The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 16, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ad) Slaughters Conchs Snatched Close Opening Game CLASSED COL =e By VIRGINIA HANSON = YESTERDAY: Kay reads Ivan’s play and finds it terrible. Later Adam says goadby before leaving for the East with Ivan’s body. Sandra asks if she can spend the night with Kay. There is a bruise on her shoulder. Chapter 25 Stubbornly Solitary ‘HERE was something on San- dra’s mind. “Did I keep you awake last} night?” she asked, approaching it obliquely. “No. I was just thinking a story through,” T lied. “I often do at night.” “I didn’t think you were asleep. I'm glad it wasn’t on my account. If—if it wouldn't disturb you I'd like to occupy that bed every night until this thing is cleared up. My heart sank. This was more than I had bargained for. Adam | ha ad asked me to cultivate her, but—— I gave her a straight look. “Have you and Jeff quarreled?” She returned my gaze steadily and did not change color. Then she pushed up the short sleeve of her black sheer frock and showed me an ugly green bruise on her arm just below the shoulder. “I'm afraid of him,” she said simply. “He gets into such mur- derous rages.” I remember she used that exact | expression, for I felt a little chill Creep up my spine as I wondered af she meant it literally. “Then why did you marry him?” “I'd rather not discuss that,” she said coldly. I krew she was thinking of the scene at Field-| stone Inn, where I was present} as Julia’s friend. Wasn't it rather odd, I reflected, that she should choose me for her half-confidences, knowing as she must that I was on Julia’s side? Perhaps she hoped to win me over to hers, but why? I was of | no importance in this tangle— only an outsider who had let my- self be drawn in. To impress me favorably meant nothing unless, | Possibly, I should pass that im- Pression on to Adam. Then I realized that Sandra} was peculiarly friendless here. Mimi seemed fond of her—or was she? But Mimi was not a person I would go to in trouble. She was too remote, too involved within herself. And who else was there? | Felicia Bridewell, the club host- ess. Felicia was an outsider too: and much as she amused me, I} distrusted her sharp tongue and her slightly avid interest in other People’s affairs. I could under- stand Sandra’s not caring to have Felicia’s penetrating eyes focused on the marital relations of Jeff Tack and his bride. That left only me. Not a friend, not even an impartial observer, but the only woman Sandra could turn to. Against my will I felt a| little stab of pity. “You may sleep here if you like,” I said at last reluctantly. “But I'd be glad if you’d explain Jeff ,that I'm not taking ou’d better explain that yourself.” she said distantly. “I'm ie talking to him, except in pub- What could I say? I left it at} that, but I had an uneasy feeling that I was being unwise, that I! nceded advice. And Adam was not there to give it to me. She w st leaving when an y appeared at the door. Invitation “N ISS PENNANT would like to 4V4 speak to one of you ladies on the phone,” he said. “She asked for either Mrs. Tack or Miss Cornish.” “You talk to her, Kay.” “All right. But you'd better come along too. It’s probably an invitation.” It was. Would we come to lunch to discuss a reception for the bride and groom? I smiled to my- | self as I relayed the information to Sandra. Mimi and Julia were | head busy to put a good face on | ings. The old army solidarity. “Tell them I have a headache,” | Sandra said rapidly. “They're to make any plans they like and I'll agree to them, but I can’t come to lunch today.” I repeated that into the phone and Julia said, “Thank Heaven T hoped she'd refuse but you come any ay Kay. You can help.” work to do, but she scoffed at that, and finally I consented, San- dra followed me back to my room | and watched me dress. She was like a forlorn child—and not only forlorn; a child afraid of the dark, too; afraid of being alone. But de- fiant, distrustful and utterly, stub- bornly solitary. “Do you mind if | stay here and write some letters on your typewriter?” she