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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
Old EXPRESS
h0SS FAVORED

CLEVELAND. o.. July "a Res
eued from an express wagon. Billy
Dale. Is. the oldest stake horse a.
North Randall. will go TO tho post
q favorits IN tho classic Edwards
$4,000 pacing stake Monday. Wal
ter Cor. part owner os tho horse.
il driving Billy. Tho Edwards
stake IL the blue ribbon event for
the grand circuit opening meet.
Billy has been ciocked at goa.
and m trials this year tas stepped
2:0s without being paced. Billy's
chief rivals are Tommy Hurphy's
Tho Problem and Marvin Child's
Ben Earl
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
COLU MBIA
CREWS TO
QUIT

NEW YORK, July t5.-Are
the famous crews OF Columbia
no longer 70 gain fame for that
institution? II looks that way
today, following an announce
mont by officials that Column
bls 10 10 resign from tho inter
collegiate Rowing association.
There has been much talk Of Co
lumbia retiring from IT'S aquatic en-.
deavorB following the poor showing
made by the crews at the recent
regatta at Poughkeepsie.
Despite the fact that this uniyer.
sity has one Of the largest enroll.
ments In this country. Coach Jim
Rice has for several years past had
considerable trouble in getting ma.
terial with which 10 fill HIS shells.
No immediate action will be
taken, but at the present time II
appears that Columbia crews have
rowed their last race for some time
10 come. II not for all time.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
Some lrinne Ahead
for Fishermen

70. no. and q bottle Of rv-
grape Iulee.
We are going 20 hear some
hsh tales after Sunday. That's
the date set for the Seattle Fly
and bait Casting clubs picnic
TO Berlin.
"on 10 Berlin" 10 the cry be
Ing heard now In all angling
circles.
There are four streams Just
choek full OF Nsh waiting to be
caught. and no one will be
barred because he 10 not q mem
Der Of the club. The train leaves
the KING Of. station AZ Q .. m.
Sunday.
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by that eminent Irish gladiator. Bat
Ting Levinsky.
DILLON AND lEviN9kT
HAVE MET BEFORE

Battling Leyinsky and JACK Dillon
are old rivals. Until the meeting
last eve. Dillon has always had a
little the better OF the arguments
with the New Yorker Last night.
however. according TO the dope. the
fight was Levinsky's from bell TO
bell.
The crowd was small. and the
promoters lost on the show. The
bout was cut from a i5round doeis'
ion affair to a i0-round tango.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
Rebel Club Given
Slap by Governing
Golf Organization

BOSTON. July 1.-THE Wood
land Golf club has been refused
an active membership in tho Unit.
ed State, Golf association. This
club supported Francis ouimci
when no was declared professional
and this IL the associations come.
back.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
LOOKS LIKE DILLON
NET WATERLOO

Like our old friend Napoleon. We
must all buck up against our Water
loo sooner or later. Oftimes we
pass II up once. only to run face TO
face with IL nj another bend In tho
pathway. Such IL the case OF Jack
Dillon. who was defeated last even
ing In q ten-round tilt At Baltimore
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14

o'Brisn. shaw I. Giddinga H.iiyard.
Hoffman. Johnson. Three base hits--Ei-
dred Home run--Craver Double
piays--Srover 90 Hoffman. Hsaiey 20
Raymond 20 Ciddtngs Heaisy TO Morse
20 H-Aicy. III, BY pitched hsil--GrovsT
ard Levin. VIVA pitch--woisram. stolen
bases shaw. Johnson. Hoffman walked
Wolfram :. o'iaushiin /. MeGinnity /
struck out--N olfram g. O'LsushiIn l.
yoCinnity : Iiits-On oLAughiin. 10
In ~ innings. off NeGinnity. In -
innings Left on bssss-seattie 9. Butte
4 Tims-2ot. umpire-Finneran,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
Auto Speed Demon
Set New Mark for
Whizzing the Mile

OMAHA. Neb.. July 1s.-in the
elimination drive yesterday In
preparation for today's auto derby.
Ralph Milford hung up n now mark
for the other speed demons TO
shoot at He blurred Ills miles
per hour.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
THE SWEETEST SOUND


