The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1941, Page 3

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941 YESTERDAY: Eileen Gardner has been graduated from the university just a few minutes, and already faces a choice of | three careets. She can be a ca- teer woman, she can marry Jor- dan Estill, she probably could | get a job singing on the radio. | Just ‘as she is about to slip out. | to a party the president of the university summons her to meet the commencement speaker. Chapter Two | Bright Stranger TEEEN liked Miss Willesdon as she came close to her. You} couldn't help it, her personality Was so strong, so immediately | charming. A great lady who was} also a publicist, with something still of the adventurous young girl her. If she’s ridden a white horse at the head of a suffrage proces- sion long ago at Eileen’s age, it had been as much for deviltry and excitement as for a cause, you) could see that. She had probably béén a force then; she certainly | T c ‘was, now. “You wanted to meet some of our young people,” Prexy was saying to Miss Willesdon. “This | is Eileen Gardner. Not very big, but we think she’ll be one of the ORS ones who will go far.” | And Miss Willesdon’s warm | voice, as she took Eileen’s hands | in both of hers, was answering, “Ah, these young things, free to go their way! ey’re worth all ‘we went through. I hope you do go far, my dear!” Eileen liked her. She hoped she made the right answers, She re- jonded with vague cordiality to | réxy’s aspiration of seeing her| shortly at the Onderdonks’; and | slippéd through the mill of elders | who wanted to shake Miss Welles- | don’s strong, diamonded hand. It | had a wedding ring, she noted. | She pulled Jordan’s sleeve as she passed him, jerked her shoul- der in the direction of the front steps. They met in his car in five minutes and were off to Jerry’s. Party 'ERRY’S was in full swing. It was thick with smoke from the colored paper festoons alon, the | ceiling tothe small, littered bar. | She had been a little delayed, and | the few people who weren't col- | legians were already shrinking into corners with an air of being | bh se y | é girls, in their ladylike | sweep! white frocks, and the| boys, Y- or dark-suited, gowns | |telephoned me this afternoon, at, |you aren’t planning to go off-and earnest meditation on the plat form, when Jordan grabbed her. He was flushed, and his Biases | eid were a little askew. “Hey, look | thing bi, out, she’ll propose to you, Jordy!” | But—” | | shouted a fellow instructor. | She was going on to say that it| Jordan’s devotion to Biléen was | was not a gamble she could afford so well-known that everybody |to take. In another moment she shouted. He laughed, and: said | would have said that. And in the’) cheerfully, “There was a. lot to | next Jordan’ would have.said the) that idea. It, would save us fel-|next thing. And Eileen Gardner’s/ |lows a lot of trouble.” life would have been settled. A | “Who was she, Jordy?” Eileen | year’s sectetarial work, and’'the asked as they swung into’ the |rest of her life married to young} |crowded floor of the little place. | Professor Estill. Singing at_teas “The speaker, I mean. I thought |now and then. Continuing off and what she said was crazy, but she \on to be a secretary by the hour wasn’t anyone you could dismiss. |for pin money. She was a person.” | A nice life. A nice man. . .. “She's a person, all right. | After all, she wasn’t the first—i They're kneeling around her right | flashed through her mind—to be) now over at the Onderdonks’. She | the top girl of her year, and then was the great beauty of the old | settle into an ordinary, pleasant, suffrage movement, very young,!married life. The world wasn’t very dynamic. And she married a | quite such a wide-open oyster as millionaire philanthropist; I for-|it had been once upon a time. Her get who, he’s dead or divorced | lips opened to say it. now. Apparently she’s on her way,| Somebody cut in—Grant Huhn, | with an official commission of | the class cutup, his gown illicitly some sort, to South America.}| billowing behind him. He was a Their stopping off here was be-|big, long-armed fellow, wide- e of some tie-up or other with | mouthed, sallow and gay. t lerdonks. ... Eileen, hon-| “Hey, monopolizing the Queen ought to be over there.”