The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 2, 1936, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936, THE WORLD WITH A FENCE A New Novel by Marian Sims SYNOPSIS: Carob Torrance has left two of her cares behind her by returning to her family in Mere- dith for the Christmas vacation. One is Denis Ford, whom she might have loved; Denis is in Washing- ton. The other is Mike Hannigan, a pupil of hers in Ashboro high school. Mike is in the clutches of Annabel Monroe, another student ~-and Carol is helpless. To her re- lief, her brother Pat tells her that Don, who three months before begged Carol to marry him. is now falling for her younger sister Jill, Chapter 17 FROM DENIS TILLY gave a buffet supper the | t1eq over them. Pat jumped up. i next night “to start the ball Tolling,” as she put it, alttiough the | pefore the callers begin to descend” | ball usually rolled in their direction without assistance. She and Carol spent the morning cutting up hens for creamed chicken while Annie, the Negro cook, “did the house.” . They talked steadily and happily, about small, unimportant things. Annie popped in and out, beaming, inventing opportunities for conver sation with Carol, whom she adored. “Lawd, Miss Carol,” she had said in greeting, “you looks younger an’ prettier than ever!” ~ Carol grinned skeptically and af- fectionately. “You darned liar. How’s that no-count husband of yours?” Annie shrugged olithely. “I ain even speakin’ to ‘im rat now, ex- cusin’ when, tells ‘im to bring in some stove wood.” Annie and Bud led a tumultuous life, alternating periods of fierce loyalty with tmterval ‘of very ar ticulate contempt, and Annie’s ac counts ‘of ‘their battles were well worth preserving. Milly cut the conversation short. “Be sure and go over the furniture well, Annie.” Annie departed _ reluctantly. “Yes'm. I wuz jus fixin’ to do that.” At seven the guests began to ar rive, and the house became noisy and alive. Like most small town groups the “crowd” was heteroge- neous: friends of Jill and Pat and Carol, and one or two of Milly’s own contemporaries who aad Milly's youthfulness of spirit. They were very glad to see Carol and their wel- ‘come fitted her again into a niche . of her own, a niche sha could never occupy as a teacher in Ashboro. Don came a little laté, and Carol guessed that he wanted the imper sonality of a crowd to help him over the first few minutes. She met him exactly as she had met the others, and then resumed an interrupted conversation, His eyes found Jl! and greeted her above half a dozen heads, then swung back to Carol. Over: the} shaker Pat watched him unobtru sively; saw him weighing and com- paring; saw uncertainty mirrored for a moment in his candid face. Carol chatted gaily on, ignoring him, and the uncertainty began to fade. He greeted Milly warmly. Squeezing both her hands, and then began inexorably to forge his way towards Jill. Across the room Caro] and Pat exchanged a single expressionless look, so brief that it scarcely lived. Pat bent over to fill a glass, but in his heart the gesture was an obel- sance to his older sister. They played bridge for a while after supper, and then deserted the tables for the hilarious unity of guessing games. The party reluctantly broke up at midnight. With his overcoat on Jim Stamper grumbled: “We haven't played no Thumbs Up all night.” Pat .eaped into the breach with both thumbs upright, and Jim in turn elevated his. “Simon says “thumbs up.’ Simon says ‘wigwag.’ Stop!” rJim obedientiy stepped, Louise snifféd# You're nat’ so hot. Come on, idiot’ ‘you'veagot to drive the sitter home, and tomorrow's your week to take Muff to Sunday school. It’s been perfeetly elegant, folks..." ¢ F* é ‘They all Wrifted” oft, and the house was suddenly very still. Carol smiled at Milly. “It was a swell party, darling.” And very different, she thought, from Alice and Tom Harrison’s at- fair that had been her introduction to Ashboro’s social whirl “Leavi the ‘house as it fs,” Milly had begun straightening things—“Annie can do it all before we're even awake.” ‘HE days before Christmas were crowded and swift. dropping away like beads from a broken string. There were hurried trips to town: Milly ran short of tissue and ribbon, everybody ran short Christmas cards. : | Carol groaned as the cards poured | Of discovery. When the train had and | [ wrought up when you send a card and don’t get one back?” “Of course not.” “Well, then, give ‘em credit for f stewing.