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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

JIMMY CLABBY HAS A LEG
UPON WELTERWEICHT TIT

BACK IRON bis round the. g,..I.
tour Jimmy Clabby has bursa
that he wants the welter~e e',,a
title Tho sturdy young Yank ~, ~.
and defeated some good M, 4
Australia and be Lost a deelsia.
10 Dave Smith. the llgbt be.s o1
weight who beat PaDke.
Clabby'h English experience v..
not exactly plea ant lie slynss
with Mclnipsh for three fight sss
10 the frat hls hand broken in
training. went back on bin. ana ~
had 10 fight ono handed he ~.
"bOO-cd by Tho aporfs. who 49,
sured him FOR entering the ~.
while unable 10 % himself lusi,es
Clabby VIII rest for some Tina
and when DTS broken hand mends
hc VIII return ~ the game. seeklsy
matches with the toD-n0teh welters
ln this country
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Struck out = Ny fufchncr. " by
l4amilne. 4. BY bloomfield. 2 Bases
on halls-Ou Furchner. /. OF
Skee's. /: of Lamllnc. 4, Off
Bloomfield. o. Wild pitch Furch.
ner Passed ban Shea. Left on
bases Seattle. 3. Portland. O.
umpires Kane and shackleford.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

taking hlA schiller IN hand. wrote
what be thought the player was
worth 10 the team
satisfy your ho inquired
lntyre and then he made a touch
and disappeared The fact that
Mcintyre viii be- valuable 20 the
Cubs was apparent Ia the first
game hc pitched lie defeated
Pittaburg. giving the Chicago team
ila first victory ~ the season lie
had dazzling stuff and served H.
West side fans are predicting he
wiil do shat Brown used 10 do and
whst Cole did last season.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
Lookl RoLLER WINs

Doc Roller has thrown mani
This glad news comes from Chicago
today. where last evening he pinned
William Demetral 10 the mat IN two
straight falls. the first coming in
I hour n minutes and the second
IN IS minutes.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
ATHlETE injured

NEW YORK. April g Jim
Crowley. the irlah.Americhn aaso
citation athlete. vii be laid up for
several weeks lie Was Injured
about the face and head yesterday
by a bolt that fell IA stories
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

The grammar school athletes az
Kitsap county viii hold a big an.
uual track meet az Pleasant beach
next Saturday afternoon. II "a ex
pected that 500 viii be- entertained
In the classic events and big
crowd will turn out
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
MARATHON UTILIZATION

NEW YORK. April Is. sam
Lazarus Of Philadelphia has won
the marihon billiard match here.
making 800 points 60 his nearest op.
ponents 495. II took ~ hours TO
play OFF the match.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

AGGlEs nEEEArFn

The u. Of " ball team trimmed
the boys from Oregon Agricultural
college In a spirited game on Denny
field yesterday The score was
2 TO 0.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
SEEKING GAMES

Palace Market team wants a
game for Sunday. preferring out-of-
town engagement. The manager Is
X. w. Scott. ls7 10Th ay.. Seattle.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
EASY COR MELIs

fBy tnif~d pr-~~ f~a~~d Wire
LONDON. April rs nombardier
Wells today Is accredited easily the
best English heavy. following his
knockout OF Ian Hague last night.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
WHIps Klp RRoAr

According to a dispatch from
Memphis. Tenn. today, X. o. Brown
whipped Kid Broad. one.time
speedy ring artist. last night in an
eight-Tound contest.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
FOR BATTLE TODAY

Queen Anne high school ball
team will do battle this afternoon
with the Lincolns. The game Is
scheduled for 3 O'Clock at Lincoln
park grounds.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
'Batted for Shea In ninth
"sBatted for Skeels in ninth.