asked as I put on my hat. “Don’t WOKEY l.won't | hurt it—I'm a good typist. I did mind, but weakly could | pat ry 3 5 today as if L sere a y Sandra, Cul- best ei She required-no culti- vation. She was a so Lunch proved to be a peculiarly social gathering—peculiar, if one considered the circumstances. DOMINOES MARATHON RESULTS IN STALEMATE (By Associated Press) TECUMSEH, Okla. — Eleven years ago, William S. Cutlip and E. S. Sherman, retired attorneys, and their wives decided to play dominoes each Saturday night. Now, 6,000 games later, Cutlip and Mrs. Sherman hold a one- game lead. demurred weakly that I had} There were only the four of us: Colonel Pennant, genial as usual; Mimi, brisk and businesslike, the preoccupation of a hostess in her eyes; Julia not exactly remote, but seeming to have a strange new dignity and to have found some source of inner contentment. We did not speak of Ivan. A stranger, listening, would have thought the only tragedy that had {touched this place was that of j Social plans disrupted. “We even chose her wedding gown when we met her in Chi- jcago,” Mimi said with an ag- | grieved air. “I can’t imagine any girl being so stupid. Dan and J were giving them the wedding, and it was going to be so pretty— have you ever seen a military wedding, Kay, with the arch of sabers and all the trappings? Oh well, we'll just have to make other plans. Now the thing is, people have been calling me up all morning asking when and how they can entertain the bride and groom, so I thought I'd better | start the ball rolling with this re- ception——” | I thought of a train flashing | across the country, bearing Adam jand One Other—that One Other |to whom a last ticket is sold for a final journey—and for a mo- | ment it seemed pretty heartless | to be planning a round of parties. | But what had Ivan been to these people? Only a casual visitor, at jleast as far as we knew. Even }Sandra had acknowledged him jonly as a friend, and up to that |time I think I was the only one to suspect a deeper allegiance on her part. And don’t tribal customs h: | include merriment after a death? | The Pennant’s reception would be in the nature of a wake for Ivan. Julia was planning a tea dance }for them Saturday afternoon at | the club. I asked if I could go in | with her and share the expense, | as I was already indebted to vari- ous people on the post, and they seemed to think it was a good idea. So after lunch we settled down to practical consideration and wrote invitations for a couple | of hours. Strange Intensity rc was nearly five when I got back to the club, but Sandra | was still in my room, curled up jon the studio coach reading a magazine. The air was heavy with smoke and the room was hot from the afternoon sun, but she | looked strangely contented and greeted me almost with a smile. “Did you write your letters?” I | asked. looking at my desk which was as neat as usual, though that is nothing to write home about. Still, I couldn’t see that she had disturbed anything. “Yes, it didn’t take long—just a few short notes to friends who knew Ivan. I was waiting for you to come back and tell me where to mail them. Ar2 you going to send your story off?” “T can’t. It isn’t finished, and | the post office closes at six.” “That’s too bad. How many Pages are left to copy?” “Six or seven.” “I could copy them in half an hour for you.” She flung, down the | magazine and stood up. “Come on, let's get it finished. For all you know, this one day might make all the difference in a sale.” ‘But—but there’s a little re- | vision—I always make changes | when I copy.” “Take a pencil and correct as I jtype.” She already had a sheet jof white paper in the machine. |She turned back the top page of the stack of manuscript to the | right of the typewriter, looked at | it and numbered the waiting it says ‘She looked up at h soulfully’?” “Make it ‘She gazed deep into his eyes,’ and here, halfway down the page, instead of ‘said’ write ‘murmured.’” | She nodded and words began to }pour from her hands like beans into a pan. I watched her expert fingers for a moment of silent jenvy, then I got busy