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

YESTERDAY: Jumbo lurches back from his encounter .with Miss Luella West, bearing .a Diack eye. He is describing his pitiful attempt:to make the lady's acquaintance. had a complete set of great dark eyes that reminded you of black | stars. Hershair. wi ven’s wil Chapter Four apesind Es | \ Points North fetes | “QUE txind “$0 clave :the oes” anit Boia” ic continued, “but she} dollars: “What? Couldn't shut, a door?” | pace ot Tacks. “The ‘girl must ‘be a a he had my foot in it,” Jumbo ex~ lained. P “He had ‘his foot in the door,”) 704; Tacks said to Bill and read *“Soft- ‘wood door, « “O) know. what I mean,” growls poe ered eee Se oi a cot “thing. ‘Gi or Joub or ‘or Tax something.” “I see. Go on!” “well, she told me to take my pore away and go away myself. anes” The other three leaned free expectantly. ll, II didn’t do eith jer igh away. 1 took her hand—that ‘is, Ij: didn't weit yh was only going to itt it and. all ofa pad Side ‘bingo! She ‘sc ed peer id theteye.® this song that seemed singer, involuntarily, on ae | Packy would :have sung ..and id per. danced. with’ less. abandon, ,how- | ever, had she been aware of a pres- | ence standing ‘in the hallway a outside her door. The presence had ained ion'to the eet | ouse.in which.Packy livediby, sim} it of-waiting * a4 the coml mn doorman and ‘vator vate was Seat chariot and oe S eokdare bal essita’ page at deal of sn00 in front of doors on the presence, On the third. Do, ier nowadays if you only} ever, be Bot pie thus henta You chould have comely rowed aaa: ica hand flung your arms around her, BITS EN a { course. I'never heard of anything a ea | it Pe a: sagen wel jumbo .went} at on, occas Yio the stairs were Mas there. them—back- wards.” “Nice work, Cutler. Go on!” “There isn’t any more. I got up and-ran like the dickens. Tacks smote the table. “You fool. | so: You tigated fool. You had the » ball it in your hands and ou di it. Don’t you see that =e iso 2 Dlay ace ob hisl “You could Bg had ‘the girl }7°°™ signed = Fug by now. “Listen, boy,” said Jumbo, “all I wanted to do was get ouk of there. I heard her running down the stairs shriekin; pine | voiee was the kind that wpe fas- | song wie finished, 3] ic espen i ai: i tart ly. Then he el spol his-she =i i ders, gulped, shot a glance Basten f it} ward as if seeking} divine assis- ent? |e fence andl lat and senna a straight left to | Miss Cee Norgh f ty: evs across © shispiration j L= a door be flung wide to re- | veal precisely tthe sort of girl you've dreamed about since you were. knee-high ‘toa tumble-bug | and speech does not always flow | with rhythmic.nonc! iow? In concern or fe?” Pay By don’t know. I didn’t wait to “Dumbbell! What became of your hat?” “It’s in that ae pelea, I guess. on those stai “That's a break,” said Steele. “You ean go back now and ask for your hat. Jumbo eyed him pityingly. “Back? I wouldn't go back there for a million dollars cold cash.” § “Come on!” Steele said:~"Don't |’ be a eas! You" Ke aces went ¥ eye lor her to shoot. at wen't you?” “So,” resumed Tacks “you ran off. in cowardly ape and pe te} streets festooned ‘w: What a degrading spec- teats you must have been, Cutler!” getting Si Bogs oe aluaed one, tting a poke in the eye “I mean, t—I sell radios,” | a eee ut a hundred steps all said, Tacks astily. “I fix them, | “Listen,” Steele asked interest- | 2, | edly, “what i is this girl, Ceoeale a ‘Well, I've got a radio and it | tumbo glared defiantly. loesn’t need fixing. i “I don't see. that it.matters,”.he So much for Heaven's inspira- said fiercely. “But