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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1940 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 7> } OF |, Se TAGe Casual Slaughters ~ worn ees YESTERDAY: Kay arranges to re’s no oil in those parts that WEDNESDAY sleep with Felicia, then goae to 'I ever heard of. But as far as her old room to pack foranearly Sandra is concerned, maybe departure. Jef is there, holding | you've got something. That girl Sandra's shorthand notebook | was the most credulous fool I've CINCINNATI WILL BE SCENE OF FIRST GAME; STARTING PITCHERS HAVE NOT BEEN ANNOUNCED DRAMATIC MOMENTS Every World Series | Series Has Them ©0000 SC SCC CET OD ODEO OOS SOSOOOOSSSSOSSOSSSSOS OSE (EDITOR’S NOTE: Tomorrow the opening of the 1940 World's Series will get under wey in Cincinnati. The an- ticipation of thrills, spectacular and downright “bone-head” plays still hold fans in suspense as of yore. The surprises and tragedies that will be produced in this series will ring down through the years, just as: past highlights below. are still fresh in the minds of sports writers and rabid fans.) MARINES WON = BALE. LEAGHES DIAMONDBALL MEET TONIGHT ——— OPENER, 5 104 DEFEATED ARMY AT PARK FIELD LAST NIGHT: PLUMB- ERS FORFEITED NIGHTCAP TO BARBERS SOFTBALL AND SASEBALL OFFICIALS WILL DISCUSS which was missing that morning. | ever encountered. She could be- IMPORTANT MATTERS He says he ‘s trying to find some- | lieve anything. If she was any thing Sandra wrote and put itim | kin to us I'd say she got it from nee jthe old gentleman himself. He | swore until the day he died that {| there was silver on the place. He |} kept sending samples to be as- | sayed and tearing up the reports OW did you get here?” I de- | | when they came——” manded. His voice trailed off. Chapter 38 The Vanishing Notebook “H officials and in regular session k was postponed (Special to The Citizen) (Associated Press Feature Service) A wild third inning rally, in Oct. 1—Detroit we “Walked out,” he whispered back, grireling sardonically. “Sent the sentry for a tray and the darn fool left the door unlocked.” locked.” “Well, you're walking right back in,” I told him grimly. “Of all the fool stunts! Climb out that bedroom wirdow on the side and’ wait for me in Adam’s car. Here’s the key to garage cell. And} keep an ey out for the sentry | along the bac He did n argue with me. Maybe he thought if I knew as much as Sandra I might be equal- . At any rate, he de ly by the windo and I had just started into the bedroom to lateh the screen after | ; i him when Felicia “Anything I can do?” she asked. | I pretended I was coming out of the bedrcom instead of going in. , thanks. I've been sorting my papers and just remembered something I left at the Pe: I said, inventing hastily. “ ter go for it right now, before they go to bed. I'll take Adam’s car.” What if she should offer to go with me? I held my breath, but She didn’t. I opened the door and held it for her, then I turned off the light and went out, clo the door behind me.” “Guess I'll get out of this gir- | ., dle,” she said with a yawn. “ probably read for a while, but i I'm asleep when you come in. your bed is the one farthest ion the door. And for gos don’t creep in quietly unless oe want me to wake up and scream my head off!’ Jeff was sitting dutifully in the car. I backed it out and turned; it down the row toward the hos- pital. “For a gis], you've got guts,” | he observed presently. “How do you know I'm not a murderer?” “IL don’t know it. I hope for re not. But walk- | ‘on ward tonight | isn't going to make matters look any better for you.” “If Dan had put me in arres' ! in quarters I would have stayed he said resentful. i | he really thinks I killed ow few people ving in you black. Sandra t if she thought in. But if, she did why r. ill _keep on. bel when t 1 certainly 5 asking something. You said le ago that it wasn’t for love. Tere aren’t many rea- sons for a woman marrying a man she doesn't love, and you can ‘sum them up in one word—g: “But would she gain I haven't anything and she was pre ve been. You don't spend tw thousand dollars in a couple ars — not without having something to show for it.” Painful Subject “JEFF! You don’t suppose she gambied it away on the mar- ket?” “No. She doesn’t know a stock nt shervtticlar to If my father wanted eit He stopped, but not before b' terness had crept into his voic again. I hesitated for a moment, but m de me pursue the e me your father left you a house in Memphis and your great-grandfather’s farm in the Ozarks.” “The Memphis honse is so heavily mortgaged even the bank won't take it over. And the Ozark property—maybe you don't know it, but land up there isn’t worth the paper the deed is writ- | ten on. I pay the taxes on it