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS BY JOVE the same amount of sense. a Christmas day was crisp and clear. Milly had hoped to the last | that there would be @ flurry of snow, | but Pat discouraged ‘her. i “Sugar, there never is. Don’t get your hopes up.” { When the packages had been ' opened and admired the inevitable sense of flatness and-reaction set: | +t te “Let’s go play nine holes of golf They went gladly, to escape the | Seeeeescoossesonsensoooce realization that something had gone! Cheta Baker, the Key West dia- out of the day and the season. That ' mondball player, at present with was the worst of Christmas, Carol CHETA BAKER, KEY WEST LAD, ATTAINS Hits Long Drive At Cracial Moment HONORS IN SOFTBALL CONTEST IN MIAMI | ‘GIANTS COME BACK TO TRIM CHICAGO CUBS | PITTSBURGH PIRATES TRI- UMPHED OVER’ BOSTON BEES; DETROIT TIGERS ee et For Protectu Club | + 208 ' Pecccccedesccocccccocese before they, found it. Again, in; the sixth Cawthawne singled, ad-} HEALTHERS WON CANE YESTERDAY DEFEATED ADMINISTRATION | BY SCORE OF 6 Tos Sanitary Department won from Administration yesterday after- noon. It was a very good game and the result was in ‘doubt until the final putout was made. Score: } 6 to 5. Domenech, Acevedo and J. Rob-' erts hit two safely in five times ai bat. J. Russell and Molina hit the only extra base hits of the game, which were doubles. Sands, Lopez and Molina were! j Wimmen uster c:vorce their has thought: you counted so heavily on it, and then after all it was just an- other day. And she was crowding back into her heart the thought that so far there had been no word from Denis: not even a Christmas card. Don had very diplomatically sent flowers to her and Jill and candy to Milly, but Denis was silent. Silly of her to mind, because he’d said he hated it, and yet... The course was rough and heavy, but the golf was only a pretext so they waded gaily through nine holes, and came home wet and cold and pleasantly tired, to a huge Christ- mas dinner, At half-past two the | callers began tovarrive, and the last round departed at midnight. When they had gone the Torrances went gladly to bed. One more bead, Carol thought sleepily, had slipped off the string. Two days later a package arrived from, Denis, accompanied by & scrawjed note. Carol read the note first. “Sweet, I'm ggrovelling. I went out with a coffple of fellows two nights before Thristmas and got gutter drunk, mainly to drown the realization that you were in Geor- gia and I was in Washington. It took me two days to sober up recs to remember where I'd put Pista ’ “This” was a beautiful copy of “South Wind,” signed and num- bered, with a card: “For Carol who deserves the world with a fence.” But I don’t want the world with a fence, she thought wearily; I want a very small corner, with Denis in it, and I'll never have it, Even if Denis were there he wouldn't stay put. She tore up the card and the note, and tossed the book on the table, where Pat found it in the evening. He picked it up carefully, his eyes shining, “Say, this is beautiful!” He glanced inquiringly at her and she nodded. “It was late because he got gut- ter drunk.” The light in Pat’s eyes faded. “Well, Christmas usually calls for celebration, doesn’t it?” he asked carelessly, OMETHING, Carol realized in the remaining days of her vacation, had also gone out of Meredith—-or of her relation to Meredith. There hadn’t been time in the rush of Christmas preparation tc think of it, but now the knowledge followed her doggedly. I don’t actually belong here any | longer, she realized, and was faced | with another more terrifying fact: and God knows [ don’t belong in Ashboro! By her own act she was ' without a country. She dared, before she left, to | break through Jill’s reserve and dis- cuss Don with her. Jill was flushed and uncomfortable at first, but her sister’s casual air disarmed. her. “Being the sort you are,” Carol said calmly, “you've probably got a quixotic notion that Don still be longs to me, even though he ob viously doesn’t want to. That's fool- ish: if I'd wanted Don 1 wouldn’t be teaching in Ashboro. He's your type’ and not mine, anyhow—and | that’s » compliment to both of you. You'll make a swell pair, and raise a lot cf healthy, intelligent children, and justify your existence. | wish I could say much for myself.” Jill’s voice was shaken. “That's rot, You've