I A « â€" I â- â- 11 !â- II n „ I - ^ I IP^iF^EATHoN THE Zga I li^lM/IAMOND W;<- i (â-º:' K^L^W BY CORTLAND FiTZSIMMONSlW J 'k g ^= ^^^ _ ^â€" -^^^^^^^^ .5 INSTALMENT 1 Subways, elevated trains, buses, •trcet cars, private automobiles and taxicabs were loaded with eager, hopeful fans making their way to the Blues Field to see Old Pop Clark's Royal Blues of New York play their first game of the season in the United League. The United League teams for the season were: Philadelphia â€" known as the Runners. New York " " " Blues. Wa.shington " " " Feds. Boston " " " Indians. Chicago " " " Butchers. St. Louis " " " Uubcs. Detroit " " " Bears. Cleveland " " " Keds. It was a glorious spring day, balmy with the warm promise of summer to come. The fans had been hearing good reports of the new Blues and were coming out to see what would happen. Tlie bleachers filled early and boys selling pop, beer, hot-dogs and eskimo pies were doing a rushing f separaiely WYOpp^l. AIR-11GNT ROYAL YEAST CAKES . keep Full Strength Royal Yeast Cakes and Royal Sponge Recipes make perfect breads like these . . . Use Royal "Yeast Cakos and you'll be sure of jjcrfect leavening. That's be- cause each cake comes indmtlunUy Drotected by its own air-light wrapper. No other dry yeast has such i)rotection. You can bake with Iloyal Yeast Cakes the day you buy them â€" or weeks later â€"and count on the same line results each time. FREE- A liooklet You'll Want "nie Royal Yca*t llako UfMik'* Hives 1 1' s I e d Royal Sponilo Ruclpvs for all (he hrcuda Hhowii alHivo and many othors. K U K E . Mall coupun. nilY MADK-IN- CANADA UUOUS ROYAL YEAST STANDARD BRANDS I.IMITF.O Fraicr Ave. HiidLlberly St.,'roruiito,Oat* FIriite •end ma tba tnm Rojral Vaatt B«kc Uook. Name. Street - Town _ business. The stands were beginning to fill up and it looked like a record- breaking crowd for the opening game. Each time a subway train rolled into the station across the field, hundreds hurried toward the gales. Men and boys were assembled in groups on the bluffs, and the surrounding house- tops were already black with people who couldn't or wouldn't pay the price of admission, but still wanted to see the game. In the clubhouse Pop Clark was talking to his men. "There's a great crowd out there, boys, and it's up to us to come through for them and for ourselves. We've worked hard and I know we have a good team and I'm sure we will come through this year if not at the top, at least so close to it that we will pull good gates, make a lot of money and be all set for the pennant next year. Of course," there was a twinkle in his eye as he said it, "I won't be too sore at you if we should hit the pennant this year. You never know what will happen in baseball. I have confidence in every one of you and I want you to work together. If there are any personal quarrels among you, which I don't know about, I want you to forget them while you are out there. You are playing ball for nic and the Blues, and just re- member there arc thousands of loyal fans waiting to see us climb up the ladder to the place the Blues deserve in the league. Give them their money's worth." Pop knew what the loyalty of the fans meant. He was one of the last of the old-timers who knew baseball and baseball audiences. He was a canny manager and a keen judge of human nature. Ten years before, his Fire-eaters were the talk of the na- tion and were winning everything in sight. Pop realized that the fans were growing a little tired of the invincible team which wore his colors. It was at that time that he made his greate.st mistake in all his years of baseball management. He disbanded the fam- ous Blue Fire-eaters, scattered them to the wind and the greed of other managers. Pop thought he could build up another team just as good if not better than the Fire-Eaters. He tried, tried hard, but he had lost his magic touch and miracle refused to happen. He bought and traded good men, gave them all he had; but each year, after a short whirl of winning a few games, his teams lost and lost until they finally sank into the cellar and stayed there. The fans were loyal and came back year after year at the beginning of the season expecting Pop to produce a winning team or at least a team which would give them the thrill and excitement they expected. Sports writers suggested that there wag a jinx on Pop and the fans believed it. Pop knew all the tricks of the game and invented some new ones, but he had not been able to crash through. Pop had never been kknown to say "enough" and even when he was lick- ed he didn't know it. This opening was a gala day, for Pop and the Blues. He really be- lieved that at last he had assembled a good team, but the sports writers were not inclined to believe in him or the team. The general opinion was that Pop had a better team than usual but that it would be nothing more than a flash in the pan â€" a few games won and then another dismal failure. The fans were willing to be shown, but the odds were 200 to 1 against the Blues and there was no fan money being bet on them before the opening game. Frances Clark, Pop's daughter, was sitting in the box waiting anxiously for the team to come out on the field. Frances was young and extraordin- arily pretty. Pop called her his one indiscretion after forty and he said it with a warm light in his eyes. Pop had married at thirty-eight and for a few short years had been happy with his wife. Then Frances came, after four years, and his wife died. Pop never married again, because his only interests were the team and the baby girl. She had been travelling with him since she fini.shcd college and he found her a keen judge of men and an excellent adviser. He had tried to keep her away from the team as much as possible while she was a growing girl. For sonic reason, which he never explained, he did not want her to marry a baseball man. From the moment she had met Larry Doyle she had had different ideas. Pop sensed the growing ro- mance and tried to nip it in the bud. lie talked to Frances al)out Doyle, and she tried to understand his feel- ing, but would not proini.sc him any- thing. She had too much of his own lighting spirit to quit without a strug- gle. She liked Larry Doyle and knew that Larry Doyle liked her, just as a woman always knows when a man is really interested. Frances did noth- ing to make Pop feel badly because of young Doyle. She refused to go to the movies or the theatre with him, ' but