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

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1941 ALONG CAME CINDERELLA Bv VIVIEN GREY PAGE THREE 14-0, but was' trailing at halftime, \6-7, a& forward Rosam single- FORM WALL , | handedly wiped out the Convent H 0 OP ices. Again in the third the “play ; CAY ALTERS 3t 1 4 suit” girls were on the short end . ib 9 ae, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN’ She Hs And Won The Rest For Herself of the score, 8-9, but rallied in the (final quarter to swish the net for | 1 MVAD < 4 | Sixt points to three for the “bloom- The Love Story Of A Modern Girl | Who Fought Herself To Win Happiness Chapter One Picnic HE topless old jalopy creaked to a shivering, uncertain stop. Its narrow tires and high crate-like body, and the gasping sputtering pro- tests of its engine were honest evidence of age. They mocked the eternal spring of its light green enamel, The gir} who jumped out, im- patient of old doors with uncer- tain hardware, was part and par- cel of that light vivacious green. The legs she thrust over the door, bare to the knees where navy blue slacks were rolled, were tanned and shapely. She made safe landing on a pair of battered old white pumps with extremely “Hurry up! That’s her second name. Can’t wait for anything.” Big, awkward Joe Hulse, wres- tling with a huge picnic basket, grinned at.her appreciatively and a trace possessively. He was jsngn of the easy symmetry of lithe body and the blossomy prettiness of her face. She was pert and smart in her inexpen- sive clothes. There was a full- blown, oddly contradictory, note of lushness about her- blonde slimness. “Can't even wait and give a fellow a chance to be polite,” Joe went on, pride running like a bright thread through the pattern of his plaint. . “Wouldn't be knocking yourself out, Joe?” The girl’s voice fitted her — smooth, colorful, an unex- \pectedly rich note in it. Joe, with another fellow and his girl, were unpacking the pic- nie things from the old car that gave up its burden with an air of surprise that its small, high square body could have held so much. The girl was looking at the river, her Jarge brown eyes glow- ing, her lips, that wouldn’t have needed the exaggeration of lip- stick, parted slightly. “Oh, it’s beautiful,” she said unmindful of the clatter of prac- tical activity back of her. “Shut up in the city you forget there are such things as grass and trees and rivers and air and flowers and birds!” “Chow!” called the other girl, who was putting a substantial steak in a broiler while the two boys built a fire. “We eat first and dream after!” “Well said, my hearty!” Bill Stark thoroughly approved every- ving dark diminuitive Katie Con- did or said. And Katie felt ve way about Bill, all ex- » tattoo on his right arm lA just below the elbow that had a scroll of flowers entwined with a heart and read: “Mabel, June 20, 1937.” “If you’d only had sense enough to have it put where it wouldn’t show so,” Katie used to say, her small chin held high, refusing to look at the offensive thing. “Ma- be}! I bet she had buck teeth and knock knees and softening of the brain!” “Now, honey,” Bill would say when Katie was in one of those moods. “You know I'd cut my right arm off for you. Gosh every guy has a girl or so before he finds the right one!” “Yeah! But they aren’t all saps enough to have their names writ- ten in their skin! Why that'll birthmark your kids, see if it doesn’t! And a fine window washer you’d make with your right arm gone!” Bill had turned window washer for a big firm that did most of the high office buildings in New York, after leaving the navy. The Mabel tattod was a hangover of one of his leaves in a southern port. Thick steak was sizzling in the broiler Joe’s big hands were ma- neuvering expertly. Katie was getting ready to toast, and Bill was attending to the large coffee pot. The blonde girl in blue slacks was spreading a table cloth, lay- ing out paper plates and napkins, what passed for silver, and put- ting a gay wild flower at éach place. She moved absently about her activities, still intent on the beauty around her. The voices of her companions brought her back to awareness of her surround- ings. “Suppose he’s going to chase us?” Joe was asking. “I don’t like the look in his eye,” was Katie’s comment. “Want me to change it for you, kid?” Bill asked. Joe Takes Charge YOUNG man was walking toward them down the slight He was in sport things, ex- ive sport things and had an air of