for sentimental reasons. The old gen- tleman loved it, and Julia and I had fun there when we were kids. There’s another nice little trait of Sandra’s: she never even saw the place, tut she was plenty sore when she found out that I've willed it to Julia. You'd think she'd be satisfied. “Wait a minute, ay breath coming a little uneven. I slowed the car to a crawl. “Are you sure that property is worth- less?” “No doubt about it — nothing but rocks and hills. Why “But is there any thing ‘Sandra might have got hold of that you didn’t know—a railroad, 9; rs project like Boulder ‘Dans oil— Oh, I don’t know anyt! about real estate, but mightn’t there be some reason for Sandra | to think it was valuable?” “You don’t dam a brook,” he said. He sounded “Neither do you where there’s no place to go. And 'd bet- | a. ay aes | “And if Sandra had ever heard that story she would have be- lieved it?” I asked tensely. | “She might, I suppose. Even | Father liked to toy with the idea, | though he knew better. He al- ways said he'd go back when he was: retired. and spend a little money proving to his own satis+ | faction that. there was nothing there. Maybe he talked to Sandra | at the last—maybe he got to be- | ving it himself. Anyway, she | and’ I quarreled about it when | we were first engaged, and almost as soon as she got here last week she was at me again to change my will. I didn’t think even she would be that cheap.” “Did you change it?” “No. Why should I? Julia has never known anything about it, but I intend her to have the place if anything happens to me. Then, | when Sandra practically accused | me of killing Ivan, I told her that finished things, as far as I was ‘oncerned. I'd married her, but I idn’t propose to pay any more for her silence. She ran to you to make it appear, I suppose, that breach was of her making. nd it was part of her spite to go to the reception with a black eye. Kay, I swear I didn’t even know she had it until right there on the front walk when she took off that carf thing she was wearing. ‘Just Bluffing?’ HE was shut in the bedroom with a headache when I came home at noon, and after duty she was still in there. She had laid y things out in the sitting room, so after dinner I dressed in there [22 got out. I never had a good | look at her or I wouldn't have let her go a step. “I felt like blacking the other leye when I got her home. That was when she told me it wouldn't do me any good to kill her. After |she went off to your room I looked through everything she | had, because I thought if she was leaving anything written down in se rooms that nosey hostess or one of the orderlies would be into it. But I didn’t find anything. at’s why I thought about the shorthand notebook. Only I can’t read shorthand, so I wasn’t any bean off when I found it. Can Do you know what was in “Just some dictation I gave her. That’s all, as far as I know. I can read it fairly well, if it’s Gregg. But I haven't looked at it. I'll see when I get back. But I think she was just bluffing, don’t you?” “God knows. It docsn’t pay to take chances with people like her.” The prison ward was on the ground floor of the west wing. At Jeff's suggestion, I parked by the side entrance, got out and went in. The sentry was sitting in front of the door to the ward, his face as white as chalk. He jumped a foot when I hissed at him and came at me with his hand oh the butt of his automatic. “You haven't reported Lieuten- ant Tack missing?” I whispered, and I thought the man was going to faint. “It’s all right, sentry, he’s out in the car. We were hop- ing he could get back w anyone knowing.” e enlisted man took his hand the gun and brought out a dkerchief with which to mop brow. He became suddenly garrulous, in a strained wh “Listen, I just missed him, I come back with that tray the room was dark, and he had rolled a blanket up on the bed, so k he’s;asleep, see? Then I o thinking about me leaving hat door unlocked, about two minutes ago I reaches in and turns on the light. Lady, I'm in the lieutenant’s troop. I was go- ing to wait to report it until I seen the Officer of the Guard comin’ down the hall. He’s due any time now. Lady, 1 sure am glad you brung him back:” I saw Jeff safely behind that | door, locked this time, then I drove back to the club. It must be nearly ten o'clock, and I still i my packing to do, and that short hand notebook to inspect. The rejected manuscript was on the seat beside me. I had found myself still treasuring its ham- pering shape when I followed Jeff out to the garage. I had clung to it, unconsciously, as I had to my pocketbook, time my things. I put the car in the garage, col- lected manuscript and pocket- book, locked the garage, and went back to my rooms. It did not occur to me to be frightened a second time. My mind was on the shorthand notebook. I was | thinking ironically that I had | Practically pledged myself ta keep a secret that I had broad- | cast a couple of hours ago. | But when I turned on the light j and went to look for it, the short- hand notebook was gone. To be continued while all the mind was on other Germany Has Plenty Of Mushrooms This Year (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Oct. 1.