|of the May!” he shouted. He ‘What for?” demanded Eileen | swung Eileen round once, and nonchalantly. She leaned back a|then set her on top of the bar. little in his arms, “Jerry's is more |““Man that wants to dance with if Queen of the May has to grab for | her!” he proclaimed. The band banged. The Negroes, across the eddying lamplit smoke, ¢ guffawed. She stood daintily least the she-Weigand did. Be sure | among the glasses, her,small satin- to meet her there.” | \clad feet together, her wide ivory Jordan’s arms nipped closer. | skirt caught tight, laughing. A His voice was alarmed. “Eileen, | half-dozen men made a snatch for her. She sprang to one side of the | bar, She jumped. Arms caught her and swung her down and out onto| the crowded floor, and whirled | her into a corner. “Come On—Dance” | Saber looked up. It was a complete | stranger. “Just a_ little chance-taker, }aren’t you?” inquired a casual, | amused, strange voice. Not a voice |she knew; the clipped r’s of the |Bast, the half-English intonations chance at being heard—perhaps | snapped up for a network sus- program or even some-| gger. It’s a swell gamble. “Well—it's expected.” “The Weigands are ove: there,” Eileen said irrelevantly. “They sing on that shoestring of a WXNC, are you?” She shrugged. “Why not?” ‘Because—because it’s too far away. Because it might lead to nothing at all. Or—” “Or?” “It might lgad to your going somewhere else and never coming | back.” “It was you,” said Eileen, “who wanted me to go to the Onder- donks’!” “Leen, you devil! You don’t | of smart prep schools. have to go with the Weigand’ if| She looked up to the face above you go over there. And—well, | her. damn it, don’t go.” He said # with; His smile flashed over her an effort. A young instructor has| warmly. The sort of smile that to make his way. made a girl smile back before she She said nothing. ; j knew it, knowing perfectly well Eileen, you aren’t going to—/that he did it all the time to all leen, you know what 1 want—” |the girls, Long gray eyes; slim; she said, slowly, “Jordas, I'd | tall; thick fair hair blown as if he like to. It’s got me all strung up.|had been driving or flying. A radio job—even a little one—it | Leather jacket. might lead anywhere. I’m dying| He had been flying—a helmet in coils to do it.” Sne could not|swung from his arm, the long Ei TED REY-WEST- CITIZEN: a ay gone sweet for this mo- ment. In fact, the orchestra .was fairly weeping it. EP. “Someday I'll find you, Moonlight behind you, True to the dream I am dreaming. be 8 > they danced like one S Eileen’s wide skirts about his overalls. “Swell,”: he said. “I fly two thousand miles, and lookit, I get a reward. Best little dancer if ig ah ste eats Bar sito a a .. + Darling where's a joint called Onderdonks’?”” “Onderdonks’?” Eileesi ack her head and laughed: ‘ heavens, handsome si ‘ou flew all that way to derdonk party, ‘ disappointhent, if ou're due i “a Wot so hot.” She gave him the address. “Well,” said he, “it wasn’t ex- actly merriment I wanted: Pm saying good-bye to somebody, and there weren’t any trains. Sort of important, she ‘said. “You see,” he said seri tS always keep my. word tisy a eine ao it. I tell the truth. Aside ‘om that, not too many virtues.” Eileen felt that cr: Bugs feeling that your heart the man who has just darling talks like that. aie been a dozen people in the that was going wi - don to South rita: de and hangers-on, and jus riders; and some of them, she’d the- noted as she sneaked off iri direction of Jerry's, wer, Young and pretty girls. 4% “Important as I?” maNotting could b importan othing could be as imp: it as you. I could see that. “me about you, beside being Queen tot the May and jumpiig off bars?’ “Please, I just graduated.” She was mock-inn: ft, “Black mark for brains, Never mind, darling, go on.” “I'm wavering between goi: secretarial and doing radio. Tel me which to do.” “Do radio, Then Pll hi In fact, it will be the only can, after one o’élock “tonight. What kind of thing? lightning- She laughed. “Oh, ‘0 4 . Si & Right?” . ow, Singin __ She laughed. She sang, s1 ing there in his arms, to the of the old Noel Coward number: “Let it all come true, be ee ee sth oe too, jomeday I’ you again.” “Gosh,” he said, hats a*good ‘BARBERS INCREASE LEAD BY WHIPPING NAVY BROKE INTO VICTORY COLUMN LAST NIGHT AFT- ER SUFFERING SEVEN DE- FEATS ©. ‘ With the breaks of the game coming his way in more innings \than they went against him, De- Witt “Buster” Roberts