The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 18, 1940, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940 IAIJFALLLLLLALLLLALL LL Casual Slau ome By VIRGINIA HANSON == gh ters IIS SIS SS SSS SSIS SSS SSD. YESTERDAY: Gerald takes Kay and Julia to dinner “to doa spot of detecting.” They discuss Felicia’s nearly blind. six-year- old niece who visited her in June. Jokingly Gerald nominates Felicia for suspect number one. Chapter 27 ‘Fringy’ “M*, cherce is Chaplain Henry,” t Julia ‘said elegantly. “He’s such a dear little dumpling, the kind that always murders his wife in the bathtub and buries her in the back yard. Of course. he’s a bachelor——” “Wait!” I interrupted. “I think you've got something there. Did you hear Sandra say she had nown him in Texas? He's prob- ably secretly in love with her and simply follows her around disposing of all his rivals—the cave-man lover, you know.” J was giving me an ex- ceedingly dirty look, and for a} minute I couldn’t think why, un- til Gerald observed innocently: “But wouldn't you think it would have been Jeff instead of Ivan? Do you suppose he made a mistake in the dark?” “Oh, Jeff's probably next on the list,” I said airily, to cover my slip. “Maybe “a long list, for all you know. You guys better watch your step with Sandra,” | agded . me Oo aoe D “to shudder. ‘Men are such brutes, my dear. ut I’m sure I don’t know why ou’re warning me.” He put a and to the back of his head and ran a finger through its closely cut sandy stubble. “Look, girls, I'm thinking of letting my hair grow —or do you like it better the way I’m wearing it?” i Julia put her head on one side. “A cluster of curls on top would suit your heart-shaped face,” she said judicially. “On the other hand, Geraldine, your neck is a little long ——” 5 “Column of alabaster,” he said, smirking. “Silly, isn’t it?) But that’s what they tell me.” “My cherce is a very phony young man named Beaufort,” I observed sternly. “Just look at him in that mirror, sitting there playing the fool, trying to make a couple of unsuspecting females tell all. Julia, don’t mention your father’s invention—you know. the death ray. He’s probably in the pay of some foreign power. Julia. that young man is deep!” Gerald leaned forward and scrutinized his reflection anxious- ly. “T'll wager you say that to all the girls,” he complained, straightening his tie. But I had snot missed the sudden sharp look from under those absurd eye- lashes. For an instant a breath of fear dissipated the rosy cloud of contentment around me. “And when does he drift in?” 1 babbled on. hoping he did not know I had seen that sharp look “The day—the very day, mind you, that the chaplain was at- tacked. And how does he account for himself? He says, mind you, that he’s a boot salesman. Now I ask you, Julia, is that likely? Is it plausible? Have you seen him sel] _a boot? | haven't!” “To think you've been holding that against me!” Gerald mar- veled. “Tomorrow as ever was you shall come to my humble showroom, you shall see the whole complicated scientific pro- cedure—nay, you shall even or- der a pair for those delectable extremities which I have been unable to avoid noticing. I, Ger- ald Beaufort in person, shall serve you. That is a chore I never dele- Bate to a subordinate. It’s always a pleasure the tadies to mea- sure——” “Ersters.” vently. Hard-Faced Man ERALD inserted his imaginary monocle and blinked at her “Have I been overlooking sor thing?” he asked hopefully. ways thought the word nerts.” “No, no! You misunders me. I mean ersters, actually. in the flesh. Doni you see waiter approaching?” “Is that all you see?” 1 asked dreamily. “I see approaching from the opposite direction, a grim- ed male who eats with his knife and sleeps in his clothes Hold your breath, Julia, I think we're about to become a four- some.” It was Monday night. Field- stone Inn was not crowded. Fac- ing the door, I had noticed thi tary diner arrive and seat himself across :he room from us —a hard-faced but not unattrac-. tive man in his late thirties, w the eyes of one who had seen breathed Julia fer- much