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|) mental value and a ‘ie ASTILE DAY | WILLSTART THURSDAY British Will Try for 14th Time to Win Emblem of Sea Prowess From Us NEW YORK, Juoty t.—Tar nished with age, dust-filied from disuse, a silver cup worth $500 when it was cast in [851, rests in the vault of the New York Yacht club, Tomorrow the Mth race for its tithe will be started, weather permitting For the posession of that cup, hardly worth twice its original cast, close to six million dollars has been spent and for it the best skill and science of the nia rine building world have been expended for © years. “America’s Cup,” emblematic of the supremacy of the seas, has been the coveted trophy of yachtsmen wince before the civil war, since the days when pack trails provided the | only avenues into the great West, | And since the days before the trans: | atlantic cables connected the tre) worlds. Sifn ont that thee, against the! cha-| | Yenges of the world, the cup has re mained in America. In a pawnshop the cup woulkin't draw enough to/ pay one crew in a trial race, but the ideals which it represents, the tradi- MBions of the sea, gives it a senti © in national Affection that makes if worth the fortunes spent on it and will justify the outlay of millions in the future for its defense WON BY AMERICA EN 1851 RAC After the cup was won In 1851 by the historic America it remained out} of competition for 15 years, when the New York Yacht club set it up be fore the world as a challenge trophy. In the fall of 1868, James Asbury, & Wealthy Britisher who owned the Cambria, challenged the cup holders for a race. Correspondence was car ) Hed on for two years but it had no Fesults, since Asbury had no club/ afHilations and the cup holkiers were Mot forced to defend aguinst private challenges. However, in July, sailed the Cambria Was arranged with 23 American Yachts against her. The course was @f Staten island in the upper bay, thru the narrows, down the bay to Bandy Hook lightship and return, a | @istance of 38 nautical miles. ‘The race was won by the Magic, | with Idler second, Dauntless third, 1870, Asbury and a race wena fourth and Cambria, the/ challenger, eighth. a Asbury protested the race on nm | | Merous grounds, but they were all) ever-ruled. As soon as he returnel to Ene Jand, Asbury started building another ‘challenger. He complained against |} fleet racing, declaring it was against the letter of the deed, and suggested Match race ‘His complaint met with a conces- ‘gion from the New York Yacht club, | @nd the defenders agreed to send a » rere against the challenger. | On October 16, 1871, the club chore | ‘the Columbia as the defender against _ Asbury’s Livonia. The Columbia got | away to a good lead when the race| was started and had three minutes | on the challenger at one and a half Miles. Farther along in the race the! lead was increased to 40 minutes, but was cut down later and the Livonia was beaten by 27 minutes 4 seconds. | Columbia won the second race by 5| minutes and 16 seconds. Several acci-| dents to the Columbia gave the third | face to the Livonia, and for the| _ fourth race the Sappho was chosen | fam the defender in place of Colum bia. Two days later, October 21 Sappho won, and again in the fifth Face a day later. | CANADIAN YACHT CLUB RENEWS COMPETITION Asbury then gave up his quest for the cup and the Royal Canadian| Yacht club renewed the competitions in 1876 with the schooner, the Count- | ess of Dufferin. The defender, the| Madeleine, defeated the challenger. Canada tried again in 1881 when the Bay of Quinta club of Ontario gent down the sloop Atalanta, she was in turn beaten by the, Mis chief. Four years elapsed and the matches | ‘Were resumed with a series of annual | Faces starting in 1855. | The defender Puritan defeated the| Genesta in 1845, and the cl e Galatea was beaten by Mayflower in 1886. The following year the defender Volunteer again Won against the Thistle. | In 1893 Lord Dunraven set out to bring the cup back to England. He gent over the Valkyrie Il. The cup| was defended successfully by Vigt| lant, the first of the line of Herre shoff sioops which are represented again this year by Resolute, the de-| fender. | Dunraven tried his luck again in 1895 with Valkyrie III. The first| Face of the series was won by the)! Defender in a light wind. In the Becond race Defender was fouled by the challenger and lost the race with | & broken wing. A protest was lodged | on the grounds of a foul, the yacht club sustained the protest, | Dunraven withdrew in anger and| refused to continue. SIR THOMAS