The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1941, Page 3

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1941 MEMORY OF THE MOON NIL’s \t2taosss by Jeanne Bowman YESTERDAY: At the barbe- cue Constance tealizes that she is not the only woman who feels attracted to Peter. Later she visits Mrs. MacKelvey's dairy farm and decides that she can succeed, too. Chapter 13 From Dream To Reality EDRO wasn’t around when Constance reached El! Cabrillo, but Meg came down to say he’d be there the first thing in the morning to take her for a tour of} the ranch. “He'll need respite,” she added moodily, “The doctor cracked Big Pete’s shell today, and the divil himself would run for hiding. You'd be thinking he’d grown a love for that cast, the way he took on. | “That and other things is both-| erin’ him,” she concluded. Constance knew, and felt a twinge of sympathy for Peter} Taylor, senior. But after all, she reasoned, the Cabrillos had owned the land first. That night the weacher changed, and when Pedro rode up with the horse the next morn- ing, the sky was overcast, the hills blue with the promise of Tain. “I want to get back in time to make the six o'clock cut of Beach- Constance told him, s 2” asked Pedro, and Constance thought he appeared startled. “I took only three days’ leave; Tl be three or four days overdue as it is.” And having told him this much, she told him of her work. For a long time afterwards he rode in silence and then he turned to her and smiled. “Well, now it’s} up to El Cabrillo.” “What is up to the ranch?” she asked. “Wait,” he suggested. Riding out, winds carrying the| dead scents of late autumn, damp on her cheeks, Constance found Taylor quiet, thoughtful. At each point of interest he reined in to give her a detailed report of its relation to the life of the ranch — “this stream never runs dry—” and—“here is a stand of timber which will give El Ca- brillo firewood for the whole of ,its existence, if it is cut over properly.” Here was the family orchard and here the kitchen garden. Here, they dismounted, was the dug-out, a great cavern, the walls lined with crocks and jars of canned fruit, the floors with bas- kets of potatoes and onions, ap- ples and squash. “We don’t have to bu rch here,” he offered, as they . unt- ed again» “El Cabrillo.is: almost self-supporting.” “Pedro,” cried Constance, “you are the most astonishing person. You haven't said anything against the ranch. You are stressing its selling points as I would stress them to a prospective buyer .. . why, Pedro. why?” Taylor's glance barely flecked Constance, but she was stirred by the intense emotion she saw visi- ble in his face. “Perhaps,’’ he said, “I am proud of its response to good management and want you to appreciate it; perhaps I am putting it through its paces to show it off, and perhaps—” “Yes, go on; perhaps what?” ‘He turned in his saddle to look | directly’ at ner. “Perhaps I want nothing in this world that is not mine by divine right.” Constance stared at Pancho be- cause she could not meet Pedro's eyes. What had he meant? There were two interpretations. He might mean he was playing fair in his attempts to buy the place, regardless of his silence on the railroad right of way. And — “don’t be an idiot” warned her mind, but her heart's reasoning thought—“he might want me to come back.” Don Juan? "THAT though was pleasing They rode up a cahon where the manzanita was scarlet, but no more ruddy than the cheeks of Sefiorita Conchita Cabrillo. And Pancho’s hoofs on the rock of the mountain trail kept time to the quickened beat of the sefiorita's heart Pedro took Constance to a spot high on the seeond range, above the timber line, an area covered with great boulders. On one side were blue forests and mountains, their snowy peaks vivid against the dull sky. On the! other were the rolling hills of El Cabrillo, dotted with cattle: with groves of trees, and beyond the next range the Pacifie, dull gray, except where the sun, try- ing to filter through the clouds, lay a s the wate Pedro hi the saddle, movement ped Constance from en with one swift ifted ‘er to a high were giving harged. has been a world, complete confessed, and jumped beside her ou ” she voices un- low with the scent of the pines, Constance won- ey were stronger than g slate gray path on} she. If she could fight them in a gale, or if she wouldn’t want to fight. t The throwback, Old Michael Mahoney, in skirts. All right, she'd bargain. She’d bargain El Cabrillo, security, everything she’d thought vital for a gypsy life with this man, “Michael,” he began again. The moment passed.and, even the atmosphere changed! The* clouds