The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 3, 1940, Page 3

' | TUESDAY Casual Slaughters I oem By VIRGINIA HANSON = SEPTEMBER 2 YESTERDAY: Adam tells Key that the police thought there might be a connection between the incidents on the post and @ certain kidnaping case. But the Randley kidnaper’s fingerprints are not those of Immerman, the missing waiter, and the money foun. in the car is not the ran- som money. : Chapter 4 Yvan The Terrific and, undoubling “his long legs, stood in front of me draw- ing in the belt of his trunks until the girl who used to boast of a waist that a man could encircle with two hands would have bro- ken her corset strings in envy. “See that?” he asked reproach- fully. “And you coming to break- fast every morning begging the very food out of my mouth!” } “You're just a squab with a misplaced neck,” I scoffed. I always fee] that I have ac- complished something when I) make Adam laugh out loud, as he | did at this obvious slandér. Ac-| tually, he has the longest, finést! bones of anyone I ever Saw:} dressed, he looks thin. In trunks, it is impossible to detect either an awkward angle or a gram of surplus flesh He is like Mercury in beautiful, extended flight. He must have seen something of what I was thinking in my eyes, for he suddenly flushed boy- | ishly up to the roots of his corn silk hair amd@*reached me a hand} which he did not withdraw. “Come and get it,” he said. | Hand in hand, scuffing the sand with our bare feet, we walked | back along the beach. | It was getting cooler as the gray veil of evening floated in from the lake. I put on my terry- lined beach robe and_ bullied Adam into pulling a sweat shirt over-his streamlined torso before we joined the rest of the crowd| around a little portable stove on} which hamburgers were sizzling fragrantly. | Gerald Beaufort left Julia’s| side, where he had been hover-| ing in unrewarded patience since! we reached the beach, and came to greet us. | “You like raw onions mit ham- | burgers?” j “Definitely.” } “Good! So do L Perhaps we’re soul mates!” j “Oh, Ger-ald!” | Adam looked after him bitterly. | some girl will give me a dying-| calf look and say, “Oh, A-a-adam!” | Colonel Pennant and Mimi had} arrived during our jaunt up the beac | I went over to say good evening | to Mimi. Mimi was wearing one! of those pajama outfits with the shirtt: t and clogs with soles at least two inches thick. Sitting} on the sand between Jeff and} Ivan the terrible, turning her soft| violet eyes from one to the other, | | his solitude, lay down on his side | conceal until the mood was on her. She brought it out now and, leaning against Gerald Beaufort’s shoulder, sang “Chloe” in a love- ly. husky voice that sent shivers up and down my spine. Adam stretched out, shaped the sand to his body with a little wriggle. and put his head in my lap. I fingered his hair—! had al- ways wanted to. It was soft, like a baby’s, and his scalp was faintly pink, like a baby’s. too. Except for an ineh-leng scar on the! crown of his head A white line which the ups‘anding, close-, cropped hair would normally hide. 1 wanted to ask him about it, but his eyes, in the bright moonlight, were closed; his face was closed. too — expressionless. Ha aight have been asleep, or: ad. Ain’t no chains can bind you | Uf you live, I'll find you...- | Jeff turned his back on the lit-' tle chaplain, who had intruded on and appeared to slumber. The! withdrawal of his morose pres- ence was a relief. He had been looking from Sandra and Ivan to! Julia and Gerald, with what ap- peared to be ill-suppressed fury in his rather bleak eyes. The song ended. Sandra and! Ivan clapped courteously. | “Charming,” said the chaplain earnestly. “You must come out} for choir.” | Gerald said “More,” simply.| like an enthralled child. She sang “Wagon Wheels,” “Boots and Saddles” and, with a! mocking side glance at Jeff's im-| passive back, “The Donkey Sere- nade.” Gerald knew that one, and} came in at the right moment with] a very fair imitation of a flute.