she did speak to him every chance .she had. (To he Continued) I i Issue No. 36 â€" '36 i Home Hints By LAURA KTJIGHT With late summer eoine the as- ters, marigolds and josmfs and a table set with pale rU3Jc-t asters, briglit yellow marigold:' and white cosmos, just needs a big Devil's Food Cake to make a perfect combination of color and something good to eat. For luncheon des.sert, an afternoon or evening bridge game, it is one of the most popular cakvs one can serve. Try it just once and you'll have a reputation for serving the "grandest eats ever" in the way of cake. Here is the recipe for the cake, the filling and the icing, but do you know how that little decorative wreath around the top of the cake is achieved? Just take a sharp knife and scrape unswoetenec) chocolate from the sold cake. It will go In little curls and tiny feathers of rich brown which taste good too. Devil's Food Cake 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda V4 cup butter or other shortening 114 cups brown sugar, firmly packed 1 eggs or 3 egg yolks, unbeaten 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add the soda, and sift together three times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each; then add chocolate and blend. Add flour alternately with milk, a small am- ount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased deep nine-inch layer pans or three greased eight- Inch layer pans in moderate oven (350 deg.) 30 minutes. Spread Seven-Minute Frosting between the layers and on top and sides of the cake. Double recipe for three ten- inch layers for large party cake, as pictured. Seven-Minute Frosting 2 egg whites, unbeaten IH cups- sugar 5 tablespoons water 1 teaspoons light corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla. Combine egg whites, sugar, wa- ter and corn syrup in top of double boiler, beating with rotary egg beat- er until thoroughly mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water, beat con- stantly with rotary egg beater, and cook seven minutes, or until frost- ing will stand in peaks. Remove from boiling water; add vanilla and beat until thick enough to spread. Makes enough frosting to cover tops and sides of two nine-inch layers, or top and sides of 8 x 8 x two-inch cake (generousyl), or about two dozen cup cakes. Câ€" 2 THIS WEEK'S WINNER Raw Carrot-Raisin Salad 6 carrots 2 tablespoons honey or currant jelly 1-8 to ',4 cup raisins M cup mayonnai.se French dressing, if desired. Crisp salad greens. Grind the raw carrots through the fine knife of the food chopper. Add the honey or jelly and then enough mayonnaise to moisten the carrots, slowly until thoy are puffed. Drain slowly untilthey are puffed. Drain and wipe dry. Scatter through the carrot mixture. Mold and serve on crisp greens. Tomato Cocktail 18 ripe tomatoes 1 cup chopped celery H cup chopped onions a sweet green peppei-s 1 sweet red pepper 2 tablespoons salt 2 table.';poon3 vincsar M cup sugar. Wash and cut tomatoes, but do not peel. Chop the peppers finely. Mix tomatoes, celery, onions, pep- 1 pcrs and salt together. Boil for hall an hour. -Strain through a coarse sieve. Add the vinegar and sugar.' Hoi! three minutes. Seal in sterilized jar.s. â€" Ruby H. Church, Box 292, Zurich, Ontario. ATTENTION! Send in your favorite recipe for pie, cake, main-course dish or pre- serves. We are offering 51.00 for each recipe printed. How to Enter Contest Plainly write or print out the in- gredients and method and send it together with name and address to: Household Science, Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Charming Street Frock With a rVvor Yoke niH-B- This alluring double-duty day- time frock is modish, simple, in- expensive and the proud possessor of a finished fitted silhouette. You'll find the scalloped closing at the yoke decidedly flattering, and an exceedingly youthful effect achieved by the notched collar and casual design of the set-in sleeve. A very simple bodice gathers frfee- ly to the yoke in front and back, topping an ultra-smart skirt that boasts a center seam dropping gracefully into a kick pleat. If you want a dressy frock, eliminate the pocket ami choose a dainty flower- ed or dotted cotton chiffon or silk. For sports, whether you partici- pate or merely look on, you'll want either monotone or striped shirt- ing, tub silk, or cotton. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1914- B is available for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 40 and 48. Size 36 re- quires 3% yards of 39 inch ma- terial. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write yuur name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully and address your order to Barbara Bell, 73 West Adelaide St., Room 421, Toronto. A blend of the world's most fragrant green teas "SALADir GREEN TEA Practical! I Here's a practical and smart dress for growing daughter. This princess dress buttons right down the front. It makes daughter quite an independent individual. She can slip it on and fasten it un- aided by mummy or nurse. The Peter Pan collar has a dainty scal- loped edge. The scallops are re- peated on the cuffs of the brief puffed sleeves. Or it may have long sleeves with sort of "puffed up" shoulders. French pantees complete it and make it perfect for kindergarten and school. Navy poplin with white collar and cuff trim made the original. The ijantees are navy. Pin dotted percale, plaided ging- ham, checked wool-finished cottons and wool crepe are other nice me- diums for this simple to sew pan- tee dress. Style No. 3156 is designed for sizes 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. Size 8 requires 2% yards of 35-inch ma- terial with Vi yard of 35-inch con- trasting for dress with 1 yard of 35-inch material for separate pan- tee. HOW TO ORDER PAriERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. GOODMAN BOOKLET SENT FREE iiinv EOOOBII^ 16-pago booklet tells Ben- ny Goodman'i history, his Ideas on swing music. . how he swings, how ho rehearses his liand. what kind o( equipment ho uses, and lists important I Goodman records. Send I postcard or letter for this I ires booklet; mention ia- Jstrument you play. ^^rimer •nt Have You an Aim in Life? The rao» may not ba to the Bwllt nor tlie battle to tba Btrouff â€" but, the iirlze* tn life DO go to the men- tally alert and eSicient. You can brlngr direction to beat on yonr Ufe and learn self-maBtery. 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