1t is good to hear the tinkle Of dollar in the till
And the sound OF ehdrens voices a music still
When the wedding bells ringing they disp OF cheer
That weary travellers les road delight TO hear.
But the golf bugs pleasure when he isn't looking
Is to hear the PUNK which tells him that his ball has reached
the
There is something fine and thrilling in the greeting of
friend
And reel when you fishing witS its merry click send
dozen glad emotions racing up and down your spine
And it's good listen the swishng OF the line:
There is charm night in hearing just the barking of your
But there's nothing beats the plunkng of the golf ball in
the cup.
BOXING WAY
evangelist.
he swings opponent
the vesse OF in e mans heart
cheerful
Louis Tho dimes Pierce acumulates win
a theological institution.
According a test
endurance and there nothing
wn
Peace These speeches Mathews taught him there much
be done for others that the happiness of life consists do
for others rather than for Yourself"
close student OF the Bible He the impulse
him
Bible Chicago lie Fredercss
October issa reared religious beliefs and member
OF 10 Christian church
BIRMINGHAM TO LOSE JoB
Fo walk the plank Toronto Canada according advees
the has failed TO going and the
former Cleveland release Red"
club another due for release
because he has no, been hitting OF late
NOTICES THAT CHICK EVANS LIKES
at don't succeed. try again
lonx m turning
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
NATIONAL RESULTS

At Chicago 6. Philadelphia 8.
At ST. Louis 20. Brooklyn II.
Al Cincinnati 81. New York 50.
No other games.
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WANT ANOTHER woloAsT.
WELSH foRouNO MIX

Larney Llchtenstein. who Ia man.
aging Ad woigast. ia scheduled to
leave Chicago tomorrow for New
York with a 5000 certified check
TO bet that woIgast can lick Welsh
In every round OF a io-round melee.
According to the dope. Ad Is AMI
ious to tanxie with the title holder
In a 20-round fracas. 1t II doubtful.
however. n New York will pay
much attention to wolxast after his
recent sorry showing with Welsh In
Denver.
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CONNER AND FARRELL
AlSo ON BILL

The semi-windup win be furnish.
ed by Joe Farrell and Earl Conner.
featherweights. This should also
prove a mitt-wieiting act worth sit.
eng thru Matchmaker Adams has
also lined up a couple Of bouts TO
be used as curtain raisers. Addi.
tional seats have been installed
and arrangements made for hand
ling a record breaking crowd.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
Vancouver Beavers
Victors in Melee
With Great Falls

agor Treager.
Arrangements practically are
completed for the meet Five
starters In the $4,000 Derby are
stabbed. A sixth. Dick Williams. Is
expected. The entries are:
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14

weight. Is In Seattle. having Arr!v-
cd yesterday from Nebraska He
claims the championship OF the corn
belt At bis weight and has clippings
and such to back his statements. He
may endeavor 10 get q bout here.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
REAL PAINLESS
DENTISTS
80. IT,.
VNlJ

In order TO introduce our new
twhalebonel plate. which 10 the
lightest and strongest plate Known.
does not cover the roof OF the
mouth: you can bite corn off the
cob: guaranteed Is years.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14

EASTERN FEArAERwgioHr
PUTS INTO PORT
Bringing with him q pretty good
record. Lawrence Hall. bantam.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
ALL-STAR
BOXING
SHOW IS
TONIGHT
BY EDWARD HILL

= There Is no doubt but that
Seattle followers of fistic
events are in for some pretty
clever mitt swinging this eve
ming when things get under
way at the Elks' club.
As heralded for some time.
the double main event will be
Johnny Tillman Of Minneap-
oils VS.. Eddie Pinkman Of Sc
attic. and Harry Anderson of
Vancouver VS.. Geo. Ingle OF
Seattle.
Attic the Ingle-Anderson
bout should prove every bit as
interesting. if not more SO.
than the Tillman-P inkman
melee. the greatest amount of
interest is conferred in the lat
ter mix.
plNkMAN WANTS TO
viNplcATE SELF
Eddie Pinkmsn has worked hard
and faithfully for his set-to with
Johnny Tillman. Giving credit
where credit is due. we know that
4nkman was not at his best when
he met Anderson. Followers OF the
ring who saw the lad that night
commented upon the fact that he
was putting up the worst exhibition
he was capable OF.
Pinkman knows this as well As
any one else. and this time took the
precautions he failed to take last
time.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-14
TWO WINNERS TO SHOW
IN RETURN BATTLE

matched for an argument that
should settle the question OF which
Is the best lightweight In the North.
west Pinkman is confident that he
can trim Tillman. and says his only
hope IL that Anderson bests Ingle.
so he can get return bout with
the lad who defeated him at the
last boxing show staged IN Seattle.
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q q q % q .
BIRMINGHAM TO LOSE JOB