| She ran through it once, said,j; “Take it,” and fell silent, thrum-/ ming ‘lightly, while his clear! tenor voice soared sweetly into! the melody, the song borrowing! an odd enchantment from his scrupulous shaping of each word. | ‘Mi-Mi-Mi’ "THERE was a slight intermis- sion. Sandra remarked defi-| antly that Ivan had a nice bari-} tone, a fact which Ivan disclaimed | with undue modesty. ! _ “Don’t you believe him,” she insisted warmly. “He has even sung on the radio.” “No!” exclaimed Julia with just} too much incredulous amazement} in her voice. | Ivan uttered a deprecating! laugh that began at his teeth. He! swellea his chest, cleared his} throat. ' “Mi-mi-mi - mi- mi- mi- mi- mi-| mi,” arpeggioed Ivan. “Frightful- | ly rusty, don’t you know. Mi-mi- mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi. | “Theme song,” murmured! Adam, sipping his drink. There was a devilish light in his eyes. | “Descriptive. In a word. Me.” “Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi.” “Ivan, have you tried out at THE KEY WEST GITIZEN T’S PLUMBERS AGAIN, 7-2 Yanks Tie Tigers For 2nd Place 3-HI Navy Forfeited Nighteap, To Key West Conchs, 9Ted PARK TEAM LOST EXHIBI- TION GAME TO AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS, 9-7, IN AFTERPIECE A first-inning two-run rally that gave the Sawyer’s Barbers an early lead went for naught as Pepper’s Plumbers began to blast the ball all over the field in the } second and third innings to pile up a half-dozen markers. Final score was 8-2. The first-game victory scheduled diamondball of a double- TWO MORE TO GO! With their victory last night over Sawyer’s Barbers, the Pepper’s Plumbers are in @ position to take it easy the rest of the way. “They have only to win two of the re- maining five games to cop the National League's second- half pennant. For the Barbers to gain undisputed possession of first place, they must defeat the Pipe-Fitters in all of the re- maining games. To tie the league-leaders, they will have to win four out of the five contests. In other words, the Plumbers can lose four straight games, win the fifth and still remain tie for top Position. header at Bayview Park last night gave the Plumbers a com- jfortable margin of three contests over the Barbers. she looked about sixteen. She an-| promised you but — well, you swered me vaguely, but Sandra,| the thittuh is my first love. Has seated near them with a set smile| been since I came down from Ox- on her face. kept me for a mo-| ment to ask, with flattering inter-| est, how my work was progress- | ing; and when I moved away to join Julia at the portable stove| ford.” “Oxford?” asked Gerald bright- ly. “I say, did you know old Bertie Wooster? But of course you did. Everyone knows Bertie.” | she got to her feet and followed} “Quaite,” said Ivan. “Fright- me. | fully decent old chap. What ever | Frozen Smile | became of Bertie?” j 1 chaplain was hovering} about, perilously fumbling pa- | per cups and plates. Sandra took | him in tow, and Julia looked after | her with grudging gratitude. | “First good-samaritan act she| ever performed for me,” she com- | mented out of the corner of her mouth. “Pure accident. He's a man. Is she sore at Mimi! Can’t imagine how she’s keeping that pair of strange dogs from biting each other.” “Fve been wondering myself.” | I confessed. “Marvelous hand with the lads, Mimi.” commented her step- daughter a little bitterly. “Here. Kay, turn these hamburgers.” “Td like to-take my ear, if you don’t mind, Julia.” Mimi_ said. | gathering up an armful of food containers while Adam, with the chaplain stepping n his heels in a frenzy of helpfulness, strode off with two empty thermos jugs to stow in the colonel’s car. . your father has prom- ised to speak at that lodge meet- ing and I thought Id like to take a drive.” Arms laden, she straightened with an air of de- fiance, her cheeks a little pink. “But 1 don’t want to inconve- nience you.” “Ne incor i ” said Julia. “I can always sit on Gerald's lap Can't I, Gerald?” Mimi smiled, but she looked puzzled. the pa she said. “There should be hours of this beautiful moonliy be a the brains," observed Felicia crisply. joining us. She} had been talking to Colonel Pen- nant, who looked very sleek and good natured and as young as usual. “Too much for this old gray head. If you don’t mind, Mrs, Pennant, Td ‘like to be| dropped at the clube Distill have} linen to count and= tomorrow's menus. And then to bed.” ' Mimi said, “No trouble at all”; but her smile froze a little. |" They said goodby, the three of} them, and the two cars started in| single file down the narrow road. | The chaplain looked after them | a little wistfully, I thought, and I wondered why he had not gone, | too. Probably some meldy sense} of propriety. I decided: one should | not shirk one’s social duti | Julia had brought a Hawaiian} guitar which she managed to! “British Museum,” said Gerald