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Boxing News and Notes
BY FRED HAWTHORNE

Because Of a more or less lengthy &C
quaintance with big Bill" Wellman as
promoter of sporting events, and be.
cause of first hand knowledge of that
young mans dynamic qualities at
"whooping things up" we can't imagine
Bill as private" w. H. Wellman in
your Uncle Samuel's army.
1t would sound much nEre like the
boy promoters speed to hear him re-
ferred to as major General Wellman,
U. S. A., and we hereby predict that
Bill will have only bowling acquain-
tance with that private" prefix before
he starts to mount the military ladder.
Look at the furore that Bill is going
to raise in Madison Square Garden on
Tuesday night with Jack Dempsey and
Billy Miske, Jack Britton and Packey
Mcfarland and Benny Leonard and an
other rip-tearing lightweight fighting
for glory! Don't tell us that any mere
private could start such rumpus.
1t would not surprise US muchly IL,
when Wellman gets to France, he grabs
the Kaiser by the scruf of the neck
and puts the Pig of Potsdam on
against one of our army bantam
weights, and if his royal Hunship
tries any stailing tactics in the ring
Big Bill' Wellman is just the party TO
60 IN there and yank him cut bv the
slack of his riding breeches and tell
him TO go get rep"
That muss between Dempsey and
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held but scant neck's advantage
Cloud. though neither colts nor Jockeys
let down in their efforts till the finish
was reached.
Only One Big Upset
This upset in the feature race was
the only decided surprise of the dav.
Favorites won the first three races.
second choices the last two. St. Quen,
tin galloped off to a rather easy vic
tory IN the first event at six furlongs.
lie might not have had things so much
his own way had Keen Jane, the sec
ond choice, not bucked and thrown
Johnson just as the barrier was
sprung.
The Brook proved himself real
tlmber-topper when he won the ste onle
chase at about two miles in 4:Oo 4-5
just one second below the record The
third race was close fit for the fa
vorlte. Regal Lodge. A tremendous
play was made on Hank O'Day, but
this decrepit fellow behaved so scan
dalously at the post as to take preat
deal out of himself.
Dan, second choice, proved much the
best of the fifth at mile. racine bel
mate, the favorite, to stsndst;jl
through the last sixteenth. Jusou' au
Bout, favorlte of the last. blew up
after half mile. Farbrother then
came on with Nutcracker and by grace
of great finish was able to stand off
Vaiais's challenge for the prize.
George Smith, owner of the Brighton
Stable, yesterday presented the horse
Ed Roche to the breeding bureau Of
the Jockey Club
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avorites Lose
All Events at
North Randall

CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 11.-Prince
Loree, an outsider in the betting, wor
the $4,000 Tavern "Steak," the feature
of the Grand Circuit racing card a.
North Randall track here to-day, TAX
ing the first and third heats from Al
Ian Watts, which ruled an equal IA
vorlte with Gar Peter. The time for
the first heat equalled the stake record
of 2:O6A.
A crowd estimated as larger than
that Of yesterday, which was believed
to be record breaker, attended to-
days races. Not favorite won Holly
Rood Bob, q son of Peter the Great
and owned by Dodge Brothers. of Lex
lngton. KY, trotted the fastest mile
the local track, taking the second heat
of the third division Of the Fasig
Sweepstakes in 2:04A. BY trotting the
mile in 2:041a Lu Princeton made the
fastest mile of the season. Miss Di-
rected raced him from wire to wire
and was beaten by only stride.
Summarizes:
THE FASIG-THREE-YE R-OLD TROT-
VALUE, 66667-Third DIVISION
Hollywood Bob, b. c., by Peter the Great
Easton nst 70. g. by The Tramp (whitej
Chestnut Peter, CHI. c. by Peter the
selfa, CHI ~ f.. By by Peter the Great CFlem
John A Forbes. br c.. by Todd Forbes
sunny 5y''s Smiles. b. +. BY Peter Giltncf
Hilda Fletcher, b. f.. by Peter the Great
Truxton. b. c. by San Francisco (Cox). dis
Time ;OS1a 2:O4a4.
THE TAVERN sTAKE-vALUE, $1,000
TROTTING-2:1 :18 CLASS.
Prince Loree br e., by Prince Nc
Kinney (McDevitt) ...... .....;
Allan Watts, ch. h., by General
Royal Ms''S KniehIi oMh{p"g' b. g. BY Border
knight CWhite) .................
Frisco Worthy, b. g., by San Fran
car aar'P Peter. teri B. h.. by Peter the Great
SAsS' rlme-2:osi4. s:o7,.. s:osl
TRoTTING swEEPsTAKEs--2:o :o5 CLASS
VALUE, 800.
Lu Princeton. b. h., by San Fran
MISS G's'' Directed. iSSte br. M, by Direct
RoSsi Msl' Mac, fMcpsVls'' S 81. by Royal McNln.
"sy '4Hapny TimsWs o4i5. 2:o5l. 2:osA.
PACING-2:17 CLAss-PURsE. $1,000.
Belle Alcantara, b. m, by Sir Al
cantara .(McMahon J.. ,;;...,.;,..1;..
''d' Walentine, M .......4..s..4 ~ ..-'e'''
AsIy Todd King, Kin ''l.' ~ ''..'-'... 4''t
Seouet h M by Cochato (Erskine). 6 2
Billy Jackson. b g.. by Wayne
Patchen Murphy ........;:..-.
Big Frank D.. b. g., by Little Frank
(BeDnetO
Willie Fay, ch. g.. by Willy (Stur-
geon) ...-.:....,...
King Canuck. blk. g., by King Bond
Time O7l4, 2:OSia, 2:11%
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lack Hare, J:, Long Sets Pace
But Loses in Whipping Finish

tered and fallen eight good lengths in
the dust of War Cloud. 1t took no ex-
pert eye to distinguish the fact that
the Johren of the Dwyer Stakes was
at least a stale Johren Of the Belmont
form. 1t was apparent even then that
the race lay between Jack Hare, Jr.,
and War Cloud.
War Cloud Holds Place
Gamely and resolutely the stout
hearted pacemaker thundered on. AS
gamely and resolutely War Cloud pur-
sued. Hare had recled off a heart
breaking three quarters of mile He
had skinned the rail all the way
round the bent as closely as thrifty
housewife pares a potato in these war
times. But there was War Cloud still
a length and half only away
Here Lyke ficked his whip at Jack
Hare, Jr. The gallant marathon colt
Buxton then went to the bat No boy
knows better how to apply the lash.
War Cloud began to creep up again.
Then Lyke applied his whip in earnest.
1t was a whipping finish all the rest
Of the way.
Whip as he would, and he whipped
with all his fcrvsr, Buxton at first
made no evident impression against
the lead of the hard driven but coura-
geous pacemaKer. Not till a furlonr
from home did Jack Hare show signs
of weakening. War Cloud was at him
then, grimly, relentlessly. Within a
sixteenth he mad almost cut down that
length and half lead. Jack Hare. gr.
flashed past the first mile in the re-
markable time of 1886 3-5. but he now
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Gossip of the Golfers