III at first you don't succeed. try. try again
ITS a long lane that has turning
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29

Only a few are aware OF the fact
that indirectly the capture of Andre
was due to a woman's intuition and
to her quick decision.
During the operations of-the Ameri-
can army in the vicinity Of the Hud-
son, Lieut.. John Webb, an aid on
Washington's staff, was a frequent Wis
itor at the mansion of Gerard c. Beck
man at Peekskill. One day Lieutenant
Webb left a valise containing an
amount of gold and one of his uni
forms with Mrs. Beekman, asking her
not to give it to anyone without a
written request from himself or his
brother Samuel.
Some two weeks later a neighbor
named Joshua Hett Smith came riding
up for the lieutenants grip, talked so
convincingly that Mr. Beekman was
about to give it to him, when his wife
interfered. Smith got impatient.
"Why, Mrs. Beekman," he said, you
know me very well. Jack didn't give
me that request for his valise because
he was in hurry and didn't have time
to write it. But now he needs his uni
form right away and must have it. 1t
isn't as if you were giving the valise
to stranger"
But Cornelia Beekman's feminine
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29
gIlpelz:Z!!lgIDNiEEZ
%11 =

II was the mayor of a small town a
few miles away who dropped into the
Office Of a Pittsburgh lawyer to say:
1--WE are going to have a wide-open
Fourth OF July in our town and we
want a bang-up grafton. Have you
got one?"
my dear sir" replied the lawyer, Il
have got no less than seven, and
wherever they have been delivered
they have brought out wild enthusi-
asm. | will read you No. l."
Hold on a minute" said the mayor,
does No. 1 say anything about the
tea being thrown overheard in Boston
harbor?"
"Of course, that is a strong point"
1T isn't worth shucks! We have
heard it 20 times, and it's got to be old
tea with us. Does No. say anything
about the Mayflower?"
Certainly" replied the lawyer
Most Fourth of July orations start in
there"
1t won't start in there in our town
this year. The old craft is played out
How's No. on Bunker HIP"
Great, sir-great!"
Gut we don't want it. 1t wasn't
much of q scrap, anyhow. Does No. 4
tell about the sufferings at Valley
Forge?"
Most surely, sir, and that touches
every heart in the crowd"
But our hearts won't be touched
by it," said the mayor.
But what sort of a Fourth of July
Grafton do you want?' asked the law
yer.
why, one about boat racing, base
ball, football, and If you could work
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29

sixth sense told her that something
was wrong.
ut is true that / know you very
well, Smith," she rejoined, sternly.
Too well to let you have Sans prop
erty."
Mr.. Beekman himself was inclined
to side with Smith, but his wife re-
NAMED firm and finally the visitor
rode off disgruntled.
Smith called for Lieutenant Webb's
valise on the very day of Andres
flight. Andre himself was in hiding
in Smiths house. Smith, it seems.
had heard Lieutenant Webb tell about
the grip and it's contents that after
noon at the tavern, and knowing that
Webb and Andre were both of the
same size had determined to get the
patrol officers uniform for the British
spy.
Had Andre made his dash for New
York, disguised as an aid of the COM
mander in chief himself, there is no
doubt that the American outposts
would have facilitated instead Of hin
dered his progress, and that he would
have reached the British lines scot
free. That he did not get Webb's uni
form is due solely to the keenness and
determination OF an American matron.
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29
Saved THE BANNER
How Mistress Day Won
the Last Battle of the
Revolutionary War
~sHE last battle of the Revolution