promptly. “Copyrights. Molder- ing away among the volumes. | Frightful bookworm, Bertie.” | Adam choked violently and I | had to pound him on the back. He and Gerald regarded one an- | other with complete, devilish un- | derstanding. Sandra, with a sus- Picious look at them, called loud- j ly for a song. | “Mandelay,’” she suggested! | brightly. “Ivan sings that awfully | well.” | “She thinks I'm a one-man j band,” said Julia dryly, and struck a few experimental chords. } It did sound decidedly odd without its traditional booming accompaniment, with Ivan sing- | ing gustily in his surprisingly! clear’ but desperately untrained | baritone. His Cockney alone was remarkable. It belonged on the| Orpheum circuit. | Adam’s coughs became giggles. | He leaned his back against mine, | facing deliberately away from the! group, and I could feel the little paroxysms that shook him. Pres- | ently I caught the contagion and | we rocked together. Only Ivan! could have missed the aysteria in our applause. Adam got up and pulled me to my feet. “Walk,” he said darkly. “Give me your arm. I'm weak from) laughing; maybe we can prop each other up.” ! he song pursued us down the beach, a duet between Julia nad Gerald, with an occasional cres- cendo phrase Sy Ivan. We reached our log and I re- fused to go on. “Now. Just what is the joke? Aside from Ivan.” “Aside from Ivan there is no joke.” “I mean about the British Mu- ' seum.” “And I thought I liked you,” he said rep: lly. “It’s ali off between us if you don’t read P. G. Boob Oh! That Bertie. Jeeves’ rtie.” “Ah!” he breathed dramatically. knew I was not mistaken in you.” His arm was around my band he tiited my chin ‘up. His my up. eyes, in the bright a were more brilliant than I ever seen _ “My soul mate!” he said mock- ingly and kissed me To be continuee SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20e WEEKLY. AS eee yet?” Sandra | From the second inning on, oe tAfraid not, old dear. I know 2}°®ly two Hair-Cutters reached third base. Six errors and wildness by the opposing pitchers allowed the Pipe-Fitters to run their total of runs to eight on seven safeties. William Cates and Monk Kerr led the hitters in this game, each connecting for two out of three. Score by innings: Barbers Plumbers Castro, A. Griffin and Hopkins; C. Gates and Ingraham. E 6 3 ND by Poe. EXHIBITION SAME IN AFTERPIECE Scheduled game between Key West Conchs and the Navy ten did not materialize when the Sailors failed to appear. The contest was forfeited to the Conchs, 9-0. Park team, composed of seven Barbers, one Plumber and two others, played an exhibition af- fair with the American Legion boys, losing 9-7. Score by innings: RHE Conchs 9 52 Parkers i, ee Castro, Walker and E. Atbury; M. Arias and Menendez. ees ~ SOFTBALL SCHEDULE (Bayview Park Field) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—CCC vs. U. S. Ma- rines (American League). Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- bers vs. Pepper’s Plumbers (Na- tional League). FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—Sawyer’s Basbers vs. Pepper's Plumbers (National League).- Second..Game—Merchants__ vs. CCC (American League). Today’s Horoscope Today’s native is social and generous and probably capable in business. Money will flow freely into your pockets. Lock out to keep a good balance of it still in there. There is indicated a strain that may make you an _ easy victim to the scheming of sharpers, especially a woman. Do not believe all told you. DETROIT AND CLEVELAND LOST TWO AS NEW YORK SPLIT; NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS UNCHANGED (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 3—New NEW YORK, Sept. 3—All York Yankees split their Labor Labor Day doublehéaders in the Day doubleheader with the National League yesterday were Philadelphia Athletics but ‘they divided except one. Cellar-oc- still tied the Detroit Tigers for cupant Philadelphia Phillies was second place and pulled up to the only team to take both ends within three-and-a-half games of of a twin bill and fifth-place the leading Cleveland Indians. New York Giants were the vic- Tigers and Tribe dropped a pair tims. As a result of the games, of contests each. the standings of the first three Russo’s five-hit performance in clubs remained unchanged. the opener of the Yankee-Ath- _ Cincinnati Reds barely split letic fracas and Henrich’s home — tec Lege run were the highlights of the fifth inning with the bases loaded world’s champions’ 6-3 