if you've got to know, she’s — she’s a teacher of tion. “Mr. “Tatks ‘Adams dro; wow Heaven like a hot potato pert Physical Culture.” Pretty Inviting come of the earth earthy. ISS PATRICIA (PACKY) “But I’m really here,” he said briskly, “to the meter. II fe) ‘was in-a black negli- + le white pene, icky looked at niet of great cool eyes. “well? she said, in a puzzled voice. The individual before her pulled | | himself together. Of stern stuff are | the sons of Eli, ae a—are Miss Pa- | aie ete be began. { “Tam,” said Pagky. There_was an uncomfortable pause. Then Heaven! sent Tacks. > announced. led eeresion stilldec. | seas the face of Miss Patricia | forth, “Ts that-so®”’ she said. you only sell radios on the side.” Wells” Packy said, ‘T haven't | raion No meter?” | This time Packy gave way to im- | “Do T look taxicab’ | in| Thats mich ie at smi! ‘'acks Adams | - | abt vee the j| nowt Gali. char ig sm fe tia | he could, ce.he had | ST NINES TRAVEL ON ROAD AT MALONEY'S THIS IS WEEKEND A delicious Butterscotch Layer | Cake will go good for dessert to- CONCHS GO TO TAMPA FOR Hight or tomorrow night—so says , Maloney Bros, Bakery, 812 Flem- |. THREE GAMES ‘AND BLUE) ing street, who specials that SOX TO FORT MYERS FOR ‘brand of pastry today through |! Thursday of this week. SINGLE CONTEST | Maloney’s close Thursdays at} )noon during this and next month. Orders for Butterscotch Cake |may be phoned in’ for _ delivery | ‘whenever wanted. Call 818. BOOTS FOR NEW ‘ARMY Bass, PEDRO AGUILAR The coming weekend will wit- ness two Key ‘West teams trav-) ling on the rgad to play return; ‘games with teams of two West | LONDON. — Coast cities. ‘are smiling. Key West Conchs will .go to/jtotalling ‘1,000,000 pairs of ‘boots Tampa for a series of;for militiamen and_ territorials three contests the ‘Tampa/have been placed’ since ‘Britain's |” All-Stars, who |were, “in Fig ae lana iprogram was intro- |" here during the duced. Fourth ,of July | festivities when baseball's * een= tennial was celebrated. Conn end, is scheduled to play a ee @efeated them two games to one. in Ft. Myers Sunday The great Joe nS teenie aed aie ae es for the he giles , a at as oe ae. pe Bathal ts exc Sax have Enwet bs dee ht depended upon fr pooner vie~} Tp ee oe, . tory. Malgrat. peas ll aps straight wins h and Baker will do. age Ape ony necessary, to snatch the win. mine that will travel this, week- Sox. \- | | Pittsburgh - The | Philadelphia )Butcher, Higbe and Davis. yoaseccscenccacqneccces re oe RI ‘SUNDAY, JULY 16 MONDAY, JULY 17 . ‘LEAGUE ae ee Me a | Page and a} Mungo, | | Evans and ‘Phelps. RALPH ARNOLD AND ‘AURE- LIO ‘LASTRES, JR., WON AD- |) | ‘Blue ‘Sox and Pirates, who the. grounds to the visiting Ft. _{QUTSTANDING. FIELDING oe ‘By 0. L. MILIAN ‘were to have played in the first phew and ae ‘contest at Trumbo Field Sun-+ day afternoon, agreed to allow R..H. E. 1114 2°83) Root and Hartnett; Wyatt, Ta-| i muilis, —— ‘ana -Todd. } At Phaidon and a. Posedel and ‘Lo- RH, E| Sh 3 411 1) Harrell, | Second Game At Boston Cineinnati - | Boston | Frankhouse «and Lopez AMERICAN 1 i ‘At Philadelphia | Pittsburgh - ae iNew York . E. | Cleveland 0) Hadley and Dickey; Philadelphia 4 ‘Zuber and ‘Hemsley. Brown, ‘Sewell and ‘ as - — | Mulcahy and Milles. At. Detroit Es 2 indaphia i cock; Newsom "and Tebbetts. eis SSL At St. Louis R. HB. Philadelphia 1116 0} [St. ‘Louis - 817 0 RHE) ‘Nelson, Potter and) -3 74 Harris and} , ~1 8 11q), Melton, | Neate Klinger, Swift an = At New York St. Louis New York - Cooper and Owen; ‘Brown and Danning. Joyce, Kennedy, Washington at Chicago, rain. { | team