The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 7, 1940, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1940 1G H TIDE MES pereare Brows in __yerne YFSTERDAY: pes gets a job in the Mexican quarter of Los Angeles sketching portraits of tourists. She meets a fellow art- ist, Angus. Chapter 30 Newlyweds mi bie found it grand and exciting to meet Angus’ friends and join | in their art debates. She picked up a lot of useful and practical knowledge, too, from these artists | who either.supported themselves by their art or starved. They | were carelessly friendly to man] assuming at once that she was} Angus Lorry’s sweetheart, which vexed and embarrassed Jan. This new existence was for the | most part a gay life, carefree, ir- responsible, pleasant. Her first | sensation of overwhelming re- lease from burden made her a bit | Jightheaded with freedom. Her/ quick laughter, her startling whimsy, enchanted Angus into| awkward attempts at love She earned enough money for aking. | |. She padded down the narrow | hallway and picked up the dan- | sting telephone receiver. | It was Norma. Could she come | home first thing in the morning? Yes, Lance was all right, but things’ had turned out so they needed her for a consultation. } inh m coming home to stay,” Jan “Oh, Norma, I'm so home- Sick" - Jan hung up, nagged by curi- osity. Norma wouldn’t have: called if it was not important. What could it be? She went back to bed, yet not to sleep for what seemed hours, | Early next morning before | anyone was awake or stirring, | Jan packed her two suitcases, | slipped a note of explanation un- | der Angus’ door, and went out | into quiet streets. She took a taxi | to the subway station at Fifth and | Hill and connected without delay to a beach trolley. Norma met her at the door of the dear red house, hugged and kissed her, looking, as Jan ex- _ MIGHT GAME TQ HOLD LEAD. HOMESTEAD STARS. | Indians Divided Double-| header With Chicago White Sox (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Ameri-} can League was ali tied up in a|SAWYER’S. BARBERS AND. PEPPERS PLUMBERS TO: | EUBMISH OPPOSITION FOR. knot today as a result of the! Cleveland Indians’ split double- header with the Chicago White Sox yesterday, although the De-j{ troit Tigers may have come out { on top if they were successful in| their night game with St. Louis Browns last night. held to two hits by Tornton! Lee. Sox collected nine safeties off two Indian twirlers. Johnny Allen and Bob Feller combined | to hold the Sox in check in the! j Homestead All-Stars, softball Chicago took the first game, 5ten, will play Sawyer’s Barbers | to 1, from the Tribe, who were||and Pepper's Plumbers in a | VISITORS ge tonight at Bayview. | Parl =e permitting, the open- ing game will get under way at ras TSE PIPIPIOPPPPPPOLCLEC CO PT A BUYING GUIDE In Their Field, They Are Reliable and Worthy of Your Business. TRADE AT HOME AND SAVE Mabel Prester Grees s rent and food, sometimes enough claimed at once, divinely pretty. for a new smock. Although she| _ “Now break the news,” she or- kept in touch with Norma by card | dered, “and let’s make coffee and letter, she knew no urge to} While you talk. I'm absolutely return to Sea Tide for even a/|Tavenous and I hope I never see day. She had by now about con- | another tortilla or frijole as long vinced ‘herself that love was | as I live! something she had yet, if ever, “Tt’s Rose and Johnny,” Norma to experience. That her fancied | said. “They've gone and Lance love for Derek was just that—/ thouzht you ought to decide about fancy. It hadn’t meant anything, | Fooms and rents and so forth. least of all to him. And if it lin- | Truthfully, he wants you back gered, hurting now and then,| home and I know he’s hoping she’d get over it. She had found | you'll stay. He’s been a perfect new friends and her work and she | darling, though.” was only twenty. “Rose and Johnny?” Jan She fed and thrived on-her en- | echoed. “Norma, don’t be aggra- vironment, absorbing it greedily, | Vating, please! Why, where, when i 5 +P 8 o’clock and the nightcap will be- pehiea the Indians winning, 3 cu 5 minutes sitar the tedmina- New York Yankees dropped |tion of the curtain-raiser. ‘their fourth straight game yes-' Visitors wifl use the following terday, an 8 to 3 loss handed them | Players: Harry Rue, 2b; Martin by the Boston Red Sox, who Bishop, cf; Clint Bishop, | 3b; ‘have demonstrated an earnest j Charles Sullivan, sf; Angelo Mie- desire to regain first place. Spud | ‘Tetta, If; Bance Ennis, 'c; Ansel !Barrow, ss; Randolph Cuvec, 7 Buddy Lindgen, Tb; Deas, Cloun ger, Fuchs, p’s. Deas recently held the hara- | hitting, fast-stepping Pan-Ameri-! can