—Germany’s wild mushroom, “the meat of the forests”, is described by the press as unusually good this year. The yield of poisonous varieties’ was low. The fact no mushroom deaths had been reported was at- tributed to popular interest in mushroom identification. A course provided by a botanical museum attracts several hundred per- sons. Subscribe to The Citizen. CINCINNATI, Tigers. American League cham- pions. ‘and Cincinnati Reds, lead- ers of the senior circuit, engaged in light workouts today, prepara- tory to the opening game of the 1940 World Series tomorrow aft- ernoon, 1:30 o'clock, in this city. Starting pitchers have not been announced at present. It is known that Buck Newsom and School- boy Rowe of the Bengals will twirl the first two series’ contests but the order in whieh they will appear has not been decided Paul Derringer and Bucky Wal- ters will toe the slab for the Red- legs but again whoewill start in the opening game has not been made known. Much excitement and converg- ing of fans from all directions are noted in this queen city. Re- served seat tickets are in great demand and the series’ partici- pants have informed the public ;through local newspapers to re- port scalpers at once. It is cer- tain that Crosley Field will be taxed to capacity for the curtain- raiser. Two of the regular Reds are on the injured list, catcher Ernie Lombardi and second baseman Lonnie Frey. It uncertain whether thev will be able to play. The weather man predicts showers for tomorrow but only a downpour will postpone: the af- fair. SPORTS CALENDAR AND STATISTICS SOFTBALL GAMES (Bayview Park Field, 7:00 p.m.) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—VP53_ vs. (Service League). Second Game—Bombers Merchants (Civilian League). FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Army VP53 (Service League). Second Game—Sawyer’s_ Bar- bers vs. Bombers (Civilian League). LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL - SOFTBALL Officials, managers and players of both sports will meet in City Hall this evening. Baseball session will convene first. 7:30 o'clock. ccc vs. vs. STANDINGS ISLAND CITY LEAGUE (Key West coe! Club— Key West Conchs Blue Sox *Trojans *Pirates C.G.C. Pantiora U.S. Marines *Tie game. eee SERVICE LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— U.S. Marines VP53 . Pet 1.000 1.000 -000 -000 000 -000 ma 2 0 0 0 0 (Key West Softball) Club— Sawyer’s Barbers NavSta Merchants Bombers Pepper’s Plumbers CL. . 0 Today's Birthdavs Seattle. born in William E. Boeing of airplane manufacturer, Detroit, 59 years ago. Lincoln MacVeagh of Conn. U. S. Minister to Greece, born at ‘Rhode Island, 50 years ago. Robert McLean of Philadelphia, newspaper publisher, president of the Associated Press, born in Philadelphia, 49 years ago. Faith Baldwin of New Canaan, Conn. author,” born at New Rochelle, N. Y., 47 years ago. _Admiral Charles A. Blakely. c N.. born at Williamsburg, 61 years ago. William A. Patterson, president ‘of United Air Lines, Chicago, born in Honolulu, 41 years ago: Vladimir Horowitz of New York. noted pianist, born in Rus- sia, 36 years ago. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of New York, noted pianist. born in Rus- sia, 36 years ago. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of New .York, noted Methodist clergy- - party. Every world series has had its drama and down the long list of stirring incidents old-timers like to recall are a few that stand out —moments hard to equal_ Like the one in the seventh game in 1926. Jess Haines was pitching for the Cards. St. Louis had three runs, New York two— but the Yankees had had non base in every inning and were nipping at that lead. Haines, weakening enth, suddenly found filled with two out. And up ta bat came doughty Tony Lazzeri—the up” guy, the who became a a clutch. Haine and stepped off t Then there was the crowd. That figure sta in from the distant bull-yien was old Grover Cleveland Alexander, with two series triumphs _alrea: chalked up. coming in to pull this one from the fire. He had beaten the Yanks just the day before. in the sev- the bases el The Pitch! Lazzeri set himself. Alex pitched. “Strike “Ball”. Alex stretched, let every Cardinal fan Lazzeri had slammed drive down the left line. But it was foul Alexander, still the method- ical workman despite the furore. uncorked his next