The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 6, 1941, Page 3

a YESTERDAY: Davie and Polly are a little cool toward each other, but their engagement is not broken, And Margo just has told Warren McNeill that she is not going to marry him, and that she is going up to New York for an- other fling. Now Warren has gone off to Portsmouth to get the anal- ysis of the water from the spring at David’s old, and ynsuccessful, inn, and David is starting once more to put the place in shape. Maybe for a sanitorium. Chapter 25 Talk With Father HEN he was free to leave the} plant’ late in the afternoon David hurried out to the cottage as quickly as he could. “Listen son,” he said to Peter, “we're grabbing a cold snack and eating it as we go. I want to get out to the Inn, and get to work on the fountain.” “Gee, Cousin David, that'll be swell!” said Peter. He helped David wrap up some cold meat sandwiches, and some made of jelly. “Will you have the colored lights under water, and every- thing?” “IZ hope to,” said David. “The main thing now is replacing the rusty pieces of pipe, and getting the water turned on. Come on, let’s be on our way.” “Going to take Polly with us?” Peter asked, as they got'into the car. “Not this time, Peter,” David replied. “We men will get the plumbing work. done—and_ sur- prise her,” > “Gosh—+that’ll sure .make her open her eyes! Seeing the foun- tain working—and all those col- ored lights.” “Don’t count too much on the colored lights,” David warned, “It takes money to have the electric current turned on. We may have to do without the lights for a while.” “Okay, Cousin David. Just see- ing the fountain spouting will be something.’ They drove out of the Wiley yard, “How many pe today—with- out the brace?” David asked. “Thirteen,” said Peter. “I tried to make it fourteen, on account of thirteen being unlucky, but—” “Oh, that old thirteen business is just a gag! How do we know but what it turns out to be your lucky number?” Peter sighed. “You sure are a comfort to me, Cousin David,” he said. “I just can't get to feeling too sorry for myself when you're around.’ “Don’t ever feel sorry for your- self,” said David, “It never gets you anywhere.” “Were you_ever sorry for your- self, Cousin David?” “Once or twice, yes,” David re- plied. “But I got over it.” Peter looked at him, wondering what made his cousin sorry for himself, but deciding that maybe it would be better not to ask. Cousin David might not like be- ing questioned. ‘Talk With Father 114 Sdapsatig was talking with her : father in the large living room of the big house on the hill, “And that” she said, “is the whole thing nutshell, Dad.” Andy Powers said: “I suppose an old man hasn’t much to say about what his daughter does nowadays, But I was hoping ‘ou'd de to stay here with me, fter all, I did build this house for you, gy oe If I'd known that you never intended living in such a plate. I'd have been content with hotel life.” “But, Dad, there’s go little here for met” Margo cried. “Polly and David seem to find plenty,” And: does Dr. McNeill” By the way, Margo, he’s a mighty fine young fellow, David told V4 ag the plant today that he’ had finally decidéd to settle down in Ardendale.” “Yes, Dad, I was going to tell ‘ou that myself, Warren was here jast evening. We hada talk.” “And as a result you're going away again?” “Warren is partly to blame.” “Why so?” Margo told her father part of her conversation with arren, and then waited for him to speak. “I can understand his feeling as he does about a big city hospital,” Andy Powers said finally, “Too much routine, and too little hu- man contact. Warren will make a splendid addition to Ardendale. T'm tickled pink he’s bought out part interest in old Dr. Ben's prac- tice.” “Are you, really?” said Margo. tetorted. “And so/| “Werhaps so,” Andy Powers 11 terrupted. “But background is im- portant for women who are born ladies. Your background wasn’t conducive to—well, to making a lady of you. When a girl is born on the wrong side of the tracks, Margo, she’s got to study, work, and work like hell, to be the lady she wasn’t born to be.” “But, Dad, I—-I—* “Oh, I know you're ‘not to blame,” her father rushed