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SATURDAY, DRCEMBER 12, 1942 Lon a, wena nen FOLLOWING THROUGH B PEDRO ak Here's another column on the activities of the national pastime in Key West since the late 1880's. On Friday, July 1, 1938, Key West defeated the U.S.S. Charles- ton in an_ exhibition game to get the. locak'players.in shape for the forthicdtting' International Series. As apart of the celebration on, the opening of the Overseas Highway, the series will be play-| ed here between Miami, Key} West and Cuban teams. In the game with the sailors, Gabriel (Rubberman) Garcia pol-| ed a homer that tied the score} in the second. Cyril ‘Belis) Griffin and Clayton Sterling hit} two safely each. | Royal and Grant collected two| hits for the gobs. Score: Charleston R. H. E. 200 000 100-3 5 4 Key West 022 001 03x-8 9 2 Malgrat and Griffin; Mims} and Royal. | Home run: G. Garcia; two- base hits: Sterling, Griffin; struck out: by Malgrat 10, by Mims 7; umpires: J. Griffin and | C.. Vidal. y ‘On’ July 2, 1938, Key West had a‘fatal inning and thus bowed | toya Miami nine, 7-8. Mpethe sixth inning, ‘ Robert) Béthel- walked batters and allow- ed’ several hits for seven, runs! and defeat. | Howard Gates relieved Bethel but the damage had . already been ‘accomplished. Clayton Sterling hit three safe-| ly for Key West and Baker and| C.. Griffin poled two each. | Bandra, Schemer and Duncan} each collected two safe hits fod | Miami. Score: R. H. E. Miami . 100 007 000-8 8 4 Key West . 201 000 040—7 11 2 Graham, Adams, Schemer and | Bgndera; Bethel, H. Gates and Al. Rodriguez. Three-base hit: Cates; base hits: Sterling} | Griffin, Sherer, Bandera; stolen has Graham, C. Griffin; struck: out: by Bethel 2, by Gates 1, by | Adams 2, by Schemer 2; bases on balls: off Bethel 6, off Adams |; 2; hits: off Graham 6 in 3 in- two- Bethel 6: in 6° innings; s: J. Griffin and Goss. —— um- hin a sceond game. ‘that aafter+ ngon, Key West again lost to Mi- ami, 4-5. wd In‘ this battle; Pubio (Specs) |: Carbonell. pitched , a. great, game, |) allowing only four, hits in, eight innings, but two errors and two hits in the ninth caused . his downed. Graham opened on the hill for the Miamians and lasted six in- nirigs. For Key West, Baker, Cates, A. Acevedo and P. Carbonell each hit safely twice. Dinear hit two for Miami. Score: RHE. Miami... 110 001 002-5 6 4) Key West . 001 001 020-4 9 5 Carbonell and C. Griffin; Graham, Adams and Bandera. Two-base hits: A. Acevedo; | three-base hits: R. Gilman; stol- en bases: C. Griffin, Baker, ,Gil- } man; struck out: by Carbonell 6, by Graham 1; bases on balls: off rbonell 3, off-Graham 3; hits: ae Graham 6 in 6 innings. bon July 3, a Cuban team de-| feated Miami here, 1 to 0. \ Lefty Schemer pitched a great | gamendier: the Miamians but er- | came teammates caused his downfall. Torres also did well for’ Cuba. Lefty struck out ten and Torres whiffed six. Score: Cuba Miami Tore sand Quesedo; and Bandera. R. HE} 000 000 010-1 4 0} 000 000 000—0 7 5} Schemer | =o | Key West defeated Miami. 4 to 1 in a second game that aft- ernoon. Bethel pitched five scoreless | innings and George Washington Malgrat finished the game. Beth- | @ struck out six, Malgrat one} \d Adams one. i Bethel held the Miamians to ree hits. while he was on the | jound. res “— R. ‘H. E. : 001 O—1 jam) ey 100: Ad jose Bandera; Bethel. algtat.andsAl- riguez. Stolen bases: Lucilo. + 3 On July 4, 1938, Cuba defeat- ed Key West in the last game of the International Series between DESCRIBES POINTS, OF INTEREST NEAR CAMP- CARRABELLE STAFF WRITER ON co PUBLICATION OF 38TH DI-| THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A BROADWAY By GEORGE TUCKER AP Features Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—When VISION REFERS TO SUR-; the boss told me I was going to THE KEY WEST CITIZEN dispersed to Hollywood and to Washington