The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 18, 1939, Page 3

THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939 OLD HOME WEEK MURDER by Phoebe Atwood Taylor The Characters Asey Mayo, Cape Cod sleuth. Win, the last Billings of Bill- ingsgate, Yesterday: Win is too old to have been the man who eluded Asey so vigorously. He says he is through with Old Home Week. He followed Hamilton out to a car. “Majestic old duffer, isn’t he?” Cummings said. “Are you sure, Asey, you're doing right in letting him go?” Where'd he get the money for a silencer? Where'd he get the stam- ina? What about Kay?” I'll go over with you,” Cum- “He's not the man 1 followed. TAKE STING | GAIN 2ND PLACE |CUBS AND DODGERS PLAY | WHITEWASHED DEMOLAY) NINETEEN INNINGS TO TIE: | YANKS WIN SEVENTH IN, }, ROW; BOSOX LOSE | (Special to "The Citizen) SERVICE BOWLERS THREE-GAME WIN PLAY BALL, AMERICA! | 1839-1939--Baseball Centennial | | Monday this column publish-| jed part of the fifth inning in a, BOYS LAST NIGHT: LIONS plan that is given inning by in- ini to help celebrate the 100th ‘ VS. BANKERS IN GAME TO- | birthday of the national pastime. NIGHT |'Today, the column continues with | the fifth inning. All quoted mat- | |ter is taken from the book of the | FOLLOWING THROUGH “Plan Three. . Public Baseball j Clinic. . .Managers, coaches, um- pires, or experienced players to! conduct, preferably before the; season, public discussion clinics on rules and playing technique. The plan requires a leader with} a thoroughly complete knowledge of the game. The details of the plan outline method of prdinoting! PAGE THREE ‘SPECIAL SALE AT MALONEY’S | Hawaiian Pineapple is the | password this weekend at Ma- |loney Bros. Bakery, 812 Fleming MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES’ STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE | ‘W..t. 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Pet.; a roadster. 17 5 “AND Win,” Weston continued, “was going to get paid ten dollars for broadcasting on the radio. it do you think of that. Win? Ten dollars!” “Got more’n that’n m'pocket ht now,” Win returned airily. it sx'poll tax, an’ enough to live six months on. Keep y’ten dollars.” His tone indicated that ten dol- lars was so much pig feed. Jeff laughed. “1 admire his spunk, Let him off, Weston. Asey’s right. Enough is enough. Don’t you agree, Brinley?” “No,” Brinley said. “No! He’s had more care and attention lately than he’s had in years, and what thanks do we get for it all?” “Y’can put me up in front of that tin pan on a broomstick,” Win re- ferred to the microphone, “but gregrampa used t’say, you can lead a hoss to water, but even he won’t drink the stuff.” Asey and Jeff chuckled. “Consider,” Jeff said, “that angle. Suppose Win decides to give some png tga anecdotes over the air. That is very definitely some- thing to think about.” “TT tell ‘em,” Win_ promised, “"bout you,” he waggled a long forefinger at Brinley, “you an’ that girl. I seen you, while y’wife was stuck up in the wheel. I seen the two of ye, out b’hind that tent! I seen what y’was up to. ‘N I'll tell.” There was fortunately a chair behind Brinley, and he collapsed into it. “It’s a lie!” He tried to speak out manfully, but his voice turned out to be a hoarse whisper. “It’s a lie!” “Lie nothin’,” Win returned. “1 seen you, makin’ up to her. Seen it all Girl the feller throws knives at. Furrener. Eye-talian, or some- thin’.” “So that,” Asey said, “was where you was, durin’ the ferris wheel fun? Just frolickin’. huh? J. Ar- thur, it's lucky for you he told. We couldn't seem to get you placed. an’ believe me when I say you was goin’. sooner or later, to be run through the mill until we did find out where you was.” “Til resign,” Brinley said. “I'll resign. Only—don't tell Bessie! | , jet J Don't essie know! Bessie wouldn't forgive me, ever! And it *vas just—just a—only—I mean—” “Just what?” “Oh, I'll resign! Bessie said. when i first went into politizs, that a slip would mar—I know it means the end of my career. And I did want,” Brinley said plaintively, “to go to the state legislature!” Asey looked at Jeff, who nodded. “Come, come, Arthur,” Jeff said soothingly, “no one knows but us here, and look—come along home. Wes, you come too You've got to settle about the tags for tomorrow Brinley, and your accounts. Come on. Forget this. Asey, you take cre of Win, will you? We'll explain it officially as a bad cold. and per- haps native pride’ll keep the town folks from telling what they’l! know has happened.” “And don’t forget,” Weston said to Asey, “about the radio!” Dr. Cummings watched the se- lecimen leave and then wandered back into the living room. “Sometimes.” he said. “1 wonder how governments exist. If a mid- way girl that gets thrown knives at can cause a flurry like this in town—well, well. What about Win?” "5 “@hicket Bones’ “CYL can take care of him over J at in’ shack,” Asey said, “until his shoulder’s all right. What're your plans for winter. Win?” “I been open: winters lately,” Win said, “up to Philbrick’s big barn. Got me a stove off the dump, the icind you stick into the e-lec- , an’ I tell you, it’s mighty fine up there. Keep good’n warm.’ “So that,” Cumm! said, “is why the General is suing the light com} for winter bills! Asey, we'll have to solve some problems for Win.” Asey nodded. “We will Now, Win, this feller Hamilton's takin’ you away, an’ you're going to stay shack with Syl. Know Syl? 3 wndson. Hang around f come, will you? An’ don't you wander away, either, ‘ someone might bring you ili you stay there? »" Win said, “can be low Jack? Nate could.” is probably,” Asey said, “the in the country. Now. rou b’have, sort of?” as he got up from “Gregrampa allus said, do unto others as you're done by. Gimme m’t’bacco.’ LEFT ON TRIP OVER HIGHWAY Mrs. Matilda Manegold and Miss Margaret Lacedonia were passengers leaving on the 11 2. m. bus yesterday morning for Miami where they will board the train for Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Manegold’s other home. Miss Lacedonia plans to remain »{around. Your name “T hope,” he said, “the next clue or suspect we get, you'll let us have it for more than ten minutes. I don’t get a chance to bite into any- thing before you yank it out of my sight!” “Chicken-bones,” Asey said, “but they're gettin’. meatier, I think. Keep your fellers here, Lane. “Night.” “How about sending some into the woods again,” Lane said. “We might find your man. Perhaps you hit him, after all.” “You keep your men here,” Asey said. “Two casualties tonight is enough. So long.” Asey and the doctor found the entire household except Jeff camped in Kay Thayer’s bedroom. “It wasn’t Win, was it?” she asked. “Asey. did Pia didn’t find anyone else, did you?” “I found J. Arthur, but nothin’ come of it. Kay, what happened? What was you doin’ there? What went on?” Kay avoided Asey’s eye. “This afternoon,” she said, “I found the two paths you told me about, and then I found another one down to the ice house, and then it cut around the ice house and went off into the woods to a road. I guess it was the road where Brin- ley said he parked this afternoon.” “Whyn't you tell me?” ‘A Gaseous State’ “YELL. it didn’t seem important at the time. And besides, you told me to take the shortest path, or way, and this was circuitous and roundabout. And this evening it suddenly came to me tuat perhaps it was the path the murderer used. After all, he’d hardly park on the main road. and he had to have a car somewhere. And it sort of fascinated me, the idea did, so 1 slipped away—”" “She told me,” Sara interrupted accusingly, “that she had to see some reporter!” “I did. And afterwards, | got into the percolator and drove up there —Asey. if you look like that at me, I shall cry, I swear I shall! I know how crazy it was, but I didn't think of it then,” “Go on.” “Well, I hada gun,” Kay said ‘I shot,.tgo. 1 shot twice—you don’t seem surprised! ‘The fellow had a silencer,” Asey said, “but we heard two shots. | You pretty much had to have a gun, B'sides, you said once you was a sucker- for a shot. Go on.” and after a while 1 got bored, and scared; and cold—I’m a city person. I don’t understand country noises, and | confess they terrify me. So 1 lighted a cigarette, and about two seconds later—” “Somethin’ whizzed by you, an’ you d’scovered what a bright girl an’ what a sucker for a shot you really was. Lightin’ a cig’rette then! Was--look, couldn’t you— oh, go on!” And then somethin, stung my head—I didn't know that being shot was like that. And J ping sound was a silencer. At that | point,” Kay concluded honestly, |“you could have poured me into a glass. | wasn’t even a pulp, I wag liquid. Wow!” “An’ then?” “I flopped down behind a tree and tried to become an inconspicu- ous part of Mother Nature, and then I heard someone coming to- ward me, and not just toward me, but sort of at me. if you know what I mean, 1 got wy started to yi, and gral me, and screamed, and pulled away. And then 1 tripped x - look, d’you know that theory about not being scared of the bear, but be- ing scared because you run from the bear? Well, it’s true. After that bit of action d was from a liquid to a gaseous state— “Where was your gun?” Asey sie eS » Kay told “T am pained to say, tol him, “there were only two bullets in it. Well, 1 got up as he made for me, and tried to smack him with the gun, and I kept yelling—” “Why did you yell for me?” “I was slowly solidifying at that int,” Kay said. “I was coming to. began to realize what I'd let my- ing it might make the gent to his heels, if he