and_the local.juniors, who played a district tournament con- test\with the Key Westers trounc- ing the visitors in a free runing, ‘loosely played fracas. . Final score ! was*Key West 20, Ft. Pierce 10. Maleolm Archer, .a ‘portsider | who started. on the mound for ‘the locals, was yanked in’ the fourth | inning after he had issued six | free passes, two-of which ‘came in the fourth round. Joe Blanco, a/ curving little-hurler, who relieved | lerew and was also sent to the| | showers ing the fifth stanza; ' galt play | in Sunday’s aaine and Some time ago this column suggested ‘that a certain percent- age of the weekly gross receipts be taken out and reserved for. equipment and other baseball needs. Under the ‘present setup all gate receipts are divided equally among ‘the four clubs each week with none of the money going 'to.a ‘league fund. Therefore, it is wp to each club to purchase its own equipment} and furnish balls for each every game. ‘This may be all right but how about an umpire’s full equingiant? sAt times the -Ft. -Pieree-Key . | Archer, failed to hold the visiting West junior conflict ‘Sunday got | sharp so‘disgusting that - baseball ‘fans | tok time out for a little fun— ap EES AR .GOn-| 10 EIGHT ‘HITS ‘By 0..L. MILIAN Diminutive Lycilo ‘Gonzalez hurled superb ball to down the by the one-side ‘score of 9 to 2, while his teammates. were clout- ing 15 safeties off ‘Wickers’ de- livery in Sunday’s only Mon- roe County League game at \Trumbo Field. other hitting parade as they! bonibarded Harry (S ) Wick- ers, ace of the Trojan outfit. The victory enabled ‘Roy Hamlin’s gang to increase their first-place ;margin over the runners-up to) |two and a half games. Swifty started off pretty good | and iby forcing Machin to roll out, Lopez to Sterling, and striking out Armando -Acevedo, first two batters. to face him in the first inning, but ‘before round was over, Cates came through with a single to ‘center, ‘Esmond } \Albury ‘tripled ‘to deep right- Hfietd, Cyril Griffin ‘singled over when Gabriel ‘Lastres took over} <q the boys got together—the | first base and Barcelo followed | som work forthe. junior. Conchs. and\three | ; ‘Letonae ones in i aia ur ani ninitigs | - | the pie man. for the joker. pepe the; Ft. Pierce |'ays on his toes to make.a sale, jLouie is always the object 0% many \pranks and jokes. Lpetres 4 In ‘the meantime, \Cates’. boys were hammering hree jweting ‘hillemen for Ft | Ft. Pierce-Key West junior fracas safeties and 20 runs, the batting | quedo Suokea” IA ex ing “Letty” | ‘pressi pee paing -led: by. Y | the way they felt about the two er, four for four, and Gabriel |r ns d th f them Lastres, four for five. The. visi- ans e majority. i ‘tors swatted out eight hits ot Little Ralph Arnold again won| the trio of Conch pitchers. the admiration of the fans, as did | William! 4 good many of ‘the baseball }fans who- turned’ out to see the locals can ‘produce .more | jtalent than they have shown in their last two. contests. will not ‘follow. games unless the | \the firing line duty and did bet-/ | grandstands iboys—and.used Toute) with a double to center for a to- tal of three runs, a lead which) ‘was never overcome. While Midget Lucilo was piteh-' ing air-tight ball and holding the | opposition ‘to one run ‘in the third | {and another in the sixth, his, teammates were hitting the old | apple at will and shoved over | |two runs in the fourth stanza and | a trio in the fifth for good meas-! jure. } | of | Machin, cf __. ‘league-lead-threatening . Trojans| Key West Conehs displayed an- | By PEDRO AGUILAR A. baseball career that