sBatted for Lamline in ninth.
Score by innings:
Seattle 800 0 0O3 III o &c
Portland 80 90 OO3 6--l0
Hits by innings:
Seattle ...0 % 12i 2 o 0-6
Portland % o O01 o. 81
Summary: TWo-base hit--Mun-
dorff Sacrifice hits - Raymond.
Davidson. Kading. Williams, Har-
ris. Sacrifice Furchner. Runs
Off Furchner. s; off skeels, 4. Hits
of Furchner. s: off Skeela, l.
Opponents at bat-Furchner's 80;
Skeels', 4. Six runs and s hits off
Lamline In 3 innings. Opponents
at bat--Lamllne's, 20; Bloomfield,
3. Stolen bases Cocash, Buea,
Leard. Kading. Casey, Williams.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
lips FROM lip wRIeHT

Opponents for Packey Mcfarland
are as thick as honest men at a
come-on convention
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Johnny Klibanc beat Al belmont
with ease and drew with Monte At
tell. Then belmont hung Il on
Monte. The answer. pleaBel
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Harry Mcintyre. ex-bridcgroom,
promises 10 DO the mound wonder
OF the Cub corps Just Chance 8
luck. or maybe Il was foresight.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Chuck Taft. whose father sits
at the head Of the White House
breakfast table. Is water boy OF the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Taft school nine That's the way
lot Of them started
Love may be blind as a bat. but
the little cuss has long ears.
The Jap invasion seems 20 be
along baseball lines Waseda var.
sity Is tailed by the Keio bunch.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
AMERICAN LEAGUE


r. H. r..
Boston ..s.. .ss.......i /
Batteries Plank and Thomas.
karger and Carrigan
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

u A. Schoitz was defeated In
the opening game OF the pool
tournament At Brown q Hulcn's
room last night by william I'D
luud. The score was 90 10 81.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

n O. Dean will meet Roger
Graft IN the prize pool tournament
at y. q II. rooms tonight
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

batteries Hamilton and Clark
Lively aud StanaFe.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Port Townsend Cubs were de-
feated by the Comets at Port
Townsend Sunday. Score was 2
to 7.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Broadway High school second
team won from the Lincoln sec
ond team IN a speedy game yester
day afternoon. The score was 5
10 T.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Tho Rayensdale Tigers defeated
the Maple Valley Cubs by a score
Of rs TO yesterday Battery for
Ravenadalc. Smith and Caatange.
for Maple Valley, Jean and Jacob
son
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Manager Harry Furukeowa Of
the Nippon ball team tall.Japan.
eael is looking for a game for next
Sunday Telephone him I'm the
EVENING" al A 2ssf.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

Walter Madigan has been chosen
manager Of the Broadway High
school ball team.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25

When
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was glva
departuiI
formal (
the forrfl
conInisa
earliest
The z
Boyle
LIQUOR,
often VIZ
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-25
A. Philadelphia.


Burns suEga and Clarke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

yard and pulled down the clothes-line. With this bundled up in his arms, he ran to the old cellar where poor little Mary was still sobbing from fear and discomfort. She was wading aimless- deep in mud and water.
 Here, put this around your waist" cried Teddy, tossing one end of the rope to her. And tie it well-so it can't come undone, for I'm going to pull you out. Seer"
 . Mary nodded her little head and stopped crying.
 Its tied good and strong, Ted" cried Mary, hope in her voice. She felt so safe, now. A few minutes be- fore, she had been afraid her end had come.
 "All right" replied Teddy. And now I'm going to begin pulling slowly. Help yourself up the side of the wall by sticking your toes into the soft dirt Are you ready?"
 "Yes, I'm ready" replied Mary, be- ginning to assist herself by climbing while Teddy pulled hard on the rope
 But Teddy found it no easy job drawing a heavy little eight-year- old girl up that slippery wall. Every once in while she would slide backwards losing much of the headway she had made. But patience and determina- ton on the part of both the children soon prevailed, and Teddy had the pleasure of landing the little girl or top the ground again. And such joy as filled the heart of Mary. She knew
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Tke Fate of a Selfish Sparrow.