and never expected to be| surprised again. Those eyes had inspected me without perceptible change, had lingered for a mo- ment on Julia’s half-averted face, and traveled on to Gerald’s pro- file. Now he was coming toward us. : A hand @escended on Gerald's shoulder, ieee Se “Fanc® meeting you -here,” drawled a husky voice, ‘and 1 thought I detected a gleam of lazy triumph in the imperturba- ble eyes, Gerald looked up, his face as blank as a mask. “Frightfully sorry, old chap,” he said pleasantly. “Never saw you before in my life. Dare say it was a couple of other fellows.” Louise Brough, 17, of Beverly Hills, Calif. won the national juniol girls’ tennis championship in the tournament recently held at the Philadelphia Cricket Ciub. ~ | mysterious | “Not with those eyelashes,” the |man said with a malevolent grin. | “Come on, Fringy, give.” | “Ah! These eyelashes? Now jthat’s where you’re wrong! One dollar a set—you can have them | yourself, old fellow, and no end of an improvement, if you don’t mind my saying so. Said to sharpen the eyesight, too. Look— | tell you what I'll do. Give you the address.’ He whipped a tiny flat note- book and a pencil from his breast pocket and scribbled briefly, tore off the sheet and pressed it into the stranger’s hand. “Just say Geraldine sent you. No, no—don’t thank me! Only |too glad to spread a little beauty in a bleak world——” The stranger glanced briefly at the paper he held and his face closed like a trap. “O.K., Geraldine, do_ as much |for you sometime. Sorry I |dropped the brick. 1 see now you're not the guy. It’s those eye- lashes—better cut them, they'll get you into trouble one day.” Gerald grinned. “Just what I was telling the girls,” he said innocently. He fanned a hand vaguely gt the man, a gesture that seemed to mean “Scram!” At lleast the stranger departed. He |went back to his table, to his waiting plate, and concentrated on feeding but not with his knife. As far as I could see thereafter, his gaze did not drift our way. “Now -“tHat, Geraldine, was downright piggish,” Julia pro- tested. “Anyone with half a wit could see the poor fellow was lonesome, and you sitting here smugly with two glamour girls. You might at least have pretend- ed to know him.” “I'm surprised at you, Julia. My grandmother,” he added virtu- ously, “made me promise never to take up with strange men.” Strange? I lowered my eyes to my plate so that he would not see the disbelief in them. I felt a little sick. Delicate Mission ULIA and Gerald began to wrangle amiably over the wis- ; dom of consuming the first oys- |ters of the season in a month without an r, but she disposed of the whole question. “It’s all right. We put the r in the ersters, which makes it per- | fectly safe.” she nronounced, and |popped one calmly into her mouth. It was not until we had finished our meal and Gerald had lavishly ordered a Courvoisier brandy | of Adam’s commission. “I've always wanted to do a |spot of detecting,” he confessed | cheerfully, swirling the amber. |ftuid in its tiny glass. “Kay, here, jis a very discerning young per- |son—very discerning indeed. Yes, I think T may say that I am deep: though not everyone, mind you, would have the wit or the cour- jase to probe beneath my light }and airy persiflage to the dark; \and secret recesses of the man’s |mysterious mind. Adam is dis- | cerning, too. He saw.at once that I was unusual,” he continued mod- estly. “That, I am sure, is why he | trusted me to execute this delicate mission.” He paused impressively. “What delicate mission?” de- |manded Julia impatiently. “The jtrouble with you, Geraldine, you have Saint Vitus dance of the vo- |cal chords—they’re always in mo- jtion but they don’t get you any- where.” Gerald looked at her coldly. “Not a discerning person,” he decided. He turned his shoulder jto her and addressed me confi- | fidentially. “Now you, Kay. will |comprehend at once the delicacy jof the task which has been set } It was impossible not to laugh at the fool. Scrap by scrap we got it out of him.