got a divine discontent: it’s your sort that blazes trails for my sort to follow.” She laughed harshly. “Not L Pll zigzag all my life.” For the rest she spent her time with Milly: driving her on errands, Playing bridge and golf with her, talking endlessly of pleasant, unim- portant things. She took a train on Sunday after noon, and the scene of four months ago was re-enacted, except that, for herself, it was no longer a‘ voyage in. “This business is ruining Christ- | Pulled out she turned her face to the mas for me. Instead of being pleased quickening landscape and closed her and touched at all the people who| Yes against scorching tears. remember me, my first reaction {s: ‘Oh, Lord. I didnt send them one! Pat shrugged. “Do you get all (Copyright, 1936, by Marian Sims) Carol gets some shocking m about Mike, tomorrow. ee eco * |the Protectu club of Miami, one of jthe contestants of the recent dia-|" . Sot | mondball tournament in which Key |t¥Ying run on Lefty Schemer’s | | West won and lost one, found him-| bleeding single through the in- self in critical position when he| field. {faced -Tuppen, the cyclonic piteh- | “On all other occasions Tuppen} .er of Fort Lauderdale, in the 14th | had been master in the |inning, but he swung at a fast one | But so had Red Brown, who re- | te ,and connected for a long drive to lieved Mel Godbee in the vanced on a bunt and scored the! third ‘Cubs after losing the game WON FROM ATHLETICS (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—The clutches. |New York Giants came back yes- rday and trimmed the Chicago the ‘center enabling the base runner after Fort Lauderdale had scored previous day to the Chicago out- at third to come sailing home with; two runs. Red had been in |the winning run. | midst of many mixups. He was! Jack Bell, of the Miami Daily ‘in such that he couldn’t wait until | th of the momentous moment, and we | will let Jack tell it: | batters. | But this made little dif-| the plate in the last of the:14th in- | sluggers that they all went up} do or die for dear old Protectu. so successfully. “The stands were filled with! fans; the fans were filled with ex-'of them—the Fort citement, fear, hope, anticipation; | players d-termined to and the bases were filled with col-|the rally. ‘hey had zone on for! lege mates from dear old Pro-! 14 innings and tectu. 'game in the famil. | “Well, little Cheta Baker heard; “But Protectu was just as eager; the call of his classmates in the, to win. In fact, they were half | stands. He was not an imposing crazy, and had been all night. He doesn’t know, had walked, Bill Marsh had sizgled | how to roll his baseball pants. As and Schemer had singled. { a result they get loose and flap in| “So there stood Cheta Baler: the breezes. “His long socks shim- , with the ball game in his lap. There | | mied down his skinny legs and lay } lin great folds around his shoe-| mighty arm—there was a tops, |ball streaking toward the plate— ; {from Key W; and pants you got the idea that of Cheta’s little bat—and the bail Cheta might have webb feet. But|soaring high and fairly far out to! {his shrill voice had been riding the | center field. foe all night, and spurring his “Hugh Vickers, Fort {mates a'ong. His far—had been dist ‘ingly silent. “But this was different. This was the 14th inning and the score was tied at 2-all. If Proteetu won it meant another game with Fort{instant the ball touched Vickers’! Lauderdale and another chance to|glove. Hugh did his part, a fast get into the state tournament. If! and-accurate peg to the plate. But Protectu lost it was all over but|he was too late. Godbee flashed the campus post mortems. onto the plate just before the ball} “Out on the mound stood Frank | got there—and Protectu had won, | Tuppen, ace of all diamondballj. “Thus ended a hectic struggle, hurlers. Time after time, during a thrilling battle, he had turned | | back Protectu hitters with men on the paths. Once Jimmy Drury} players, close decisions and argu- had mauled a rifle-shot to left cen-! ments—the’ type of healthy-but-|~ ter which scampered under the! brief arguments which make a hedge and almost hatched young| game worth while.” Lauder- left and back a_ bit. Godbee; a cinch he’d try for that run, | vi of diamondball ever played here. | B THROUGH FOLLOWING ried. They saw his girl up there, She attend every game. Let us know, Arthur, so we can help you The following are incidents