on. ‘I sometimes think that you’d prob- ably have been content to stay here with me—grow up with boys and girls like David and Polly—if I hadn’t started putting ideas into your pretty head.” “Would you prefer to have me more like David and Polly?” Margo asked. “It's not that I don’t love you as’ you are, Margo,” her father replied. “I do. ’'m proud of you— the way you look, the way you walk, the way you wear all your beautiful clothes. But, honey, just having you to look at when you choose to come and visit me isn’t very satisfactory. It doesn’t help |my loneliness. Why — why — it’s like having one of ‘those fashion models you read about drop in and parade back and forth in front of me.” Margo came over and kissed her father’s forehead. “T’m sorry, Dad, that it’s turned out like this,” she said. “And maybe you're Hight eas, it is your fault; me being like I am. You sort of—of—molded me into what I ain" She hesitated, and then went on. “Well, I’m going up to Long Island just:the same. Per- haps Til be: ‘able 40, think more clearly about all this when I'm not too close to you and Warren.” Andy Powers’ got up. He slipped his arm about his daughter’s shoulders. “All right, Margo,” he said. “After all, you're free, white, and over twenty-one, and you have your own money. There’s nothing I can do but wish you a pleasant journey.” “Thanks, Dad.” “When do you leave?” “T thought I'd catch the ress Saturday evening. I'll stay in New York Sunday'night, and telephone Irene from there. She'll probably drive in from Long Island t6 get me. “Then a round of gaieties, I sup- pose?” “Yes, Dad. Irene and her crowd are always doing something.” “T see.” Mr. Powers gave Mar- go's cheek a little pat. “I think I'l go up and stretch out for a little rest before dinner. We're working pretty hard, at the plant nowa- men, in order to fill orders.” He walked to the door, and then turned. “I’ve got a lot of men on my font now, Margo. I'l have the largest payroll since the plant at means to me?” “Making more money, I sup- pose.” said” Margo. “No, although that counts, of course.” said Andy Powers. “It means more than that to me, Mar- go. It means that Andy Powers is in a position to give honest work to a lot of men who need it—men with families to support.” {He watched his daughter’s face. “I don’t suppose that really gets over with you, honey, But jit perp a heck of a lot to your old ad. ‘I'm glad,” said Margo. “I'm glad of anything that gives you satisfaction, Dad.” ‘ Andy said, “Thanks,” rather shortly. Then he went on up the wide, curving stairs. Dissatisfied | Aco stood where he had | left her, frowning. Sometimes she wished her father was a little less interested in what happened to the people who worked for him, and a little more interested im what she thought and felt about things. It was better, she tought for to be more ee i ve er father and Varren McNeill were always get- ting a-rapt-took_on_their faces j when they talked:.about people who needed:,thin:; It was all right, she ktiw, for men to be like that—but she wished they jwouldn’t overdo it, especially | Warren and her father. |, She remembered that she had jinvited three of her neighbors jover for an hour of tennis, and | hurried up to her room |,, There, while she donned white linen tennis shorts, she made mental notes of the new gowns she would buy while in New York. Irene was a one to shop with. She and Irene would |have loads of fun visiting the smart shops, looking at this, loox- ing at that... days. We've taken on a lot of new | opened. Do you realize just what | BUSTER’ ROBERTS ‘Tough Spots Nothing PITCHED BARBERS TO SOFTBALL LEAD i | | MUFFLED MARINES’ SWAT-| | TERS | PERFORMANCE; SAWYERS | POUNDED OUT 16-1 WIN | WITH THREE-HIT DeWitt “Buster” Roberts, mak- | ing his début on the mound for i Sawyer’s Barbers, last night | pitehed his teammates into lead- ‘ership of the Island City Softball | League. Substituting for Neno Castro, who refused to work on the hill against the Marines, “Buster” muffled the opposition with a three-hit one-run performance to drop the Sea Soldiers into third place and send the Barbers into the coveted top position. A colorful, all-around player, Roberts