correcting the next sheet. I proofread the typed sheets as jshe finished them, but there was no need to. That girl could type. While she was finishing the last page I addressed a manila en- |velope by hand. then I took the |competed manuscript and leafed \rapidly through it to make sure | the pages were in the right order. She watched me with the strang- jest intensity as I did it and I | thought, she’s read the story while |I was gone and she wonders if I know it. I didn’t care if she had. {I had told her she could. But I |felt a little contemptuous at the | thought that she would sneak. She took her two thin en- |velopes and followed me out to |the garage. Gerald had brought me the keys to Adam's car be- fore I left for the Pennants’ but, jsecing Sandra, had not paused to tal “It’s twenty of six.” I said as I jdrove through the gate of the joes “We'll make it easily. The Post office is only about four miles down the road, in the village.” She picked up the manila en- velope from the seat between us and read the address. “Ardent Love Romances, 1004 |Fourth Avenue, New York City. To be continued HOMING INSTINCT (By Associated Press) FULTON, Mo.—If it had hap- pened to anyone but Grant Dun- can it hardly would be worth mentioning. Duncan was motor- ing back from a picnic when his wife noticed their car was on fire. Duncan put on speed; drove right into the fire station of which he Of Baseball Season From U. BLUSOX DOV DOWNED PANDORA IN 2N Selenberger Gls Checked Key West Nine After Re- lieving Kitchins; Retir- ed Side On Strikes In 5th Hamlin’s Key Ww the opening game of the 1940 baseball season Navy Manager Roy Conchs won yesterday afternoon at Field by snatching a victory from the Blue Sox eked out an 8-7 triumph over the C.G.C. Pandora in the nightcap of the afternoon. Key West opened the fire- works with a lone run in the first-half of the initial frame. Leathernecks came right back to score a pair of markers on a fluke hit,,by second baseman Johnson. The Marines saw their lead van- ish in the third as the Conchs staged a three-run rally, spark- ed by Richard Reeves’ single that accounted for two the tallies. In the fourth, a single by Gon- zalez, with Machin going in to run for him, and a Texas leaguer by Bethel, scoring Machin, sent starting pitcher Kitchins, of the the showers. Sollen- berger came in from leftfield to Baker, first man to face him, struck out. Carbonell walked and was forced out at second by Acevedo. Cates’ grounder to short ended the in- ning. From then on, except for a lone run in the sixth, the Conchs were held scoreless. Solly retir- ed the side on strikes in the fifth. In the sixth, he fanned the first batter, but walked the next two. which, combined with the only safe blow he allowed, produced the Conchs’ final run. Marines accounted for another pair of markers in their half of the third when Johnson and Mortor walked and Muth singled. They fell one short of tying the score in the seventh as Muth again dropped the ball into safe territory and was sent home on a single by Simmons to left. The Conch combination of shortstop to second to first pro- duced two double plays that held down the opposition’s scoring. The victors played errorless bail. Jackie Carbonell accepted six chanches flawlessly and Acevedo four. Carbonell was the leading hit- ter of the game, poling three safe- ly in four tries. Lucilo Gonzalez secured two out of two and Cates two out of four. Johnson and Muth topped the Marine swatters with a pair ef safeties each. Solly struck out seven men and walked three, giving up one hit and one run in three and two- thirds innings. R. Reeves went down swinging three times and his brother, Earl, whiffed twice. Bethel also left the batter’s box twice with his club on his shoul- der. The game went only seven in- nings before the 4:00 o'clock time- limit was reached. Score by innings: R. HE Cenchs 103 101 0—6 10 0 Marines 200 2001-5 7 3 Bethel, Carbonell and C. Grif- fin; Kitchins, Sollenberger and Spakes, Thompson. SCORE SEE-SAWED IN APTERPIECE Blue Sox grabbed the nightcap of the doubleheader yesterday afternoon, 8-7, in nine full