The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1941, Page 3

O41 THE | KEY WEST CITIZEN © ALONG CAME CINDERELLA Dingy Amateur Clubs Provide Start For Boxers Who Shine In Pro Ranks ' SEES By VIVIEN GREY YESTERDAY: Roger Cosgrave love for Lovely Daye has borne r fruit. Roger had forced Emily Perry to break their en- gagement, and now Emily's mother and father have driven their old car into the ocean, to death. And in Mexico, on their honeymoon, Lovely’s great beauty has led a young Mezxican to “But they seem hungry yet, Marcia said puzzled. “They’re not. They couldn’t be. Not after all they’ve had here. They're just that way. Wolves!” Marcia allowed herself to be persuaded. And finally the cars rolled down the Cosgrave drive to the Albany tragedy. Home again on the Cos- grave estate, Lovely and Roger are awakened by a gang from Lovely’s old neighborhood in | New York—not a very good neighborhood. Chapter 21 Marcia Takes It Well ERE’S the big shot. The boy friend in other Lovely introduced them. “Rog T, | these are the kids I play ed | around with in town. You’ve met} Katie and Bill and Joe. Call the ” but their voices drowned | words!” | “When it’s time to eat!” Katie, little and dark, like a rosebud with its petals still tight- ly closed, stood beside Roger. me tried to keep them from com- | ing,” she said in her sweet voice. “But they would. You know hov people are when they get out at night, half in the bag.” ‘I know. And I’m glad to see| you.” Roger was. Glad to see Katie again and be reminded that Lovely’s closest friend before her marriage had been such a thor- oughly nice girl. Sweet, sincere, sensible. “I think Joe was the one really started it,” Katie said. “He had to see Lovely, I guess. See how it is with her. Torture him- self with how happy she looks.” It was almost as if she were warn- ing Roger, telling him that Joe had not forgotten the beauty and lure of Lovely. Marcia appeared then. She had put on soft blue corduroy slacks and a sweater and was on her way to the kitchen to get food for the unexpected party. Her mood, as she faced the young people, serge and smooth as a rose| Se “Our mother, brats!” Lovely | said as she put her arm around the smaller and more delicate woman. “Isn't she a swell sport coming down to meet you lugs!” “Hi-yah, mom!” someone yelled. | “Hi-yah! Hi-yah! Hi-yah! Love- | ly’s mom!” They all joined in the} cheer and Marcia waved her hand | appreciatively at them, Katie, still standing close, was examin ing Marcia with approval. St! turned to Roger. “Your mother’s lovely,” said Roger’s “Thank you, Katie,” was almost drowned out by the| song that started spontaneously. Faster and faster, louder and louder went the voices until they raeched the last line. Marcia laughed and hurried to- ward the back of the house. It had been a long time since she} had done anything in the big} she kitchen with its ample equipment. | * But she wouldn't disturb any of the help. It would be fun to do things herself. She was busily at work when Kar poked his head down the back | stairs, “What's called. “Lovely’s friends slicing the roast lef “Well.” Kar we're to know we've daughter in the house.” “Darling, make coftee. turned to him laughing. at is if you haven't forgotten how! Or did you ever know, my pet? No —the big camp pot. We'll need lots. It sounds as if we've got both the army and navy in there!” “There are eightee! Katie. She and Roge lowed Marcia to the kitcher “I guess I know rore about these things than you do.” she said as she started expertly to flip the eggs Marcia had put in the the rumpus?” he ” She went on fro , it sure is sweet of you folks to let us come in here and get you up buneh of nut Odd Meal ROGER carried in the hu ously ‘ father carried the grant coffee pot. 1 : Lovel v's ft needed food was were young bi major marve pack of raven Exelaimir s ul BSC RIBE ¢ OR SHE _ IZEN Post road as dawn was pointing its fingers over the Hudson. Loves ly told Marcia and Kar they were grand epors, tops, and she loved them. She hugged Roger violent- ly, took off the trailing velvet negligee and dropped into bed and immediately to sleep But Roger