pitch. Lazzeri swung. the catcher nonchalantly rolled the ball back to the box and the Cards had won the se- ries. Not a Yankee reached first in the next two innings. There hardly has been a more dramatic moment than when Babe Ruth faced Charley Root of the Cubs in the 1932 third game. Babe was disgusted with the taunts of the Cubs. Some 50,000 fans saw Ruth, at the plate, point his bat to the dis- tant bleachers, “calling his shot”. And he did just what he threat- ened, blasting a homer just about to that spot. Remember 1924? Then there was the ninth in- ning of the 1924 seventh game when Walter Johnson replaced Fred Marberry. Johnson, most popular and greatest pitcher of his day, had been beaten in two other starts. The Washington outlook was dark. But Walter Called and groaned. a_ wicked field foul go, r came to bat in the i chorus of theld the Giants scoreless inning after inning until Washington won in the twelfth when Mc- Neely’s grounder bounced over Lindstrom’s head and scored Ruel_ The year before, Casey Sten- gel was the drama-maker. Casey homered within the park in the seventh inning of that first 1923 game and the Giants beat the Yanks, 1-0. Stengel was _ no youngster and sports had great fun telling how huffed and puffed to beat ball home. So, two days later, when Casey ninth, two out and the score tied at 4-4. a cheers—and jeers— greeted him. Stengel swung twice and it looked like “Casey at the Bat”, literally. But his next effort sent the ball into the right field stands for a homer. His writers he that dy trot around the bases was one of exaggerated leisure: That 10-Run Inning There was drama aplenty that famous seventh inning of the fourth game between the Chicago Cubs and the Athletics in 1929. The A’s had won two of the first three games. In the fourth, at Philadelphia, the Cubs rolled up an 8-0 lead going into the seventh and the most rabid Athletic fans had conceded the visitors victory and a tied series_ Al Simmons, first Athletic up. homered. Polite applause ac- knowledged his useless effort. But Foxx singled, an outfielder lost the next man’s fly, there were some more hits. Hack Wil son misjudged a fly which went for a three-run homer, and the score was suddenly 8-7. Coch- rane walked. Simmons’ bounder went over the third baseman’s head. Foxx singled and the crowd went wild as Cochrane tied the score. Jimmy Dykes’ double a little later in the inning was good for two more runs. There were other sudden, un- expected moments of drama. in Like the time Connie Mack sur- * prisingly stuck old Howard Ehmke in against the Cubs in the first 1929 game—and Ehmke not only beat them but set a world series strikeout record Or that 1920 series. when Bill Wambsganss turned in a play. unassisted, for against the Dodgers. Or Smith’s homer with the loaded for Cleveland in same series. Earl bases that DONT LET THAT GOAT FOOL You, M’LISS THE MUTT IS NAVY MASCOT By JOHN GROVER. AP Feature Service Writer ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 1.—Nav, 1940 football wagon is hitche Melissa's rising star. She’s just a dog, a homely tle schnauzer who loo! something you'd find in a cleaner bag after a big w She's got cherm t! ) the Navy gives her voodoo ered- it for licking the Army football team last year after a lean de- cade. : M’Liss came up the hard w Last year she was strictly noboc a muddy little mutt who w mascot for the scrub team Bill VIII, the handsome Na goat, was the varsity mascot and step- ped daintily around laundered pelt and before the big crow The serub team pooch did her mascotting in virtual oblivion before a handful of. ¥elatives, ever-faithful sweethearts and the half dozen other guys who at- tend “B” squad games because they're free. But Bill the goat was nobody's bargain in the mascot ptofession last year. Navy’s varsity grid- men advanced in reverse all sea- son. They were sunk under a five-game losing streak with the Army game coming up when Maj. E. E. (Swede) Larson in desperation reached down into second-team ranks for reinforce- ments. The graduates from the scrubs set up a holler for Melissa to graduate. too. They swore by their mutt. They told Coach Larson Bill VIII was only a fair weather pay. He just came out to strut on Saturdays. M’liss was regular. She turned out for practice rain or shine, dragging her lucky sweat sock. horns man, born at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, i51 years ago. , getting set They won their argument when they pointed out the scrubs hadn't lost a game with Melissa doing her stuff, while the ‘sity was down ignominously and repeatedly on the back of its lap under Bill's wishy-washy hexing. The gold braid relented, and Melissa was allowed to make the trip to the Army-Navy game as Beautiful Biil’s understudy. Bill