The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 17, 1941, Page 3

| | ’ = interposed hastily, ine. “You say mers | ies, and he went | id me.” a little : y one Dapeng gen set 4 <3 only in her mother’s letters, but | *qy2"%, = eng lope Acne: Byer og agg “We must all Watara rest.” “But tell me more about ef and mother." Anne pra- tested: “What are our plans?” ‘We'll tell. you later,” he said | firmly. “Now you must rest.” The Jama had taken it upon himself to raise just the right part of the tent wall to secure Proper ventilation. Now he erouched down outside the door and, began a low, haunting chant to the muffled accompaniment of his. little drum. Anne signified Be ue Plo to ‘ Unmolested, ere a while, wide eye: feeling lost and forsaken: long: for her parents; nally she drifted as if the iit; work during her father’s absence ‘was proving too much for him. _Pete refused to 4 “4 stay even long re for “and Tl bring the stuf ay : gave you.” ie unbearably heart en. into sleep, d fe Prophecy ANE Temained in bed three Gays; Now that she had given i, inutterably weary over. The doctor and Beth could scarcely rouse her to take food. She hated the return to con- seiousness, for only in sleep did the pain leave her heart. She had not Known that a person could hate and love with such violence at the same time. She called her- self all imaginable names but it did no good, Hour after hour slow tears continued to well into her eyes. Not until Philip told her in his nervous way that no further word had come from her parents did she rouse herself, “Could something have hap- ed to them?” she cried sharp- itting up. Tt was night, the big gasoline lantern lighted. Every one had come to her tent. “We really don’t know much about it,” he answered slowly. “They've written only once.” “Tell me the whole story,” she manded. “All right. When we first came } Rete we opened this dig and were making some pretty good finds— gold and copper objects and bur- jal masks of the bronze age. Dr. and Mrs, Willard listened to the workmen talk loeal legends. I be- lieve there was a Nagara native among them who later became their traveling camp _ servant. They bought ponies and began roaming through the hills.” “Yes,” said Anne urgently. “They found rock inscriptions and irrigation terraces but they were really looking for fabulous eyclopean ruins.” “They found gat,” he declared to the others. “You'd better feed her and put her to bed.” Anne felt ready for peng ap psc ge ogy rr Ing @ - ome of finding her parents ab- Philip and the doctor each gave an arm and walked her to the big tent that had been her arents’ livi quarters, Alread it was covered with a fly of in preparation for the summer's heat. She noticed a native squat- ting beside the door. As they ap- Proached he rose and bowed. “Doddap!” she fs wet walked" he said imply. wi a si . “Today?” “Today. I look after you now.” “Did you come across the Bek- kan Bula Depression from Ari- shar?” She saw he didn’t want to talk Abuul 4, wut ue answered, “s came the shortest. way.” “Then you passed by our camp, Dotidap. We saw. you... Why didn't you. stop?” “Now. [ look after you,” he} said, and that was all she could get out of him. Diana remarked curiously. em to know this man.” net him on the desert,” Anne answered and let Beth lead her into the tent. She sat down on a cot. Some one took off her shoes. Another made her com- fortable with pillows. The Chi- nese cook Lae her a cup of broth, and while she drank it. Beth explained about the lama’s| arrival. “The strangest thing,” she said. “Diana and I were planning 8 tramp down to the dig, e stepped out on the porch and in the space between two of the tents we saw him striding across the desert.” “What did he say?” demanded her_hugband impatiently. “tf I heard what think 1 heard, he said, ‘American girl comes through the air. She is hungry. You make soup’.” The others laughed again, but they were puzzled. “Then,” Beth finished, “he walked over here and squatted down the tent door as if he’d come home, and began gnawing on a cheese he Seine. doctor! tpraed ‘to. An e doctor. turned to ne. “You spoke of meeting this fel- eS the desert.” re : “That was more than a wee! ago—beyond Atisiiar,” she’ an- swered. “But we may have seen him pass our camp morning. Doddap is a good little man, You needn't be afraid of him.” She refused a second cup of broth. For a moment the talk died down. She realized they were all curious to know just what her adventures had been. Argument “Hey on earth did your pilot Shani Lun?” Diana asked. get hold of an airplane from ~Anne avoided everyone’s eyes. etrified forests | too,” said Larry, looking up from his work with a bunch of pho- tographie prints. Larry was. ex- pedition photographer as weil as paleontologist. Anne began watching the oth- ers in the tent. Dr. Martaine was attempting to fit together the pieces of a shattered skull he car- ried in a pan. Beth helped him. Diana worked at a piece of em- broidery. Beth winked. at Anne in regard to it. A tsar Bat for whose benefit? For Philip's, Anne soon surmised, noticing that he— the only one in the crew idle this evening—found a great many oc- easions for long, inquiring looks at Diana, who, it seemed, had transferred her special attentions from Larry to Philip. “How enraged mother would be if she knew,” thought Anne mis- chievously, her ear tuning in on Larry again. “gone two weeks that time. They had two servants along and One returnedy.with a note from your father—a very brief note as if it had been censored by a na- tive who could read English.” hits began searching dis- tractedly through his pockets for the note. “I had it this morning, I know,” he said scattering other papers he would be wanting later. ‘Never mind,” replied Anne wearily. “Tell me what was in it.” Philip knit his brows. “Some- thing about the ceremonial dag- er, symbol of the Eye of Shy-a ago, having been sent to you. phy said to pon 1p Sens “ * |) the prophecy, while they were a aad gr hen be Peet, compelled to remain until you ar- cried Diana,” Larry whistled. [eo tog a they had seen Pabat caudate 2 Anne felt as unenlightened as “Oh, say,” protested Larry, “I) ever wouldn’t DD t far.” i “You see," Larry took up the “He's g thorough s¢oundrel,” | ¢xplanation, “the time had come | Philip petsisted. “hk scientist with any sense of ethics doesn’t inter- fere with another man’s ” ecy; the tribesmen were on lookout for the ‘pair of wisdom’ \ tion.” to kee the: ead ple ed 4 4 j Diana laughed a bit self-con- | veal a Nago. ata t sciously. “He may be a scoundrel: know, enthusiastic: as a scientist, but’as'a man’ be} on earth they ¢ i fas his points. I:was ore. en-| have found a.couple to fit the gaged to him.” aim § nne looked at her with a crack at a boxing crows. 1 don't | Gives feat me. ;haps only natural. Joe has been} says you can’t buy a seball ‘a great champion and a fine “Shea . be |sportsman. He still packs a ter- ss By LOU NOVA Written for The AP Feature Service | going to knock on the door of my dressing room at now and let Miss | in New York the night of September | ready to take advantage of it, That is the heavyweigh boxing championship of the world from I have been dreaming of this*. ‘chance for years. I have been’ preparing myself for if. And Lou Nova is nof the kind of a man to; muff an obportunity like this. Few men get more than one think 1 will need more than one boxing fans think Louis will.de- That is all right, per- rifie wallop. WheéA a” mar \ has |to come—and Joe’s number, | fitmly believe, will be up Sep-j|lyn Dodgers slump down |tember 29. Ihave the greatest | stretch they’re very likely to win hitter had Louis groggy in that | 12th round» Conn had him |trouble. Nova would have kay-! proved himself ajguperb, fighter) | I Have Greatest Respect For Joe Louis, Bat Pil Beat Him’, Declares Lou Nova 2. And the night I IF BROOKLYN WINS, Thousands For Stars| i | BROOKLYN, Sept. 17—Who ‘pennant? MacPhaij, big, bur THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Round Tie, ‘Lost T1-Inning Battle To! yay Reds; Giants And Red-| birds Fought To 1-1 10: (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK,, Sept. 17—About the only consolation for Flat- ‘bush “fans today is that their ‘Beloved Bums have worked one ‘thore bad” gathe out of. their sys- tems—ard ‘they still are