lay staring at the ceiling. Emily would arrive tomorrow. Emily with her quiet ways and sweet considerateness. Emily who | was so restful. Emily who always “If you want i said quie! thing you want.” Self- dear—any jeflacing, gentle Emily. He looked at Lovely, sleeping soundly. She was beautiful. And so young as she slept. He could wait. He could wait until some of the fie: young energy wore out. She was worth it. In the morning he followed the maid with the breakfast tray into | his mother’s room. “Marcia, it was sweet of you to let that wild mob come in here and feed,” he said sitting on the edge of her bed. Marcia smile even in the mo g. “I didn’t mind a bit, Roger,” she said. “I thought they were rather, fun. Katie's a sweet little thing.” “Yes,” Roger was thoughtful. Lovely was still sleeping like a tired baby. Marcia handed him a piece of toast with orange marmalade on it, Roger ate it slowly. Merry, Marcia’s Bedlington, looked wist- fully from one to the other until Marcia gave her a piece of toast. Shock From Emily INALLY Roger said the thing that had been on his mind: “It’s going to be tough for Emily, isn’t it?” “Terribly.” Marcia turned away and Roger knew her eyes had misted. She had learned to think of Emily as her own daughter. “You don’t think it could have been an accident?” Marcia asked after a long silence. “How could it?” Roger asked. ‘T've driven up there so often. The street ends and you have to She was pretty | drive right across a little park to | reach the cliff. No one could make a mistake.” “But if their brakes—” voice trailed into silence. “If he’g just lifted his foot and there'd been no brakes the car would have stopped.” “I know.” Ghosts walked in Marcia’s | Marcia’s pretty voice. “And their hands clasped like that. Poor Emily. I can’t think why they’d do it.” . “Tough for her.” Roger said thoughtfully as he stroked Mer- ry’s soft fur. “We must be kind to her. I wonder — Lovely — ” Marcia started but Roger’s words came quickly. “She'll be all right. She hasn’t a, jealous or mean thought in her head.” “I know, Roger, but you'll have |to be careful. Women never keep their love apart from the rest of life. You'll never be just a man at work or at play to Lovely. You'll always be her husband— her man. You see J know.” She smiled at him. “I'm a woman, | Roger.” But it wasn't as hard to meet Emily as Roger had thought it would be. She wasn’t changed in the least, unless it was that suf- fering seemed to hang like a very | thin veil over her. Roger brought her up from the | station. Lovely had been to the kennels, hrope Ramsey had been owing her which dogs might | ake something at Madison Square Garden in February and Perfect coat. Excellent jaws, Fine dark eyes. And was fa: ated. ke to watch him with the ne said. “He has that fas- 3 teeped in iniquity. look; d battered, if you see what f mean ne pro! ably been in ev- , the world and ing of each one away ” wus he knew om the S outh always oc- ce was a le were She loved But how ok! Like a Te be contineed 2ie WEEKLY. By WICK TEMPLE Associated Press Sports Writer PITTSBURGH, March 26.— Showman Mike Jacobs may be the gentleman who crowns the ring champs but it’s the unob-! trusive trainer in the thousands of little amateur clubs strewn | over the country who rock the cradle of fistiana. For each fleeting moment a fighter appears in the glare of bright lights before big metropol- itan crowds he’s probably spent days sharpening his mitts with the neighborhood scrappers in some upstairs training quarters. “There wouldn’t be so much, activity in boxing without the amateur clubs”, declares Pennsyl- vania’s athletic commissioner, Havey Boyle. “They serve as a recruiting field for the profes- sional ranks. Most champions de- velop in these clubs. Some start out as pros but they are rare Failure of some cities to turn out titleholders like they used to might be traceable to dearth of amateurs”. Right now simon pure boxing thrives in the Pittsburgh district, where some 50 clubs draw talent from sturdy families of miners, steel workers, and other laborers. Producer Of Champs Out of local amateur organiza- tions have