had the heavy-hitting Devil Dogs popping out or swing- ing at empty air. He struck out a half dozen batters and sent five to first via the base on balls | Poute. The game, second-half of a |deuble feature at Bayview Park, was late in getting under way. |Marines, backed by an official rule, insisted Castro don a dark colored shirt before going to the mound. The Barber pitcher re- fused to comply and shouted he would not perform if compelled to remove a light colored shirt he was wearing. Lt. M. O. Dono- hoo, Leatherneck manager, would not relent and Roberts was: or- dered to toe the slab. Securing a sweater of an agreeable color, “Buster” warmed up and went on to completely master the for- mer league leaders. Charlie Spakes, who had pitch- ed the Marines to three straight triumphs,ywas the victim of a 16-hit attack, including a number ef doubles and triples. Barbers opened the fight with a six-run barrage in the very first inning. Eight more runners crossed the plate in the second frame. From then on, Spakes returned to his usual form, holding the rampag- ing Hair-Cutters to lone markers in the third and sixth and blank- ing them in the fourth and fifth. Devil Dogs recorded their only run in the second inning. They pbinesd men in scoring position on. several other occasions but | were unable to bring them home. ; Barbers defeated the Marines, 4-2, in thtir first clafh April 11, but bowed 11-8 in the next meet- \ing on April 18. The victory | was the third in a row for the Hair-Cutters and the loss snap- ped a Leatherneck four-game | winning streak. Esmond “Tarzan” Albury, hef- ty third baseman, sparked the Barber offense with a_ single, |double and triple. Arthur “Reese” Thompson, rookie left- \fielder, got to Spakes for three | singles. Centerfielder Tynes hit ja single and double. | Richardson, two-bagger, and |cateher Thompson and Spakes, single each, accounted for the Marine safeties. Albury who substituted for | “Kiki” Hopkins behind the plate |last night, also turned in the best fielding performance. He accepted seven chances without an error and made five flawless assists. Langley, of the Devil Dogs, made four putouts and four as- sists without a miscue. He ac- complished two fast double plays Score by innings: RH. E, Marines - 010 000 0— 1 35 Barbers 681 001 x—16 16 2 Spakes and Thompson; D. | Roberts and E. Albury. ARMY AND NAVY FOUGHT TO TIE Army and Navy, the bottom ,clubs of the league, fought to a | standstill in the opening affair last night. After a see-saw score for six ,ipnings, the Soldiers piled up a fair lead in the first-half of the | final inning. but the Sailors came THE KEY WEST CITIZEN For Greenberg’s Successor | Bruce Campbell, Most! Courageous Athlete In, °36, Replaces Hank In 5 | Left (By Associated Prens> t DETROIT, May 6.—For a guy} ‘who can take three husky wal- | lops from spinal. meningitis: and ; \then get up off ‘the floor to lick! \the pesky ailment, ‘even taking | Hank Greenberg’s place might! not be too tough. When big Hank puts up his | baseball uniform and draws one | of Uncle Sam’s khaki specials on tomorrow, Bruce Campbell will take over the Detroit Ti- ger leftfield area vacated by | Greenberg. } To attempt to take the place! of a star of Greenberg’s magni-! tude and popularity takes cour-! age. There’s no doubt about} Campbell’s. He once won a tro- | phy for it. | That was in January of 1937] when the Philadelphia sports! writers, at their annual dinner,{ voted him the most courageous ’ athlete of 1936. They based their ehoice on his feat of fighting oft} three attacks of the dread men-/ | ingitis and ending’ up the 1936/ baseball season as one of the} American League's 4eading bats-} | man. | Creditable Hitter i Bruce doesn’t have any false| ideas about matching the prodig-| ious wallops of his transplanted } |predecessor. But he ‘has an idea! jpelt perform creditably with the! big stick. He has a pretty, good | record to back up that confi-| dence. Bruce has been in the big time! regularly since 1931, when he! came up to the White Sox from Little Rock for the tail end of} the season and batted .412 in four games. Since then he’s been with} St. Louis (33 ad ’34), Cleveland (’35-’39) and Detroit. Meningitis hit him pretty seri- ously in 1935 and he took part in only 80 games for the Indians, | batting .325. It knocked him low! jagain in 1936 but that was the! year he finished up with .372, his | best average. He hit right around | -300 the next three years with/ |the Indians. } 283 Last Year i Detroit traded Beau Bell for, |him in January, 1940, and last | year he took part in 103 games 4 | single and homer, provided other run-producing blows. Poret, who was presented with an order for six quarts of | beer as a reward for his base | circling smash, became the — fourth player to produce a | | clean home run. 1 Score by innings: Army 302 100 410 11 4 Navy 040 030 3—10 13 2! Almeda and H. Walker; Martin and Welles. R.H. EL | | means hit by pitcher, New IT’S 11. STRAIGHT FOR INDIANS AND ‘10 FOR REDBIRDS /BOB FELLER HUNG UP FIFTH) VICTORY IN TRIMMING) NATS, 2-1; ROOKIE HURLER | DATA 5: The Seorebook 1 a (Special to The Citisen) 1 Keep a scorebook if you really| NEW YORK, May 26.44Cleve-| want to know what's happening | jand’s Imdians”andi ‘Sts sibouis’; —-and especially what has hap- | Cardinals, behind top-notch hurl-| bened=-in a ball game. ling, added, another game,to their | List the players ‘according toi) winning streaks yesterday aft-— their appearance in the batting | ernoon. | order. | The youthful ‘Bob Feller reg- } ‘i ‘istered his fifth and Cleveland's; ideal Pama Rive shid in Serta straight triumph in i ; eleventh opposite each man’s name—one } nosing the “Washington Sena- | for each inning, and \ ne or two tors, 2-1. Speedball Feller struck | thrown in ‘for good measure at/out an even dozen Nats and/ the end-in case the game goes |handeuffed them . with — three | overtime. . imeasely hits. Washington took | After you learn a simple for- {the lead in the seeond with its/ only run_of the game. A circuit} mula, and adopt your own meth- ‘clout off the bat of Lou Bou-| ods along with it, it’s no trouble. dreau knotted the count in the; You must nuniber the fielding ' seventh and a lone marker in the team—mentally — according to ninth after two were out brought | position, in this way: Pitcher | ee ee aa 1,-catcher*2, ‘first baseman 8, sec- | nets eet | 3 Be! : play winning ball by downing ond 4, third 5, ‘shortstop’ 6, left lthe Yanks, 7-8. Lefty Gomer gyi RS Ti ane: og and’ started for the New Yorkers: but | rightfielder 9. ww A -. | Was sent to the showers with a Now, if ‘the first “batter im’ fivoryn barrage in the third’ the game flies out to center- | DIAMOND | | | field, -you ‘put in his square | yoni<.under control as he spac- | "F-8". If he grounds out, say ied a:half dozen bingles. i shortstop to ‘first, it: would bé'” Rookie pitcher Lester 6-8." Remember» these ‘signs: (Crabb, who went all the way for | ‘F’ means flied out. “HP” | philadelphia’s Athletics, won his | gt a |own game by singling home the steal, | “paying” marker in the eleventh | nes: strange [to nose the Chicago White Sox, | reason), and “FC” fielder’s {5.4 Chisox sent the fracas into | choice. ,. [extra innings with single runs in | There are others, but there's ‘the eighth and ninth that tied | no law requiring the use of any | the score. { of them. You can use your own,!: ‘The Boston at St. Louis game! just so they save space and time | was rained out. | and are perfectly clear. H means watk, strikeout (for want to follow the around the bases, recording how | way to their 10th victory in a i | way. ¥ he advances each time and how | row, pe scores or goes out or dies on| Allowing the Boston Bees just | ase. |five ingles, southpay® Ernie On the extreme right of the | white pipe his eee league score sheet is the. place for com- debut a most successful o¢ca- puting times at bat, hits, and/sion, Blanking the Bees for! other figures you'll find in the | seven innings, Ernie was robbed | box score.