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

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER THE ROAD TO SAAN LUN by Rita Aotlec Hanson YESTERDAY: Beautiful Lynn Britton, who has come to Mon- golia to visit at the court of a great princ2, 363: has been es- corted by Snerdock, a Lama, to the city of Pai S in a bea “ await the coming of friend, Temi Darin. Chapter Five Temu Arrives “T YOU slavee,” the ! at the pushing nd~ biting spo! e highly of the e answered uncertain- ing what # waS he ex-| irthdavs am ©. Dou e Court, born S ago, ) Cook humorist, born years ago. ii bro’ | pected her to know that she didn’t w did he speak of me— 5 frisnae St her.” Hi Chinese to the little maid. retorted grimly. I would have ‘it all about? b nd “Family range Welcome 7OUR brother stated in his let- ugh head of the could not control your t you are an extreme- girl “You people of the to tolerate a girl her own.” er mouth yes again if at last he were trembling. Thi hung round her clinging to a ng sea. He watched otic intensity. his ble, following ure. Hardly know- 1 took out the nything about keeping her effort. m the palace t is centuries er eyes on the token, | g—could anyone have 0 the box espe- inquire if a come from your as ne ie left after a word in Te be continued York City, for N. J. eton, born Ind., 60 years ago. wrie of New York, not- ‘or, born Germany ago. ncent M. Miles. Solicitor of SOFTBALLERS APPROVE GAME TIME CHANGE AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS RECEIVED SIX-TO-ONE FA- VORABLE VOTE: BARBERS WILL WITHDRAW Board of Managers of the Key West Amateur Softball Associa- tion last night gave the proposed amendment to Section 3 of Art- XI a_ favorable vote. One provision was deleted from the original amendment and another provision added. The amendment changes start- ing time of the first game from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and extends gth of each contest from an hour and fifteen minutes to an half. Practice time first and second iced to ten minutes. stricken from the cle six-to-one hour and a hour and a ha!f being allow- ter umpire-in-chief orders ‘play ball” should unavoidable circumstances delay the start of either contest. Added to the amendment is that first games on scheduled nights will be played alternately by Service and Civilian Leagues’ teams. The action of the manager board will be submitted to the Board of Commission for approv- al, which is expected to be given in time to institute the changes Monday of next week. Manager Theodore Albury of Sewyer’s Barbers announced that his team had decided to withdraw from the Civilian League if the decision of the commission in re- scheduling the Plumber-Barber opening contest was to be carried out. He was informed the matter had been taken out of the hands of the board of managers and that the commission’s decision was final. Shoyld the Barbers not play their scheduled game _ Friday night, the postponed contest of October 2 between Bombers and Merchants will be substituted. However, a week will be allowed before definite action will be tak- en on the withdrawal of the Bar- ber club. Treasurer Joe Cleare’s report of receipts and expenses revealed 2 balance in the treasury of $27.56. DOUBLEHEADER OF SOFTBALL TONIGHT VPS3 WILL ATTEMPT TO STRENGTHEN HOLD ON SERVICE LOOP LEAD VP53 are all “tuned up” their “dog-fight” with the CCC’s tonight in the first game of a softball twin bill at Bayview Park. beginning at 7:00 o'clock. Airmen are leading the Service League and will take the field in battle array for the express pur- pose of strengthening their hold on first place. Conservationists will be fighting to remove them- selves from the cellar. A victory for the Campers will shove them up close to second-place Army and drop the Marines’ into the “despised” bottom of the circuit Civilian League's nightcap con- test will bring together the Pep- s Plumbers and Bombers. The e will begin twenty minutes r the termination of the open- or, if the time-limit has been reached. at 8:30 o'clock. ISLAND CITY LEAGUE (Key West Baseball) Club— W. L. Pet Key West Conchs “Trojans Blue Sox *Pirates *C.G.C. Pandora U.S. Marines *Tie games. SERVICE LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— W.L. Pet. VP53 1 0 1.000 US. Army 2 1 667 U.S. Marines 1 2 .333 ccc 0 1 .000 CIVILIAN LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— W.L. Pet. Sawyer’s Barbers © 1.000 Pepper's Plumbers 0 1.000 NavSta 1 667 Bombers 1 .000 for | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS SHORTS By PEDRO AGUILAR Esmond “Tarzan” Albury con- tinues to smack the bail at a fast clip. The way the eling now it will him out of the 194) batting crown. His average to daie is .$32. So far fans have witnessed some excellent baseba!l playing by Wm. Cates, A. Aceve' Julius Villareal and Cheta Baker of the Conchs and tir hitting by Jaikie Carbone of Conchs. On the m Griffin, Robert Be Beker, of the lea Key \ nine, have each w a game.and have turned in some good h¥Fling performances. Marin: Soffen- berger has pitched stellar. 