THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1948.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
· SPORTS • STORIES - PUZZLES - CRAFTS · GAMES - JOKES
'A BASKETBALL STORY YOU'LL ENJOY
FADER
His chance came. Rick a imed the ball at the rim.
"The guy has his own eqund," sald one.
cheering
"Pretty nice, getting a litt Just when you need it," sald another, wistfully. "Wish my gang wern here."
NICK forgot all about the smooth I stuff. His knees were raw. when the game ended, and his ribs felt as if he'd been rolling around in n cement-mixer. He'd heaved few wild passes, missed some more shots. But his set-shot had tied the score in the final minute, and one of his passes had led to the winning basket.
But he was feeling low, tired, ns he climbed the Агерд stairway, now
thinking deserted. He was
Fran. about Pete, and Tiny, and And the long bus rile, alone with his thoughts, back to Cranville. He pushed open the heavy door-and looked into deep, blue eyes.
"Hi, Rick."
"Fran!" He, awallowed. "You- you started that cheer?"
"Want a ride?" asked Fran, noring the question. "Dad's parked up the street. Pete, Tiny, the gang are with us."
SMOOTH STUFF
R
By Jay Worthington
ICK HOLLAND'S knees were quaking as he stood alone under the blinding basketball spotlight. The arena was in darkness, except for the white beam which began near the high ceiling and drove down on Rick's Bandy, crew-cut wonderful hair. It moment, being introduced as one of the All-Stars selected for the Fresh Air Fund game. But also terrifying,
Д was
"Rick Holland," boomed the loud-speaker, "Number sixteen. Leading scorer in the North Shore League. Cranville High School."
Applause made Rick's skin hot, then cold. Then he was dribbling the ball, with the spot light following him, to join the line of All-Star players. The feel of the ball helped him to think of normal things, of home, school-and Frances, Stedmari.
He thought about Fran, eyes; were like summer skies: blue, and warm one minute, and shooting lightning the next. The lightning had scorched Rick too often lately. Hie rating with Fran had reached, roughly, pitit
whose
Tonight's game was one hope. He would be playing with smooth bas- ketballers. No squares allowed. If Frat didn't understand after to night well, he could stop beating his gums about his feeling for per- Fran-a fection. And also forget dismal aspect
Fran would be here, she'd sald, if her Dad consented to drive her to the
game. What if
she hadn't come? Horrible thought
NOW the lights were on ond the
teams were warmlog up. Be- tween practice shots, Riek noted with approval that only male figures sat at the long row of press tables. Fran Stedman covered the games for the high school paper, back in Cranville. That was the trouble, Girls shouldn't be allowed to near the playing floor, where they would overhear a player's chatter.
YOUNG IDEAS Colourebus
T
JUKE MOY
TUIS is a good time of the year to start thinking about lown gomes and where you are going to in store the equipment. A closet the basement is an idea. So is a partitioned place in the garage. A boy who is handy with a saw and o hatamer could build a backyard tool, house. Racks provide a storage and place for racquets, for bows arrows, too. Shelves are used for and folded nets, balls, horseshoea shuttles. Archery, horseshoes, lawn bowls, shumeboard, tennis, corquet and badminton are all games that provide fun if the equipment be trotted out at a moment's notice, clean and roaring for action.
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By Calvin A. Fader PUZZLE
BE
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can
EA
the CRE.
being The old egg trick is still
line the squires and ig-played. You
ma'miselles in a row, Throw first one in line an uncooked Throw it hard enough to smash in his hand. Not so good. Now you pick up a cooked cgt (no one knows the difference but you) and you instruct the next catcher must be more gentle. The scrated attempts of the line to catch before its cooked the ogg gently qualities are discovered makes for many laughs.
"The gang?" Rick couldn't think siraight. He mumbled, "Why didn't one of them come, instead of letting you stand here in the cold?"
Rick Holland's Angers tingled
"I wanted to come." Fran waited real excitement. This
cut
the a moment, then smiled. "Well, do with basketball! He
the
4
was towards
an
ho
exog-
Use crayon or water colours to fill in the spaces marked with letters. R stands for red, O for orange. Y for yellow, G' for green, B for blue, P for purple and BR for brown.