in- nings. The score see-sawed un- til the seventh when the Blusox shoved two runs across home plate to clinch the game. Al. Rodriguez poled three safely in as many times at bat. One of his blows was a double to center. Gabriel Garcia register- ed three out of five. - Leading swatters for the Pan- dora nine was Boring, three out of five, and Joe Navarro, two out of four. Molina, who relieved Diaz in the fifth, was the winning piteh- er. Navarro lost the game after taking over the mound in the fifth from Boring. starting twirl- er. Score by innings: R. 3. E Pandora - 010 240 000— 713 2 Blusox — 300 630 20x— 8 12 7 Boring, Joe Navarro and Joe Navarro, Berg; Diaz, Molina and AL Rodriguez. close 6-5 of losers, to toe the slab. U.S. Marines. ! TRIBE BACK IN AMERICAN LEAD INDIANS WON TWO AS NATS DOWNED TIGERS; YANKS BOWED TWICE TO LOWLY BROWNS . (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Cleve-' New York Giants absorbed an- land Indians are back on top of other double loss. Pittsburgh Pi-; the American League, a full- yates were the victorious players, game ahead of the slipping De- 10-3 and 4-3. Mel Ott and Babe troit Tigers and three-and-a-half Ph lps homered for the New games in front of the twice- 7 beaten New York Yankees. Yorkers in the afterpiece. Bob Feller’s masterful hurling Philadelphia Phillies were able in the opening contest of the to score only one run in the dou- doubleheader yesterday with the bleheader with the St. Louis Car- Philadelphia Athletics featured'dinals. Bill MeGee shut them the Tribe’s drive into leadership. out, 7-0, in the first, and Bowman For eight innings he held the A’s took the second, 3-1. hitless. He faced only 28 batters Results of the games: in the whole game, allowing just AMERICAN LEAGUE two hits and hanging up his 235th At Detroit RHE victory of the season by a 5-0 Washington =< 6410 2 score. Heavy hitting in the aa Detroit 1-8-6 erpiece won the fracas for the Leonard and Ferrell; Hutchin- Indians, 8-5. son, Gorsica, Newhouser and Teb- Dutch Leonard handcuffed the ; betts. Bengals for the Washington Sen- ——— ators, 6-1. The lone score for the First Game fading Detroitmen, who have held __ At Cleveland the lead for the past several Philadelphia days, was registered by- Rudy Cleveland York when he belted the ball out! Vaughn and Hayes; Felle of the park in the second inning. | Hemsley. After walloping the Tigers ear eee 16-7 Saturday, the Yankees took Second Game on the lowly St. Louis Browns in'_ At Cleveland a twin bill yesterday and lost Philadelphia both ends, 5-10 and 1-2. Elden Cleveland Auker scattered the Yanks’ eight __ Caster, safeties in the nightcap. Chicago White Sox pulled up Pytlak. to within a half-game of the New Yorkers by virtue of a double First Game win, 5-1 and 4-2, over the Bos-' At St. Louis ton Red Sox. Chisox stretched New York 512 3 their winnnig streak to eight St. Louis - 1011 0 games. A tenth-inning home run _ Ruffing, Sundra, Chandler anc with a man on base decided the Dickey; Nigesiing an and Susce. issue in favor of the Windy City boys in the second game Second Game Cincinnati Reds downed Brook-' _ At St. Louis lyn Dodgers, 13-3. in the opening New York - affair of their duobleheader yes- St. Louis terday, thus adding a full game , Bonham, Murphy to their already impressive eight- Auker and Swift. contest lead. Nighcap went 11 innings to a 1-1 tie. __ Pirst Game Jerome “Dizzy” Dean pitched |, At Chicago his second straight victory yes- Boston 5 Chicago 5 terday since being recalled from SSE . = Heving, Ostermueller and the Texa: eague. He downed i Tyco ands the Boston Bees, 7-4, in the cur- tain-raiser, but saw Claude Pas- Second Game At Chicago seau drop the nightcap, 3-7. Boston FOR TOMORRO WAYS AND MEANS TO RAISE FUNDS WILL BE DIS- CUSSED Dean and RHE . H. E 8 0 o. 4 RHE 3 0 91 P ea- . EB. 2 == ll 2 (10 Innings) _ Fleming, Hash and Desautels, Peacock; Rigney and Turner. NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game At Brooklyn RHE. Cincinnati 1316 2 Brooklyn e 35 5 Walters and Lombardi, Wilson; Davis, Casey, Head, Tamulis and A petition instigated by Mana-|P Helps. ger