Airway ten to a 15-inning 1 to 0 score. Thomas is another j outstanding South Florida pitch-| SOUTHERNMOST SHOP HOURS: 19 A M ot S00 PM Eecee Somes RENTAL LIBRARY = ART SUPPLIES Devel Stree: = Sout ELECTRICAL and PLUMBING CONTRACTORS High Grade Work et Reasonable Rates Armature and Motor Winding -— PUMP REPAIRS Phone 54 FRIGIDAIRE troit Tigers climbed up on top of the American League again yesterday as a result of See Them Now — On Display hungrily, not reaching the point of | and how?” satiation until summer was nearly | over. She had needed this, needed | it badly and she might have lin- gered on if Angus Lorry hadn't fallen too much in love with her. “Of course we can’t marry,” he said matter-of-factly as they went up to their rooms in the old . “Artists should never mar- | hy not?” asked Jan. “Why not? Because marriage is stifling to creative natures! Art ists must be free souls, must t long to themselves alone, to their | art.” “But couldn’t they marry and still belong to all that?” she de-/| manded. “Suicide. Emotional he declared darkly. “But surely free love went out | with flappers and jazz,” she ar- | gued “Oh, we don’t call it that,” he said in amused condescensi “Just a sort of mutual under- suicide,” love me, don’t you?” he | ™4 demanded with all the arrogant | ego of a young and prideful male. “I'm afraid I don’t.” a Instead of being crestfallen, he | "Serves her right,” he chuckled, 1) looking healthy and happy. “Did seemed annoyed and angry. don’t believe you, Jan. You} couldn't like to be with me so much if you didn’t Tove me. You're just sentimental and old- joned. You haven't even let fore she could evade him, pulled | her against his chest and half- smothered her with kisses. When she finally struggled | away from him she was laugh-/| ing. “Oh, go to bed!” she scolded, went into her own room and locked the door. ‘What A Fool, I Am’ LONE in the close heat of the +4 room she wandered slowly to the one window and looked out on city lights. She felt as if 'd been in the grip of a fever w had, abruptly, passed. “What a/ fool I am,” she thought, crying a little, “to coop myself up in this dingy oven of a room, to mix with People I don’t want to under- stand, to sketch until my fingers | ache and never take time off to try for anything better.” She thought of her big, cool room at home; of the Spacious quiet; of bs lulling music of the surf; of | bran 4 green water and warm sand; of her boat ‘and her fishing | and her friends and her house. And suddenly, terribly, achingly, | she thought of Derek and the happy life they'd led at Sea Tide. vera Street had been a heady cocktail inducing temporary anes- thesia. “Tm going home,” she whis- pered. “I'm glad I had all this, | but now I want to go home!” She crept into bed feeling Peace and ‘space slowly encom- pass her sore spirit. Even now} she hated to admit the disillu-| sionment which Angus’ words} had cai On the wavering edge of sleep, thinking that tomorrow night she would home, she was startled into wake- fulness by the sound of knocking on her door. “Telephone—telephone!” called whoever it was who had an- swered the pay, phone in the hall. ee SOFTBALL SCHEDULE (Bayview Park Park Field) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—NavSta vs. chants (American League). Second Game—Blue Sox vs. Sawyer’s Barbers (National League). Mer- FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—Pepper’s Plumb- ers ys. Sawyer’s Barbers (Na- tional League). Second Game—U. S. S. Lea vs. NavSta: (American League). 2 | Startled and delighted Jan. in her big soft bed at | Plane Elopement [REY didn’t tell me much,” she admitted. “After you left Rose ran short of money and Johnny got her that hostess job at the Club. They hit it off pretty well all along, you know.” “I didn’t know,” Jan inter- | posed, “but continue, dear voice of experience.” “Well, they eloped by plane to nea yesterday and were mar- et “Married!” Jan sank weakly into a kitchen chair and scooped | Neptune, howling welcome, into | her lap. “Why, I can’t believe it, Norma. Rose was so set on marry- ing a rich husband who could pour gold and jewels and cats into her lap.” “Nevertheless, they are married and to all intents and purposes, | delighted to be married,” Norma related. “They rented a little | cabin near the Club and moved out their belongings last night.” “Lance?” Jan asked suddenly. A soft flush crept over Norma's face. “He didn’t seem to mind Nor did he, Jan discovered. when she went up to see him. If anything, he appeared vastly imtsed. | you ever see a cocoon turn out a lovelier butterfly than my | Norma?” both That “Now tell me about your ad- ventures,” he ordered. “You didn’t