and to other points, and new there is War, and though the tom-toms still beat along the | street that has been called Rue Re- gret, these are other days and other times. I went over to the Interna- tional Bldg. and put in an applica- tion for a passport that looks like a secret, censored passage out of the Arabian Nights. This paés- port calls for Egypt and India, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Turkey, { cholera. The smallpox took fast. |The typhoid threw me, which! pleased the doctor a great deal. | He said I was a wonderful sub- | ject. He was like a demolition ex- {pert at work on an old bridge, and I was the bridge. I don’t know why I am telling you all this, except that we are old friends and I hope you will remember me when I shift from the amusement sections to the front page and begin to write from other ¢ross-roads more. an-} THIS WAY’S TOO EASY TO QUIT THE ARMY (By Ansociated Preas) | CAMP UPTON, L. I, Dec. 12—| This soldier thought he had an| ;easy way to get out of the army. | One of the camp’s chaplains saw him in civilian clothes on aj bus, on his way home. Asked! THE SWAP - RIDE CLUB Officially Sponsored by Monroe Defense Council I hereby pledge co-operation in the patriotic “Swap-Ride Club” plan to help make my car last longer. To do this I will: Walk, ride a bus, ride with others, share my car when driving, drive as little as possible. oe ———— Address Time I go to work —_ —_ Tel. No —_—_—— Time I leave work __ ~ Hlahassee. (It takes a while to get | \dry pari jand a girls’ school. | pings, off Adams'3 in 2' innings, jest city in the vitinity. of P Sto watch the populz ‘chico 5 34 | Cairo I almost fell out of the chair, ROUNDING AREA, | | They were, to me, the most \im- {sto | long while, and for a moment my | wa) CAMP CARRABELLE, Dec. 12./ heart stood still, I didn’t know} I | &.N.S.)—Nathan Kanlan, a staff| whether to try to compose myself! and inoculated for typhoid, yel- low fever, typhus, writér on the “Cyclonef,” official |or to get up and shout, and so I| publication of the 38th Division|compromised by leaping up and| Russia. But Cairo | pressive words I had heard in’ a|hub..of the... wheel. cient,and. steried,, than . Times Square can ever. be. ios I expect ta be gone for a Jong time, but then, Broadway itself | will still be here. After all, it has already been here more than 200} is the first | p, and in| this war Cairo is the Whichever y the war rolls, I'll roll too. was vaccinated for smallpox, where he was going, the eee | said?’ tetanus, and | years. which is based at Camp Carra- | shaking his hand. | belle, pokes good natured fun at! He said, “Not so fast. There are | Tallahas and the surrounding,a few things we've got to talk| area in an article published last | about. -Before I send you out of} week. Kaplan says: | the country I want to give you “In spite of a nearly unshaken| the other side of what may ap-| first hand impression that Carra-| pear now to be a glamorous ex-} belle is next to nothing, cout- | perience.” ing mission reports t I said, “Yes, sir.” points of interest in the = if you care to reach them. “There are,” he went on, “Possibly the outstanding point | “great dangers involved. One of of interest, according to the Cham- jour foreign staff members is} ber of Commerce, is. Wakulla | missing and we fear he may be Springs, some 16 miles this side|dead. Another is a prisoner of of Tallahassee. Wakulla § | war. Still others have been in- is said.to be the deepest na’ 1| jured, or have had very narrow spring in the world. which | s. Many have become ill. fine thing if you like springs. | is no telling where a There is a hotel with beds and a|man in the foreign service, may dining room with food and you; be sent. In many countries the | might even get into the movies it| living conditions are terrible, the! Grantland Rice, 20th Century Fox | drinking water is dangerous, and and. