The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 20, 1941, Page 3

a fie ne burst ec pee to” what did write pine rat aa I want tok know,” AO ni “mart 1 DONT THIN HE'LL LAST AS LONG AS -» CONCHS | ae ee ithe years has been incorporated |» colorful hist Of 10,288 tons into her structure in the! ane ne But wae i fee SE | STRENGTH AGAINST im. South Dakota and the other bat- tleships now on the S. PRESSIVE LINEUP ba! ~~~, May Be Trou | Guess I'll ( complexity of mechanisms in| foyr 13-inch guns ¥ ook ee Cnperee to the first «to “ie . Pi actonec nord lamlin, manager 0! e that name. Massachusetts No. 1j She during thi i Key West Conchs, tomorrow will| was built at Boston in 1845 as a lapeueh oak eco in the lead his ‘squad against a tough Screw Steamer of 765 tons and Was| navy until.1920 when, as coast Miami allstar’ outfit in ‘a base. ipescrsed by a army as a troop No.2, she wag stricken } ball. game,at Flamingo Park: ihn over to the navy | from thexnavy list and tuned over eh 1887! served:on the west army. ubed.as.¢targ | The game, which is schedule i COagt! dnd finally, fh’ 1862 was “ay yan age “abs _. parapet periment Calapan eat stance gen emer fig toy ¥ from Fort “Pickens, | pit local players against Mare Island navy yard, Cal, until} |stars from leagues scattered all sold in 1867. | Pensacola, in 1921. In 1925 the ., DID’, HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP PREDICTS; FEARS FATHER TIME MOST : HERWOOD had written? ©: Dear Anne; 1 received your note.+ Surely you know that kind of tall does not fo be between us. I shall : at : more. now, there ‘Geasy many words. aid If these negotiations drag ft ll direct that ed Gah has ls fo Bye prdesg le to join you gue you heard the news from ses sar? We arp ed cS See ‘incess th ra uieauectt oy Soy ‘son ge become the ir, fellow pay: eas ‘ re tee 8 S (Bese ar cae, STS i Bur at ther TO Know. | pamire The tout ay is pra; sg hse us st you tag susped LiF + 'y arms aro ye pomp Timpoche, as ley, have pen | Remember? 4 cate ca Blaze P. S. You put me on the spot with Pete letting him think I haven’t sense enough to take ad- vantage of my opportunities. But I realize the conflicts of love and duty you face and promise to be very patient. I hear Diana M, and Louis are in the Ex- pedition, ‘Give them my love: and my regards to little Beth. Doddap sends word he‘is in your camp and will guard your tent during my absence, Be kind to him, will you piece? Tt ‘must have been he I set out to in- tercept that morning, it looked like & high-handed letter to Anne, Currents of every passion, — ra ge, rapture, injured pride. opal disaster, hope of iss, surge rough her bein, Different phrases em the be ter beat at her as’ she sat there trying to compose herself. She had always known there was something unyielding in Blaze — something invulnerable. But for him to let her think Pete was dead when he knew better— to take advantage of that’ situa- tion—— And now, not even.a word of apology. It was unforgivable. Yet in one thing she felt self- shame. Misjudging his motive in regard to the gold pieces. He still claimed her, And then she re- membered Philip's words — “no feeling of chivalry will keep him from demanding his perquisites.” She looked up and” the others ip. I don’t want to interfere in e's business, but can’t friends’ A cold look came into Anne’s eyes. “Blaze Sherwood is so ex- tremely capable of taking care of himself that he needs no piers ‘He’s not avery capable if I r the eee a) wae muttered Bete scratching his head. “In fact he hasn't got enough sense to take advantage of—" “What did he have to say to vou she interru; pee hastily. hty little. ited to know na told you and if 1 got you here safely ane yi od care. Say, wh; Dr. Oliver hate him so? a of that wedding ceremo! fee That's nothing to hold “I think it's professional, not auate aes ego thar ‘ig