assurance authority and well bei It was immediately evident to the four picnickers that he represented a world widely separated from their own —a world of wealth and luxury and privilege, “Hiyu! Putting heat to the groceries for an outdoor féed,” experimentally from Joe as he grinned up over his steak, “Yes, I see.” He was close enough for them to see his clothes were immaculate, that he was as tanned as they but with a subtle slo pi difference, A hand in which he ! carried a stick, while not soft looking, was exceedingly well kept. “We wouldn’t be trespassing?” Bill ventured and then with in- spiration he turned to the girls. “Meet the ladies! The little one there doing a job with the toast is Katie Connor. Watch out for her tongue. She isn’t Irish for nothingf And the tall blonde there on vacation from the movies. is Lovely Daye, believe it or not!” The youth ackowledged Katie briefly and then passed on to the other girl with every appearance of having stopped at a hurdle. “He means,” Lovely straight- ened from her table setting and turned the full brilliance of her dazzling smile on the young man, “that’s my name—Lovely Daye.” “T can’t believe it,” the stranger said, “I'm Roger Cosgrave.” “How-do-yu-do, Mr. Cosgrave? And that’s Joe Hulse and Bill Stark.” Lovely blithely indicated the two young men and though Cosgrave had not taken his eyes from Lovely’s vivid face, Joe took the conversation in hand. “Have some chow with us? Know who owns this patch of greensward? Hope they won't ob- ject to our moving in on some of their fresh air.” Cosgrave laughed faintly, “Well, we own the land. I had come down to ask you to find some other place to picnic, You see some of the women at the house were alarmed by the fire. It’s been so dry this summer. But please stay and have your party out. I'll tell them at the house you’re_ remarkably careful peo- ple.” He glanced at Joe momen- tarily. Then his eyes were black meeting Lovely’s, bringing a faint ee beautiful flush to her tanned Skin. “Sure!” from Bill. “We'll put out all the fire and leave the place clean. You know us, boy! We're not the average picnicker from New York. No, sir! We're high class we are—look at them dames! Having chow with us?” “Wish I could,” there was no doubt about his sincerity. “But I have guests at the house.” “Sorry!” Joe said easily and as ougwe turned, his last glance fe vely, Joe gestured him on speedily. When he was out of hearing: “Leave it to me, broth- er,” he said. “It was that invita- tion to feed that pt him. Polite- ness sure pays. If I hadn’t thought of that pretty little stunt we’d be packing out baskets now and pouring our drinking water on | that firel” He expanded pleasant- ly and innocently under his own e glanced at Lovely, her dark eyes bright with amusement. “Some people are so blind they need a tin cup and a cane!” she taunted. “What'd’yu mean?” Joe asked indignantly. “I did it, didn’t 1?” Joe’s vanity was impregnable be- cause he never recognized. it as vanity. | “You, heart of my heart and ten| other guys! It was Lovely did it,| if I must bruise your vanity. Scored again, tall blonde andj beautiful.” That last to Lovely. “Why you waste yourself on that unappreciative Joe!” | “Hey! Lay off, will you?” from Bill. “I always get the jitters| when I see a couple-a smart dames ganging up on some square guy.” | “Sweetie pie,” Katie soothed| him. “Mama’s little jitter bug.” “Heat's been put to the gro-| ceries, boys and girls, and how!’| Joe was putting thick slabs of| paki? broiled steak that had) een buttered and salted the min-| ute it came off the embers, on Pieces of toast. He never found it difficult to concentrate on food. | “Here,” he said to Katie who| still had not subdued the devil in her dark eyes, “sink your ivories }in that and shi jturning to Lovel i “Yours angel,” t aid. “Eat it up. It'll nut hair an vaur chast” “And after I get it what'll I do with it?” Lovely asked sweetly. “Look like a mama bear, dar- ling!” from Katie. “Not that it would mean a thing to Joe. You could have horns, a set of ivory eyes and a pair of glass teeth and Joe’d be too blind to see it.” Lovely caught all of Katie’s meaning. She knew Katie with that subtle, psychi¢ Irish sense had picked something out of the air while Cosgrave stood looking at her. Not that Katie was trying to make trouble. But she'd al- ways insisted Lovely was too good for Joe. “With Bill and me,” Katie had said time and again, “we're just dead level. I'm pretty but I haven’t got much brain. I've