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , are{noneé of the ordinary comforts of back shooting some more of Wa-j{ home is available. kulla’s lovely , bathing beauties “All such assignments now have | (it says in the advertisement). to be for the duration because of | “Wakulla’s publicity admits:) the uncertainties of transporta- | under the warm midday.sun the | tion. Former provisions for home} *gators and huge snapping turtles | leave can not apply in war iime. enjoy their noon siesta on fallen} “There is no likelihood that} logs along the way, and sleepy |Your family can join you. You moccasins coil on the banks of the | should make provision so that | stream, which proves that any-|they can carry on without you} thing can happen in Wakulla. | indefinitely. "This way from the springs is} “There are no regular hours in a place called Sopchoppy. There | the foreign service, and vacations | is nothing startling at Sopchoppy, | are on a cate! catch-can basis but any place with a name like | under present conditions. that deserves a visit. Think of] “This paints a very dark pic-| telling your grandchildren, ‘I was] ture. But it is all true, just as it| in Sopchoppy.’ is true that there are momentous | “The report next comes to Tal-| ¢vents to be reported and great} stories to be written. “Do you still want to go?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “All right. Get ready} to go. Write yourself a series of | farewell columns, Explain to your | readers that I'm not going to re- place you. When you leave—this column fades out—at least until the end of the war. The impor- tante of this war cannot possibly be over-emphasized, We all have too great a stake’in the outcome. It.is.more important right now than anything else, and this in- cludes’ first nights, country clubs, and cafe gossip.” * * e). Tallah sa ; which’ shouldn’t' daunt the rugged 38th, “Louisiana” divi; sion. The town is famous: for a couple! of elaborate tdurist courts It is the larg- Populas | tion 16,000. The Floridian Ho: | tel has a nice porch from: which jon go by. “Tn the other direction is Appa- lachicola, (pronounced . Appala- a). It has a USO club; oys- ters and a population of 3,000. ! You.cap.wateh the population 20, byt Srowpany: Plaga ARN ; | 1 to Tallah FIPPLILLIPAAFAFAPPPLAPFSAIPALIPLPPAPPZPLPEL LL LD * * OF GREAT DIMENSIONS’ I thought back over the old by gone days when the Butter & Egg men were around, when the “Hello Sucker” era was in high tide and when Broadway—or was it Wall Street—was still the real |center of the world. Gradually Grif- | some of that importance has been DETROIT — The crater of th Alaska voleano, Mount Katmai, would hold all the buildings of New York City. Malgrat, H. Gates and C. fin, Al. Rodriguez. A. Acevedo, | ° — : :: Falla 2,| lommie’s SKATING RINK) Cordero and Abre uck out: SUMMER SESSIONS Queredo 5, Malgat 3; bases on| Afternoons! Tues. - Thurs. balls: off Queredo 2, off Malgrat) | and Sat., 2:30 - 4:30 2, off Gates 2; hits: off Malgrat | Every perenne 0 ps p.m. 7 in 3 and 2-3 innings. | ies Inv eek SKATE for HEALTH'S SAKE Phone 9116 Sotolonjjo TO BE CONTINUED _| Lessons “All the Jewelry It Does MAKE A DIFFERENCE Where You Buy Your Christmas Gifts “It's Easy. to Pay the People’s Way” ) Bees ai You, Want On Credit” The Gift that will live forever as 2 tribute to your devotion! Select your Diamonds from our sparkling selection and please them beyond words! Wide price range to suit all gift-gi as Oven Evenings for Your Convenience this city, Miami and Cuba. | Malgrat lasted only three in-| nings. Howard Gates came to} the rescue and went the rest of | the way. { The Queredo brothers formed | the battery for Cuba. | Score: Row. EB Cuba 000 213 O—6 11 1) Key West .. 000 1100-2 5 2 J. Queredo and D. 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