Among the Red Cross competitions
of the near future Will be four ball
match on August u at White Sulphur
Springs, ". Va, in which Chick Evans
and Kenneth Edwards will meet Bobby
Jones and Perry Adair. Other events
at this resort will be: August 1916,
the Old White championships; August
$3.50, women's championship OF White
Sulphur Springs; September 9-13,
championship of White Sulphur
Springs; October 14-18, the Greenbrier
fall championship.
George Mclean, Of Great Neck, and
Willie McFarlaine, of the Guggenheim
private course, will meet Tom KERR
gan, of Siwanoy, and Jack Bowling, of
Scarsdale, in q four-ball professional
match for the benefit of the Red Cross
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46 2-5; reached the three quarters in
I'LL Is, and stepped the mile in
1:36 3-5-ony one-fifth second beneath
the track record.
And when he got there, just fur
long away from the goal, the stout
hearted Jack Hare, Jr, found the re-
lentless War Cloud laundering at his
side, creeping up inch by inch, reso-
lutte and determined as the colt that
had hang or so grimly in the dust of
the pacemaker, two lengths back for
nearly the first mile. Jack Hare, Jr.,
did all that any game colt could do.
He did his best. But that was not
good enough to thwart the War Cloud
of yesterday.
The field Of four, which had attracted
many soft blown sigh of admiration
as it pranccd and cavorted past the
judges and back again on the way to
the post, came from behind the foliage
which screens the start from the chute
for the mile and a furlong journey in
almost perfect alignment. Jack Hare
Jr., had the 1ail position, with War
Cloud on the outside. just beyond
Johren. Hare looked his name as the
bunch swept into view. No jackrabbt
of the plains ever ran more religiously.
Lyke was letting him run with every
thing he had, and each succeeding leap
carried Jack Hare, Jr., further from
the field.
War Cloud Hangs On
Then something moved out from the
bunch ir pursuit 1t was Buxton with
War Cloud. The latter hung on grimly.
doggedly. Try os he would, Hare could
not improve that advantage of a length
and half, he had gained in the first
quarter mile. AT this stage of the
journey Johren had been shaken two
lengths to the rear of the pursuing
War Cloud. Elmendorf was trailing
still three lengths further back.
Steadily, inch by inch, Jack Hare
Jr., and War Cloud. without changing
their relative positions so much as an
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Athletics Early Lead
Outlives Browns Rallies

PHlLADELPHIA, July 1.-THE Ath'
letics got an early lead off Houck, for
merly member Of Mack's staff. snd
held it against ST. Louis's rallies, win
ming 8 to 5. Seven pitchers worked
Smith, pinch hitter FOR St. LOUIS, ,,.
drove in two runs by hitting saIei!
with the bases filled in the elgh1n.
Zachariah Walton, Mack recruit trom
Alabama, lasted three innings.
The cCora
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inch, began TO draw away from the
others.
at will be a fight between Hare
and Johren," sighed an old handicap
per. "Lyke and Robinson are riding
their mounts just right" But he spoke
before the inevitable was evident. Hare
was nearing the half-mie now, with
War Cloud laundering free and easy
just the length and half back But
what of Johren? He had been unable
to maintain the dizzying pace, had fall
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Camp Upton Nine to Meet
Fort Slocum Tomorrow

The Camp Upton baseball team will
clash with the soldier nine from Fort
Slocum tomorrow at Ebbets Field. in
Brooklyn, in what may prove the de-
gliding game in the race for the cham
pionship of the service training camps
of the East.
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Tigers, Six Runs Behind,
Bunch Hits, Beat Senators

WASHINGTON, July 11.--Bunching
hits on johnson in the seventh and
rinth innings, Detroit to-day overcame
six-run lead and defeated Washing
ton, 8 to 6.
The scorc
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Babe Ruth Gets
3Doubles;; White
SoxAreBlanked

BOSTON, July 11.-Mays held Chi
cago to four hits to-day and Boston
won the first game of the series from
Chicago, to 0. Ccotte was hit safely
nine times, three of them doubles to
left field by Babe Ruth This makes
twenty-seven consecutive innings that
Boston has not been scored on.
The Ecnra.
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COUeIeSkie:S CuYUes
Shut Ont Yankees
Indians Lone Run Forces Hugginss Men Back Into Third
Place-Murderers' Row Helpless Before
Poles Shoots
By Charles A. Taylor

When Poland partioned again. whether it be
Of the Kaiser the Entente be ondy hoped the Cov
these United States will be called back their
something like that pitching bor b
always at the Polo Grounds
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hoe WOOD and Steve ONe are why the
Cleveland Indians making such strong bid for the
pennant in the American League Wood Con the left)
used to be pitcher with lots of smoke much
he called Smoky joe" Now he is anou ouielder
wields wicked bat. The Polo Ground testify
that Wood hits home in a while and is usually
pretty dangerous with the old stick. Upon ONc
catching burden for the Indians youngster
but he has been playing wonderful game behind
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The score
Totals ..al5io24l25l rotA. sssnT"'