deepened to a dull, brown- ish black and the wind grew in fury. Pedro looked at the sky. “We'd better get out of here if we don’t to be caught in a storm,” he said. “Wait ... not like that... Michael, you don’t understand—” For Constance had slid down the rock, mounted and was riding away. As she rode her anger mounted. What did he think he was doing, playing a Don Juan game? Let him try that on his red-headed ranch girls who had time for silly flirtations, not on a business girl like herself. And then her anger turned in- ward, anger at herself for lower- ing her guard, for heing so sus- ceptible... for... oh, she might as well be honest with herself... for wanting to bargain her future away; to exchange E] Cabrillo-for the transient joy of a moment. “Fool!” she stormed, and leaned forward to pat Pancho who'd quirked a backward ear at the word. “I didn’t mean you, Pancho ...and I’m going to miss you, but I’m coming back. I’m coming back if I have to tob\a bank sin- gle-handed!’? Pedro's’ horsé was pounding close behind her., It was all right, she was on guard now. She was Michael Mahoney’s offspring. She'd laugh at him. She’d never let him know. ‘Goodby, Little Michael’ ‘HE rain started, fell in sheets, and when they reined in be- | fore the ranch house, Juliano and a boy ran for the horses and Meg and Dolores came out with every kind of coat and umbrella. Constance faced Pedro under the dripping willows. “Goodby,” she said, extending her hand, “and thank you so much for your kindness these few days, I won't forget.” Pedro looked at Dolores and Meg and gave up, defeated, he even turned brick red as Meg be- gan: “For the sake of me ears, Petey-boy, go call that blond fluff. Ivery tin minute she’s ringin’ with —‘Is Mr. Taylor goin’ to the dance tonight?’ Faith, I told her, Mister Taylor's in bed with a mendin’ leg and how will he dance on that—” Meg followed Constance in and talked while she packed. She sent Dolores for hot tea and toast, and at Tast, when the rafich cat was ready, took her in strong arms. “T’ve a feelin’ in me bones that you're comin’ back,” she said, “Big Pete feels the same. He says no Michael Mahoney could resist it. Chucklin’ the old divil is at watchin’ you get in above your ears. Says he’s always wanted to watch a Mahoney whipped. But I says to him, I says, ‘look out for- yoursilf, Peter, or this young Michael will be bestin’ you.’” “Meg,” cried Constance, “you +. you believe in me. You're part of the Taylor household, and yet you're betting on me?” Meg laughed until she shook, o on with you, it’s blind ye are in both ears. I’m bettin’ on ye both. Now, God speed you and keep ye out of them airships.” The skies of El Cabrillo wept when Constance left, She sat be- side the ranch boy who was driv= ing, conscious of Juliano in his Sunday best, behind, and refused to look back. To look back would mean to see the manager's house. She looked instead at the turbu- lent ocean, at smashing waves rolling i sly in, Bethea. dreary, the de- pot chill. and ugly, and even Juliano’s ‘ceremonious attention, seeing she was eomfortably seat- ed in the train; that the conduc- tor, brakesman and porter appre- ciated her “importance, couldn’t lift the despair settling over her. “God go with you,” Juliano said in Spanish as the conductor warned him they were pulling out, and he placed an envelope in her hands. She thought nothing of it then, but sat watching the landscape blur past the rain streaked win- dows. Wondering if she had been a fool to return to El Cabrillo. She had loved it as a dream, now she loved it as a reality. And what right had she to refuse to sell if neant El Cabrillo would go “to eed” as the Cabrillos had “gone |to seed |, And if she didn’t agree to sell- jing. how and where would she | raise the money to revive it? Money! She wondered if it had been _a bill Juliano had handed her. The envelope had the ranch name stamped on the corner, _Anxiously she ripped it open. The signature seemed to Pp |from the page—Pedro. And then she read the message — “Goodby, |little Michael. The things men {would say with their hearts are | be by whe pgs it the js jit e ilight was darker te crumpled ned a cheek strong |» ‘ Te be continued SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY. ‘Most Valuabl Player Says Redlegs _THE KEY W Will Take Flag Again ‘Family Man Frank Me OD DD IS OLS S| Cormick Confident He, “Will Do Better This Season By FRED BROWNING AP Feature Service Sports Writer , NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Frank McCormick would have know, right off, he’s no alibi guy. | In the first place have anything to alibi—certainly not the performance