come champs and top- notchers like Harry Greb, Frank Klaus, Sammy Angott, Teddy Yarosz, Fritzie Zivic and his four fighting brothers, Billy Soose, John Henry Lewis, Tommy Ryan and others too numerous to men- tion. Billy Conn is Pittsburgh’s only 'fistie great who forsook the ama- teur path to jump right in as a professional—an exception to the rule. “Amateur boxing clubs are a wonderful thing and I think Pitts- burgh has the best in the coun- try”, enthusiastically declares Klaus, former middleweightt king. “The boys go down to the gym like they were going to work. It makes gentlemen out of them— keeps them off the _ streets. They’ve gotta be tough to be fighters but not roughnecks”. McGirr’s Place Typical Typical of amateur training centers is Jim McGirr’s_ well- equipped McKeesport Athletic Club where Policeman Duke O'Hara now puts 23 prospects through their paces daily in a third-floor arena. McGirr, pro- moting among the amateurs for 26 years, draws recruits from the mills and mines at $1 a month. This year O'Hara, trainer of amateurs for 28 years and a for- mer fighter, got four boys in finals of the diamond belt tour neys, testing grounds for the mon pures. McGirr’s typical amateur does four or five months training be- fore he’s ever put in the ring. Then he is carefully matched with a fighter of equal ability “If a boy is really going any place in the boxing world, after 16 months he should be able to best amateurs in the McGirr says. “Three years and some 300 fights among the amateurs teaches him enough ito take care of himself among the pros. Another year with the amateurs ruins him—gets him on to a stvle he can’t alter upon turning pro where you've got to do more ee DRIVES TO GREEN — si- BASKET CHAMP — GRAHAM PREDICTS RIVALS RENEW THIRD PLACE FOR | FEUD TONIGHT DETROIT’S: TIGERS, | | | | — SCORES — N MIDGET GAMES -|\MENENDEZ AND ARNOLD JUNIORS EASY VICTORS IN TWIN BILL YESTERDAY Unlike the thrilling opening {doubleheader Monday, one-sided ‘TENNIS TOURNAMENT | PAGE THREE ‘GEECHE RESUMES FISTIC WARS IN MAIN GO TONIGHT LOCAL NEGRO LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMP FACES TOM DYES; SAILORS IN SEMI-FINAL; AMATEURS IN PRELIMS VAAL L LS LEN TOMORROW DEADLINE! FOR ENTRY IN ARMY’ Tennis players who have not entered U.S. Army’s an- nual Invitation Tennis Tour- nament will have to hurry if they wsh to compete for the championship trophy. To- | morrow is the last day entries STAR LANEY RETURNS TO MARINE LINEUP: LIONS SEEK SECOND-HALF TITLE CLINCHER jscores marked the second twin |bill of the Junior High School OUTLOOK BRIGHTER THAN |Basketball Tournament yesterday EA AFT | ‘afternoon. - oe Ve ae es | Minute Men under varsity AND OLD MAN TIME REAL guard John Menendez smothered |the Cordovas, 33-12, and forward will be accepted. Followers of the sport con- templating entering the tourney are urged to contact Lieut.-Col. W. F. Punam, Jr., or Sgt. H. J. Starr of the Bar- racks before tomorrow night. If unable to visit the Bar- Battling Geeche, negro knockout back to the ring wars tonight in a 10-round duel with Tommy Dyes of Philadelphia at Cecil Key artist, West's comes By RABID FANSTER By DILLON GRAHAM i Confident of victory with the Sports Editor, AP Feature Service return to their lineup of LAKELAND, Fla., March 26.—! Laney, U.S. Marines tackle Lions The outlook was dark at the Be troit camp here last spring. Club tonight in the second battle puch brighter now. But stl of the city basketball league’s half the chances are that the Tigers | championship playoff. won't repeat their 1940 surprise Laney, who averaged a frac- feat of copping the pennant. tion over 20 points per game Think back to last March: There for the opening Monday night.'teing tried at first base end C. F. Spakes, coach of the Ma- Hank Greenberg was making his! re vealed sea duty prevent-' SGMBNAIL PREVIEW league’s outstanding cager OF DETROIT TIGERS first aes star the ensign in second-half, rines, ed the the his for from seeing action in Infield Outfield Catching Pitching Hitting Good are of the opinion Laney Finish __ Probablf 3rd or 4th at ea te ee debut as a flychaser. Dick Bartell, pionship