that really happened to the local play- ers who journeyed to Miami to News, gives a graphic description ' his team mates got into their posi-!cinnati Reds won from the ‘tions beforeshe whirled ’em at the /lies, The game scheduled between! “Little Cheta Baker, the ex-box! ference, the Fort Lauderdale hit-| Brooklyn and St. Louis was post- fighter from Key West, stenped to ters being sé ¢onvinced that they’re poned on account of rain. In! Boston... Leads figure at the plate—this little lad! the 14th, with one gone, Godbee: Pittsburgh “Somehow, looking at those sox! there was the sharp, crisp swing Grace; Hollingsworth, Frey Lombardi. ;New York little bat—so/dale center fielder, moved to the! Chicago Detroit perhaps ‘the most. exciting game ; Philadelphia the fit. The Pittsburgh Pirates downed e Boston Bees, while the Cin- Phil- In the American League, the jning at Miami Beach last night to; there lunging like Ruth, but not) Detroit Tigers defeated the Ath- |letics, and the Boston “So there were the funs-—2,500| won from the Cleveland Indians, Lauderdale | vhile the Senators downed the St. snuff out: Louis Browns. Red Sox There was no game_ scheduled nted to keep the ! between Chicago and New York. The summaries follow: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh R. H. E. 1° 4 8 3 9.2 Batteries: Macfayden, Reis and | Lopez; Weaver and Todd. At Cincinnati R. H. E. as a swish of Frank Tuppen’s Philadelphia white | Cincinnati Batteries: Walte and At Chicago R. WE. mee fox ye | 414 3 itzsimmons, Gum- Batteries crouched at third, waiting. It was bert, Coffman and Mancuso; Da-} Philadelphia is, Lee, Henshaw, Root, Bryant “Godbee streaked for home the and O’Dea, Brooklyn-St. Louis, postponed, rain, AMERICAN LEAGUE At Philadelphia :R:.H. E. 44: £ Batteries: Rowe and Hayworth; For ‘the battle was full of daring ; Bulloch and. Hayes, ; At’ Boston | Cleveland ‘oston ...... Batteries: Harder, At Washington _ {St. Louis . Washington a 513 0 Batteries: Hogsett, Caldwell and Hemsley; Whitehill and Miller. Chicago and New York, not |compete in the East Coast Elim-| drink the beer. jination Tournament: Sterling, according to Monk |Kerr, was scared to sleep in the jhotel room on account of the lone twolf—Joe Hale. Others claim ;Monk was the wolf. Use your | own judgment. Mack made a date with a girl and when he went for her, she had already gone out with Clayton. The boys claim Johnnie Walker, (ame Jr., did not go up’ there to pitch, ssell was afraid to visit) but went as bat boy. He did a ava aaeiiekeens pete rai that | £00d job as he brought back the |if he went up 27 stories, the eleva-| MY bat carried. | tor may not*come down again and ‘he would have to stay in Miami. Joe Russell wants to know what they took him along for. not play and he did not take care of the’ bats. I suppose they car- ried him so he could “treat” once J. V. Woodson was homesick: in a while. | because he left something behind| ;that he could not take off his mind | ; I wonder what was that? i McCarthy thought all the Magic! {City gitls were stuck on him. | Bill Cates claims that the rea- ' 'son he committed an error in his |game with Ft. Lauderdale was be- | After his experience in Miami, ause of the fact that he had been | Ingraham has almost decided . to’ playing baseball for six months |join a rumba band. and a diamondball felt quite large a his hands, “Two-by-Four” Higgs tried t } go into a movie housé.at Ft. Laud-! jerdale in his undershirt. A police- ahd | main grabbed him and asked, “Bud- |" Miceers eases Siete ee dy, where are you ‘from?” | told the cop, “Key West,” tal. 9 2% which the officer replied that the | Higes had a pillow battle in the ‘}law there forbade ‘anyone going to hotel room. All were winners. Ubieta, better known up there } He 4iid | Wrinkley, Kerr, Mack, Hale andj scheduled. - TODAY’S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Chieago at Boston. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Detroit at Washington. Cleveland at New York. NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at Cincinnati, Brooklyn at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. Bas-relief is a form of sculpture j » which objects pictured project {from the surface of the broader material. t j i } i Cigar Store DAILY BASEBALL {Tynes and Soldano for the Office 'St. Louis 12,2 Galehouse and George; Grove and R. 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