-< HE last battle of the Revolution
was not at Yorktown, nor was
it any of the small skirmishes
that occurred after the surren-
der OF CORVALLIS and before the for
NAL declaration OF peace in 1888. The
last battle was of the nature of duel,
and it happened on the day the Brit
ish evacuated New York, says Youths
Companion.
The great day that was to see the
last of King George Ills regiments
leave these shores finally arrived. The
British army was to board the ships
that lay In the harbor Washington
and his troops were waiting at Kings
bridge and McGowan's Pass to take
possession Of the city Immediately on
their departure.
Maj. William Cunningham, the Brit
ish provost on the common, gave one
last look about his office, tossed the
key on the table and went out into
the sunlight, slamming the door be-
hind him with much unnecessary vio-
lence. His infamous reign was over.
There were few forms of cruelty that
he had hesitated to practice on the
luckless Continental prisoners in his
charge. Among the mildest was the
contamination of their drinking water
by throwing rubbish into the well, and
the appropriation and sale of their ra-
tons for his own profit.
The friends and relatives OF his vic
Tins were flocking back to the city
triumphant, and it behooved Major
Cunningham not to linger So he left
the prison, turned into the common.
and crossed it to gain Broadway. lie
strobe along, muttering curses under
his breath At the corner of Broadway
and Murray street something caught
his eyes. He stopped, hesitated, then
turned aside and FASTENED down Muir
ray street.
What audacity! What monstrous
audacity!" he thought. But it was
like that rebel spitfire, Mistress Day.
He would teach her one final lesson.
He reached the Day house, which
was a tavern near Greenwich street,
opened the gate, and shook his fist
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29

at the Stars and Stripes that fiuttered
from a tall flagpole, as if waving a
triumphant welcome to the Continen'
tai troops
Wrathfully he seized the halyards
and began to pull the flag down the
POLE There was something about the
action that soothed his rufIled feelings
He would at least take back to Eng
land with him one captured rebel ban
ner. But he had reckoned without
Mistress Day.
From her kitchen that patriotic
woman heard the creaking of the pull
ley on her Flagstaff. She tiptoed to
her front windows and peeped out.
She knew the major only too well,
and she determined to prevent this
final outrage. She flew back to the
kitchen and seized her broom.
In the meantime, with his back to
the house, the major was hauling
away vigorously A few more jerks,
and the flag would be within his grasp.
Bang! His hat suddenly flew off, and
Wtnl SCullllhB OOWn lnC III lis
establishment he continued to pull me-
chanically on the halyards. Bang!
Whack! The major saw many times
more than 10 stars, and the powder
flew from his wig in all directions. He
dropped the rope and turned about,
purple with Indignation.
Woman! Do you realize what you're
doing?" he roared. The broomstick
was in the air again, and the major
lodged. Whackl II struck him
squarely across the bridge of his nose,
and the field at once became ensan-
guined.
The bleeding officer now began to
take hasty counsel with himself. He
was late for the embarkation, the
American troops would soon be upon
the ground, his hat had received an
irreparable dent, his wig was in the
widest disorder, his regimentals were
stained with marks of the bloody af-
fray, his head was yet spinning from
contact with Mistress Days weapon.
He decided that discretion was the
better part of valor and FASTENED to
the waiting ships.
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THEY BELIEVED
IN AMERICA

One hundred and forty years ago some half
hundred men, sent by their communities to con-
cert measures for securing their rights as Eng
lishmen," became convinced that these could not
be obtained save by ceasing to be British sub
Jects" and declaring themselves american citi-
zens."
Let us look behind the formal phrases of the
immortal Declaration to the faith of these men
and of the people for whom they spoke. What
was the faith that made vital their appeal for
the justice of their cause and the righteousness
of their undertaking.
They believed in themselves; I'm their ability TO
do right and justice. They believed In the COM
petence Of stalwart manhood to govern itself and
to provide for the common welfare. They be-
lieved they could make better arrangements in
government than men had made before them.
They believed In themselves, In their people, In
America.
Americans of late have done a great deal of
fault-fnding with America. There is not so much
now as yeor or two ago. The spectacle across
the Atlantic tends to hush It. and to give new
point to the saying that "other countries" are
what make Americans proud Of their own.
In the light Of that spectacle end Of our Own
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29
AzoSoeHoG0ce tall

The president of the congress, John Hancock
with the secretary Charles Thomson, alone signed
the autograph Jefferson document on that date
Immediately afterward it was hurried to the Off
cial printer for congress, John Dunlap, to put in
type and several copies were made. BY next
morning the printed copies of Jeferson's Declara-
uon OF independence were in Hancock's hands,
When he came to write the proceedings for the
Fourth Of July, 1776, into the Journal of Con-
gress, Charles Thomson, secretary of the congress-
left blank space for the Declaration and 1t is this
broadside which appears wafered into the
space left for 1t in the Journal.
''This broadside was sent out to the governors of
the states to the Continental army, and 1t is the
paper from which the Declaration of independence
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29