pacing The questionen night, be Larry ‘the National League a game and , loquacious a half ahead of the ‘persistent the fans and experts like to Larry, a twinkle in his eye and|Cards. string along with him until the end—until some new battkr takes his measure. But champions don’t last for- ever. Every man’s time has got % respect for him as a fighter and true admiration of him as a@ fair and gallant sportsman but—I think I possess everything I need to beat him. If Lou Nova had been in the! ring against Louis last June in- stead of Billy Conn I would be the champion today. Conn i game, a marvellous boxer and fast, but, after ail, we shouldn't! kid ourselves that he is anything more than a erack light heavy-|Ydwkey had sunk millions into; Eddie Joost had gone to second! But no one had'in the eleventh after getting on Louis for 12 rounds. . Purthet-} yer bought a major league pen-! With a single, and two men were out when Werber came to bat for the last time. Lining out a hard weight. Yet mere, this comparatively in oed him. | black and blue as I noted chanc- b= fon Woake es Oey er ments: hardly dried. Since then he has | Conn was missing. ling to fight don't know myself. lin advance and carry it through. | Unexpected things happen and you have to alter your schedule {to meet them. However, I don’t |than he can. ost makes me believe in | cap-I don't Throughout that fight I beside my manager, Ray Carlen./ when MacPhail tossed out $60,- | I nudged his ribs until they WeFe | 009 for Dolph Cashilli Before the had I can't tell you how I am go- Louis—because A fighter | can never seriously plan a fight! expect to win the championship | {backing away or circling to the | right. x Tl be standing at arm’s length from Joe and I'll be shooting jabs or hooks or straight rights at every opening I see. Joe is leasy to hit with a right and I be- lieve I am going to hit him’ plen- ty. It is quite possivle that Joe, | who seldom cuts;%s going to be? pretty badly cut up. I am not) only a pulverizing hitter but al- 'so a damaging one. For « proof you can ask Max Baer -or Pat | Comiskey. Max Schmeling revealed, in their first fight, that Louis is a |sucker for a right. But Max was |a cautious fighter. tent to keep hitting “Joe with! He was con- scattered rights and wait until he almost crumpled from ex- thaustion before finishing him off. My temperamént is different. When I see I have a man in trou- ble I wade right into him and give him all I’ve got in a hurry. | \If I should get Louis groggy in | the only athlete whom the Dodg- | and Lefty White of St ithe first or sixth or tenth rounds /ers had a hand in developing. the |T'li show him—and you—that I jam just about as fast a polisher- off as Louis is rightly given cred- it for being. 1 think I am faster than Joe. | for the fulfillment of the prog |] think I am a better ring gen- |. e eral. I believe I can think faster and more clearly. I figure I can size up a situation and act more | .pepuickly to take advantage of it 1 am confitient I can take 9.punch. better than he believe that his wal- f fate,” added his wife. }lop tal mtich more deadly start, Bewiy didn't Oy ey "tt makes me believe in luck,” |than mine. He is an odox him?* - Larry grinned. “The prophecy | style of fighter and I am famil- “T changed my mind. He’s the | $4¥s that a ‘scholar full of years (+. with his methods. I believe most headstrong man I ever knew |—& married couple with a rever- i ife.” for th waquid appear TR se enemy” es Anne [fi apes tne floes “Not mine,” denied Diana. his eyes began to twinkle at “The enemy of this expedi- tion. Diana shrugged. “It’s like poli- ticenstlll ions though belong- ing to opposite parties. Anne, “ ‘—by offspring young and ing the sacred dagger down processional avenue to the altar in Shy-a Nago.’” To be continued SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—2te WEEKLY. —————_—_____ nl | Been kidding me about a mew punch I'm using—the one that |punch. Really, there’s nothing! i | I know just what he will do under any given circumstance— and I'll be ready. i Some of the sports writers have stopped Max Baer—the cosmic to kid about. It’s het Tr have developed. ctually, it