i | GIVES CHALLENGE When Dunraven gave up his am ition to win the cup, Sir Thomas| Lipton, perhaps the most romantic figure in the history of the cup| faces, took up the task and is still ft it to this day. | The first of his tamily of Shain Frocks appeared in 1399, but she was @efeated by Columbia in three straight races. Shamrock I came back in 1991 to| Meet a sloop built and designed by Herreshoff, the Constitution. But the failed to make good in the trials and Columbia was sent out again to Meet the challenger, She defended the cup successfully, winning by a margin of one’ victory, helped by the| time handicap which the Lipton yacht was forced to concede, In 1903 Shamrock III was brought over by Lipton. The Rellance was chosen as the defender, and she dem- onstrated her superiority over the Challenger in a decisive manner. In 1914, Shamrock IV, this year’s challenger, was the challenger. She was on the water wien war was j @eclared and bad to travel 1,000 } tn | made to and when | — THE SEATTLE STAR For centuries the Castle of B ion Min Paris (the Bastile) was used WAS TAKEN, | “THE GRIP OF A ‘TYR WAS SHAKEN, BUT THE TYRANT Be ek DIFFERENT WORKS | WAY AND “THEY po SAY HE BRINGS HOME THE BACON. “Pbrond vance COME by the autocratic rulers of France as a prison for political opponents and for persons who protested against the des- potic reign of the French kings. was stormed by the people on wi ashington. July 14,1 Chances of Victory in “America’s Cup” Races Pointed Out EDITOR'S NOTE or partner of the naval engineer- architectural firm of | Seott & Surt New York. He is an amateur yachtsman of note, having | Hled racing yachts for 15 ye America Hoe is « qual aubjecta, following arti language the chance ants for the America’s cup BY T. D. SCOTT NEW YORK, July 14.—Shamroeck IV., Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger, and Resolute, of the New York | Yacht club, are to meet off Sandy | Hook tomorrow in the first of a séries of races for the America's n pi con |cup, symbolic of the supremacy of the seas. To forecast a winner tn any line of modern sport is @ hazardous un-| dertaking, even for a close student of the science which ts a funda- mental factor of all the major Amer- lean sports. However, in yacht racing, a student can become mpre prophetic than in most lines of sport, because scien- title 4 ns of known quantities . and the deductions accurate with the ex- two unknown quantities- ndition un to be of time which a lar nesde 10.6 oun Shamrock IV. being a must give a time esolute pon the length of that handicap victory will be won. The challenger will finish first in race upon the firmly established fact that a larger boat always de- feats a s r boat. If the challenger is foresd to give a handicap of six minutes to the de- fender, she must finish with a lead of 1% miles, and she can do It The greater the amount of handi cap, the leas her chances, quite ob- vious If she Is forced to give a of nine minutes, the cup ain in America, because no at can give t much are gen ception weather cc yacht reer boat, handicap to th. at distanc To refute the general impression. it might be said that the sail does not determine the every line of sport area ndicap an attempt It ve the opponents as near aa possible; for example, the weight divisions among boxers. For the same primary purpose yacht racing rules fix a maximum for breadth and draught and the length of the water line, When those | specifications are exceeded a penalty is imposed in the nature of a handi. cap figured mathematically in ratio to the excessive measurements. ¢,_the draught of the of her course to dodge submarines, Upon her arrival here she was hauled out hermetically sealed enclosure where she remained for five years, nar rowly missing destruction by a fire at the Jacobs shipyards early this spring. The New York Yacht club in 1914 had built three sloops to fight for the honor of nding the cup, The Resolute, a Herreshoff boat nitie, designed by William Gard. and designed by ore Owen, met in a series of trial races which determined the unfit ness of Defiance and left the com. mittee in doubt as to Resolute and Vanitie, Despite the fact that Reso- lute beat Vanitie in the majority of the trials, the committee was not jy mate Defiance, convinced that the former was the| better sloop. In the trial races Resolute again defeated Vanitie the trials and she was finally named as the defender. This brings the history of the races up to the present time and makes the way clear for the next chapter, the races off Sandy starting tomorrow between Sham rock IV and