said. blame for évery- ‘In. some sy eee: ¢ way I seem to have made “decisions. I guess’ Blaze is right when-he says fear is the P Doddap. carried a | ioddap carried a long paper box on Bis shoulder and took it into the tent. Anne and Mackey followed. He opened the box for her—sheaves and: Be og Pete,” cried Anne de- light lly, “you must have raided the governor's conservatory.” “Blaze did,” he grinned, “Blaze and the Dao Tai are trying to see which 9ne can feast the other un- der the table. I think Blaze is winning. You know he’s got an eight-day advantage,” Difficult Decision NNE found a note. “A symbol of some of the sweetness you've been to me. Blaze.” Her chin quivered for a mo- ment before she could get hold of herself again. “You had better tell him,” she said, her gaze on the flowers, “that as far as we are concerned it will be absolutely useless for him to come here.” She looked up, pain in her eyes. “Why Pete, he has even put my parents’ lives in jeopardy by making the Na- gatas. edoubt our integrity.” “Maybe he didn’t mean to go so far, Anne. Maybe that just happened.” “That's no excuse. What does he think we are that he can do anything he chooses- and we will forgive him?” She was careful to speak in the plural. “I don't know,” lilies and peonies said Mackey were leaving the table. She man-|heavily. “1 think of him as a aged to smile. They came over.|pretty decent fellow—a little Well,” asked Diana, “did he/screwy like all scientists—but send me a message?” “He sent you his love and re- gards to little Beth.” Beth glanced at Diana _tri- umphantly, “Gosh, he remem- bers me. . was once in love with him too, but I never told him so.” Her_husband laughed. “Does he tell you what he’s up to?” Philip demanded in his ner- good company and dependable.” “Do »ou remember that time he beat you, there in the snow storm?” “Saved my life.” “But it shows you how ruth- less he can be. Is it possible he’s trying to fet the Chinese gov- ernor to break our concession contract?” vous: way. i Pete exploded. “No, he He speaks of coming here wouldn't do anything that low soon. down.” “What?” shouted the man.| “Or take our contract away “Coming here? Just what does he mean?” “Tm sure I don’t know,” Anne wearily. He reached out.a hand. “Here, said from us? He speaks of coming here.” “I really don’t know what he’s up to, He’s flown into Russia once and to Arishar a couple of let me read the letter” times and, I’m going to say this, “Philip, no!” She drew back) though you don’t want me to—~ sharply “I’ve told. you-all he.said | He's“in' dove with you.” about it, Just that “Satement” ‘She looked up at him, her eyes. Mai |) | bein On’ his own terms. may- ‘HEN aoe i: He [PS DUS Tey, ony happen to be : 7 ip, went.-berserk. ptable, to mi began cursing Sherwood. He}’ ar “rose reluctantly. “1 must'be paced ‘back ‘and forth, fists Srencinia: flailing" the air, raving like a madman. dn’ known there were such combina- going. ” They shook hands. “Come again, Pete. You know this 't! you're always welcome.” “Tf Blaze moves in on tions of words, She sat appalled. as you say he’s talking of Mackey looked ready to paring cone Til likely +4 be the Ard to on the man. The others stood | bring oe watching him anxiously. Hes brow clouded and then she As Beth told Anne afterwards, | smile shan’t hold even that “He’s been having these spells | against you. ; : lately. That’s what falling in love| He tried again. “Sure you don’ t with Diana does toa man.” Beth| want to sen just @ word? never forgot her personal griev- ance. Anne was compelled smile. him “All rij T she de- to|clared gees, rummaged for ee and pencil and wrote hur- “Don’t be silly.” Then she sob- | Tiedly: ered. “Philip’s Working too hard| ['m asking you to sivstce me and under too much of a strain.