'Batted for Davenport IN eighth inning
7Batted for Walton in third inning
IBatted for Adams 20 hsli inning
st Louis - o 0 0
Philadelphia . 3 O
Two base hits--sisler l2l Tobin. plsAn tmg III.
6ase hit-Bums- stolen bases-Nsise - ~. M.
Sacrifice ht-Dugan. Sacrifice dss-Dcini1i...- -,1.r
Aroy. Double pla,s-tiedeoa and S.sier "a oa,i.
shannon and Burns. LEFT on hases-sS i.sl.S ISats
Q. Philadelphia 4. First base on errofsaaSs acncs
? or Gallia. ~ Walton on Adams 80. : ~.
on Houck. > n } % innlngS on ,sa Ii
In 3. ofy Gala. ! in Is. ~ " s-'eSi, t,,, M
3. or Adams > tn 5. OF Gearg ~ . . Ds,ea-
pitcher BY GesN iSerersid sfr3cS e4s,ss e4s,s rstca-
port hy Adams. hy Gearl = NHli-'s -
or Walton. Losing pitcher -honcs
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next Sunday afternoon at the Holly
wood Golf Club, which has a fine 49,
hole course at Deal.
Patrick ]. Doyle and James Donald
son will play four-bal match Sun
day, July 2l, with Gilbert Nichols and
Wilfred Reid over the links of the
Deal Goaf Club for the benefit Of the
American Red Cross
Tom Boyd and Pat Doyle are
matched to play Robert Mcdonald and
Jack Hutchinson July % at the Ridge
wood Country Club, Chicago.
Oswald Kirkby and Max Marston
are matched to play Chick Evans and
Warren Wood July 21 at the Floss
moor Country Club, Chicago.
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Totals 60 60 o. "a 10 Totals ....s24s27 90 ,

Totals .2s "a l3 81 Totals .,..82 q 20 2
'Ran for Gandn in ninth inning
Gn!tas fnfss0 ..... .........::.. 9 . %
Two-hase hits-Ccotto Ruth (sl. Sacrifice b,ts
---Gandn Mays. Double pays-Shean to Ruin
Ru Rlth Cunasssted) Left on bases-Chicsgo. 5 !.
ton. J., Bases on balls--Of Ccotte / or Mas
J. Hit by pitcher-By Mays (GandiD Struck ou,
by Clcotte. 3. "a
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Eastern League

Bridgeport. .. New Haven. 2
New London. s.: Springfield. 0.
waterbury, I; Providence. s
Worcester. 4; Hartford
Hartford. s. . Worcester
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Sfolen hases-Chapman (2l. Evans Joans@
Double plays-Peekinpaugh and Pip. Peck1
9augh Pratt and Pip Len hasesNe" lo's.
> Cleveland. 3. Base on balS-0T finnerst. ..
on on SoTeieskie. , Struck By flnnerAn. = +"
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international League

At Baltimore - Newark Baltimore game
postponed account OF rain.
At Buffalo:
Rochester. l o. i'fi 8 r. :
Buffalo. 0 o % 2
o,S attteries-Heitman and O'Neil; Devlnney
At Toronto
Syracuse. Q / u 2'f5 5 = :
Toronto...., 0 0 % .
~, ,batteries-Heck and Cobb Warrior and
Other teams not scheduled.
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AUTOMOBILES FOR RENT

PIERCE ARROW LANDAULET BY TIE Ao.'
careful driver HAIGHT. IS Morninfsios -"
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Waterbury. Z Providence. G.
New London. 3 Springfield Q
Bridgeport, 8; New Haven. q
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year. His throwing to second
is of the best, as can be at
tested by his success in toss
ing out The fleet Gilhooley and
Caldwell in yesterdays game.
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Totals ST II 81 o 2 Totals SO sls q 10
sBatted for Kalo in eighth inning,
WssSlssioo Ss,sSl; ~ 9 9 Q 9 ss ss-ss
Two-base hits--Schulte. Shanks (2> veach.
Stoen base-Jones. Sacrifice hits--Cobb. Schultz.
Left bases-Derot 8. Washington. o. First
base errors--Detrolt. |. Washington. l. Bases
on halls-ON johnson. :: OF Cunningham, /: OF
James. J. Hiis-or Cunningham. In l-3 Inn
ings (onc out, base In sixth inninGl OF
Kallio In 20. Hit by pitcher-Johnson
tCuryl. Struck outr-By johnson. s, by James /.
Passed ball-Picinich. Winning pitcher-James
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Racing Summaries
Aqueduct, Sixteenth Day, July IL
WEATHER CLEAR; TRACK FAST