last night ‘chalked up his second straight victory over U.S.. Marines, |The triumph ifcreased Sawyer’s Barbers’ lead in the city softball league to a full game over the idle Pepper's Plumbers. Roberts, wild at times, worked himself into “holes” in thé sec- ond, third and fifth innings but was able to pull out them with only a single run charged against him. Lady Luck frowned on the colorful righthander in the sixth ‘and seventh and’ the Marines shoved over four runs. Chambers, leftfigld, first man jto face Roberts, fouled out to \the; catehef and the next two patel went down Hingis in a tough spot. Walk- ing\the) first batter, “Buster” fortédRichardson to fly out to short, but passed Sherik and ‘Regan to laad the bases with only one out. Calling on his re- sourcefiliness, the youthful hurl- jer slipped three strikes past the next two men to retire the side without any damage. Again in the third the Marines filled the bags but failed to score. | | Spakes, pitcher, grounded out, short to first, but leftfielder Chambers reached first on an error. Langley and Lee walked. Thompson fouled out to third and Richardson forced Lee at second. Roberts retired the Devil Dogs in order in the fourth, but fell victim to his wildness in the fifth. After dispensing with Te- beau, second to first, he allowed Spakes an infield hit, but retired him when when Chambers laid 8-5. swinging. | Then in the second he = found, SPORTS CALENDAR ‘DODGERS BUMP | REDLEGS, 6 TO 2 ; RED SOX TRIUMPHED OVER CHISOX BASEBALL (Major Leagues) fODAY American Chieago at New York. Cleveland at Boston. Detroit at Philadelphia. St Here's how Key West's: two representatives in organized baseball, Clayton Sterling and William “Butch” Cates). came out z he plate in recent perform- The local players are put- their first season with the and Red Hats. Their performances: Monday. May 12 ABR HPOAESH Ib 4 0.212 00 0 4001000 R 000 005 004—9 000 000: 100—1 (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, May 15.—Brook- ilyn’s Dodgers; ’ off ‘or ‘‘another winning streak, made in a row yesterday, the Cincinnati Reds, seven-hit pitching Medwick poled a homer. Using four pitchers to hold the Philadelphia Phillies check, Pittsburgh’s Pirates finally won out, 12-7. Three three-run ral- lies put. them on top. No other games were played in the National League. The veteran Mel Harde tered six hits in downir New York Yankees, 4-1, fourth triumph against feat. Three home ru the game for the Clie dians, who tightened their on first in the @ , In a slug ! Senators downed t gers, 9-4. Included atack by the Na off the bat of Ben C Louis at Washington National Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. New. York at C Boston at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. it thumping 2, behind Wyatt. seven by SOFTBALL (Bayview Park, 7:30 p.m.) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—U.S. NavStas. Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- _ ers vs. U.S. Marines. MONDAY NIGHT First Game—Sawyer’s Barbers no de- VS. U.S. Nav; nched _ Second Gai _ U.S. Marines. WEDNESDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Navy >epper’s Plumbers. Second G U.S. Army ndo DeLand The standings: Club— 1. DeLand 2. St. Augustine in Navy vs W. L. Pet. 19 7 &3t 17. 9 654 [ee SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen for his p—NavStas vs. vs. ~~ After an absence of three days, an escaped prisoner returned to the Dutchess County, N. ¥., jail in a taxicab, and explained that he had only been paying a visit to his gil friend. > Detroit Ti- J.S. Marines in the 16-hit as a homer vs. BASKETBALL (High School Gym, 4:00 p.m.) * Junior High Championship Series THIS AFTERNOON Ralph Arnold’s Hornets vs. Or- mond Cordova’s Blanks. TOMORROW Ralph Arnold’s Hornets vs. Or- mond Cordova’s Blank: A, burglar entered the apart- ment of JoSeph De Marco, Phila- delphia undertaker, grabbed «his embalmer’s license and $49, and fled without leaving any clues. In the inter of higher knowl- edge or something, a Cornell stu- dent observed a cow in a pasture for 24 hours, finding that she spent 12 hours lying down, eight hours eating grass and four hours just standing around. Subscribe to fhe Citizep,. 