| at once. You know the for- We must try to make things easier for him.” But now she didn’t know be to think. Presently, aon spent rage he dropped “he chair muttering an apol 8 Bioted ee hier jotted thr ands were trom bling. ‘he sien | Ka ened Anne. She ae anxious to get away from them all’ a have a private talk with Pete. She slipped a hand through his arm and Jed’ hint outand“towards her tent. “Sweet serpents,” he muttered looking back, “Let's forge et it,” she said. “He apologized, It’s grand to be hear- mula. Pete would. bes be an ace ceptable witness. 4 error down in her The moment Mockey fey ett she ied her face in ey nae ur d the “dowry” stacked in sorete. mae and when ie etd | down she ie 4 ito the! tent. be eat down Ag ed j nels, 00] ited 2. fi i oddap® is ey ape! you here?’ 9) “Because: yout are ‘here Ls a Sherwood comes.” “From now on, Doddap, your master and I go different roads.” To be continued —_———— |, ence ae industrious habits. The ‘ nature will be rather reserved, Sunday’ 5s however Many ce ag ah in- ica’ and pro! a large Horoscope (geet and good fortune is prob- | —_———— able. Today gives a rich, generous | good ‘intellig- | disposition, with Subscribe to fhe Citizen. } By DILLON. GRAHAM. AP Feature Service Sports Editor i GREENWOOD «LAKE, N. Y. Sept. 20.—Joe Louis, sat on the| | rubbing table, his light tan body as streamlined as a sleek tiger's, | his bare feet swinging slowly just above the floor. é | | “That Noya™. he said. “is a good tough boy”. Then, as an after- | | thought: “But I don’t think he'll last as long as Conn did”. { The heavyweight champion hadx. just finished a four-round train- REDBIRDS: NN | |ing camp sparring session and he |had that good tired feeling, just | enough exercise to give his big body a satisfying but not ex-) |haustive workout. Occasionally, he wiped bass the little beads of perspiration | that kept appearing on his face. | His trainer, lean, wise, shrewd j Jack Blackburn,’ stood behind the | champ; ‘fanning hin with a large | towel. “Nova; he don't move around as fast as! Conn“, Joe éxplain- | ed | “He's ‘Gasier’ to hit. Lou'll be | troubleséime, but I guess I'll get | te him all right". | Nova says he'll be more cau- | j tious with you, Joe. He says that | if you hit him like Max Baer hit; him, he won't just stand — there, | he'll move around. He says he MT ks SF Bréoklyn’s| Ss) Ace Pitchers Try Luck Against Phils Today | (Speciai to The Citizen) | NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Kirby knew Max was too tired to follow Yighe and Whit Wyatt, main- jit up. stays of the Dodgers’ pitching | Blackburn chuckled. staff and only 20-game winners ! “Ha”, he said. “That's what!in the National League, will be| they all say. But when Joe clips; jtoeing the rubber this afternoon | em they’s too stunned to move.jas the Brooklyns take their} Yeah, when Joe staggers him | half-game lead in hand and trip} he'll polish him off”, lout to meet the forlorn Phil- | Did Billy Conn have you grog-' lies of Philadelphia. | gy in that 12th. Joe? \ Knocked right back into the! “No”, Louis answered. |middle of the race as they idled| | “Joe didn’t draw a heavy/through another Cardinal vie- | lpreath in that fight”, Blackburn|tory over the Cubs yesterday,/ | added. | the Dodgers could land prac-} “Maybe Conn outpointed me | tically out of the race if they | in that 12th, but that was the |fumbled with the Phillies today. | round that beat him”, Joe said. They are scheduled for a dou- F |,.