Magic Squares-And
How To Make Them
basket. His teammate didn't seem you want to ride with me in to see Rick, who relaxed. An arm front seat, or do you want to stand
Middy-blue is first call colour for MAGIC squares have never failed drop to the bottom, one row to the Dashed, and the yellow ball sudden- here all night?" Her hand stretched
perfec-spring. Mexicana, na orange-red, MA to mystify people since the days right of where you left off..
second. A passi It went awfully stupid grin, for a
blue-red when mathematicians first ly, was in front of Rick's startled forth. "And you're wearing
What
began runs a close crowd tionist.f The
A. to fool around with numbers. through his hands.
"Perfectionist, phooey!" he snort-named Salva is rated a topying third
by-teeners...
magic_square_is_a_square_filled with groaned, as the-ball rolled out of
which add to the numbers bounds. Madison took over, scored, ed, his grin widening.
total horizontally, vertically and Seconds
Rick tried later,
diagonally through the middle. dribble around his guard, who promptly stole the ball. Rick was dumbfounded. These fellows terrific!
to
were
"I've got to sink one." he thought. "Then I'll be all right.”
Mr. Punch's Remarkable Trip
-He Floated Over the Garden On a Cloud- By MAX TRELL
His chance came. Rick aimed the "ONCE," said Mr Punch to
bali
Knarf and Hanid,
the
at the rim. The Crimson shadow-children with the
arms,
names, "there
jerseyed guard became all threatening. Rick hurried the shot, turned-around and the ball floated over the glass was a little Prince who went backboard. The crowd hooted and
tooted at the sailing through the air on a A horn
Two All-Stor substi-magic carpet." whistled. scorer's table. tutes trotted across the yellow floor.
Hanld said she had read Rick was already slinking towards the bench when the referee called: story in a book. "Holland and Kazimir out!"
that
"I wish we had a magic carpet to the air on," Knarf He sat on the bench, miserable, sail through
The score sald. "But I don't know where to as the game went on. was 27-all at half-ume. The Madi- find one." son team began to edge ahead in the third quarter. All-Star subs went in, came out, but Rlek remained on the bench.
A flopperos, he was, a four-star Jerk. Peto Jervis on Tiny Todd out looked worse couldn't have there. He hoped none of the gang had come, Was Fron here? lie'd hear about it,-if-she-was
THE All-Star coach was standing, looking at his players. An All- Star had committed his fifth per- foul. It was a tight spot. sorial Madison was leading, 47 to 43. The coach paused in front of Rick, nod- ded.
"You look about ready. Get In there."
Whistles and cat-calls followed Rick across the floor. Fans recog nised No. 10. Rick's skin tighten ed. He could dish it out. Could ho take it?
Then he heard
or six Five sound. united in a weak,
"There are lots of carpets right Hanid. here in the house," added "But none of them do any sailing They just stay on the floor when they're taken outside and the dust shaken out of them."
Plenty of Carpets
except
"My dears," sold Me Punch with a smile; "there are plenty of magic. carpets sailing around the sky right now."
"Oh, my mean aeroplanes!" said Hanid,
"No, I mean clouds."
I
"But you can't go salling around on a cloud," said Knart.
"I did," said Mr Punch. "I once took a ane long sail on a cloud. It was lots of fun."
Mr. Punch's cloud went floating over the roof tops.
same
Here's how to make one which will always give the same total across, up and down and diagonal ly through the middle. The rules given here apply only to squares with odd numbers of, rows and it
MAGIC SQUARES
|17 [24] | | 8 |16|CS DC ACABCAG
25
.7 14 16 65
BO
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15
20 22 65
A
ADAD
10 12 19 21
65
OBA
A.D
40 14 25 2
GS
TOTALS GS 65 65 65 CS CL
will work whether there are 3, 5, 7. 1. 11. and so an' rows in the square.
There are dve rows of squares stretched out when it rose up and drifted out of the window again, in the example, but you can make taking me with it!"
Knart and Hanid astonishment.
f
exclaimed in
D-When you reach the right side one exception to be given (with Inter) go-to-the-left-one-row-above- where you left off.
square
reach When you which is already filled, drop down one raw and put the next number in the square directly below where you left off.
F-This is the one exception to rules C and D. When you reach the upper right-hand corner, drop down one square and put the next number in the square, directly be- low where you left off, as in rule E.
KITCHENETTE
AUNT PROGY
LEMON DROP COOKIES
CORNER
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
1D
ACROSS
Ro-
1. Trying experiences. 7: lease. B. King of beasts. 10, Wing- like part. 11. Theatre sign (ab- 10. hrev.). 12. Representatives. Cooking utensil 17. Conclusions. 23. Compass point. 24. Encounter-
pheasants. ed. 25. Brood of Get up. 28. Dry arcas,
27.
