! winds up “itt last place, had the; lowest score among the Donkeys for the nine holes. Melvin nego-} tiated the wind and the water for! a 45; W. Peter Kemp had a 463| Tim Pittman a 51 and Bill Malone} a 55. Bill said had he been a bet-i ter swimmer he feels sure would have broken 50. Willie Watkins and Otto Kireh=} heiner essayed, merely essayed,/, Vitis: Betty 4 who slams the pill as far as any { hard-hitting gent and as aecurate-4 ly as the ‘topnotchers, and C. L.| Cawthorn, another. vigitor -in,,our}. fair city, who is reported te;have; been a pro some years ago. Any} how, Mr, Cawthorn said he had} not played in three years, but proceeded to beat even ‘Buechner three up for the twelve holes they played. Willie remar} ed, while racing to the _starter| shop to get ont of the rain, that} if Mr. Cawthorn laid off for an- other three years, he could come} back and defeat Willie Macfar-! Armour, Johnny | Revolta and all the other big boys. Willie and Otto were nine play ended. i Cookie Mesa, teaming with “Bones” Knowles, played against! Charlie Salas and Louis Cruick- shank and were three down after the thirteenth hole. However, Cookie says he’s willing to make an affidavit that he and Bones would have come out on top had the eighteen been played, because they were just beginning to get! the feel of their clubs when the per to cover. As proof of that} view, Cookie states that at the end of the nine Charley and Louis were six up but that, after play- ing the next four, they were only three up. Old B’y, the Duke of Rock; since unrestrained it might lead to mania, TS LISS Sa: COMING EVENTS The following events cover the week of February 9 to February 15: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Bayview Park — Diamondball, tennis and other games all aftr- ernoon, Cukan Club—Dance with John Pritchard and his boys at 9 P. M. | Rest Beach—Swithifiag // and / sun bathing. Sail boat rides. High School Gym—Bagketball | games. P oe | Stowers Park—All kinds of| games all afternoon, j Colonial Park—Checkers . and reading and. writing all afternoon,; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Rest Beach—Swimming and; sun bathing. Sail boat rides. Duval Street-—7:30 P. M. until 9:30 P. M,, Promenade, | Raul’s Club on the Boulevard—} Dancing tonight. IIA ALAA L ELL Oversea Transportation Co., Inc. REGULAR AND RELIABLE: FREIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN Key West and Miami NOW MAKING DELIVERIES AT KEY WEST —_ON—— TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS WE FURNISH PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE OFFICE: 813 CAROLINE STREET TELEPHONES 68 AND 92 Sound, and Sam Harris played 14 holes before the rain began to fall. For the nine the Duke made a 48 and Sama 45, and each The only man who played 18 holes yesterday, and he played | | er shop, who, after everybody had left for home, locked up and went out to start his Bumble Bee. And Osgood cranked and crank- ed, and cranked and cussed, and} cussed and cranked, but the ole tincan didn’t even wheeze. Satisfied that the engine was; drowned out, Osgood started his! Making his! Assie’ arid dth-| on the first hole.” imaginaty ‘dijper} Buechner, jer shots, including'the putter, Os-| aquati¢ vaudeville acts. good fihishbd Ake} eighteenth hole at the Tramsfer’’Corner at 8) o'clock. for enry o “Here's a tip. to all, golfers,” Osgood said this morhing: “when; your bug tefiges {8 *#in, or you are faced with a léng walk foy any other reason, don’t get hot you're playing a game of golf and you'll find the walk a pleasure nstead of a task.” MANY ENTRIES RECEIVED FOR AQUATIC MEET EVENT TO BE STAGED AT KEY WEST YACHT BASIN IN CONNECTION WITH AN- NUAL SEMANA ALEGRE Entries are coming in rapidly for the aquatic meet which will be staged February 27 as part of the annual “Semana Alegre” which opens in Key West Feb- ruary 23. The aquatic meet is to be stag-| ed at the Key West Yacht Basin} swimming pavilion. Among those who already have signified their intentions of participating in the ‘meet are Mrs; Julio DePoo, Mrs. Tleen Olsen, Miss Anita Berko- witz, who won in the Armistice Day contest; Miss Dorothy Bean and Eloise Guito, who were strong contenders in that meet. Mrs. DePoo will give an exhi- he/| trek homeward, muttering, “Well, | bition of dives from the high and|Dled in Los Angeles, |T'll call it a game, and I’m off! middle boards. She is an accom- plished diver and has been seen in various parts of the country in Among the men who have en-| tered the meet are many favorites | -| who participated in the Armistice Day meet. No members of the beach patrol will take part, how- ever, Approximately 25 entries are expected, in addition to possibly Miss | under the collar but make believe|a team from the Cuban Navy. Subscribe to The Citizen—20e weekly. Today’s Anniversaries . . 1819 — Christopher Latham Sholes, Wisconsin newspaper edi- tor, collector of the Port of Mil- waukee, inventor-verfector of the typewriter in the late 1860's, born at Mooresburg. Pa. Died Feb. 17, 1890. 1824—Winfield Scott. Han- cock, noted Union general, Déttio- cratic Presidential candidate-in 1880, born at Montgomery Square, Pa. Died in New York, Feb. 9, 1886. ‘ 1842—Juliet Corson, teacher of cooking in the schools of America and Canada, born in Boston. Died in New York, June] 18, 1897. 1847—Anna Howard Shaw, | America’s noted preacher, physi- cian and woman suffragist of her day, born in England. Died at! Moylan, Pa., July 2, 1919. 1864—Israel Zangwill, English | author and Jewish leader, born.} July 17%,) 1927. 1886—Walter W. Liggett, Min- nesota editor and author, born et Benson, Minn. Assassinated, im | Minneapolis, Dec. 9, 1935. PALACE Gene Autry in SINGING VAGABOND Serial and Comedy Matinee: 5-10c; Ni JOHN C. PARK 328 SIMONTON ST. 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