is a right cross delivered with perfect timing and leverage. To throw this punch you must get Conn outpointed! the Red Sox. light } sat} jink on his own contract 11?! lare here now—Leo the, Lip Du-/ | Cookie Lavagetto and Luke Ham-| a chuekle in his husky voice. For MacPhail, the one-time |Kaiser-hunter, has just about beoted that baseball axiom out) jof the window. Unless his Brook- the the National league pennant—a flag that lLarry’s check-book bought. As soon as Larfy took charge of the Brooklyns three years ago he began sweeping out the dead- {the while howling for talent. ' Others had tried before him. Tom; jnant. Larry just grinned. It could, } | he said, be done. Heavy Spending | jused to anything, were spent more than $800,000 for layers. Only four players who wore; Brooklyn livery when he arrived{ rocher, Fat Fderdie Fitzsimmons, | His most expensive single pur- \chase was Kirby Higbe. He spent | $125,000 for the Philadelphia ; thrower. | He kissed. $132,000 goodbye to get Ducky-Wucky Medwick and} Curt Davis from the Cards. Thi year he gave the Cardinals $60, 000, Gus Mancuso and .a young |pitcher for Mickey Owen. More And Mote” Then he handéd' the“Cubs '$50, }000 for Billy Herthan. “Peé Wee {Reese cost him arothtr' “fifty grand. On the cther hand,’ dre of | his top stars this year Cost Him’ only $100. That’s Pete Reiser, the} young outfielder who is a batting |championship contender. tional league pitcher to ring up 2% wins. Whitiow Wyatt, with of dough when he camé up ffom}tuke Hamlin, + the Amercian association three Hugh Casey, » ie hig ser _ years ago. f Of the regular squad Reiser is | | | ete ‘Today’s Horoscope | ft | gives a tendency to rove to get away from Tod: and a | soci: and may become misan- | /thropic. Strive to overcome any.| |peeuliarities that may show,;; | themselves, and Keep’ the moral ; ‘tone as high as possible. Care-.| ful training will do much for this degree. as lyourself in a perfect position so | that the power of the whole right jside of your body from shoul- ider to the ankle is ind the | punch. I spent more than a month in the Maine woods conditioning myself. And then I opened amp at Doc Biers at Pompton |Lake. I am in perfect shape and Tcan honestly see no reason why I shouldn’t be the - heavy- | welelit “chinmpion ‘oF the world the night of September! 29 ‘Dixie Walkér ott’ \their game b | went out for a _pinchhitter — White was driven from | Both the Dodgers and the Cin- {cinnati Reds looked terrible spots yesterday as they struggled ! Gincinnati through 11 innings to an eventual former 4-3 win for the champions. The Cardinals failed to take advatitage of the Brooklyn. however, playing a 10-inning tie with the’Giants, 1-to-1. Bill Werber of the Reds prac- tically won the Brooklyn iby himself yesterday, driving in every one of the Reds’ four runs ‘and breaking up the ball game in the eleventh to save it from wood with one hand and waving going into another twilight af- ‘that checkbook in the other, all) fair like the previous day’s 17- inning thing. Drove In Joost startled | the plate by Joe Medwick. Elmer Riddle, pitching nine in-| jnings with some horrible cinnati support, never allowed an earfed run, but it was Rookie Ray Starr, the Reds’ third pitch- er of the day, who fimally won the Leagues) | Cleveland at Boston. Dettoit at Philadelphia. Chicago at New York. St.. Louis at, Washington. |, ; Nationat iS SOFTBALL (Bayview Parle. 8:00 p. m.) | TONIGHT | First Gamé—Pepper’s Ptumb- jers vs. Thurston’s Builders. Second Game—NavSta STANDINGS \MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES | American vs. Clab— W. L. Pet. New York _ 96 49 .662 Boston. 66 ) Chicago 73 Cleveland 73 490 Detroit _ 5 'St.' Louis [1 458 Washington — Ae, 80 Philadelphia 62 83 Chub— L. Pet. N-| Brooklyn 51.643 inst. Louis __ 51 .636 64 546 Pitsburgh _ M1 65 542 world) New. York 64 TA 464, Chicago 65 77 458 Boston _.. 