Resolute, the fourteenth time the America's Cup has been fought for, T. D. Seott 9} er which the} In} and placed in a| this summer, | in| Haok | Resolute is 13 feet 9 inches, while |the challenger ta over the Umit with! 5 feet draught. | But the length of Shamrock’s |water line is not known, hence the handicap is an unknown quantity. | FINE SPR Resolute, one of the famous Herre shotf boats, was chosen by the race jcommittes of the New York Yacht club In preference to Vanitie, one of the most beautiful things ever de- signed. The committees chose Resolute be- cause she was the better light weather boat and all of the racee h been safled in light weather With §.158 feet of canvas, lens lateral resistance or “skin friction” and a }less blunt bull, she will have great speed on a straightaway in light weather and will have leas difficulty in “heeling over” for the turns of the triamgular course. Shamroek IV., with a displacement lof 100 tone, $0 tons of which are le in her keel, has a gre wall more “skin friction.” Contrary to {popular opinion, she is not a freak Her model under the water is lke |many other only her bow Jand stern have been chopped away to }leanen her weight. She looks clumay and snubbed, but her sare the jsame as used in all smaller craft |The weight saved in designing her is considerable, thereby a center of gra owing to the ad can |be carried with low draught. Her |welght forward in the keel wan re duced to bring of the water line Comparing one with another in di» placement area in greater. But while her sail area of 10,000 square feet does seem to be lofty, the effect of the is now fitted on owing the lower and lessen her water Shamrock’s #ail excensively when you have reached this can h a very f light weather boat, and with a centerboard will be @ble to stand up in the strongest breeze. pa LENG she HAS KED construction the resistance of the challenger is greater than Resolute’s, This will give the defender the advantage on an ellipse, But the designer of the challenger favored terrific speed on a itaway to bring enough ad to discount any loss occa. in making the turns, After all it resolves itself into a question of handling. The best yacht in the world could be beaten in un |skilled hands. Yacht racing, in some rempecta, is a lot like horse racing. ‘Tout’ the tracks to see the thorobreds work jout. They watch, they time, they |figure and they dope the perform Jances, but the never sure, It | might be boy in the saddle | who in the animal | There ™ pounds of weight in the Ten pounds taken Joff one entry and loaded on another jcan change a whole race. ‘The point is well illus ed in the last English | Derby. No one thought anything of |Spion Kop. He hadn't shown thing in workouts and no one who was going to ride But at the last minute a star American | Jockey appeared and rode him to vic tory. was any ‘The same holds true with th trials. No one is |what either Resolu can do, Resolute |new “skipper.” Jerew. No on will be. ‘Thi challenger yaeht beolutely sure or I be satled by will have a new knows what the alt same in the case of the and it will decide the race as Handling is one of tho greatest fac tors Leon, 48 apy mechanical factor, The Bastile was regarded as the symbol of oppression. her bow higher out| knew | Shamrock | It) 1789, and was torn down. The key was sent to George | are The anniversary of the day is ce ele! brated in France as a national holiday. FLAGS ATHALF MAST TODAY. Governor to Name New Secretary of State Appointment of a new state secre tary for Washington, to succeed }Capt. 1. M. Howell, who died at Ta lcoma yeaterday, will be made by Gov. Louls F. Hart Capt. Howell [has held the office since 1908. Funeral services willbe held from | St. John’s Episcopal church in Olym pla tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. R. Franklin Hart will officiate, Services at the grave will be charge of the Masonic lodge of Ta coma, of which Capt. Howell was a member. The body will lie in state in the rotunda of the state house Thursday from 10 a m. until 1p. m. Capt. Howell, firnt appointed and twice elected secretary of atate, had lived in Tacoma since 1866. He was & meraber of the Tacoma Rifles, the first military organization there, and was captain in the National Guard Capt. Howell leaves a widow and a son. His death came after a short finesa from appendicitis. "By the order of Gov. Louis F. Hart, fags in Olympia will be displayed at half mast for @ period of 30 dayn but of reapect for Secretary of State How el. An o at the state houre will be closed on the day of the )funeral NEGRO PORTER