th tal curiously pare And my, how I felt when heard you bellow back! { thought it was a mirage at first. Al I got behind a tree, and = tag with e po “Didn't he shoot?” (Copyrtont, 4989) = with the members of the Mane- | {gold family until about June 1/ “Well. 1 went there, and waited, , “T fired back. 1 don’t know why. | 1 couldn't see anything to fire at. | whizzed and | began to understand that the pop- | self in for. So I yelled for you. Lod \ you were | | eonedy when she will leave for New,Son and Early. | performance; dowtied Boston Bees, took undisputed possession of! jsecond place in the National \League pennant race. Bucky Walters was the outstanding | twirler. Reds are said to have the, best hurling staff in the circuit. Meanwhile, the Redlegs jumped | on a trio of Bee twirlers for an even dozen hits. St. Louis Cardinals’ lead dropped to a half-game over the Reds as they lost to New York; Giants, 9 to 5. Mel Ott’s home ‘run with two men on base in the ‘fourth inning was a deciding fac-' |tor in the Giant victory. Johnny | |Mize clouted a round-tripper in |the seventh with a man on base. It was Mize’s seventh home run | of the season. i Scoring a lone run in their half of the , ninth ‘inning, Brooklyn | Dodgers tied Chicago, Cubs at nine-all*and the score stayed | that way right up to the nine- teenth inning when the game was \called because of darkness. It} was the longest overtime contest | lin the National League for sev- leral years. Bruins committed six errors and Dodgers miscued | three times. Those pesky Philadelphia Phil- lies did it again. Yes, sir! They! jnot only downed Pittsburgh Pi- jrates 7-3 but their moundsman, |Mulcahy, held the mighty Bucs | to just five safeties, and further- | more humiliated the downtrod- iden Pirates by clouting three of their pitchers for a dozen safe, blows. An overtime game in the Amer- ican League ended happily for | Chicago White Sox. In the 10th |frame of their game with Boston Red Sox, the Chisox scored’ three jruns in their half and held the Bosox scoreless during the last. half. Final score was 6 to 3. | New York Yankees won their | |seventh, straight game yesterday ! and increased their lead to two end a half gams. St. Louis {Browns were the victims again. An error allowed the Yankees’ | winning run. Score: 4-3. ' A pitchers’ battle developed in |the Washington Senator-Detroit | Tiger contest, but the players in the national capital came out on top, 4 to 1. Nats got only seven hits off Newsom, but their twirler held the Tigers to six bingles. Detroit players miscued ‘four times—a determining factor \in the Washington victory. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE | At Pittsburgh R. H. E. | Philadelphia -_ 7.12 2 | Pittsburgh __ 3.5 1) Mulcahy and Millies; Klinger, | | Bauers, Brown and Berres. R..H. E. At Cincinnati = 1740 | Boston | Cincinnati = i212 0 Posedel, Sullivan, _Frankhouse and Lopez; Walters.,,and Lom-| bardi. 3 | “ 5 ! R. HE.) ok > Hee | 2 § 91 At St. Louis New York St. Louis - Schumacher, |man and Danning; Weiland. Shoun, McGee, Cooper andj} Owen. ! | At Chicago R. H. E. Brooklyn . 9 16 Chicago _.. 910 (Called, end of 19th, darkness) Hamlin, Hutchinson, Mungo, |Tamulis and Todd; Whitehill, | Higbe and Hartnett. i eae | i R. H. E.| 67 40-3 R. HE 3 4.1) and Rosar. | | | | 4 | Newsom and Cincinnati ' Reds | match up with those in, the lower. 6 to 1, and | bracket. |—rests in the hands of its young-! isters. That’s the signal for a| triple play—to perform a service | |for the game, your community— ‘your country. To help stimulate amateur baseball and High School baseball in your community with a minimum of trouble and ex- pense, the National Centennial Commission has prepared five |plans, which are yours for the asking, . . | Plan One. . How to conduct in- |vitation High School baseball tournaments. . .Local high school | baseball tournaments must be Last evening Billy’s Service gang decisively trounced the De- Molay boys in three straight games, registering an exceeding- ly high score in so doing. The three-game win by the Service’ club resulted in its re- gaining leadership by breaking a tie with Battery E. Scores were: Billy’s, 672-669- 639, total 1980; DeMolay’s, 505- 409-535, total 1449. High game, individual and average was won by Bill Glish with 188 and 160, the latter average being the highest registered in the tourna- ment to date. : Lions Club plays First National Bank tonight’ and‘ Rotary Club and Gédlfers.| tangle tomorrow night. ‘ : i Steading in the league today is gelepration of the centennial, sea Spire i |Sreater interest in high school ‘Team— 4 w. lL. Pet \sports, amd the development of Billy's ‘Service 14 “778 ‘future players and fans are your Battery E _. ireasons for the tournament. How Key West Gas 611 | To Conduct An Amateur Tourna- eee Legion . “300 | Ment will be obtained by address- puiers. Ss ees om jing C. O. Brown, President, Key West Electric Co. -444 | american Baseball Congress, 1724 des Besiona) Bank . 