59 82 .418 loss, | Philadelphia 40 98 .290) game on Joost’s eleventh-inning tally. The Dodgers worked 4 out a peculiar play of their own in the tenth, after tying up the game in the ninth on a couple of Red ifumbles. The Brooklyns had filled the bases with none out in | that frame, loading the sacks by} | Virtue of a walk and a couple of | bunts, a slow throw and an er- ror. Starr, who had just taken the mound for the Reds, Dolph Camilli and Riggs attempt- | ied to bunt, popping up, whe Erriie one picked it “out ‘of! te whipped it Mike McCor had slipped up f the tenth, thrown out at third af a screaming double into ield corner. he eighth. Failure to i irst base had cost hitn a run in fanned straight dit and ‘fo third, throwing. three The Dodgers used four pitch- record about as good, cost a wadjers in the game, Newt Kimball, gether, 12 hits. Hal battled through nine before Schumacher of the fray | Cih- in the next round and remained | out front from then on in. Rowe Wins Game Schoolboy Rowe pitched shut- out ball for séven innings against > the Washington Senators but weakened in the eighth. The Nats scored all their runs in that round but they were not enough to stop Rowe from getting cred-| it fof a victory. In the end, the | Detroit Tigers copped the game, | \4-2. They sewed it up in the! jand added another in the fourth. | With the score tied twice, the| | up. an early lead with five runs/ in. the opening stanza but the A’s| first overtime inning, the | Browns crossed the plate onee, {but the A's duplicated in their half of the tenth: The clubs went scoreless in the eleventh and the Brownies won in the twelfth. amassed 19 hits} ; White, Warneke, . Cooper. At Chivago. and Giants instings Z| THE SLY SIDE OF SPORT (Associated Press Feature Service) An effervescent. football. scout | te. scout the {University of Washington a. few sidetracked with 'Sorie of the boys at a hotel after ' hte game afi missed his - plane? south: And.the next one. Amid} sent to Seattle years. ago got the next one. . . Monday. ball coach became His club had to play Washing- ton that weekend. He frantical- ly wired the scout for an ad+ of | vance thumbnail synopisis the repert pending the seout’s arrival, ' Came the answer: “They run left and morninig—the- scout! was supposed to be .back . with all his notes—the Southern foot- they run | Dawe-of the Fort Snelling @éinn.) ) All-Stars. groped for a ball” that | apparently disappeated inte-thin fair THe’piteh hit the dirt and twas: fount wedged between the ‘chest and air-inflatel protector jot Umpire Tommy. Collins. Bil Herman on the bases in e i i Covering a University of Ten- ;nessee football ~game, Sports Editor Bill Keefe of the New right. All you, gotta do is wateh Orleans Times-Picayune was dic- the guy with the ball”. 3 A touch of luscious femipinity won't do the ring—or the gate— |} any harm, figures Boxing Pro- |moter Milo Solomito. of Memphis, } Tenn. So he has trim. young bathing -542/ beauties pick their way- between :500 ithe pugs to’ display, among. other 5 the play I've things, cards announcing 483 number of the round coming up. | Milo. tried between-bouts jit- -437 | terbug. contests: fora while, but | 428 had to quit when the crowds be-; jitterbugging | gan. yelling for all and no boxing. North Carolina was leading Tulane 13-7 with two minutes to play and was about to punt if from midfield. Tulane's quar- terback, Tom Glass, called for a defensive play wihch would | through play allow him to charge and block the kick—e that resulted in a Tulane touch- 8 | down and 14-19 victory. “Let your man come through |} fast to leave @ hole for me”, Glass instructed Tulane’s tough tackle, Fred Brekke. “Hell, he's through fast all muttered Brekke. e afternoon“, Third baseman Buddy Elkins| (S.D.) Inde-| from... third | of the Watertown pendents scored fourth with a three-run splurge | standing up while Catcher Lee been coming | tating a. play-by-play account to |the telegraph operator sitting be- |side him, Intent on the game, Keefe paid no attention t6 the click of the telegraph keys. A few. minutes after the ~ first ‘half was: over, the operator said {to Bilt: “Your paper’s asking for something on the game”. |~_ “Didn’ ey Send the play-by- Shing you?” ask- ed-the bewildering writer. |. “Qh”. replied: the equally as- tonished operator, ““was__ I. sup- posed to send that? I though you were just explaining the game to. me”, t t