exalted \baseball because of its clean and joutstanding playing inspired John | Kieran, sports writer. to compose ja tribute to the player béhind jthat record—Lou Gehrig, who, early this season, kept himself out of the Yankee lineup,- in whieh he had played consecutive- ly for 2,130. games. The poem follows: TO LOU GEHRIG ‘We've been to the wars together; We took our foes as they came; | And. always you were the leader, And ever you played ‘the game. jIdol of cheering millions; \Records are yours by sheaves; }Iron of frame they hailed you, Decked you with laurel leaves. |But higher than that we hold you, ; We who have known you best; {Knowing that you came through Every human test. }Let this be a silent token jot lasting friendship’s gleam jAnd ‘all ‘that we have left “uh- spoken— Your pals of the Yankee team. Gehrig said at the Yankee Sta- dium, when 61,000 fans packed the Park to pay him homage, that he had served nine. years with * | McCarthy, six with ‘Miller Hug- gins—two great men—and~ that he had roomed, ate...and played cards with Bill Dickey, one of 'the greatest fellows who” “éVer lived. He also said that even the +Giants came across the river to yay him a tribute,-and “that is | something to live for, and when I ;consider’all this, I think I.am.the luckiest man on the face of the: earth”. ger ey ——— ' Pena, Lou Gonzalez.2, John Na- | varro; two-base hits: Barcelo, Al- three-base AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game | At Chicago Washington Chicago Leonard and Guiliani; | Aurelio Lastres, Jr., for their ex-| covet fielding. Young Arnold | MAJOR BASEBALL {had one miscue against him out} LEAGUES’ STANDINGS jof nine chances ‘coming his way, | Wereeseceaececcesoocscos, | while ‘Lastres played a great game |. |at first base for the winners. NATIONAL LEAGUE | Bose score: Spedking of the Juniors, lets ;Acevedo, ss | give-a great big hand to the Las-|Cates, 2b - tres brothers and snappy, #lashy ;Albury, 3b-c __ little Ralph ‘Arnold, shortstop- C. Griffin, ¢ — jman, who is playing game at that position. a great \M. Griffin, rf Aurelio | Barcelo, If La me, ss : 1 ‘bury, John Navarro; hit: Albury; stolen bases: Barcelo, , Lou Gonzalez; double plays: Ace- |wedo to Cates to Pena; bases on \balls: off Lou Gonzalez 3,» off |Wickers 1; struck out: by Lou | Q. Lopez, rf |Gonzalez 6, by Wickers 6; hit by |and Tresh: poniehgo | Boston |Philadelphia BS ey Club— Cincinnati . New York Chicago - \Brooklyn St. ‘Louis Pittsburgh Philadelphia { AMERICAN LEAGUE { Club— W. L. Pet. New York 58 23 716 Boston _ Chicago - ‘Cleveland - . (Detroit Washington Philadelphia iSt. Louis Second Game 618. At Chieago (Washington 514) 513) -500 | 4.481) 319 Appleton | Tresh. “Grove and Desautels; — Coffman and York. Second Game At Detroit Detroit Galehouse and. Peacock; Thomas and. Tebbetts. . First Game At Cleveland 392 | 455.304) sesececacssesersoccesee: | “(MAJOR LEAGUES’ cceencgnoseccoscccccooos LEAGUE H New York at St. Louis—Don- | ald (10-1) and Hildebrand (5-4) | vs. Kramer (6-8) and Mills | (2-6): Boston at Chicago—Auker (74) | and Wilson (5-5) vs. Marcum | (5-6) ‘and Dietrich (5-4). Washnigton at Detroit—Kra- j kauskas (4-10) vs. Rowe (2-8) or | Bridges’ (11-3). t R.H.E.! Philadelphia at Cleveland— M 713 0 j Night. Game—Caster, (6- 9) vs. St.” Louis 48 18 0'len om. Joyce, L. Dean, Beckman and| kh gata eS be ees Gill and Glenn. Milnar and Hemsley. Second Game At Cleveland New York - Cleveland Russo and Rosar; Harder; . Ei-} senstat, Dobson and Pytlak. -First Game At St. Louis Second Game At.St. Louis Philadelphia ‘Louis ee * (4-3) vs. Hamlin (9-7), ny + St. Louis at New York—War- -|neke (9-4) ‘vs. Lohrman (7-6). White-} Pittsburgh at Philadel VFobin (8-8) vs. oer (5-3). Pippen, Dean Hay ris, Kimberlin, Trotter, head and Glenn, ‘Armando Acevedo, ss°__._.