DOWN
1. Shield
Genuine. bearing. 2 3. From 4. Indian mulberry, 5. To name in order. 6. Painful. 7. Whim. 9. Numbers (abbrev.). 13. Roof anlal. 14. Motor car fuel. 15. Blackbled of the cuckoo family. 17. Low haunt. 18. Wife of Geraint in King Arthur stories. 19. Surrender. 20. Leave out. 21. Promontory. 22. Santo (abbrev.), 28. Electrical term. 27. Railroad (abbrev.).
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Our
third
the
WORLD TRIANGLE Here's a hanging triangle. key word is SPRING:-The-socond word is "a carpenter's tool,"
degree of oicial standing.” fourth a writing Ould" and fifth "a compass point:"
SPRING
ADD-A-LETTER
Add a letter to "health
resort”.
and have "bridge," add another and have "to strike."
WORD DIAMOND
The centre of the diamond filled with TENANTS, with
second word being a golf term, the third canvas shelters, the fifth heat- am 13 years old and I
ing devices, and the sixth an ab- sending a very easy and delicious breviation for streets.
**T
am
recipe for Leinon Drop Cookies. I think everyone should know how to make them."
the with 25 rows following ono same rules. Tho numbers in the squares total 165 in any direction. lin. The letters lo the square show the "You really went sailing off on a rule which applies to the writing-in-
of the number: cloud?" cried Hanid.
A-Write the numbers in order, diagonally going up and always
•
start in the
middle
Mr Punch smiled. "It was lovely. garden, My cloud sailed over the By good fortune it didn't catch it from left to right. self in the branches of any of the trees. Then it went floating over
Д
B-Always
I the roof-tops, The moon was shin-square of the top row. ing and the stars were blinking.
C-When you reach the top (with looked down over the side. The view
exception to be given later) was beautiful. I could see the one Knarf and Hanid were eager to brook far below, looking like know more about this
cloud-trip silver string. The pond was like a that Mr Punch once took So they silver plate, sparkling with begged him to tell them everything beams. And you can't imagine that happened.
how comfortable it was to lie that cloud. It was softer than featherbed."
small new,
hod voices pitiful
locomotive.
"Watch that pass!" Rick would Rick tilted his head. It was bolabour clumsy Pete Jervis. "Give Cranville High
frst.
Late one Night
Coming Down
moon-
PUZZLE ANSWERS
on
0
1. Crossword puzzle answer:
"Well," he said after he had t bis pipe and settled himself com- cheer. fortably in his chair, "it happened Mr Punch paused, puffing at his
the late one night, after everyone cise The in the house was fast asleep. I was pipe as he remembered his wonder-
to fall
ful trip. rst. tying in my bed, just about to us a lead!" Or, whacking Tiny sound was almost buried, at
"How did you get down again?" Todd's fat shoulder, "Don't hold Then the crowd quietened, listening, asteop myself, when all of a sudden
usual "Cranville, I noticed something misty drifting Knarf asked at last. that ball fill the air leaks out! Move Instead of the
the cheer ended with "Holland! in through the open window of my
thought room. Hollandi Holland!" Rick
At first I thought it was just would he spotted Tiny Todd's wide, red some fog. But it was a cloud that sounded had lost its way and had wandered face. One rasping voice
into my room. like Pete Jervis.
"It floated around the walls and The fans chuckled, then applaud-
settled bit. Finally # seemed to be
saying, ceiling a ed. They
good hera. down on the floor, looking Okay, the kid's friends are
deal like a fluffy blanket. It took Okay, we'll give him a break,"
ed so soft and comfortable that His All-Star teammates grinned at got out of bed, just to see how Rick in the huddie.
on it. I had hardly felt to lie
And after a game, Fran
flushing, say, acidly, the lightning "If you'd pat the boys on the back now and then instead of making them feel like creeps, you wouldn't have to win so many games all by yourself, Rick Holland!"
"You've got to drive 'em," ho'd explain, forcing himself to be calm, when he wanted to tear at his close- clipped hair. "You have to be a perfectionist, liko a musician scientist."
or
"Perfect or not, everybody has feelings."
Feelings, in basketball, Rick glanced at the cool, nerveless faces are you, around him. "Where Fran?" he wanted to shout into the crowd. "Look at these guys!"