that won him the National League’s “most valuable player” award. But the big Cincinnati first sacker believes that maybe—just maybe, mind you—he wasn’t at his best when he rang up a .309 batting average and drove in 127 runs for the world champions in 1940. He had a wisdom tooth then that he doesn’t have now. With- out it he may be a better ball- player. Let Frank explain: “I had a funny crick in my you | he doesn’t BROTHERLY TIES (By Awsociated Press) | BILLINGS, Mont, & | —They aren't twins but those bowling Bowman brothers of Billings certainly take after each other on the maple al- leys. Ross bowled three consecu- tive 213 games. Then Brother Cliff rolled three of the same scores within a week. Last year, at the end of a season of 87 games, their to- tal score was the same. This year, after 49 games, their total pins added to 8,956 each. Deciding to bow! off the tie. each trundied a 236 and each had to strike out to achieve that figure. PMI LI LD LI LD SI DP SE SOFTBALL CHAMPS BATTLE SAWYERS AT PARK TONIGHT PEPPERS EXPECTED TO PUT | STRONGEST PLAYERS ON back early last season that both-| ered me before the sun got hot. |About the same time I went into a batting slump that pulled me down to about .200. I think may- be the two things went together. Loses A Tooth “The pain came back this win- ter. When I went to Cincinnati for a routine check-up and X-rays didn’t show anything wrong with my back, the doctors decided an impacted wisdom tooth might be doing the damage”. So the tooth came out and Frank came back to wait for spring training. Whether he’s go- ing to improve on last year’s per- jformance remains to be seen but— “If I can bang in one more run and add one more point to that batting average I'll consider it a pretty good year”. You get the idea, talking to Mc- Cormick, that he’s really pretty ,confident of having a better year. It’s his fourth—“I’m a_ senior now”—in the majors and he feels that his experience and added confidence will pay dividends. Matter of fact, Frank thinks the Cincinnati club as a whole is going to be a greatly improved team, more so than any other in the league. He seems especially tickled over the club’s acquisition of Monte Pearson and Jimimy Glea- son. He thinks he'll be playing on another pennant-winner. Behind the Reds, Frank pre- dicts, will be Brooklyn, the Cubs, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, in that order. Out Of Bounds Who'll the Reds face in the se- ries? “That”, says the grinning Mc- Cormick, “is a question outside my league. There are too many jteams to worry about in the Na- tienal”. The 27-year-old clouter is quite ja family man. Likes to do odd jobs around his modest Queens apartment when his wife is busy with the baby. Just to prove it he brought out a pan of peas he had just shelled. But he’s not out to add a Mr. o his “most ignation. He c as a cheerful dish- washer. “{'ve done ’em a time or two— but under protest SPORTS CALENDAR BASKETBALL (High School Gym, 7:30 p. m.) TONIGHT First Game—U.S. Marines vs. & Game—High School vs *C.G.C. Pandora. WEDNESDAY NIGHT Game—Sound School vs Pandora. nd Game s Club. FRIDAY NIGHT Gai —U.S. Army US. Army vs. Second Game—C.G.C. Pan wions Club. SOFTBALL (Bayview Park. 8:00 p. m.) TONIGHT (Benefit Infantile Paralysis Fund Pepper's Plumbers vs Sawyer Barbers. | FIELD FOR THIRD GAME OF SOFTBALL BENEFIT SERIES Softball champions of West, Pepper's Plumbers, battle the strong Sawyer’s Bar- bers tonight at Bayview Park in the third game of the infantile \paralysis benefit series. Roy Hamlin, Pepper manager, announced late last week he would put his first-string players jon the field tonight. Plumbers used a makeshift lineup Thurs- | day night to defeat NavStas, 13 to 10. “T expect to have captain-sec- jond baseman William Cates, jshortstop Armando Acevedo and ithird baseman Jackie Carbonell Key will for infield duty against the Bar- | bers”, Mr. Hamlin said. “Nor- man Artman will shift to first base and Mickey Ubieta will be on the mound. Gene Torres will handle Ubieta’s slants. “With all my star players bat- | tling the Sawyers tonight, I can’t see how we'll lose” . On the other hand, the Hair- Cutters are confident they'll down the champs. “At any rate”, one of the Barber regulars predicts, “they'll know they’ve been in a fight”. Sawyers claim the city’s heav- iest slugger in first baseman Clayton Sterling and Juanie Na- varro is rated the niftiest fielding shortstop produced here in recent years. Kermit Kerr, leftfielder, and Esi.ond Albury, third sack- er, combine with Sterling to form a “one-two-three” combination feared by pitchers. The clubs are practically even- ly-matched and should give fans an excellent exhibition of the sport. Plumbers have the edge in the pitching department but Walker and Castro should offset this advantage if they are in top form. Peppers have a trio of moundsmen in Clarence Gates, Norman Artmar. and Ubieta, who will be making his first appear- ance as a Key West twirter. Gates, leading pitcher last year, was nt to the showers by the Nav- Thursday night with a three- ing, nine-hit, 10-run barrage. rtman, who relieved him, held he Station players to one hit the remaining six frames. Probable batteries will be Ubieta and Torres for the Pep- pers and N. Castro and Hopkins for the Barbers. The game will get under way at 8:00 o’elock. 