minced out and took his bows for the newsreels with the Army mule. Melissa just stuck to the boys on the bench. The var- S sity adopted the scrub team ritual and every man rubbed her ears for luck before going out on the field. Sparked by a couple of Melis- sa’s ex-scrubs, they tore the Army apart for a 10-0 win, and Melissa just about owned the whole U.S. Navy. They gave her a Navy man’s most cherished honor, a blue blanket with the gold N- star that denotes a victory over Army. They issued Melissa her sweat sock when the squad got its uni- forms this year. She’s on the job at every practice, cocking a pracs ticed eye on the fresh beef out for the 1940 varsity: Today’s Horoscope Today's indications point to a highly sensuous temperament; though in some aspects it may be s3 toned that it is only exceed- ingly sensitive. The sympathies are keen and this, in females, eften induces ‘melancholy. There is a possibility of early bereave- ‘ment or less: of inheritance. Cleveland |the gatekeeper which the opposition committed . three errors, gave the U.S. Ma- &@™zation of softhel rine Corps ten a 5 to 4. victory Consumed practically three hour over the U.S. Army club in the ©! the evening. Service League softball game Siening and releasing played last night at Bayview « Park. The contest opened the new season for this sport. In the Civilian League, Pep- Plumbers forfeited their o the Sawyer Barbers due to lack of players Manager Roy Hamlin was unbal to put 10 men on the field game-time and after a grace pe- riod of 10 minutes had been lowed. With each league having time-limit for the games, the M. rine-Army canto was called the beginning of the sixth stanzg at 8:15 o'clock. Early, Army nice game for the struck out seven bad support proved his fall. In the last-half of the ning, the Army went into what fl might have been a rally but the Marines pulled themselves gether and checked the Soldiers ~ in time to save the game. Wiley’s "©Y ™ smash hit to center in this stanza ith men on third and ball session All managers pitcher, hurled Soldiers. He Marines but down- fifth in- nisses 2 LEGALS second sent two runners across the for the Soldiers. Score by innings: R. HE Marines 203 00— 5 7 4 Army 01102— 43 4 Ranger and Yelochan; Early and Tidewell. plate Z NOTICE OF ELECTION ‘CBSERVATIONS FROM THE BLEACHERS By OSCAR L. MILIAN or Neve ates Senate: Folks, if you want to meet up with some of Key West's “finest” sperts, just stroll out to Bayview Park some night during a game of softball! This writer last night ed the most inconsiderate ct that can be committed by sports fans. When the handfui of spectators attending the soft- ball games learned by way of an nouncement by the umpire-in- chief that the scheduled Pepp ‘ Sawyer fracas was forfeited to triple |the Barbers, they walked over and demande their dimes be returned to them These fans watched an excit- ing game played between the Army and Marines but they fig- ured one cont was not worth a “big” dime. Ye must see two games or we don’t pay” is the opinion of most fans. ~s For Clerk For Clerk of Record. of the Cirentt Court Wonder if these fans stop consider that the ball players themselves dig into their pockets to buy balls. bats, and other equipment for their en- tertainment? Not one cent what is taken in at the gate goes to any of the teams or their in- dividual playe: own gloves of Probably Joe Cleare, the husky ~ former High School footbali p er who handles the sale of ti out there, had quite a tough job on his hands when fans marched up to him demanding the return of their dimes. You see, there were only some twenty persons who paid to go in the stands and a line of about fifty was formed to meet up with the heavyweight Joe. Wonder how the big fel- low managed? Here are some of the comments heard among lady fans in the grandstands: “Well, if they decide to call off the game. I'll demand my dime back. I can play a game of bingo with that coin”. “Come on, play ball, or give us our ten. cent piece back”. “Hey. come on. we ain’t got all night. We made a dime to get in here. let's have a ball game”. One male fan yelled out, “Hev. Mr. Ump. what's the matter with you? Can you make those palookas play ball?” George Nodine, the fast infield- er who used to cover third base for the Elks’ softball ten back in °31, has returned to the game. playing as hard 2s ever. George was at short for the Army last night and while not showing up very good, he did not do so very bad, considering the length of time he has been inactive. | He i i qa Nestor Milian probably got the worst “break” of any one at the ball park last night. A bat flv off the hands of one of the Ma- rine players landed on the side of his head. The kid was not fi

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