enough to dispute his right to the en- tire piece of cake. And as he sat eat ing and eating his little breast began to swell out like small bay-window, and he got so heavy from over-eating that he found he could not frisk about as lively as usual. He had always been gluttonous, but this cake was so dainty that he fairly gorged and gorged, and after he had eaten half of 1t, he sat perched upon the other half so that no other bird might enjoy it.
 Several sparrows were watching him, and in their own language, were deploring his ugly habit of making a selfish, stingy glutton of himself. He's getting repaid for his gluttony." remarked one pretty little bird who had satisfied himself with a few dry bread crumbs. "See, he can't manage his wings-he's so full.''
 Indeed, and so he Is past naviga- tion," smiled another sparrow. also slender and graceful from eatin. $. temperately. He's so full his eyes are bulging. I do believe he's getting ill.,"
 Then they gathered nearer and be- gan watching the sparrow that was perched upon the piece of cake. He really seemed in great misery. and oc- casionally he'd flap his wings as if trying to fly to his nest in the tree, but so heavy was his body from overeat- ing that he could not budge. So there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
The Resurrection of Little SkccZZy

into the big living room with an open letter in his hand.
 My dear" said Mr. Richards, ad dressing his wife who was fixing a toy for little Jimmy q have an offer for the old hom estead. Guess I'd better sell It, as 1t has been of no value to me all these years. The tenant, MT. Jones, offers me a very fair price. So I think it wise to sell"
 Its the old place where you were born, isn't it?" asked Mrs. Richards, looking up from her work.
 "Yes, dear, my old birthplace. But it's been going down for years, and now there's nothing in 1t for two peo- pie. l shall stop dividing the products with my tenant. It leaves him too little for him and his family to subsist on. So I shall sell 1t to him for the sum he names."
 I've always 1onged to see that old place, James," said Mrs. Richards. Suppose we make little journey there for day or two. Then you can complete the business of the sale to your tenant"
 oioulu eUJOy lI lfnmenDely, ue- clared MT. Richards. So the time was set for payiIe visit to the old home- stead and tlle three set out by train. Little Jimmy loved riding on the 'choo-choo cars" and was as happy as he could be. When they reached the old home-the house nestling among great trees, grown old like itself, a throb of happy remembrance came in MT. Richards heart. "Ah, how I used to race down this old turnpike," he said, waving his hand towards the great public road they had just turned away from on entering the gate.
 Everything about the old place held interest for Mrs. Richards, who. wom- an-like, loved to -ummage through old chests and boxes.
 ''The storeroom Is just as your own mother left it." informed the tenant. My wife has never touched a box or chest, saying all those things packed away belonged to you and that some day you would come for them."
 MT. Richards laughed. but said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

he'd go up and look through the store- room, and if he found anything dear to him. would take it away.
 Mrs. Richards soon found the place where old toys were packed in little broken boxes Some were in a dilapi- dated state, while others were well preserved. But not one of these in- animate things reused a tender mem ory in the breast of the man who had played with them as a child. But suddenly Mrs. Richards opened a little black pasteboard box and took out a wooden dog. Immediately MT. Rich ards eyes filled and his voice was thick with emotion as he reached out his hands for it.
 My dear old Skeezzyl" he said, talk ing the wooden toy tenderly. "Oh, give the doggie to mel" cried little Jimmy, who up to this moment had expressed no desire for the old-styled toys his mother had been bringing to light.
 "Yes, Sonny, take dear old Skeezzy," said Mr. Richards. placing the little wooden dog in his sons hands. "But- don't handle him roughly, my man, for he Is dear to me. He was my fa- vorite toy when I was your age. I al- ways loved him-oh, so we'll" And MT. Richards sighed.
 And Skeezzy! Oh what joy came into his wooden heart at the sound of that voice which had been dead to him so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

