The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1939, Page 3

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939 By Edwin Rutt - FOUR BLIND DATES “Hey!l™ Lacks sad suddenly. “I've qust got a swell 1dea.~ Chapter One Game In Hearts T WAS hot, hot enough to melt the bristles off an alumi- num pig. Manhattan, with its network of streets and towering buildings, might have been likened unto a waffie-iron. Such of the citizenry as were abroad moved without enthusiasm, the male represéntation fanning boiled- lobster faces with straw hats: Even the motor cars seemed affected. They rolled slowly through clouds of steamy glaze that danced off their radiators and their horns made ho-hum sounds, June in New York! Heat- wave time in Gotham! On the terrace of a building high above Fifth Avenue sat four youn; gentlemen in white linen suits. table separated these one from the other was short in stature, rotund and moonfaced. Like Tacks Mr. Cutler was a son of Old Eli. He wiped the m ice now with a huge foaaeo's Berea rag handkerchief and ‘brought forth a platitude. “Gee; it is hot,” he remarked. . “Copyright that one,” suggested ‘Tacks. apt th if anyone ise in rd York has thought to say that lay.” drinking arrangements pro- vided for the eEnbaonigt oft TI exclusive Penguin Club and the young gentlemen were all Pen- _ in more.or less good staydz | 5 Under an awhing’in a cornét-of the terrace was a small bar whose afen’t you?” Jumbo siege partner, to shoulders. Mr. s a en. Saeco make ‘ent rawn, and breezy. In his collegiate pre 4 Bill had been stationed at fullback forStanfordcand out on the Coast they Still talked of the horrible havoe hé had wrought with oppos- ing lines. It was not Mr. Steele’s custom, however, to carry his llins | berserk tendencies of the gridiron into ae life. For _erdinary ‘usage he’was an affable, if cumber- some, gentleman with corn-colored ir and kindly, blue eyes. “What about the bridge game?” rumbled Bill now. Atthe table Tacks Adams| Nuts,” said Jumbo. heat waves, in fact whenever anything at all was waving the Penguin ‘acks “Sure,” Tacks said, “Nuts. With eyes that pee been erty. wou birds a couple of thousand upon this = ld and find it vastly ami sparated from the eyes bya smooth forehead was a wave of black . Below the eyes was a straight nose, a good size in mouths and a knife jaw thai man | wanted to Know. all the Groton and stré it except Sears. Tacks was Andover and . | He said. up? dust watch us quit!” “What's @- couple of thousand to ” grinned Steele. lenty,” said Tacks. “You keep forgetting, William, that the three of us are depression babies. We idle back don’ you're rich ee are lined with gold- “Whose pants?” - Bill Steele ‘Bored Stiff?’ “TELL, let’s quit anyway!” Van ‘W Harkness r his cards. “Tm fed up wii . How about * Cc] * “No, Said. “Besides, if we don’t play bridge what will we do?” “Don’t want to play,” Bill Steele his hands. “Don’t want to “Hal” said ‘Tacks. “Another sta- Lise yjunes in, Okay, Bill, give a Tacks drop) the ace of spades to Bill Steele and then, jarkness's hand, was able to lay them down. “See there!” he said piri “See how you fumbled the ball?” Bill Steele’s eyes swept the “North, South, East and West,” Hen old Culbertson set-up, And tiff. “Shoot,” invited Bill Steele, lighting a cigarette. “Now listen carefully! Accord- ing to the bridge-table es Im North, Van’s South, Bill East and Jumbo’s West. Is that right?” “What a bump of locality! What a sense of direction!” Tacks raised his voice. “Hey, Gus! Bring me a telephone direc- tory, will you?” North, South, East, West “NJOW, look!” Tacks said, when Gus had brought the book. “In here you'll find people nam: North, South, East and West.” “That. all?” said Van. “No Smiths? No Joneses?” Tacks looked at him in a p: way. “There are times . . . well since you're doing so much talkin; Van, we'll use you as a horrible example. You’re South here. Now what you've got to do is to look in this book, pick out some girl whose name in South, get to know her and one month m today bring her down to dinner at m: Uncle Dick’s place on Long Island. Pople enous i a4 eoneet: arkness’s jaw “Wh-a-at?” “You_ heard me. Girl named South, Long Island.” “But what’s the point?” fuired to produce her at ‘ick’s place, Similarly, show up with a Miss North. with ae dl i ay iis ig cere i Hi ed | NINETY ACRES OF LAND on } Philadelphia - at Chicago—Pot- ter (6-3) vs. Smith (5-5). Washington at St. Louis—Hay- fies (4-7) vs. Kennedy (4-12). _ New York at Detroit—Donald (10-0) vs. Newsomi (9-6). Boston at Cleveland—Oster- mueller (5-1) vs. Feller (14-3). NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis at Boston .(2)—War- neKe (9-3) and Davis (9-10) vs. Fette (9-3) and Posedel (7-5). Cincinnati af New York—| ‘Walters (13-6) vs: Melton (5-6) or Schumacher (6-5). Chicago at Philadelphia—Pas- seau (6-7) vs. Mulcahy (4-9). (Only games scheduled). evocevcece PERSONAL OLD AT 40! GET PEP. WY New Ostrex Tonic Tab- lets contain raw oyster invigo- rators. and other stimulants.) One: dose starts new pep, Value $1.00. Special price 89c. Call, write Gardner's: Pharmacy. | & Lost Ea FIVE LLARS REWARD for rétuth of White Puppy, three montis old; erect ears, black éyes, ‘bob tail. LEON SAUN- DERS,, 1121 Catherine street. july13-2tx FOR SALE FIVE PASSENGER STANDARD- SEX Biiick Sedan, Mechanically O.K... All Good Rubbers. Price $30.00 Cash. Apply 809 Ashe Street. : July10s TRON SAFE. Apply 1014 Grin- nell street. july12-4t Boca Chica Key. Apply F. W. Roberts, 803 Olivia street. june13-Imox FOR SALE—2 lots, each 50x100. Run from Washington to Von Phister street. $1,000. Apply rear 1217 Petronia street. aprl4-s OLD PAPERS. FOR ,SALE— Three bundles for Sc. 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