got to let Bill do the thinking for us. But you—you’re different. You’re not just pretty. You’re beautiful. You've got the kind of looks that makes every girl that sees you reach for her lipstick. And you’ve got brain, when you want to use it. But you're not using it when you let a bird like Joe bog you down.” Joe was looking at Lovely, mo- tarily anxiety in his eyes. But n she smiled at him in the old y he was confident again. Evan 2 little >waggering. Joe was Then Roger’s eyes were meeting Lovely’s. comfortable. He never thought much beyond the moment. You could handle a guy like that. Make a fool of him if you wanted to, Not that Lovely wanted to. Another World AT the big house that looked down across its well kept lawns to the Hudson River, Roger Cosgrave rejoined the frup on the terrace with their fore dinner cocktails. “Well, darling, did them on their way?” There was a pleasant note of cultivation and fection in his mother’s voice. Roger's reply came after a mo- ment’s hesitation. “No, Mother, I didn’t. They seemed really quite nice and promised to be careful. I thought it wouldn’t hurt to let them fin- ish their party. After all, they can’t damage that woodland.” Emily Perry looked up at him and smiled. “Getting soft, Roger?” she asked. “No,” slowly from Sey bal wouldn’t quite say that. But it must be tough for the poor devils shut up im thé city all week to | find a little breathing spot to pic- | nic in, and then be chased away.” Te be continued CONCHS OUTSCORED PONCE GROUP ‘Nothing Wrong Now , Grafton DAY IN SECOND GAME OF SERIES HERE TO GAIN SU: PREMACY Displaying a complete reversal of form, Key West Conchs crush- ed Ponce de Leon Cavaliers 31-14 Saturday night in the final of a two-game interscholastie basket- ‘ball series here. By virtue of its victory in the rubber contest, Key West gained supremacy over the Ponce varsity, two to one. The low score recored by the Cavaliers testified to the effec- uveness of the Conchs’ man-to- man defense. Never sinking more than six points in any single quarter, the visitors were held to a mere eight-point total in the} first-half and only six in the last | half. They were blanked in the, fourth period, suffering the same fate experienced by the locals in the opener of the series here. Profiting by their mistakes Fri- day night, the Key West guards. jand forwards baffled the upstate” cagers by constantly shifting po- sitions while on the offensive. In the previous game, Ponce corner- ed the forwards in end zones and retrieved the ball as the guarls attempted long shots that. were wide of their mark. DeWitt Roberts and Anthony | McMahon paced the Conchs in scoring, each racking up ten points. John Menendez, seven, | and Roberts Smith, four, played a great floor game. Cavalier | guard Huguelet netted half of his club’s total score. The home- town boys committed eight per- sonal fouls to nine for the visi- tors and averaged 41.7 in penalty | shooting to 36.4 for the Cavaliers. Box score: Key West (31) Player— FG FT McMahon 2-3 Saunders 0- Roberts 0- Smith 0- Menendez 3- Arnold. 0- Colgate 0- Hamlin 0- Rosam 0- 0 | Totals— 13 5-12 Ponce de Leon (14) | Player— Montague McCormick Honstoun (Collins | Byrd Price Huguelet TP 10 0} ecoontnucoe Sl cocoa ie] Starmann Thue Goeser ecowrcoroaeco enrcosrccocoendy er” basketeers. ©. Ramos, who played a great game Friday night, tied School player Rosam for scoring honors, éight each, The usual pacesetter, Wilma Sellers, was held to a lone field goal and two free shots, Los- ers committed nine technical and séven personal fouls against seven-six for the victors. Box score: Convent (14) FG FT % 1s 4- 0- 0- 0-0 0- 0 Totals— 4 6-17 High School (12) Player— FG FT Roberts 0- Cruz 0- Mirai 0. . Doughtry , Doughtry Solano Rosam Sellers Drudge Riggs Player— Olga Ramos - Garcia O, Ramos - K. Parks Gato _ D. Parks Sullivan wl occorwmocoseecc cotacoecoon Totels— Score by quartors: Convent 4 High School 0 Official: John Offutt. TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR »& BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS BOXING KEY WEST ARENA Simonton and Front Streets Tomorrow Night YUCATAN KID (No. 2 Contender for Light- 4 weight Title) FELIX GONZALEZ Semi-Final—8 Rounds Havana-Key West Yacht Race Tops Events Of Week SPORTS CALENDAR BASKETBALL (High School Gym, 7:30 p. m.) TONIGHT First Game—U.S. Army vs. U.S. Marines. Second Game—High School vs. | VP33. Basketball, Golf, Boxing M°ST COUN EOS | BOXING And’ Wrestling Other Sports Active; Bear At (Key West Arena, 8:30 p. m.) Carbonell Arena (iy Associated Presa) NEW YORK, March 3.