-On the way to the rain that morning, Adam had re- led the simple fact that the aplain had broker his drive from Chicago by dining at Field- stone Inn; and that it was near |there he had picked up his un- |pleasant passenger. There was a Temote possibility that someone jat the Inn might have seen the \n 0 pedestrian — might | know his identity, or at least be |able to give a better description than the chaplain. Adam had asked Gerald to make inquiries. Such was the delicate mission. | We discussed possible pro- |cedures; but our combined intel- \1 med unable to devise any startling departures in the jrealm of crime detection. Some- | what ingloriously, we sought the mistress of the establishment and jasked her a plain question. “Oh, you're from Fort Michi- }gan!” she said brightly, looking us over with eyes that quite ob- viously recalled the encounter be- | tween Julia and Sandra the day before. The eyes lingered on Julia. “Aren't you Colonel Pennant’s daughter? I thought I'd seen your picture in the paper. Wasn’t that |a dreadful thing—that poor man found dead on that old barge? Ard they say he was murdered! Though I must say, I don’t see why it couldn’t have been an ac- cident. I always think it’s danger- ous to climb arcund on an old wreck like that—rotten timbers are always giving way. Did you know him?” “Slightly,” Julia admitted. “And you want to know about the gentleman whose car was stolen.” She paused. To be continued Alice Marble of California re- tained her national women’s ten- nis championship by defeating Helen Jacobs at Forest Hills, ee that he returned to the subject > THE KEY WEST CIFIZEN SPORTS CALENDAR CLARENCE GATES THIRD GAME OF Five-Man Boar Elected To Rule Baseball Leagu US. ARMY WILL BE INVITED 10 ENTER CIRCUIT USE OF TWO FIELDS SIMUL- TANEOUSLY ON SUNDAYS FORESEEN: NAVY TO IM- PROVE GROUNDS A five-man board was selected at the meeting of the Island City Baseball League in City Hall last night to govern teams of the cir- cuit. Main duties of the board will be to strictly enforce all lo-' cal and official rules and regula- tions of organized baseball and to render decisions in protests and disputes. Wm. J. Barfield was named chairman of the board. Other members are: Theodore Albury, Joe Cleare, Aaron Diaz and Sam W. Thompson. The board will not necessarily to attend regular league meetings but will be welcomed on such occasions. Separate ses- the dis- have sions may be held at cretion of the chairman. Two Fields In View Paul Albury, representing the Pirates at the meeting last night, motioned that the U. S. Army be invited to enter a team in the league. The motion was duly seconded and passed. The entrance of a Soldier nine will bring the total of clubs to eight and will provide the Bar- racks’ field for league use. In the event two diamends are pro- vided, a doubleheader will be scheduled for each field, thus en- abling all teams to see action every Sunday. This will necessi- tate the re-drawing of the pres- ent schedule. Commanding officer of ‘the Barracks will be contacted for a discussion of the plans. Navy Field Improvement Mer. Aurelio Lastres, of the Juniors, reported on progress of Navy Field improvement. Along with Mgr. W. E. Lowe, of the Pandora, Mr. Lastres was ap- pointed by the president last week to secure county equipment, and prisoners to clear the in- field and outfield at the naval grounds. He reported that the requested improvement will be completed Friday of this week. In this connection, Sgt. Nodine, representing the Army, notified the meeting that the Barracks’ field had recently been put in playing shape. Mer. Lastres was appointed chairman of the program printing committee. He will have power to call on any member of the ieague to aid him. Programs or scoresheets, with the aid of ad- vertisements from local mer- chants, will be printed’ to sell fans in an effort to secure funds for league expenses. Schedule, lineups, announcements and space for fans to “keep score” by innings of all games will be in- cluded in the program. Manager Hamlin, of the Conchs, requested that his team’s postponed game with the Trojans be allowed to take place on Thanksgiving