291 FIRST RACE
j
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Totals SOL n Is o Totals .esO$gl5s
Cleveland - o q q n a o e-l
New York - q q a % q o 0 0 w
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Baseball To-day 80 T NJ. y Y Yankee,
vs. Cleveland Polo Grounds Adm soc
---Advt w.
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CHICAGO "a L. BOSTON "a r)
alb T c alb r h n p o
Murphy. II 0 O Hooper rf o 2 q n
Iiebold. IT, 0 0 o. Shean 2b 4 ! . q
f. collins 2b 0 2 ! Strlink cf n q n n
Gand ID | 10 ! Ruth. lb.... 20 l
J.Collins. CT @ 0 0 Schang c. 8 O O q o
Weaver. 8 0 Scott S. O O / 4 !
McMulnn.3b ] lStansbury. .3h ! 0 O
tacops, c.. ! ONheman. If 0
Cicottc p. 0 > 0 Mays, p.. O 3 q
sWison -. 0 O 0 0
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American Association

Kansas City 4; St. Paul. l.
Minneapolis. A. Milwaukee. 2
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'AppFentics ancSance CLAIMED.
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Eastern League

teams not scheduled.
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George Smith, owner of the Brighton
Stable, yesterday presented the horse
Ed Roche to the breeding bureau OF
the Jockey Club.
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ook Called the Alliance Which Is
Tha af0 h Benefit

the Department eff Justice and the Secret
Service should not have known all this. They
probably did.
"Now it is important 70 know what they
will DO ABOUT it,
While waiting for their innings before
the Senate subcommittee the leaders of
the German-American Alliance took San
attitude of aggressive defiance" Alphonse
G. Koelble, honorary president of the
state branch of the alliance, who was
exposed in March, 1916. as the presiding
genius of the pro-German lobby at that
time being waged in Washington &C
cording to The Tribune, said
We are not partisan political body.
Whatever interest take in politics is not
as an organization but simply as good Amer
can citizens, who ought. after all, to interest
themselves in all public matters
Henry Wessnann, Brooklyn lawyer,
who is president of the state branch,
deprecated any seizure of the books and
records Of the alliance, and said:
1--WE arc a thoroughly loyal body, but to
make any such direct attack on us could
hardly fail to stir up resentment and rancor
against the government that might seriously
interfere with that inner harmony which
we all so ardentlv desire to preserve here
II wise counsel prevails no such action will
be taken
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this place for the next few minutes. We
didn't linger around and look for pieces of
wreckage. but it is probable that the U-boat
had been struck. The destroyers continued
swiftly mannuvring around us, and the
merchantmen kept up an almost continuous
firing at every suspicious activity in the
water. Cape Berta was making good and
living up to her reputation.
around o'clock there was lull in the
firing and several of went below to get
our unavodably delayed breakfast But the
German schedule read differently. We were
hardly seated before a severe shock rocked
the ship. The vessel felt as if it had struck
bottom, but that was not the case; de-
stroyer had dropped depth bomb in
vicinity and the shock we received was due
to its extremely powerful discharge. We
decided that breakfast was a luxury after all
and IN deck hungry. Undoubtedly
there were three or four submarines operat-
ing in our locality.
Sat about 10 O'Clock we were heading the
convoy and the firing had died away to an
occasional shot or two; suddenly we felt
terrific explosion. The whole forward part
of the ship was lifted into the air as if it
were in the clutch of some giant hand and
the entire ship. The vessel quivered
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alliances instructing them to wire Presi-
dent Wilson that a majority of the citi-
zens of their states opposed any drastic
action against Germany as the result Of
the sinking of the Lusitana.
TO quote The Tribune's staff CORE
spondence of February 25:
Senators on the committee seemed most
interested in the enthusiasm with which the
quotations showed the organization had set
about raising funds for the war sufferers in
Germany when first the European war broke
out. raising more than SSO0,000 to be turned
over to Count Won BernstorT for that pur-
pose, and how vigorously the organization
had set about instigating propaganda in favor
of the German, cause, as contrastcd with the
mild effort to sell Liberty bends.
"Dld they ever, an organization, at
tempt to raise any money for the Red Cross? y
inquired Chairman King
"'Not for the American Red Cross said
Mr.. Ohlinger. They raised quite sum for
the German Red Cross before the United
States got into the war;"
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the Kaiser's Game May
L Be Furthered in America