Aurelio Lastres, of the Key Second Game West Juniors, and signed by three, ay Brooklyn other managers has authorized Cincinnati President Roy Hamlin to call a ,Brooklyn .. NOTICE, SPORTS FANS! TDessinge: cand diesece-. Hamitie. | The services of residents Wyatt and Franks. net connected with any soft- ~ First Game ball or baseball team in Key = West are desired for the form- oe commission to rule over the Piece Pie a Padgett, leagues. S; s enthysiasi=, if imp Pearson and Millies. | terested in providing the high- Second Game oct Syve of sporting Swiet- | armhiledsiphia jainment for the public, are a. toa urged to attend the meeting Philadelphia ‘ Bowman and Owen; cen] tomorrow night. meeting of the Island City Base-|Masterson and Atwood, Millies. ball League tomorrow night. The} SS }session will be held in City Hall, First Game beginning at 8:00 o'cock. |__At New York The purpose of the meeting is Pittsburgh —_ to discuss ways and means of New York = providing funds for expenses of Sewell and Davis, Lopez; the league. Two plans have been 'ton, Dean, Joiner and OD. tentatively worked out and walt = be submitted for discussion. Second Sentiment for the forming of _ At New York an impartial group to strictly rim enforce rules and regulations governing the baseball and soft. Heintzelman, Klinger, Bowman ball leagues is steadily mounting. 2d Davis, Lopez; Gumbert and It is expected that the matter will Danning. be broached at the meeting to- morrow night. Down With The Wash (By Associated Press) LAGUNA BEACH, Calif—This a is an art colony and every once Second Game in a while something reminds At Boston you of it. Latest is a complaint Chicago against the unesthetic effect af Boston e! washing hung out on clothes-, Dean and Strincevich, lines, right where everybody can ects, Coffman. and Berres, An-| see it. idrews. i R. HE. 710 0 oso ] Chicago Boston _ Passeau, Todd; Salvo and Berres. Hayes; Smith, Debson, Milnar and | and Rosar;, S. Marines —""___ SERIES’ SECOND GAME TONIGHT CONCHS WILL SEEK REVENGE FOR INITIAL DEFEAT With “blood in their eyes” and “stagefright” overcome, Ameri- jean Legion-sponsored Key West Conchs will go on the field at ‘Bayview Park tonight seeking revenge against Pepper’s Plumb- ers. Pipe-Fitters breezed to a 14-8 victory over the Conchs Friday | night in the first game of the se- Ties to determine the softball jchampionship of the city. Legion boys claim they were nervous ‘and off-form last week but have regained confidence and will at- jtempt to even the series tonight | Manager Aurelio Lastres, Sr. who was unavoidably detained from attending the opener Fri- day night, will direct his Sons of ' the American Legion in their fight tonight. Batteries and lineups for both | teams have not been announced. ' Selections will be made just be- ‘fore game-time, 8:00 o'clock. MAJOR LEAGUES’ GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at St. Louis. Washington at Detroit. Philadelphia at Cleveland, two games. Boston at Chicago. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at New York. St. Louis at Philadelphia, two games. Chicago-Boston, not scheduled CHAMPIONSHIP SOFTBALL SERIES (Bayview Park Field, 8:00 p.m.) TONIGHT First Game—Pepper’s Plumb- ers vs. Key West Conchs. Second Game—Merchants NavSta. BASEBALL GAMES (Navy Field, 2:00 p. m.) SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 22 First Game—C.G.C. Pandora vs. Key West Juniors. Second Game—Trojans vs. Pi- rates. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 29 First Game—U.S. Marines vs. Blue Sox. Second Game—Key Conchs vs. Pandora. LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL Signatures of four managers! have authorized president to call meeting for tomorrow night, 8:00 ‘o’eloek, at City Hall. Ways and means to raise funds and discus- sion of appointnig impartial! sports enthusiasts to rule league. SOFTBALL vs West Next meeting of players and managers scheduled for purpose of organizing another league. jpionship series termination. STANDIN DINGS i eek /St. Louis geee38e? Key West Ji 8. FOUND—Pet Cat. 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