—AP Feature Service: of a shutout when pinch hitter | (End of Series) Maxie West smashed a honier in| See |the eighth. Enos Slaughter, the | SPRING SIGNS jheavy swatting rightfielder, | SLLENSBURG, Wah. — Bor-|nebade ee ee Redbirds. bara L. Lewis is thoroughly con-| Results: vineed that spring is here—the NATIONAL LEAGUE robins told her so. Recently,; At Boston while driving through Ellens-/| st. Louis 511 0 ‘g Cayon, thousands of robins Boston ___ Re 1-6 1) settled around her car, so thick! White and Mancuso; Errickson, | that she was forced to. stop her | Johnson and Masi. | automobile and. wait for them to saiebincneiets fly away. Chieago at New York, rain. | Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, rain. | ie Philadelphia, | ] RHE! | for the pennant-winning Tigers, ringing up a .283 average. | Campbell may not come up to; (Cincinnati Greenberg’s prowess but Tiger | rain. fans are confidence he'll do his | best to replace the guy that! switched from first base to left) field to armiy base. at AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago ‘Philadelphia _ R. HE.) 510 1 | . BASEBALL (Major Leagues) TODAY American Washington at.Cleveland. New York at Detroit. Philadelphia at Chicago. Boston at St, Louis. National St. Louis at. Boston. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Chicago at Néw York. Cincinnati at Phliadelphia. SOFTBALL (Bayview Park, 7:30 p.m.) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—U,S. Marines vs. Pepper's Plumbers. Second Game—U.S. Navy vs. NavStas. FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—NavStas vs. Saw- yer’s Barbers. Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- ers vs. US. Army. MONDAY NIGHT First Game—Pepper’s Plumb- ers vs. U.S. Army. Second Game—Sawyer’s bers vs. NavStas, BASKETBALL | (High School Gym, 3:30 p.m.) Bar- | ‘frame. ‘Tommy Bridges heid the ‘Junior High Tourney Second-Half | Cordova |MeMahon THIS WEEK All games postponed due to ac- Mc- tivities of Junior Class Prom in |Hamlin j ‘High School Gym. MONDAY First Game—McMahon vs, Bas | Second Game—Menendez vs. | Arnold. GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE NEW MEXICO.—Asked by a |. The only activity in the Na- divorce: judge why she refused Cordova In the space provided, you'll tional League yesterday saw the |t® accompany her husband to / Barber. .. batsman | St. Louis Cardinals punch thei’|Fleride-a year after their marri- | Hamlin age, a4 woman replied: “I didn’t; know him well enough”. NI cancers (11 Innings) McCrabb and Hayes; Appleton and Tresh. Smith, At Detroit New York _.. Detroit SE arate AE Gomez, Stanceu, Branch Dickey; Bridges and Tebbetts. R. i. oe OR At Cleveland Washington _- ee 4 8 Cleveland... 2. 7. 2! Chase and Ferrell; Feller and} Hemsley. R. H. EB! Boston at St. Louis, rain. eeecccecovesors . STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE | | t | McCown DAotSSCaTe 2a Philadelphia Island City Softball League First-Half W.L, Pet. a) 714 Club— Sawyer’s Barbers . Pepper’s Plumbers U.S. Marines NavStas —_ *U.S. Army *U.S. Navy - *Tie game. Junier High Tournament Second-Halt 4 OGeeenwoer ahpewroeTt Club— Colgate Barber ..-! Arnold Menendez AB GR aeeeesees — End of First-Hi Club— Arold McCown Menendez McMahon Colgate 2237 Hmovoauad fas ae —<— FLIP OF COIN WON BID contracting companies . submitted” identical bids, the city: officials of this place determined the re- cipient of a $3,000 contract by flipping a coin. Hot Off the Wire! Service Inning By Inning, First Time in Key West HORSESHOE CAFE 602 Duval Street Schultz & Riggs Returns Direct From the Ball Park right back to knot the count be- | “Ot course. My whole life is| , While in the Jenkins kitchen, bound up in Ardendale, and I| Aunt Susan and Polly were doing naturally want to see it grow and| fore the time-limit ended the battle. prosper. It needs men like War- 1 and David Wiley— ave good heads on joulders.” Margo flared. “You're all alike, he said. “You just paint of view at all,’ t father said. “. to wonder if I'm not for that point of ean, Dad?” ps. if I advantages, if eager to make a you would 5; me fror the er dishes. “Lord knows,” said Aunt Susan, a spinster’s nothing to about.” 's boasting about it?” said nd just what brought on ment?” {“being 08 . Working in tea ud in millin shi allus job-hunting; wheaseh cond marry David Wiley. and.bave a “I thought I told T didn’t want to talk about fat : “You did. But you can't k gz about it. 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