write half enough and j What about this artist fellow?” |. They were still talking and laughing when Norma came in j an hour and a half later. “An im- portant looking letter just came for you, Jan,” ~she.said, placing a long envelope in her hand. On the outside, in the left-hand corner, was printed the name and address of a_top rank women’s magazine. “Why should they to me?” Jan asked of no- in particular, completely fied. “I know, they prob- ably want me to buy a subscrip- tion. sy |_ “For heaven’s sake, open it!” | Lance exclaimed. “Women have | no special prerogative to curi- osity!” Norma fetched a nail file from | the dresser and gave it to Jan, who slid it under the envelope flap. When she unfolded the letter | | a check felt t6 the floor. Norma” | picked it up and emitted a shriek. Jan snatehed it. Her eyes felt as if they’d bulge out of her head as : She stared and stared. “One thousand dollars!” she stammered. “But for what?” “Read the letter,” Norma sput- i tered. “What does it say?” | “It’s a check for some sketches Possessive “my” suddenly she remembered that Derek had taken them with him | | When he went east. “For luck,” he'd written. “Derek,” she choked. “Derek sold them for me, and they want | more!” She slid to the floor t beside | Lance’s wheel chair and shook } her head until her curls stood on end. “I don’t believe it. It isn’t }so. But it ist fm arrived! Pm | somebody—just think, an eater | ja ag big important editor, thinks I'm good enough to pay me money and order more!” AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston, games. Cleveland at Chicago. Detroit at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Washington. NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at New York, game. eee at Philadelphia, I did of Neppy—but how?” Then | their win over the St. Louis Browns in a game played at St. Louis last night. Buck Newsom and Hal McKain held the Brownies to seven hits, the while their teammates were collecting 11 off a trio of St. Louis hurlers. Score of the game was 6 to 2. Chandler and Atley Donald ga up 14 safeties to the Red Sox, in- cluding seven doubles. Yanks’ three runs came in the fourth in-| ning when Joe DiMaggio homer- ed with two men on base. Sid Hudson, rookie hurler with the Washington Senators and star pitcher for Sanford of the Class D East Coast League last’ |season, turned in his second one- hitter of the year for the Nats yesterday, enabling his team to win their game with the Phila- delphia Athletics handily. Score was 11 to 0. Walker and Blood- worth contributed homers for the Nats and every Washington bat- ter hit at least once safely. Boston Bees took a double- header from the Philadelphia Phillies yesterday, 3 to 0 and 12 jto 2. Manuel Salvo held the, 'Phils to four hits in the opener and Joe Sullivan scattered seven hits in the afterpiece. Eddie Mil- ler hit a homer for the Bees in the first game with a man on board. Pittsburgh Pirates moved up imto a tie for first place of the second division with the St. Louis Cardinals when they overcame the Cards 3 to 1 yesterday. Red- | birds had the tying runs on sec- jond and third bases in the ninth inning but Ken Heintzelman fanned the next two batters and forced Enos Slaughter to pop up to end the game. A doublehead- jer was scheduled, but*after three | scoreless innings the second con- ‘Hest_was called. on atc@unt, of | Chicago Cub-Cineinnati’ “Red | |game was postponed on account lof:rain. Brooklyn Dodgers-and ‘New York Giants were not sched- | uled. Results of the games: First Game At Chicago Cleveland Chicago —_ Milnar, Humphries and Hems- \ley; Lee and Tresh. Second Game At Chicago Cleveland Chicago At Boston New York Boston night night “Sk dani at Bier. two, /Griffin, yer. Barbers will send the following | lineup on the field: J. Mariaus, ss; N. Domenech, cf; C. Sterling, ; 1b; K. Bese, B E. Albury, 3b; - J. Russell, ' Walker, 2b; M Tynes, ; Roberts, rf; D. Sterling, sub; N. J. Walker, ‘Castro, p; | Griffin, p. ; Plumbers’ players will be: Earl ‘Ingraham, c; Clarence Gates, p; {Blondell Hancock, p; Julio Bar- celo, 1b; William Cates, 2b; Jack | 3b; Philip Baker, ss; Douglas McCarthy, sf; Everett Higgs, If; Julius Villareal, | ef; Eddie Nelson, rf; Marvin Leo Stanley, Gates and S. Lewis, subs; Bunsey , Villareal, bat boy. CEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) ! Carbonell, Club— Detroit __ Cleveland Cincinnati Brooklyn New York Philadelphia NATIONAL LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— ‘Pepper's Plumbets £°7i1 \Sawyer’s marr 43 }Blue Sox Smoll, Syl Johnson and Warren. Hopkins, ¢; J. sub; ij p; A. 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