victory. allowed the Redlegs to take the New York had its winning streak , mitial fracas, 2-1. The league- ended at eight straight ip the leaders bowed to the Cards, 7-4, nighteap when Johnny ~Babich in’ the nightcap as the Redbirds a .. laid down a 13-hit barrage handcuffed murderers’ row with against a trio of opposing five safeties and no runs: -A’s moundsmen. took the contest, 3-0. Another 13-hit attack, includ- Lowly St. Louis Browns’ Ver- ing aapxers by Seapine = . pitcher vis, pav e way for non Kennedy not only bested _ a Brooklyn Dodger triumph in Harder on the mound in the first the afterpiece of their twin bill game of the twin bill with the with the Boston Bees, after drop- Cleveland Indians but also help- ping-the first game, 7-6. : ed his club to a 2-1 victory with A two-run error by Garms in timely hits. Adding insult to in- the eighth frame, combined with jury, the Brownies shutout the # three-run homer by Nicholson, leading Tribe in the afterpiece, |S#ve the Chicago Cubs the second 3-0, behind Auker’s five-hit contest of their bargain bill with pitching. the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-1. Bucs Chicago White Sox continued took the curtain-raiser, 5-2, as ‘to defeat the American League Rip Sewell kept the Bruins under Pace-setters. they control. : took a doubleheader from the Four-run rally in the seventh fading Tigers, 2-1 and 48. John 2nd a five-run spurt in the Rigney muzzled the Tigers with eighth, added to earlier scores, two hits in the second game. produced an overwhelming 11-2 The highly-touted Boston Red triumph for the Phillies in the Sox suffered a twin loss at the opener of the doubleheader with hands of the Washington Sen- the Giants. Litwhiler i d in ators, 1-0 in 13 innings and 5-4; ball out of the pany poo in a six-inning nightcap. Flor- With the bases aoe - ida’s own Sid Hudson conquered four-bagger gave the ol i the veteran Lefty Grove in the ‘Fy in the afterpiece. = overtime opener. score tied in the tenth, Bragan Results of the games: decided the issue in favor of the AMERICAN LEAGUE Phillies _when che opened that frame with a circuit clout. Yesterday, First Game At New York RHE ey of Leorkepeard Philadelphia ee ae | TIO) LEAGUE New York tA First Game Vaughan, Beckman and Hayes; fees Sircieseml . = ie pices ot aE Philadelphia “112 1 Gumbert, Lynn and O'Dea; —— Higbe and Warren. At New York RHE Philadelphia -3 8 0 ae New York os 1; _, Sacoma Game Babich and Hayes; Chandler,’ At Philadelphia = Murghy and:Dexer- Philadelphia... 6 12 2 See Dean, W. Brown an nning: First Game z At Washington RHE Smoll, Beck and Atwood. Boston : @36. 1} - z First Game wen eR ¥e2 Ak Boston R x. E 2 Brooklyn —— ae Foxx; Hudson and i i ae A oe ee (11 Innings) : EPPS Fitzsimmons, Casey ant Second Game . ¥, At Washington RHE babes Errickson, Javery and Boston a 8, Spe Washington &) 5-0 (Called end of 6th, darkness) 4, po, seome Game Lp Fleming, Diekman, Heving and Brooklyn __- ae 13 2 Foxx; Chase and Early. a eis SCL First Game Davis and Phelps; Posedel and At Chicago i HE |Berres. Detroit +61 First G Chicago 260 . Newsom and Sullivan; Die- Peirce nysuaias ae j chante Pittsburgh 510 2 Second Gam Root, Raffensberger, Page and At Chicago RHE Collins; Sewell and Davis, Lo- aepetrolt 62 1 Chicago ee s = tea i and Tebbetts; At Pittsburgh RHE ‘igney an ner. Chi os 792 Pittsburgh _— 182 At Cleveland Br oe onset sae St. Louis as ease Cleveland .—____ =7 1 i Kennedy and Swift; Warder.’ at cincieas = REE Eisenstat and Pytlak. ap cack 151 Second Game Cincinnati | ee At Cleveland St. Louis - Cleveland E= i 3 1 Auker and Swift; Allen, Eien) a; cingean REE stat and Pytlak. sr St. Louis — Cincinnati - Wagneke and Owen; nm, Shoffmer, Riddle and Baker. Detroit at Chicago. Extpblished 1885 = ‘and Embalmers NATIONAL LEAGUE 24-Hour Ambulance Service St. Louis at Cincinnati. ‘} Phone 33S Wight 696 ER BEAT PIRATES \Overcame Salinero’s Five- | Hit Performance In ' : Afterpiece CONCHS WALKED WITH MARINES IN OPENER. 