“He was getting confident and _|bleheader. ti coming in wide open. I knew | The Cards, although they | I'd get him the next round”, emerged on top of the heap and “Yeah”, Blackburn said, nod-/shaved the Dodgers’ margin to a |ding. “Joe told me at the start of ‘half-game, had some bad mo-/ ‘the 13th, 7’ get him thisiments against the Chicagoans—| | round’. a }the boys ey put them in ae! Well, Joe you looked as though | Place a week ago. [sou were “tired cr. uragey (f) Bes nace oe ee ethi 2 nn aa al la walk, the Cardinals. watched | “Don't guess I | Nicholson, Dahlgren and String- was fakin’. Guess I was. playin’ r clip out consecutive hits for | "possum al © j last week. | PANDORA BEARS. AND REGU. | LARS IN FIRST, RED RAID- ERS-TROJANS IN SECOND Getting into action for the sec- | jond time since the Island. City | | League baseball season opened, | | the Coast Guard Pandora nine} will tangle with the Regu-| |lars tomorrow afternoon at the opener of a double bill. | Pandora Bears’ debut last Sun- | | aaye against: the Red Raiders end- ed in a seven-inning 1-1 tie. The first game tomorrow is scheduled for 1:30 o'clock, with | o'clock. ) The Raidets: she, shanty squad | lon the day’s bill wit vietory | |to their credit. The Conchs, who | ¥' won last week, are jouneying to | Miami tomorrow, and the Tro-| jans and Regulars were papas STANDINGS a er MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES) - American Pittsburgh ‘New York Club W. L. Pet.| bene ub— . New York 2 Ml, © TRANSPORTATION | Boston ‘ Chicago 14 497 BASEBALL |DRIVING TO BALTIMORE. Can \Cleveland is -| (Major Leagues) take ori 3 Detroit ‘ i — iy at Pollock's, St. Louis —— 65 29 461) TODAY ose Dake 64 30 iss | Detroit at Chicago. st jladelphia OR 8A A) ee York at Boston. FOR RENT—ROOMS cur “Hy. Let. St, Louis at Cleveland, THE WATE ROUSE 27 Da it. Louis af A a ‘cinco - 1359 | Brooklyn at Philadelphia: 18 66 .542| ‘8 : Chicago - 455 is Boston 60 ‘41t|. Chicago at St. Louis. J Paitedelphis 202) ISLAND CITY LEAGUE lover the. eastern part of the | nation. Miami All-Stars Includd in the Miami lineup twill be: SCHEMER of Fort Smith, Western Association; HAROLD GRAHAM of Con- ‘cord, North Carolina League; EVERETT SCOTT, Muskegon, | Michigan State League; JOHNNY PARE, Greenville, | |South Atlantic League; JIMMIE COX of Selma, South- BOBBY HOGUE and BOBBY VIRTU Al Tit | Trumbo Island (Price) Field, in eastern Léague; i | | | PRANKS, Winston-Salem, Pied- | mont League; AL ROSEN, LES McNEECE, | DOYLE MeNEBCE, FRANK COOPER, BUSTER LEATHER- " MAN, TOBEY .OV and others ythew: pound ¢ fi ae | tat 4, from the Dade-Br ward Joop. me stiparia the sypoli: Key West Coiichs The Conchs \will’catry: Esmond Albury, Armando Ace- vedo, Cyrik Griffin, Julio Bar- eelo, Julius Villareal;'Jess Blan-' ton, Domingo . Ubieta, Clayton Sterling, William Cates (cap- tain), Pubio {Gonzalez and Mario Pena. Winfield (Shorty) Roberts will be bat boy for the team, and Chester Covington, ace pitcher, will join the Conchs in Miami. SPORTS CALENDAR Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, two games. Boston at New York. Carbonell, Lucilo | little. the Cubs in the fourth. inning. | They only garnered..one run, however, and the Card tosser,| i(Gumbert, broke up the;rally. Score Two More “Conn’s a hard one to hit, j moving around so fast, but I | knows if he gets to thinking he |could knock me out he wouldn’t/ Club— Pet.| i | ape "000 First Game—Pandora Bears vs. | ‘Red Raiders — 000 ay Seay Game—Trojans vs. Red Pandora Bears —.. -000 | Raiders, ie. aoe 000 | “"Key West Conchs meet an — Regulars 000/ au-Star team at Flamingo Park | + (Bears and Raiders p’ -1 ti€)| in Miami tomorrow. afternoon.) secretary ofthe navy had the ves- sel retransferred to the navy and the hulk was sold for scrap, The fifth Massachusetts was de- signed as 43,000 tons but she never blockading squadrons during the] wag water-borne. Her keel was Civil War and was sold in 1867. |taid April 4, 1921 but she was The third Massachusetts was a ; Scrapped under the terms of the double turreted monitor of 5,600 | Washington treaty for naval limi- tons. She never was launched, tation. Classified Column Seoeeesococosccessoseseee Advertisements under this head will be insertec in The Citizen at the rate of one-cent (1c) a word) for each insertion. but the