he sat, in a spot, too, where the hot sun beat down. And after a heavy rain, you know how hot the suns rays feel, for they bring steam from the damp earth and 1t fairly cooks one sitting close upon the ground. And so it was with Glutton Sparrow. He was being steamed like lobster, and being so full, he could not fly to his nest in the cool tree where fine shade would have made him more comfortable.
 One by one the birds left him, flying to the lake some distance off to get a fresh drink after their breakfast. And after that, they passed away an hour bath, getting an occasional worm by way of finishing a spare meal.
 After being left alone, Glutton Sparrow became very, very Ill, and feared that he mus. die of acute in digestion. And how he longed and longed for a cool drink and dip in the fresh sparkling waterl He decided to call to a bird ard beg him to fetch him a mouthful of water, but his chirp was too wea., to be overheard by the birds down by the lake. Had they heard the wicked fellow. they would certainly. have come to his re- lief with water for they were good kind birds and paid good for evil, never bearing malice. But not one Of them heard the wall of distress com ing from Glutton Sparrow. and he sui. fered on alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

But Glutton Sparrow was too III to reply to the squirrels questions, and sat uttering little chirps of pain. Just remember this lesson, my fine fellow" said the squirrel, dropping te-all fours and getting ready to scamper off. "If one Jobs others of what rightfully be- longs to them, and takes unto himself more than be has any need of. he shall surely pay the price. But l fear the lesson has been learned too late. for you look a very sick glutton."
 Then, without word of sympathy (for why should one sympathize with so wicked 5ird?) the little squirrel frisked off among the weeds. hunt ing for nuts dropped there the day before by children who were picnick- ing.
 Just ..s the squirrel had disappeared, a great dark creeping form came through the weeds and piled up leaves. It came stealthily towards Glutton Sparrow, making not the slightest noise. Just before 1t crouched to spring. Glutton saw 1t. and a chill of fear passed over hic gorged- -burst- ing body. A cat! A cat! The most feared creature in the woods! At an other time-when Glutton could have used his wings-he would have given
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
.es. Hero Ted and Little Mary .es.

weed -bordered path for some twenty feet when he suddenly came upon an excavation. Some one had started to build a house, evidently, and had just got the cellar dug out and then aban- doned the project. Weeds as high as one's head grew about the crumb ling-in old cellar. Teddy again heard the cry of distress, and knew it to come from the cellar. He ran to the edge of the excavation and looked over.
 "Maryl" called Teddy. leaning over the edge of the cellar.
 "Oh, it's mel" cried a little girls voice, half-stifed with sobs. T fell in and can't get out. The waters most up to my waist. Oh, get me out, please! Who are your"
 I'm Ted Allan" informed Teddy, feeling that he had a difficult task before him. for he could see that re- cent rain had made the cellar walls slippery. And there were no steps leading from the hole.
 Don't be afraid, Mary. I'll soon get you out" he promised. He was thinking faster than he was talking, and this is what passed through his mind: "If I should go to old Grand father Long to ask him to assist me, it would take half an hour to make him understand what I was saying. And I have no time to lose. I must not go to Mary's home and tell the news, for poor Mrs. King would be frightened half to death, and it would make her worse. And there are no near neighbors---except the Longs. So must do the job all by myself"
 Then Teddy ran to the Longs back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

Master Cat the slip, but today he was helpless. One leap from the sly crea- ture and Glutton Sparrow's wicked life was at an end, and the park was rid of very selfish bird.
 Half an hour later the other birds returned to the place and looked about for the despot. But not a sign of him was to be seen. They looked up in his nest, hut he was not there. What had become of him anyway? Had he died and blown away? It was a great mystery. But none of them mourned his absence. And as the days went by. and he did not return to fight them away from the food brought by the good little boy and the good little girl. they began to feel happier. It was very nice to have no glutton around, fighting them all away from their share of the food.
 And the little grey squirrel, smiling to himself, never told the secret. for he had seen the sly old cat after it had gotten hold of Glutton Sparrow. "He had to pay the price," was all the squirrel said. And to this day, the sparrows in the park wonder where their enemy went to so quickly and so silently, and how he happened tQl leave the big piece of cake behind .x|
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
GRE4Z4RZZgZY
 - 4HERIC4
James MCNeill Whistler.