playoff. Without him, whom the Cubs were wliling to| they believe, the Marines are let go because he was slowing doomed and with him in the line-up, was at shortstop. up the Lions are doomed. | The vereran Charley Sennnges : rete : athemat.' Was tentatively set at second. He} Their argument is mathemat-/)o7 3) MiRER ae | ical. The slim margin of Six some doubt if he would play at| points by which the Clubbers de- all. Higgins hadn’t looked so good feated the Leathernecks, they ex-.the year before at third. Rowe plain, was six less than the dif- wasn’t figured on for much pitch- ference between the total of the ing and Tommy Bridges was frail three players who replaced Laney and getting older. Buck Newsom and the ensign’s average score. had won 20 games for two straight In other words, when the eight years and many doubted his abil- points netted by Skoko, Latiolais ity to do it again. Theré were a Hunt, who alternated at bunch of young pitchers named is subtracted from Laney’s Joe and nobody knew what they usual 20, here i's a balance of 12 could or would do. markers, six more than the mar-| Well, the Tigers held together gin held by the Lions. That dif-|and won the American league ference, the faithful followers championship. agree, would have meant victory! Now, although a year older, for the Marines | Gehringer is in much better shape The clash tonight will prove;and says he'll be as good as last the worth of their argument,’ year. Bartell apparently is no} which the Civic cagers say is slower and Eric McNair is around problematical. No player runs to spell him. Higgins had a fine true to form in every game, the year at third. Rudy was a success Clubbers declare, and Laney is at first and Greenberg became one no exception of the loop’s best flychasers while | Lions clinch the continuing his hard hitting. crown if they defeat the Devil The situation definitely is an Dogs tonight, which will give improvement over last spring but them two straight triumphs in Gehringer and Bartell can't go the three-game series on forever, the draft may get! A picked team under manager- Greenberg, Rowe should ship of Joseph Domenech will off, the hot sum engage the High School Varsity ry Bridges and_ the in a preliming The cur- are small against any of the rook- | - tain-raiser will at 7:30 ies becoming overnight sensa- jock n the gym Sem- tions nary and Francis srteets. The Tigers surprised me last | vear and they'll surprise me just as much this year if they finish | better than third LEGALS Fair - Good Good Fair scrap but is confident guard will be available remainder of the series. j Many the sport hold cham- followers of in i and guard second-half vy a begin nasium at IN AND FoR MONROE COUNTY. IN CHANCERY. ULRIC GWYNN, Foreclosure of WILLIAM VILLIAMS, 1} THOMPSON pertaining e inland water authoriz vy ad SH, a_min Defendants OF PUBLICATION awor STILL OUT OF BOUNDS ' fated Pre: Ma across a city (My Aw JOPLIN, M., notorist who drove urse gre a 1 nearby pond told the judg was lost, it was that he got t fined hin merely The judge anyway r of the department STANDINGS nee HALF or JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT c M A 2 RCUIT COURT. STATE OF BVENTH JUDICIAL . IN THE CIRCLE COURT ELEVEN MoNRoE CHANCERY IN ORDER FOR PUBLICATION ! Minute Men THREATS ‘Ralph Arnold’s Hornets rolled over the Red Raiders, 40-25. - “Sixty Seconds” players were on the short end of a 4-3 count at the quarter but from then on completely dominated the Cor- dovas, who were blanked in the 's ‘third period. Knowles, 12, and Adams, seven, were high scorers for the victors. Archer led the losers with the Now total of four points and three players, Sweeting, Rodriguez and jNewlan, were tied with two jeach. Adams, five out of nine, topped the midgets in foul-shoot- ing. As a team the Minute Men ‘were successful 12 times in 46 at- tempts for field goals but sunk jonly nine of 23 free throws. Cor- dovas, coached by Ormond Cor- dova, missed 38 of their 43 basket tries and six of their ‘eight char- Lity tosses. Score by quarters: 3 4 27 33 8 12 11 | Cordovas 8 Lysle McCown’'s staged a desperate rally