mini-) mum for the first insertion in| every. instance 1s twenty-five. cents (25¢c). Advertisers snould give” their street address as well ‘as’ their telephone number if they Setize: results, Payment for classified adver- tisements is invariably in ,ad-! vance, but regular advertisers |with ledger accounts may have their advertisements charged, PROFESSIONALS LOUIS A. HARRIS Attorney at Law au Duval St. Phone 252 ‘The second Massachusetts was !a supply ship of 1115 tons carry- ing five guns. She was employed in the North and South Atlantic . room, Modern in Te- spect. Hot ate ice water for drinking at all! | . * | The Cardinals sailed right | |be quite so cautious. And if I | cout get him to leave a good | back in their half of the aa opening I'd nail him. | inning, scoring twice when betes oi id, h t¢| Moore doubled, bringing home! Mean, he said egh 8.80 aoe 5 who had singled, and} | chuckle, ‘y figgered that one out | Moore cecitan’ “Gn. Sueawe” any |right”. gle. Louis thinks Abe Simon was|” Johnny Mize, star first base- | \the toughest challenger he faced.!; an for the Redbirds, was out “That big Abe was game and jo¢ the lineup with a shoulder in-| he sho’),gouldy, take a punch! jyty Hé suffered “against the | Schmelingy hit me the, hardest \in | Braves Thursday. | that first fight, ‘cause I was just | Results %P'the garhes: about .a: stationary target, But! NATIONAL LEAGUE | the, hardest. punch, was that, left at st Louis!" ROH. Bi }hook Galento; threw. ‘at. me-in the |.Chicago oe ba | third round. Boy, that was a/st. Loui 338i wallop, If I hadn’t been. going! frrickson and /MeCullough; | back when he hit me, Tony would | Gumbert and Mancuso. |have knocked me out, | “Jimmie Braddock .gave me a tough time the night I won the/ title. Buddy Baer was pretty | good but his punches didn’t hurt |me none. Guess Simon was the| gamest. Conn was the only one/ who had the upper hand ae me. He had me outpointed un- | til I hit him a good one. Conn | ree eh ge ak | didn't hurt me, just kept annoy- | just couldn't help it, a strong | jing doi araatiy! jab. te up | wind blew their boats into the 5 's gonna | with sometime. Maybe it’l | be Father Time. Anyway. | don't figure it'll be Nova. | think I'l belt him out. | “So long”, Joe said. Only game scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE No games aepedule: ish In ' Troubled Waters | | | | | pers in unison in Marine Court! 1 | when charged with fishing in’a) | prohibited area. a They were all fined and warn- Time to! eq not to fish in troubled wa:| eat and I done worked up a good jarpetite \BASEBALLERS IN “NEED OF FUNDS LAUNCH INVESTIGATION OF | FUNDS SPENT BY REC- REATION GROUP | teps. again while there was.a war’ jon. vinyestigate the uses to which the ) money was put... The money was turned over to the recreation committee three| |months ago by the city council jand county commission. The com- |mittee ‘was named after Roy Hamlin, chairman of the base- tabt-seareation group, had in- ‘formed the pining that faa Ie is available for the field, it a stated. ne Hamlin announced that . the Key West baseball wegen carpenters’ ‘union has agreed told that the $300 allocated them without charge labor for repairs to their park on ie ae | seats and,a roof for | | Trumbo Island has been spent, | the temporary nds last night named a committee to a fence around the park. gis'o |Sea level, 29,78 (1008.5 millibars) ltiinefield, chimed 22 junk skip-|S: es te Observation taken -at 7:30 a mm, 75th ae. Time (city office) | Highest last 24 hours | Lowest last night © Mean Normal Precipitation Annet 24 hours” ending 730 a. mi," Total rainfall since Sept. 1, inches Wind Pilon a ogel Relative Family Barometer at eat 0. m., today | Sunrise RS wie BE 8 a m, junset _... D ring Barracks, erp Ee a * 9.93| at TODAY poe vs. Army at Army —. vs. Snbchaseun at Ma- oi Sie i se "nowt