—Leslie, Totals MacMitchell, young New York! Seore by quarters: | University miler who promises to Key West 6 14 2 31) ce de Leon group com- be a master in the event before Ponce de Leon 3.8 14«414 weekend for the he’s through, once was threaten-| Officials: Luce an! Woodson. series with Key West'ed with paralysis of his legs. | sss Friday and Saturday re-| He piceeren) ae attack of digh- CONVENT DEFEATED HIGH ed home yesterday morning. theria when he was seven years | SCHOOL TO EVEN SERIES 5 old and it was feared his legs’ Convent of Mary Immaculate group were eleven mem- tight be paralyzed after a long sextette upset the favored High f the varsity squad, Coach 4-11 14 BILLY BREED LOVE 148 Ibs. al Srcoucesogon | | | | MAINLAND CAGERS RUN UP TOTAL OF 233 POINTS TO 190; LEAVE FOR TOUR- NEY COMNG THURSDAY LEFT SUNDAY The Pon ng here basketb: Sonchs | | General Admission 55¢ and 10c tax ! Reserved Seats $1.10 Key varsity Conchs, high West 2 players out- scored t ate to 190 in the OTTAWA.—A group of Amer- ican sports writers voted Jean) Paul Desloges, football and hoc- ked star of this city, as the “most courageous athlete” of 1940. He was ir wounded while over England with the anadian r Force. opponent interscholastic TOMORROW NIGHT Second card of year, featuring Yucaian Kid, outstanding light- weight in Florida rings, and Felix Gonzalez, Key West welterweight. Supporting bouts. Corner Simon- ton and Front streets. WRESTLID (Key West Arena, 8:30 p. m.) FRIDAY NIGHT los Bill Ludwig of Syracuse, N. Y., ;, vs. 300-pound Russian bear. Sup- porting matches. Corner Front ., and Simonton streets. YACHT RACE SATURDAY Craft competing in Key West Yacht Race rive off Fort Taylor orice 1 1 Lic Supper-pa and trophy presen- : t 1 tatic a Chica Beach Clut 2 i of First-Half Im eve season j Conchs a corded i For Reservations Phone 9169 LOTS OF PARKING SPACE Box Office Open All Day Tuesday public school | the quarter, | eae isitors were entertained y and Saturday re conducted on trips to main points ‘riday afternoon and Most of the uartered at the resi- ch Johnny Offutt local students stay in bed. School club, 14-12, in the prelim- Gramley, Manager Dan- SSCL ADSI epee inary fight Saturday night. As | Hanford, Scorekeeper Rose- DUC’ AN a result, the series between the Hubbell and father, and| KY CAN'T GOLF oe capi i pitriatherne 1 a ee cia coteinttetlaaten eacl winni an iD oO rel s of players and (By Asaoeiated Press) games. HAVANA, March 3:~Ducky CMI held the Medwick must forget about golfjcagers scoreless in until the baseball season ends. | Leo Durocher, Brooklyn Dodger! applying only to his clouting out- manager, issued a special order! fielder. Featured by the finish of the Havana-Key West Yacht Race Saturday morning, a varied sports program will entertain Key West- ers and visitors this week. Widely-known from every part of the country will cross the finish line at Fort Taylor sometime Saturday morn- ing and Governor Spessard L. Hoitand’s representative will present the winner with the Gov- ernro’s Trophy at a reception that night Boxing And Wrestling Yugatan Kid, rated No the “contenders tor Ch Lew Jenkins’ lightweight B Felix G lez the featured 2@-round batt at Cec Carbonell’s monfen and Front Street tomorrow night A 300-pound Russian bear gies with “bad man wig of nt-Airmen fight late prob- ary Immac 1 sextett will 5 he deci weit series in a preliminary affair Wednesday night. Two league teams will perform in the CMI ended the pub- Is ame win High sailing yachts STANDINGS Island City Basketball League (Second-Half) w. 5 t L. Con- opening battle 4 4 4 4 i Friday Dependable Performance day after day is what makes a refrigerator thrifty and com venient—and you get it in a GE! Low Operating Cot means savings month after msoath—and you gee it in « GE! Long Lite means a lasting invesement—and you get it in a G-Et Of course you also get the size aed the features you want is « G-E-aod sow at lowe prices is history. mers 122” THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC CO. Golf Tournament (Country Club, Stock Island) ALL THIS WEEK Fight Prices Drop Basketbal Play in the Islar sSonday : “ccs | CASA MARINA eve: SARLORS SHUTOUT oe ae “<<! NEGRO NINE, 14-0 <=: — Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY t v City Basket- 7 1B6-41..n0w only day. The games wer due to the between Key Wes invading Ponce de liers, Army and Marines the twin bill this ev ng.