fourth quarter of the in second |game but a 20-point Hornet lead Raid- | that | lone period than their total for | easily absorbed the threat ers netted more points in the preceding three rounds. Wells, a overgrown midget, claimed scoring honors of the! afternoon with 18 markers, four! ahead of Haskins, McCown for- ward, who ranked as_ runner-up, 14. Pierce, of the Hornets, eight, and Smith, of the Red five, sev- en, were next highest. Smith paced the junior cagers in foul- shooting, three out of five. In field goal attempts, the vic- tors netted 19 out of 49 and the} losers 10 out of 42. Hornets made | a good showing in free throws, five out of ten, against the low of two out of eleven Raiders. Score by quarters: Hornets 10 23 32 40 Red Raiders 4 8 12 25 Today’s Horoscope are for one character, Today's indications with great force of slough | Who will make a way in spite of life; mer probably will everything. There will be many|the end, chiefly due to the per- chances | disappointments and times when ‘severance of the nature. TIE RECORD: += In a school full of bright, self-respect- ing students, there a one or two completely lacking in good common sense. Arid mess, too... particularly the beer retail- ing business. Out of thousands of beer retailers who conduct respectable, law-abiding businesses, there may be a few “ dunce’ retailers who disobey the law or per- mit anti-social conditions. These few unwanted retailers are a menace to the future of the beer and also of the benefits beer dustry... has made possib! Florida, beer provic Red Raiders! the! for tae | racks interested players may ; PES make their entry by phoning |Carbonell’s Key West Arena. 441. : Topping a program which Opening matches will be (sailors stationed here will make played Saturday. A small fee (their first local is the only requirement of the ring, Geeche and tournament, which is open to kxpetted: to. show. sonia of Se resident sand service person- foneoue: pees — ‘ hardest punching the Simonton n ‘and Front street ring has seen, GILES ELI SIMI LIS The fight program is scheduled jto get underway at 8:30 o'clock. | ae who has been working pun an out all the opposition aie this section, still will enter jthe ring a heavy favorite to (High School Gym, 7:30 p.m.) |hand the Philadelphian an ar- tistic beating. Built like a mid- TONIGHT |dleweight around the chest and First Game—High School Var-| shoulders, the local negro packs sity vs. Picked Team. ja terrific punch and is tough Second Game—U.S. Marines| enough to stay with Dyes all the ‘vs. Lions Club (second-half play-| way. oe | Reports from FRIDAY NIGHT Ipyes has been First Game—To be announced.} winter, say he is another hard | Second Game—Lions Club vs.;hitter and an excellent boxer. U. S. Marines (second-half play-|Carbonell, who has watched him off—if nec | work out this week, says he |ought to give Geeche a tough | fight. Johnnie Tadelock, seaman from the U.S.S. Roper, and the ;Mad Russian of the U.S.S, Her- bert will appear in the eight- round semi-final. Both are ight heavyweights and their bout will be the first contest be- tween men above the welter lim- t in Key West this year. Key West amateurs will round out the card. in appearance in Dyes are BASKETBALL . where this Miami, appearing JUNIOR HIGH TOURNAMENT | | (High School Gym, 3:30 p.m.) i THIS AFTERNOON First Game—Colgate vs. old. Second Game—Hamlin vs. ber. Arn- Bar- TOMORROW Menendez vs. Mc- | First Game— Mahon. | Second )Cordova, | FRIDAY Colgate vs. Ham: | Ganye—McCown _ vs. " BOXING (Key West Arena, 8:30 p. m.) TONIGHT Featuring Battling Geeche, Key West colored lightweight cham- Mc-|pion, and Tommy Dyes, negro welterweight from Philadel- ys,{Phia. Semi-final and amateur Dreilninaeeys "TENNIS (U.S. Army Barracks) SATURDAY Opening matches of annual In- ft in|vitation Tennis Tournament. at|Residents and service men eligi- ble. Men's singles. Entries close |tomorrow. Phone 441 First Game— | lin. Second Barber. | Game—Menendez_vs.| MONDAY First Game—McCown vs. Mahon. | Second Arnold. Game—Cordova TUESDAY First Game—Colgate Men- endez. 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