Rick was named on the starting Ave. He was proud of his "All-Star jersey, white with tiny black stars, and the white satia trunks, His All- Blars were playing Madison, Class "A" divisional champs, who their' regular Crimson-and-Gold uniforms.
word
with plenty of "body con
tacts"
action' was 'slam-bang from opening whistle, Smooth stuff, crowd, drive. The
and
voteran, basketball fans, wont wijd. The arena. echoed with the backlash of cheering and hand-clapping, groans and whistles.
CAN YOU BE COUNTED ON?
UR way of life makes us need each other.
Our could not live without the other CAN YOU
fellow's contribution to everyday living, and. he could not carry on without oura. And that is as true among nations as between in- dividuals, and as vital.
This
means that as individuals we must
·Blart prove ourselves dependable persons. now to learn to co-operate with your school- mates, members of your family, your follow workers, so that things will work better and more taally for everyone,
信吧
COUSTAD
OH
Begin to be more friendly and more understanding, to bulld
a spirit of integrity, sincerity, and goodwill that will prove you can be counted on to contribute your share to the good of the group in which you live. Once you realise ̈ihe' Im- portance of your attitude towards those around you and that it can affect even the neighbourhood in which you live you have taken a long step forward toward becoming a truly de pendable person, futa
When everyone learns this, we will undersland thai teamin „work, is not only the basis of our own happiness and, suc» ceas, but the very foundation of world peace and security,
it
"Er-how did I get down? Why," he added the next moment, smil- ing again. "I came down the usual why that you come down from a cloud. I came down with the rain."
"With the rain, Mr Punch!"
I dropped "Yes Indeed, gently as a raindrop into my room again. Then I climbed into bed and fell fast asleep."
*
Knarf and Hanid both wanted to nak Mr Punch whether he really hadn't been in bed the whole time. But they didn't. They wanted to keep believing his story about sail- ing on a cloud had truly happened, Just as he told it.
RED RYDER
AS ONE OF DONNA RINGO'S BANDITS
ENTERS THE EXPRESS CAR→
SPRING
PLANE
RANK
INK
NE
3. Spa, span, spank.
4.
TENANTS ETNAS
5. Washington became ass of richest tobacco planters in Virginia.
DON'T STAND THERE CAWK
SET THE GOL
OUTA THE
SAFEL
the
This note comes from Betty Ham-
cup shortening
cup sugar
1⁄2 cup light corn syrun
1 egg well beaten
2 cups Bour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons milk
1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Add the
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind, Cream shortening gradually with sugar and then the syrup. beaten egg and mix till light and fluffy. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with milk, Add vanilla, lemon juice and rind. Drop the end of a spoon onto a baking sheet and
from greased In B bake moderate oven about 10 minutes. Makes 75 small cookles.
NUT FUDGE
⚫ Peggy Simmons, 13 years' old, hav
a recipe for nut fudge.
3 cups sugar
2 cups milk
3 tablespoons cocoa
1⁄2 pound butter
teaspoon vanilia
Pinch of salt,
1 package marshmallows
1 packago nuts.
Blend sugar, cocoa and salt to- gether. Add milk and butter. Beat slowly and ofter mixture has start- marshallows. ed to boil add the Cook until the mixture forms a soft
from Remove. ball in cold water. slove. add vanilla
and and nuts beat until slift. Pour into a butter- ed platter and cut into squares after It pools...!
"I wish other children to enjoy this swell candy," says Perry.
Interference
RIDIN
THIS
THEY'RE HOLDIN’UP TH
TRAIN, ALL RIGHT? I HOPE
THAT POSSES
NOT FAR
BEHIND ME
F
N
TENANTS
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
You'll make sense out of the fol- lowing if you rearrange the words to form a sentence:
tobacco ond richest Virginia, Washington of planters in the be- came
Rupert helps Dr. Lion-20
Tigerlily sees Rupen off to the end of the conjurer's garden, and then she returns to the house whic the little bear decides to go home. He is now leeling very disappointed indeed. "I do want to help Dr. he Lion to get some sunshine." murmurs, "but I've no idea how to do it. I've asked three of our wisest and cleveres people, and they haven't helped a bit." His way lies along the edge of the wood, and as he gazes into its depth he suddenly Hop a bright new thought occurs to him.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
By Fred Harman
OKARCHER'S RIGHTS SOMEBODY'S SPOTTED US: STOP HIM,
JOE