20c weekly. e STRONG ARM BRAND GOFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS AT ALL GROCERS BASEBALL RETURNS ‘Philadelphia Athle A circuit ¢ gwith the bases Ic {seventh shot the Bi ahead of the Chi Final score: 10-7. Gold Sc ed seven runs in the The defeat dropped the , into third. Results: NATIONAL LEAGUE j__At Pittsburgn hE Philadelphia 710 2 Pittsburgh 12 14 0 Hughes, Johnson, Bruner, Hoerst and Livingston; Strince- , Dietz, Bauers, Klinger and Cronin in the Chisox TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR + BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS R.H. E. 6H 1 At Cincinnati Brooklyn Cincinnati 2 8.0 Wyatt and Owen; Derringer, Riddle, Hutchings and Lombardi. Voice. And T'tell you what you do, | down a raller toward the mound. A Lea G A, coast-to-coast The next three batters walked helt vor wet thes: rot ey: ‘to foree home Chambers with the tin, this isthe graduate ‘that you first run. Richardson struck out. jumped off the bar, Telephone me | In the sixth, two errors, a aati ,Station, enclosing five base on balls, ahd a single to (Cor 9960, eon Witee) eed tee rama Anciner pair was recorded in’ the seventh | on two errors and a single to’ |right by Langley. A four-riin rally in the fourth, following three scoreless innings, | “Key West's Outstanding” sr tous wer LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail forgotten—except for one clown- |help stopping for a moment. just| lashes were dusty. An i ing youth who had worn his—|to tease him. She felt his heart |amused lau; th, ae ate La were noisily surging about the hurrying against her white or- startled. “Got two minutes? y bar. A few were already out on|gandy shaylider. Then, in mercy, have—just,” said the man. “Come $e, feor ins owed ats sane |she el on. “It would mean tas on, dance,” ze egan as a Conga and }ing the last few hundred ‘dollats| He pulle ii o faded into a snake dance. _. jot my father’s insurance. They | door, Ger her ty a halt oe Eileen was in the midst of it, |can’t give anybody enough money |where you had to pay extra. The her shrieks a reversal of all that'to live on. the Weigands: onlv a'licht wae law tha mncio had ive New York at grounds. Hot Off the Wire! Service Inning By Inning, First Time in Key West 0 HORSESHOE CAFE 602 Duval Street Schultz & Riggs Returns Direct From the Ball Park AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston RHE. Chicago 713 1 Boston 10 8 3 Dietrich, Appleton, Ross and Tresh; Dickman, Newsome, Judd and Peacock. 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Melvin | Hayes. : fi et FOURTH QUARTER RALLY Boston 13 9 591 T¥nes stepped in to one of Char- a Winner Will Be Favorite CARDS AND GIANTS ; Fr soa ‘ At Washington R.H. E. } DOWNED ARNOLDS 29-16, Shitago 13 10 .565|lie Spakes’ offerings to. send a yi) it ee : New York 14 14 .500| single into center, scoring two chi Sea To Take National Open SWAP MOUNDSMEN “SSTERPAY: ScoRmS DF Washington 13 16° a4q|tehmmétes: A couple of errors Washington 9 160 5 “tap {and an infield hit by pitcher wey “biog < - Championship At Tex- is VIDED EQUALLY Sen ee 22 140 | Roberts aa ne eienee Febbetts; Sundra.and Barly, suai ae iladelphia - ate? Preasd May 15.—Harry Gumbert and Fiddler Bill Me- -400 | runners. St. Louis —. 8 15 .348) Gonsecutive singles by Juani Dissension among members in Navarro, playing his first game the third and fourth quarters a let short ae We ae aiid’ Bexond Gee, both in a pitching slump so |!€4 to the downfall of the Arnold 786 | Albuty, followed by two outs : Hornets in the opening scrap of far this season, traded jobs yes- as the New York Giants t. Louis Cardinals com- da deal which sent Gum- 9 750 /3pd @ triple by “Kiki” Hopkins, the Junior High School basket- “ i bert tithe \Cardsifor MeGee. At New York R. HE Cleveland 461 New York 161 Harder and Desautels; Ruffing and Dickey. as Two Weeks Later Club— Brooklyn St. Louis ....... New York Chicago Boston Cincinnati Pittsburgh Philadelphia (My Associated Press) FLUSHING, Y., May 15. The golfer who's “hot” in the Goodall Round Robin tourna- ment here May 22-25 will quick ly be established. as a favorite t0 Win the Naffonixt Open cham- pionghip ‘in’ Texa& a fortnight later, He'll be bracketed with such Southwésterners as Byron Nel- son, Ralph :Guldahl and Ben Hogaa, who are familiar with the "Texas courses. After a brief from a strenuous winter campaign, the nation’s top pro golfers have the Round Robin as their only ma jor test before hurrying to Fort Worth for the scramble after Lawson Little's title Although prophecies in golf are considered