To quote from @ biographer of Whistler: While Whistler had all of the instincts and courage of a sol dier-never being afraid of anybody in his life-the routine galled him from the first. He was too fond of his pranks and too indifferent to the clock to make favorable record. The only thing he really excelled in was drawing, and here he easily led about to leave because of i'll health. In 1854 he was discharged as inef11- cient, the chief stumbling block being chemistry"
 But all along his great love of painting was growing within him. In 1855 he went to England, and after short stay there proceeded to Paris. He spent two years In the studio of Charles Gabriel Gleyre. But during his student years that followed Whist Ter showed lack of application, and was often careless with his draw ing. An anecdote is told at his ex- pense-or rather, at the expense of one of his earlier pictures. He had finished the composition of picture, a woman seated at a piano and a lit- tie child playing near to her feet on the floor A fellow student, examin- ing the picture in progress remarked dryly "Say, Whistler, hurry and put a hfth leg to that piano, or it will fall and smash the baby" Evidently the piano was in very bad drawing, and, off of canvas. could not possibly have stood up.
 But as the years rolled by Whistler became deadly in earnest in his work. However, his success did not easily follow. His was a peculiar person. ality and friends were not easily made. AS a rule, he disliked art dealers thinking them vampires, ever ready to suck the life blood of the artists. Consequently, he picked quarrels with themon every occasion and was there- fore reduced to sore straits very fre- auently One old-time friend of his has this to say of him in poverty: At times he would be obliged to bor- row enough to get cup of coffee. But through all this pipching poverty he was just as witty and gave him. self as many airs as in the days of his occasional prosperity"
 >But the day was dawning when he should know great renown on both sideg of the sea. Each day of his later life he might pick up dozen papers, and magazines to find some where in their pages mention of him. self. Sometimes the notices were per sonal-of an adverse nature; again they were fiattering. Whistler en- joyed one kind as much as the other. He often boasted of his tact in mak- ing enemies' Perhaps he made them where he knew they would do him the most good--furnish him with the highest-csass advertisement His
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

eTKWAY upstairs, in the store
 room, inside a box lay little
 old Skeezzy. He was only a S m wooden dog. but he had feel ings. for all that.
 Little old SkeeZzy was young once. and as pretty toy as a yellow haired five-year-old boy could wish for. And there had been a yellow-haired. five year-old boy, too, who had loved wooden Skeezzy fondly. Day after day the little boy, those name was Jimmy, would run up and down the turnpike, pulling Skeezzy behind him, for Skeezzy was on wheels.
 But time came. when Skeezzy was two years old, that Jimmy'got too old or too sensible (if 1t Is sensible to forget one's old toy friendsD to care longer for Skeezzy. So Jimmy's moth- CT put Skeezzy away upstairs, in the storeroom.
 Some day Jimmy will enjoy look ing over his old playthings." Jimmy's mother had said.
 But the years rolled on and on, and Jimmy became colleg3 boy, then young law student, and then a man, practicing his profession. And his good mother was laid to rest beneath the spring roses, and Jimmy-now James Richards, Esquire-was left alone, for his father had died while Jimmy was little tot, and he had no sisters or b-ot',ers. So, finding himself alono, he gave up the old homestead-rented 1t out to very nice couple, and took himself off to large city where he spent many years getting famous and rich. And then he married lovely lady, and they continued to live in the big city where they had very fine home.
 And in the course of time, boy was born to them, boy who grew to look just as little Jimmy had looked in the long ago. And he ran up and down the gravel walks of their country home, where his parents took him for the summer. And he had toys galore, too many for one child.
 One day, when the little Jimmy Che had been named for his father) was five years old, his father came