___ 30 jWilliam Cates, 2b pee eee | esGbewn ~ 38 Sl Snags ewabe Bl eeceoosoonmmrwaneF al esee son oowooHHne Bl ocr boon uonSewanne Bl er crohawwornscaad mee GAMES TODAY | Pita, lf-cf 2; Wedell, Sadler; runs: era k eet M. N. Patrick, Lastres is the little kid who plays | RY. Pierce, 2 first game with a cripple leg. Player— ‘Patrick, 1b M.'N. Patrick, 2b McMillan, 3b Wedell, If: Voth, rf Eberhardt, if Eberhardt, If-p Rates te |Rich’s ‘d’n, ef 'Whitney, ss-c Ulrich, cf - Melton, cf-ss Totals— Key West J Player— Thompson, . 2b Aritas, cf 38 ~ = it is, unbelievable the speed with which the kid géts around. This week’s sports’ spotlight is} | turned toward the West ‘Coast of Florida. At Tampa, the Key) | West, Conchs will play a three- | game series with the Ybor City 3| All-Stars. “A flock of cars are |marking ready for the trip and ‘preparations are underway to} have one of the biggest presen- tation of baseball followers at Tampa in ‘the history of the na- tional pastime “here. First game | will start 3 o'clock ‘Saturday aft- | ernoon. Bick Ege BO DIRT HH co ms On Co to BS co Be Co RTD DDO mh GI to CoE, Pirates have four .games on the cancelled list and apparently .n effort is being made to play off any .of them. With no place, to) goon) Thursday afternoons a° game. on these jhalf-day holidays | will help to pick-up ‘the old sched- | ule.. How about it, Mr. Bush! Menendez, c Lastres, tb Alonzo, 1b Ogden, if Roberts, If G, ‘Lastres, ate Canalejo, rf Blanco, 2b - | a Sl ermrcoconumoncot "ol oumooHnonmrHoon™ Sleonccoawonnmcceds Bl wonocmnworon joined the pitching staff of Roy > S| Del mwmoocooocootrenore Totals— _ Score by itinings: 000 360 010—10 Ke 205 043 15x—20 Bikes! Spin! ks 3, Whitney, , Menendez «2, get from .the Conchs’ infield he can easily score a victory. Pirate fans'sitting in the 15- jleachers gardener clouted a long double to deep cerniterfield with ‘Cyril Griffin on base. i |. Cities all through the state are selecting an all-star club- from their bag ae to play she, leading Sieh in Handicapped with a ‘useless limb, | Hamlin’s aggregation and will) |Villareal, rf ‘Baker, 3b — Pena, Ib - jzou Gonzalez, -p ; Totals— Trojans (Seafood | Player— | Rueda, If-3b-c — \ John \Nav'ro, ss |Carbonell, .3b |Selinero, i, | Sterling, 1b Joe Na’ro,..c-2b Calleja, ‘rf: .. | Wickers, p - |Domneech, ef . M. Lopez, 2b - Walker, 2b-3b —-3 NH SOSOSCONSHWOSy 1| Bs 8 SCHroeocoorooom E} Eich is a te ha te 0 Mone ONHHonom eS HrokonScOoSMoOm Totals— ‘Score, by innings: ' Key West Conchs 300 230 100—9 | \Drojans _.. 001 001 000—2' | -Runs-batted-in- Albury, -C.! \Griffin 2, Barcelo, Acevedo, | | addition of Mario Hernandez at} | third base and Puby “Specs” Car-| prove strong enough to give Ham- lin and, his Conchs a hard game pitcher: Machin (Wickers, M. Lopez (Lou Gonzalez);. umpires: , |Griffin and Sawyer. League standings: Club— Key West Conchs ;Roadside Pirates | Trojans (Seafood Grill) 3 {Blue Sox . 0 |bonell ‘on the pitching list, shall| 4 MIAMI and K MIAMI AND TWO ROUND 1:00 o'clock A. M.~ 8:00 o'clock A- M. 1:00 o'clock A. M. : arrive Key West 9100 o'clock A. M. TRANSPORTATION C0. INC Fast, Dependable Ss and Express Service KEY WEST. N FLORIDA. KEYS —between— KEY WEST ——o—___—__ TRIPS DAILY Direct Between Maimi and Key West LEAVE KEY WEST DAILY (except Sunday) arrive Miami 7:00 o’clock A. 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