16-2: KITCHINS VICTIM OF HEAVY SLUGGING A mound duel between “Bub- ber” Wickers of the Trojans and Salinero of the Pirates in the afterpiece of a baseball double- header at Navy Field Sunday aft- ernoon, ended in victory for the “Brave Men”, 3-1. Wickers’ three-hit performarce kept the Bucs under centro] until the final inning when they scored a lone run to save themselves from a shutout. Key West Conchs walked away with the U. opener, 16-2. Altheugh Salinero twirled five- hit ball against the Trojans miscues by his teammates aided in his downfall. Wickers held the Pirates hitless for four in- nings. Al. Acevedo accounted for the first safety off his delivery in the fifth frame. Bucs’ only marker was un- earned. After Malgrat poled the ball safely into shortstop terri- tory in the seventh, he came home on a walk and two of the Trojans’ trio of errors. Speedball Wickers struck out eight batters and gave sever. free passes to first. Sally walked just one man and whiffed three. John Navarro, Trojan short- stop, led the hitters with two safeties. Jackie Carbonell, who collected four out of five in the first game, continued his heavy batting by poling a two-bagger. Considering the fact that most of the players, especially the op- posing moundsmen, had not seen active duty on a baseball field in nearly eight months, the contest was an excellent exhibition of the national pastime. five Score by innings: R. HE. Trojans 002 0010—3 5 3 Pirates 000 000 1— 1 3 5 Wickers and Rueda; Salinero and M. Acevedo. SOLLENBERGER CHECKED CONCHS* SCORING SPREE Heavy hitting by Armando Acevedo and Jackie Carbonell and six errors by the opposition accounted for the Conchs’ lop- . sided victory over the Leather- necks in the initial fracas. Roy Hamlin’s charges got to Kitchins for 15 of their 18 safe blows and 14 of their 16 runs in four-and-one-third innings. Sol- lenberger, ade of the Marines’ pitehing staff, took the mound in the fifth and ended the Conchs’ third rally. Solly finished the game, allowing but three hits and two runs the rest of the way. Only 14 batters faced Sol- lenberger, seven of them going down swinging. Robert Bethel went the distance for the Conchs ‘after a layoff of almost a year. He held the Marines to seven safe ‘blows and fanned that many bat- ters. ae Armando hit 1.000 against both Leatherneck moundsmen, secur- ing five for five, scoring four runs and batting in two. Carbonell’s four safeties included a two- . He scored four markers. Bill Cates poled three out of four, crossing the plate once him- self and sending home four oth- ers. Two hits apiece by Sollenberg- er, Mortor an@ Thompson led for the losers. Thompson blasted a triple in one of his appearances at the plate. Score’ by innings: RHE Conchs 102 560 2-14 18 1 Marines 001 0100-2 7 6 Bethel and A’ Acevedo: Kitch- ins, Sollenberger and Spakes. AWAY Jeague. I found to my great sur- S. Marines in the 2 AN OPEN LETTER SPORTS FANS POCO OOO 8 086868885 ES SEER SEE SSSR ES SESS SSS SESS SE Sports Editor, The Citizen: tat fe kage Eos © I will appreciate it very much FOURgeess et Gee Se if it meets with your approvel that you allow me space i= your of sports columns for the following letter. In writing this I am only endeavoring to maintain the ~ highest standard of good sports- mansbip, which I am aiming at Here is my poimt of view that I would like to submit to the fans of Key West: I am the manager of the newly- © formed baseball and softball team playing under the auspices of the local American Legion. Recent- ly a baseball league was formed and, naturally, I have imtentions te qualify my team to take part in the league. In speaking about . this matter at Bayview Park the other night, in conversation with —" some of the composers of the — prise that my idea met with some opposition. I-~was told that my © team did not have a chance, m the first place, and, in the second place, I was taking too much chance of getting some of be hurt That bemg opinion—or oppositien—of x two, I don't t much difference because one squalify a ¢ grounds. sets a poor prece everyone knows tha league is formed it the main purpose everybody a chance, prov is not a professional professional league case That being the say on the behalf « wy be y have just as good a chance we realize 1a the var - down fast e have a 1 wh also know that we number of youngsters coming up and are tion, just like the when they vid heads were young ambi were I feet LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— L Pet FINAL LEACUE OBCANIZA Cleveland 7 S2 so gi New York hess TION PLANS TO SE Detroit 72 Bi 6 Ch ) 65 Washington oF St. Louis 34 Philadelphia 47 74 en NATIONAL LEAGUE — (Major League Baseball) Pina Club— iL ne eee Cincinnati 80 46 635 Mates Brooklyn 72 53 St. Louis 6s 38 Pittsburgh e 3» New York 62 62 Chicago 63 67 a Boston 33 3 Philadelphia 41 81 NATIONAL LEAGUE Seteecnie 5s —" (Key West Softball) weekly Club— W.L. 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