more uncertain than those in most sports, ex- perts regard as an even bet the prediction that the 1941 Open championship will come from the group of IS profes- sionals selected for the fourth annual $5,009 Round Robin tourney over the Fresh Mead- ow comrse. Experts say t of al c 1 Sericgi of bi more likely to ¢ er’s ga than ¢ mot pre That's why the Open title Robin as an exe and warmer-t pp Fort Wor.h even The tion in | # beth ordea! play. in wh , must w only his accounted for a pair of markers terday ball tournament yesterday aft- 582 in the fifth. ernoon. Cordova’s Blanks, mak-~- 455) tT ing good use of the lapse in team- werk, came from down under in thé closing round to rack up a 22818 triumph. Bucking strong competition in the first portion of the game, the Hornets nevertheless held a three-point lead at halftime but succumbed to __ individualistic playing in the remaining quar- ters. First-half schedule winners by virtue of a seven-game winning Streak, the Arnolds saw their lead melt to a single peint in the third round. In the fourth, they threw away a chance to re- main out front when two mem- bers continually attempted long shots that went wide of the mark. Consistently retrieving the ball, the Blanks raced down ~ the court to sink enough field T-UP gdals to jump ahead four points 8- before the final whistle sounded wae tee Hornets were held to a Ione bas- ers’ Tourna- a % spring with a 72-hole pp te ci sane deca’ . were. evenly. divicde FP ietbe and Schoneck, who dese; j Arn olds early “Gh » the \Sebogit-t schedu to Two ome in the sixth, and 417 \an erorr and ttiple by Kerr in sbolte seventh 6 oe two more 34 | ; 269 ' DeWitt walked nine and struck : out seven in holdirig the Marines ,to three hits, duplicating his | performance against them last week. Spakes passed five bat- . Pct, | ters and fanned: four. 875; Kerr and Hopkins, triple each, the offense of the Barbers. Lineups: t BARBERS—A. Thompson, If; J, Navarro, ss; E. Albury, c; Kerr, ib; Russell, st; Hopkins, 3b; Tynes, ct; Arnold, 2b; J. Roberts. of, and D. Roberts, p Beary MARINES — Chambers, If: Junior High Schoot Langley, 2b; Lee, ss; Thompson, Basketball Championship Series c; Richardson, sf; Sherik. rf; Club— W.L. Pct. Regan, 1b; Jersitz, cf; Tebeau, 1 @ @-. each stroke of every other play- er in the field has a direct bear- ing of the eventual outeome of this four- free-for-all. Mateh- ed with the lineups changing each round, one two and twelve After four during which period each, other with the gate of holes won (By Assoctated Press) CHICAGO, } His peti- tion for y retirement turned down y Dean today had a new con s a Chicago Cub coach in t volur Island City Softball Les First-Half a in t mes, Club— Sawyer’s Barbers Pepper’s Plumbers U.S. Marines NavStas “US. Army 286 *U.S. Navy 128 *Tie game. ' rest against » St as Chicago $185,000, aske ley to arrar order to helt jthe 25-mar tonight see. L. 1 1 3 4 5 7 essional the meets every layer contestant > victor. be kept on veteran Craig waica will ar-old ene Cordovas 1.009 | 56, and Spakes, p. Arnolds .009 | _, Store by aiid és ! : | See the iful General Electric Range! We believe it out- ; Barber nd cr, ge! ralues electric range in its class! Priced lowest in G- | Marines 006 912 2S 3 6 af , t . i ry heating than ever at lower cost. ‘Time-saving, tures that can't be beat at anywhere near BIG BARGAIN of the year. re this G-E RHE in today they will clinch cham- pidnship of the tournament. Box score ’ Cordova (22) Player— HOORAY! NAVY WON Behind a five-hit pitching job by Chastain and heavy hitting by FT TP three players. Navy last night jchalked up their first victory of the season against seven de- feat. Army. who had beaten the Sailors once and tied them on another occasion, suffered a 9-15 drubbing im the afterpiece of the twin bill at Bayview Park Excellent fielding on the part of Johnson and Clark also con- tributed to the triamph. Two five-run rallies put the ame “on ice”. Soldiers had one big inning, the fifth. when they shoved over six markers 4 bame run by Coleman but to report ta she office for a ‘contract as a, coach. second produvtd i Atiny’s other three runs, A. Walker, a nif boy performer assisted doubie NEW 5-HEAT CLEAN-SPEED CALROD UNITS Heat faster yet use less current than ever. The only electric range units with the MERMETIC GLASS SEAL. 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