and having red sash tied around his
middle and a cockade in his hat, ap-
peared and rode up and down the
streets, followed by crowd of admir-
ing small boys.
Then, couple of hours were de-
voted to lemonade, root beer, ginger
bread, and the way we licked them at
Yorktown.
Promptly at one o'clock the mill
tary company turned out. They were
IL strong, and they looked like con-
querors. They right-faced and they
leftfaced, and they marched off. fol-
lowed by the plaudits of the assembled
thousands.
Then the fire company turned out
and squirted water over Deacon
Hempstead's barn, and there was
feeling in every bosom that our town
was safe from Chicago fire.
There was a march to the grove.
There was oratory. There was cheer
ing for everything and everybody.
AT night there was fireworks. More
than two dozen skyrockets and Roman
candles sailed into the darkness, and
ten lunches of firecrackers were put
under an empty barrel and lighted at
once
When midnight came the weary pa
triots retired to their slumbers, and
next morning the only man or boy
who hadn't a sore throat, burned fin
gers, or a black eye was the man or
boy in some other town not patriotic
enough to celebrate the day.
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29
OF GREAT MOMENT IN HISTORY.

The declaration of American independence was
Of unecualed moment in history. AS the result
of that fact the United States Of America has
risen to greatness which has changed the face
OF the world. In little less than seven score
of years IL has changed us from nation Of peO-
pie scattered thinly along the coast Of the At
lantIc to n nation of over a hundred millions OF
people stretching over the whole continent from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and even into the
lands beyond the seas. Moreover, In wealth and
In material energy, as in numbers, 1t now far sur
passes the mother country from which 1t sprang
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29

was read to the people July s, when the Liberty
bell was rung and the first public celebration was
made in honor of the event.
Signed August 2.
"July 10 congress ordered that the Declaration
passed the 4th be fairly engrossed. II was
very beautifully done parchment. This is the
document which received the signatures of all the
members Of the Continental congress present In
Independence hall, August 2, 1776. BY this time,
however the membership had changed slightly, so
that rhe "signers" were not identical with the
body of delegates who had declared for independ-
ence n month before. Presumably 1t was at this
time that Hancock, making his great familiar sig
nature jestingly remarked that John Bull could
see II without his spectaces One or two OF the
signatures were not actually affixed until a later
date than August 2.
This is the treasured Declaration of lndepend-
ence now in possession of the department or
state" said Doctor Hunt at is kept in hermetic-
ally sealed case, which is opened only by special
order for very especa reasons. 1t is faded and 1t
would have been better If this engrossed copy had
been made on paper rather than parchment. 1t is
so faded that few of the signatures are recognize
able. Nothing can now be done which will perma
nenty benefit 1t.
81 believe the main cause of the fading was the
impression taken in 1923, by order of President
Monroe. Two hundred facslmilies were then made
TO give a CODY to each of the then living signers
and others Taking the impression removed the
ink"
ma
history let all true Americans today highly re-
solve on a new birth within their own souls Of
the faiths of those 40 years ago, Of faith In
themselves and OF faith in America
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29
TRIBUTE TO THE DECLARATION.

The historian Buckle was cordial and sweeping
In his praise of the Declaration. He said among
other things: "That noble Declaration ought to
be hung up in the nursery of every king and
blazoned on the porch of every royal palace"
II such were the brilliant historians idea II
was as Professor Tyler remarked. because the
Declaration has become the classic statement Of
political truths which must mt last ubosh kings
altogether or else teach them 90 identify their
istence with the dignity and happlrs~s Of human
nature"
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29
Most Widely Read Document.

One hundred and forty years have
passed since the Fourth of July, 1776,
when the Declaration was signed, but
that epochal document is still read
md reread with fresh glow. Many a
ichoolboy has committed II to memory
md all intelligent men are familiar
With its style and with its ST. tement
Of grievances against the British king.
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29
ErD nwEsE WAS oRAposS.

sunrise, and cheered for the Continen-
tai congress.
Then the Stars and Stripes we're
hoisted to the top OF the hickory pole
and we hurrahed for General Jackson.
After breakfast the marshal of the
day. mounted on his old white mare
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North caroIIna,a Hero.

Concerning John Penn, the signer
OF the Declaration, from North Caro-
lima, it may be stated that his Dor.
trait is shown in the New York City
library collection of Colonial portraita