417/"Republic Bldg., 209 South State eMolays - : Rotary Club Lions Club - SPORTS By PEDRO AGUILAR School Athletic Association. A re- quest for this official approval must come from the local high school authorities. . .Present the idea of a local tournament first RB OOISM®MATAwR 333 | vario, Secretary, National Ama- -267| teur Baseball Federation, 6 City e | Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. They will | give full details of anything con- | cerning amateur baseball. | “Plan Two. . .High School Day and Amateur Baseball Day. a “SHORTS |sanctioned by the State High; ee! These days are planned to give | RED RUFFING has won 140 \'the High School boys a field day} “Plan Four, . Intensive Junior | Baseball School. . .An outline of the plan developed by; Lew Fon- seca, promotional director of the ,} American League. Players on the professional clubs, by actual |demonstration and discussion, teach local youth—usually limit- ed to those 16 years old and less —the playing fundamentals of the game. Detailed plan outlines |lesson by lesson the material ‘which should be covered by the professional players-teachers and method of enrolling and handling | boys. “Plan Five. . Extended Junior ‘Baseball Schools. . .Lessons are generally conducted weekly, the | boys divided into classes of 20 to 40, according to age, availability of outdoor location where lessons to your high school officials. ‘The | are taught. Colleges and univer-| sities will celebrate the centen- {nial. Bucknell will celebrate | Mathewson Day. Columbia will jhave E. Collins and Gehrig Day. | Frisch Day will be held at Ford- ham. Joe Gordon Day will be jheld at Oregon. Red Rolfe Day ‘at Dartmouth. Mace Brown Day jat Iowa. Louisiana State will jhave Bill Lee Day. Mickey ‘ton University”. Key West can have its Bill ; Cates, Joe Navarro, Rueda, | Wickers, Domench, F. Car- | bonell, J. V. Woodson or some other local players of the past | or present to honor. Or have a Day of High School Gradu- ate Baseball Players. ‘Boston .773| 684 583 | New York —. 13° 4 14 10 Chicago . games for New York Yankees | and the local amateur players a and hag lost but 83 in eight years. | chance to show how they can play It is claimed that he has just |the game. ‘reached the height of his pitching | jin Boston he discovered that ‘he | | did not know how to: score a} |... .“Red hurler sued in assault Lohrman, Coff-| vise” the headlines said. | Yorker seeks $25,000 damages aft- | }doing their stuff again. | “dead” and don’t know it. | career. Every club in the Ameri: | can League will agree to that. New York Giants claim that |JOHNNY VANDER MEER has lost his smoke. | LOU NOVA claims he will left- | hand Max Baer silly the same as dames Braddock did. Los Angeles baseball club has placed a $25,000 tag on JIMMIE | COLLINS, former Chicago Cub first’ baseman, who was sent there on. option but the Bruins/ never took it up. It would not be surprising if he was back in| the majors before July 4th. BILL TERRY wants to retire as manager of the Giants and desires to leave Frankie Frisch as pilot. He then would devote | his full-time to the business of- fice. But owner Stoneham will have none of that, | “LOU GEHRIG shouldn't wor-! | Ty so much, for there is always. | the National League”, some wise- | cracker has said. | When FRANKIE FRISCH be-| gan broadcasting baseball gamés game. SACU ' a ‘ BRIEFS; Yanks Pédeitly'ate-}- Ww 4 feated Tigers bya football score | New er fight with Paul Derringer. . . The old men are doing alright by themselves now that the weather is warming up. . .Wally Berger, Tony Lazzeri, Pepper Martin are . -Red Lucas, former Pirate hurler now with Nashville, is sore at the! Bues and claims that they are! Only The story goes that TED WIL- | LIAMS, Boston outfielder, is tak- | ing the place of Dizzy Dean as) president of the Screwball So- MEL OTT made an error the | 1 other day against Philadelphia Phillies and it was fis first in ——— AMONG ALL L Purchased by the nts from the Tigers, and BELL ATWOOD was,| dropped by the Phils. The latter | is a catcher and is 26 years old. | Gashouse Gang from St. Louis} has lost its gas, and is now run- York and visit the World’s Fair.) Cleveland at Philadelphia, to | ning on pepper. | returning to the city early in the be played at later date. | month. BLIND, BUT WORKS Mrs. Manegold plans to remain | bars ee with her family several months|| WAYNE, N. J.—Although to- \and return as soon as the weather “|changes for the fall and winter | house, season, |tally blind, E. A. 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