1941 -DIAMOND DUELS (Awsociated Press Featare Service) Don Kolloway. a Chicago boy. may beat out Jimmy Webb for White Sox s nd Erie McNair, a veteran, and Dario Lodigiani, acquired in a trade with the A’s, are also contenders but it looks like a Kolloway- Webb duel loway from Ok ma City in the Texas league. where he had a fime seas: He's se base jo EST CITIZEN CLASSIFIED COLUMN Advertisers should give their, street address as well as their! telephone number if they desire! results, | Payment for classified adver- | tisements is invariably in ad-! jvanee, but regular advertisers! with ledger accounts may have their advertisements charged. | Advertisements under this head ' will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of one-eent (1c) a word for each insertion, but the mini-| mum for the first insertion in! every instance is twenty-five! cents (25¢e). | 1 LOST { aiecths } LOST—Saturday evening. 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PAGE THREE, LITTLE BOY BLUE OF YALE FAME | Newspapers Acclaimed Booth’s Feat Against Army SAYS GRID HEADLINES AIDED HIM oe ssamaveme By LOU BLACK, AP Feature Service Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 3.— ‘The little ‘fellow in the Blue of Yala made the nation’s headlines gver,a decade ago by darting through slits of daylight to up- set a favored Army football team. The press imm ely dubbed Albie Booth Yale’s “Little Boy Blue’ ’and printed the game’s re- sults as “Booth 21, Army 13”. That was in October, 1929. Despite his 144 pounds and five feet, seven inches in_ height, Booth all over the country’s sports pages for the next three years as a football, basketball and baseball hero, Then he re- ceived his degree, amid sighs of relief from Eli athletic foes, and bounced right out into the mid- dle of the depression. “Those headlin proved in- valuable to me and I certainly owe to them much of any suc- cess I've had”, says the local boy who has made good as a business man in his tewn town. Choice Of Jobs “Because of those headlines, I had my choice of jobs right at thé depression’s height”, Albie ex- plains. “So you cah see what I mean, Don’t let anybody tell you, and there are some who'll try, that seeing your name in print in big letters does more harm than good. I have proof to the contrary”. After serving a: istant foot- ball coach at Yale and New York University Booth joined an ice cream company here’ in 1934 started at the bottom and now is a district sales manager. xcited about a business career but am still very much in- terested in coaching”, said Booth. Now some pounds heavier, Albie satisfies an urge to partici- pate in athletics by officiating at footbal, land basketball contests. Not baseball—‘“we're too busy then”. Football trends today compar- ed with the game Booth played? “I don’t think there too much difference”, Albie says, ‘“I've noticed more passing and the development of -the quick kick, but essentially ,that’s about all”. While Booth admits disappoint- ment over Yale’s gridiron mis- fortunes the past two seasons— the 1940 campaign was the worst in Eli football history—he refus- ed to become alarmed. “Tf that’s the way Yale wants it, it’s all right. Eventually, though, a flock of athletes will show up and the school will be up on top again”. is | subscribe to The Citizen—20e ; weekly. eeeccececece . STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE‘ MILLS AT ALL GROCERS Peeevoccccscccseeesenees pPaLace VICTOR McLAGLEN in DIAMOND FRONTIER also COMEDY AND NEWS Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving All Points On Florida Keys Between Miami and Key West Following Schedule Effective June 15th: Express Schedale: (NO _STOPS R WES' LEAVES KEY CEPT SUNDAYS) A‘ Miami at 12:00 o’clock Arrives at Midnight, LEAVES MIAMI SUNDAYS) AT OUTE) AILY (EX- 6:00 P. M. DAILY (EXCEPT 12.00 o'clock Mid- night and arrives at Key West at 6:00 . o'clock A. 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