81. The consolidation Of all those of German
descent in an economical, political and social
block AS instruments for this purpose It has
used the German press, German parocha
schools, the German stage, societies of Ger
mans and continual propaganda for com
pulsory teaching of German in public schools
2. The arousing of racial antagonists and
opposition to all progress of assimilation
3. A vigorous propaganda for the benefit OF
the German government
4. Opposition e the policies Of the United
States
S. The furtherance Of the aims Of disloyal
organizations and individuals.
g. Rabid hostility to prob lbition any in
reference with the liquor traffic.
T. Reliance upon unknown sources for tnan-
cial support
THE New York World" finds in the al
legged violation Of corporate purpose in this
propaganda the impulses which eliminated
in the dishonorable discharge of Captain
David A. Henkes, U. S. a., who was con-
demned by court-martial to Imprisonment
for twenty-five years for disloyalty and
violation Of his oath. 1t asserts editorially
that
"Ihe alliance, as everybody row knows, has
worked INCREASINGLY in behalf Of Prussian in
stitutions and interests and in the times of
strife and stress that preceded our declara
tion Of war it devoted itself exclusively to
poisoninp the German-American mind as to
the issues and obligations confronting 1t. We
shall never know how many OF our pconlc 1t
corrupted, but in former Captain Henkes we
have one interesting specimen OF the KIND cf
work the alliance sought to 90.
The subcommittee investigation got
under way February %, when Mr. Ohlln-
ger was called as witness by Senator
King. of Utah, author Of the bill to re-
woke the charter of the German meri-
can Alliance. 1t was disclosed at the first
hearing that former Representative Bar
tholdt had been largely instrumental IN
obtaining the passage Of the charter Mr..
Oblinger said according to dispatches IN
The New York Tribune, that the real
propagandists in the organization worked
/ IN secret. and that the entrance OF the
limited States into war had not curtalled
their activities; but he made 1t PLAIN tna'
he did not desire to create the impression
that all members Of the alliance were
conscious OF having worked against the
;r,eresta Of the United States. 1t was
uexamer. he asserted, who sent telegraphie
messages to the presidents of the STATE
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VERY remarkable tale of mari
n time adventure is this that fol-
- lows. Its principal protagonists
are a stout, weathered, old tank steamer, a
German submarine, cargo that by COM
parison would make a munition factory or
train load of dynamite seem as safe and
secure as churchyard in Colorado and
an Italian lad who ignited his last cigar
cite too close to the oil-soaked harbor, star
board. The vessel was the Albert Watts,
and the exciting story of her last voyage.
told by her wireless operator. Clarence
Cisin, in the current number of ''Lesie's
Weekly runs as follows:
ut is getting to be no more of distinc-
ton nowadays for Us seagoing folk to be
torpedoed than it is for a landsman to have
an operation for appendicitis. And as for
transports or liners. they take tussle with
sub as part of their regular job.
"Perhaps that IS the reason that the oil
tanker, Albert Watts, which at least
always original, refused to accept the fate
that the U-boat commander had ordained for
her, and instead of sinking when they put a
torpedo in her hold decided to set the har-
Dor on ire literally, pour her own oil on
the waters that otherwise wouldn't have
troubled her, and go up in smoke.
"Of course the German sub started the
work when it punctured her tank with its
pill but an Italian fruit boy finished it when
he threw his cigarette butt over her side.
The first mate of the Albert Watts was
not superstitious man and he always
laughed at the fellow who wouldn't walk