Day. Misunder- standing as to the date on which this holiday will be obeserved caused postponement of decision. All first games henceforth will start at 1:30 p.m. Sundays and end 4:00 p. m. é Mgr. Frank Caraballo submit- ted the name of O'Dell as a mem- ber of his team for approval, which was granted. O'Dell is a second baseman and pitcher. : ’ Today’s Horoscope enna RCRA A 2 RAE Today’s nature is military. The disposition is aggressive, and the tendency will be to take things by force, and to gain position and fortune by dint of sheer energy. Beneath this there seems to be a more refined and lovable dis- position that will go far to over- come the unfavorable opinions excited by the aggressiveness. In a recent five-inning softball game the Owensboro, Ky., team made 55 home runs, defeating Whitesville by the score of 70 to 4 TIGERS | AHEAD AGAI 's Hand Indians. Second Straight Loss; Bengals Downed Nats; *-Yanks Blank Browns (Special to The Citt#en) NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—“See- saw, Marjorie Daw—Tigers con- tinue to claw”. Detroit’s pennant- mad American League Ball play- ers fought their way back to the top of the heap yesterday. While cellar-occupant Philadelphia Athletics handed the Cleveland Indians their second straight one- run margin loss, the Tigers claw- ed the Washington Senators 6-3 and moved up a half-game ahead| ‘Combination meeting Tuesday |C- Gates of the Tribe. remained in blanking the 9-0. A’s moundsman Beckman had to pull himself out of several tough spots to down the Indians, 4-3, but he did it by scattering Cleveland’s nine hits. In the seventh inning, the Tribe had the tying and winning run on base. Hal Trosky sent a deep drive to right center. Center and right fielders simultaneously went after the ball but it seemed neither would get there soon enough. Rightfielder Miles kept racing in the ball’s direction and stabbed the sphere at top speed to rob the Indians of a triple that would have meant victory. Pitchers’ wildness and Rudy York’s 29th home run with Greenberg on base were the main factors in the Tigers’ win over the Nats. All of the victors’ markers were scored in the first and third frames. Behind six-hit pitching by Don- ald and with the aid of four Brownie errors, the Yankees breezed in with the shutout tri- ump over the lowly St. Louis nine. Joe DiMaggio left the game after the second inning. suffering a charley horse. Cincinnati Reds’ lead of 11 games with the Brooklyn Dodg- ers, runners-up, having only that many contests remaining to be played practically clinches the National League flag for the Cincy boys, who have 14 more games left. A triple and a double in the ninth inning produced the win- ning marker for the Redlegs in their affair with the Philadel- phia Phillies, 4-3, while the Rhinelanders were bowing to the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-0, - Lanier tamed the Flatbush club. @with five hits. : Boston Bees smothered _ Pitts- burg Pirates, 10-5, in a 14-hit as- sault on four Buc pitchers, and New York Giants blew a_ five- run lead to drop their ninth straight game as the Chicago Cubs defeated them, 9-8. A six- run rally in the eighth gave the Bruins the contest. New York Yankees the picture by St. Louis Browns, Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelphia R. Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 1 Moore and Wilson; Higbe ani Millies. . E 1 0 id At Brooklyn St. Louis Brooklyn Lanier and Owen; Grissom, Ta- mulis, Rachunok and Mancuso. R. HE. — 512 2 At Boston Pittsburgh fer Boston _ 10 14 0 Lanahan, Macfayden, Brown, Swigart and Davis, Fernandes; Errickson, Strincevich and Ber- Tes. At New York Chicago New York R. HE 9141 813 2 AND STATISTICS MAJOR LEAGUES’ GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE i Philadelphia at Detroit, two games. Washington at Cleveland, two’ games. New games. Boston at St. Louis. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsourgh at Boston. Chicago at New York. CHAMPIONSHIP SOFTBALL SERIES (Bayview Park Field, 8:00 p.m.) TONIGHT First Game—Key West Conchs vs. Pepper's Plumbers. Second Game—Merchants _ vs. NavSta. BASEBALL GAMES (Navy Field, 1:30 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 West Conchs vs. Pandora. LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL - SOFTBALL York at Chicago, two of next week. New league plans for softballers and financial mat- ters for baseballers. 8:00 P.M. City Hall. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— W. L. Pet. Detroit 82 60 577 Cleveland 82 61 .573 New York 78 63 .553 Chicago 78 65 .545! Boston 15 67 .528 St. Louis — . 61 83 .424 Washington 60 82 .423 Philadelphia 52 87 .374 NATIONAL LEAGUE | (Major League Baseball) Club— w. L Cincinnati 92 47 ‘Brooklyn - 83 60 St. Louis 74 65 Pittsburgh 73 (67 Chicago . 69 73 New York 66 74 Boston 60 82 Philadelphia 46 95 — ISLAND CITY LEAGUE (Key West Baseball) Club— Ww. Key West Conchs Blue Sox Trojans Pirates Key West Juniors - U.S. Marines C.G.C., Pandora a ae KEY WEST SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Club— W.L. Pet Pepper’s Plumbers 1 1 .500 Key West Conchs 1 1 500 Pet | -662 -580 -532 -521 486 471 423 326 1 1 =o 0 0 0 0 Humphries, Zuber, Howell and Pytlak. At Detroit Washirfgton <1 3 Detroit 6 1 Masterson, Monteagudo and Early; Rowe, Benton and Sulli- | van, Tebbetts. R. H. E. hime | 6 RHE) 910 0} At St. Louis New York St. Louis __ ree as ee Donald and Dickey; Trotter, | Bildilli, Coffman, Whitehead and | Swift, Susce. H Cheiago and Boston, not sched- | uled. | Mexico has 22 ocean ports. | Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 Olsen, Bryant and Todd, Col-' lins; Hubbell, Lynn, Dean and Danning. LEAGUE R.H. Pee | 39 Melton, At Cleveland Philadelphia Cleveland Beekman and Hayes; Milnar, TOPS HURLERS OF SOFTBALL LOOPS MALGRAT OF AMERICAN LEAGUE SECOND BEST DUR- ING SECOND-HALF SCHED- ULE Clarence “Cigarette Willie” Gates, ace moundsman of the Pepper's Plumbers, topped the pitchers of the American and National Softball Leagues during second-half play recently ended. Gates participated in 10 games. winning nine of them for a per- centage mark of .909. He twirled the most innings of any pitcher in either league, 79; struck out the most batters, 59; second in most bases on balls, 50; made the most wild .pitches, 24, and was third in allowing less earned runs, 19. Topping Gates in walks was Castro of the lower circuit, 65 Spakes, Marine pitcher, gave up |the most earned runs, 42, follow- ed by Castro, 35. Spakes also al- lowed the most hits, 106, and again Castro listed second, 62 Castro worked on the mound 67 innings to top American League twirlers, placed second in most |strike outs for both leagues, 44, jand first in most walks, 65. | Sollenberger and Buster Rob- erts allowed no earned runs dur- ing their tenure on the hill Skiner gave up just one, and Almeda and Fricke, two each. Standings of the pitchers fol- low: National League Pitcher— Pet 909 800 429 400 333 286 286 000 Hancock } Walker A. Griffin Arias Ward N. Castro E. Roberts American League Pitcher— Malgrat J. Ogden Floyd B. Roberts Early Klink L. Castro C. Thompson Spakes Barrs Pet 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 750 666 500 500 333 -333 SERIES TONIGHT PLUMBERS AND CONCHS WILL EACH SEEK SECOED VICTORY Pepper's Plumbers and Ww Conchs will take the t Bayview Park ght e softball championship seric a Each club has = game. Conchs. sponsored by American Legion pc surprise Monday downing the older, he more experienced Peppe: Their manager. Aurel Sr., claims his boys to make f omission Shortstop Ca cues paved th the Co Hamlin back third game of “won column Leagues Meeting Managers off National Leagues night. In © absence dent J. M. Vare Pau was selected temporary man It was decided games the championship scries now LEGALS —eEsT «-« ricamms © (an come rs. os «mae ™ = « FATS ete . -™ — la. that nings in with the and regul. duce the the con NavSta agreed t ing second games the title fight Rosters of enter the leagues must be h next teams soon-to-be term: series played 1 30, when first new schedules are under w The Tomb Soldier tery. 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