1 and Mortor, a teammate, haS come through with some safe- ties. timely Outstanding players of the Tro- jans have been Albury, Sterling, Wickers and Alonzo in the hitting department and Wickers in the Pitching department. Al. Rodriguez, J. Garcia and G. Garcia belted the ball hard for the Blue Sox. E. Ogden,: -now with the Pirates, J. Garcia and Castellano have performed in big league style on the field.. Diaz and Molina were the mainstays of-the pitching staff. M. Hernandez, M. Acevedo and C Hopkins, Acevedo, Al. Garcia have turned in geod work “ for the Pirates afield. Heavy hit- ting has been produced off the bats of M. Acevedo, M. Hernan- dez and Torres. Malgrat leads in the pitching performance. No one but Key West’s own Joe Navarro has been outstanding afield and at bat for C.G.C. Pan- dora. Domenech and _ Boring follow. McKay, new pitcher, has what it takes and will give the other clubs a tough fight for hon- ors. In conversation with a number of Trojan players last night, we learned they are of the opinion the Conchs are afraid to play them in the proposed series of games, because, they claim, the Conchs have no pitchers to hold the Trojens. “Baker, Bethel and Griffin cannot hold us”, they say. SPORTS CALENDAR SOFTBALL GAMES (Bayview Park Field, 7:00 p.m.) TCNIGHT First Game—CCC (Service League). Seeond Game—Bombers vs. Pepper's Plumbers (Civilian League). FRIDAY NIGHT Game—VP353_ vs. y (Service League). Second Game — NavSta_ vs. Sawyer’s Barbers (Civilian League). MONDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Marines, vis- iting, vs. CCC, home (Service League). Second Game—Merchants, vis- iting, vs. Pepper’s Plumbers, home (Civilian League). LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL - SOFTBALL Officials, managers and player: £ both sports will meet in Ci } Tuesday of next week. 7:30 m. Softball PEEPERS’ PARADISE (By Associated Press) CHANUTE, Kas.—A Chanute policeman arrested a couple of dow peepers. After getting them down to headquarters he found Chanute doesn’t have an ordinance against window peep- ing. vs. VP53 US. nd that is the reason Hamlin wants to get Sollenberger, for he will use Solly in every game against the Trojans. Why not just play the series just as we M are? We have only Wickers to pitch and we are satisfied. He wants to give us McKay and Joe Navarro, two players who will be away from Kev West most of the time. Whv don’t he give us Sol- lenberger. who is stationed here on land and can play game?” The writer is of the opinion that the best thing tc do is to get the P.-T. A. to sponsor the serie: and let each club secure the serv- iees of any player they can get. In this manner fans will find out hich team will be the cham- pions of 1940. How about getting together. Mgrs. Hamlin and Adams, and get the series started aS soon as possible? Every day people the world Over stop a moment...enjoy an ice-cold Coca-Cola...and go their way again with a happy after-sense of complete refresh- ment. The pause that refreshes is a real idea,—really refreshing. THE x every i / ESMOND ALBURY TOPS HITTERS OF BASEBALL LOOP POSSESSES OUTSTANDING 832 AVERAGE; ALONZO. AN- OTHER TROJAN, IN SECOND PLACE, .625 Esmond Albury, catcher-third baseman of the second-place Tro- jens of th nd City Baseball League, tops all other hitters with the outstanding average of .832 Albury strutted to the batter's box six times in-the two games (one a tie with the Pirates) his club has played to date, and came up with safeties, scoring four run Ano! five er Trojan, outfielder camped in second spot of in midable Froauced five hits at the plate, also scor- t average He of the CGC. p third place 00. three out of 500 or over follow Player— Lastres. KWC Ibury. Trojans 6 Alonzo, Trojans 8 Boring, Pandora 5 Joe Nrro. Pandora 7 J. Carell, KWC _ 11 3 Al. Rod’guez, KWC 8 0 Griffin. KWC _4 0 RH Ave. AB 10 4 4 0 3 Gonzalez. KWC Wickers, Trojans Muth, Marines Other Records layers are tied for stolen n and Armando with three. to first have en issued Al. Acevedo and Sal- z and Bethel lead 1 Ss. each walk- ck to the dugout four times ith their bats on their shoul- ders. Topping the runs-batted-in de- partment are E. Alubry, W. Cates. M. Hernandez. F. Lopez, Morter and Griffin. three each. PAUSE THAT REFRE®? BASEBALL WILL CHANGE SCENE TO BOULEVARD SITE OFFER MADE MANAGERS LAST NIGHT BY SGT. NO- .; DINE, REPRESENTING ARMY ** COMMANDING OFFICER An offer by the the local Army Barracks Sgt. George Ne of government tello Towers for was enthu: baseball field accepted at a mee League Col. Pe was that the needed for grandstands be soon as poss ng officer required area a proval. Arrang last night for thi fu led today gers and ple f action since the Island City months ago. composing < diamon subr Floor Lamp ing efficiency. fit any decorative scheme. Equipped with 10-inch opal the candle lights to illumi- nate. Attractive. heavy 95c Down $1.00 Per Month THREE-DAY FREE TRIAL IN YOUR HOME The Key West Elecinic Company BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA CO. BY PHONE 414 Ask For FREE Demonstration Office Department, on, born at Marion, Va., ago. John K. 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