STABS BARBER Manicurist Tells Story to Police within a hairbreadth of Loy Slinkard, in city hospital Wednesday. Richard a1, is held for the bing. Smith, a porter in the | White build: barber shop, st. near F ave., the she | Stabbed }his heart, barber, was Smith, colored, ri th Union shining yen of Myrtle Patterson, 3610 nicurist, last night Slinkard is employed in the shop. The two « was ton ave., mar into an argument and Smith is alleged to have sunk the | knife into Slinkard’s chest. Miss Patterson says that Smith cursed Slinkard and was knocked down. He ized a knife and attacked the bar f, Mins Patterson told police, CLEAR WAY FOR CITY FUEL OIL Will Pay $2 Barrel at San| | Pedro visit | With assurances that the |Petroleum company will 55,000 barrels of oil shortage at the city's steam plant and the U. 8. shipping bo city the use of th the crisis Nght plant he [elty officials Under the terms of the agreement |with the General Petroleum people, }the city will pay the prevailing price oil at San Pedro, defraying the of transportation to Seattle. The mt pri f fuel oll at an Pedro, place where the oil is stored, a barrel, WASHINGTON, + Japan's foreign trade for June shows decided falling | off in volume. Imports were $109 000,000 and exports 000,000, the lowest since deliver Lake 4 to grant the tanker Devolente. fronting the passed municipal according to January NEW YORK ship Owners* American Steam. | association refuses de. mand of wireless operators for $50 | to $75 a month wage increase, General | to relieve the| Union | promixe of the} POLICE MAY GET MAYOR'S HELP .. That the fight of the city police to off duty a week ha indornement of Mayor was intimated Wednendi They asked me what I th of the plan," thé mayor stat told them to go ahead and ¢ their fight to the nell, 1 earn n at the present time n whould not have a day like the men gain one day the Caldwell the poli to themselves once a week, rest of the we 4.” When the city council begins the hearings the 1921 budget t Tuesday one of the important thin that will come up for will be an item of $118,000 for an appropr ay week t ra of the police depart ment There are at the present time 617 on the police force, With the exception of in the traffic division and 34 detectives, who get Sund off, they have only holiday a month Techni y the « work an eight-hour shift, but spent in testifying in court eats up @ great part of their time off, jeity officials point out NEW RECORD FOR LOCAL AVIATOR’ Bixtyfour passenger fights tn! eight successive days without «| | mishap. Nine exhibition flights in one day | with the same good fortune, | That's the record Lieut. A. M.| Nachtwey of the Sound Aeroplane | company made in bis Canadian Cur. | tis plane GM-4 during hia eight-di sojourn in Everett over the Fo rth | and up to yesterday, On all but one flight a pasmen ger | anied him, and according to| Nachtwey each took bis iaitlal trip with apparent coolnens. | On Lieutenant Nachtwey’s arrival in Seattle Monday he announced the reopening of his aeroplane han-| jear in conjunction with Lieutenant |Loge at 3701 Marginal way, one block south of Spokane st. from which aeroplane flighta.will be giv-| en every day “Most of the aeroplane accidents not caused by faulty aero-| | planes as is commonty supposed, | - omg Lieutenant Nachtwey. | rather due to faulty on consideration tion to give @ #ix ye one | | | pilots” YAKIMA—Phyniciana give up hope for recovery of A. C. Turner, Yakima county commissioner, recently re-| | turned from Portiand sanitarium PREMERTON —Firet payment of $240 bonus for 1919 to all employes of the navy yard who were receiving enn than $2,600 @ year, to be made | raday Veterans Organize principles of republicaniam, rank’ Te ganized a time in the armed forces of the United Eight Men Killed Eteht m he i | Republican Club For the purpone of promulgating | the Vet publican club has been held its first meeting in hall, 1616% Third The club in open to| L. 1 persons who have served at some oonevelt ve. vel ave.) bay waterfront t uenday night Stetwon. ment, in his filed with the 1921 ates. Chief $1,3 supp! tetaon im $1.6 10 is for em and $169 equipment The in Train Blowup 1L/ORTENT, July M4 men are dead and three in result of American exploding near/| France, $129 tional men the ordinance in ev 200 t m red unitions re train recommended by F 46; chief of the fire depart budget estimate ety council Tuesday. ‘The total appropriation axked by yunt asked for salaries in. pay the onary provisions of the re providing for one ery eight for the fire fighters. ‘CHIEF ASKS FOR (SEATTLE MAN: NEW FIRE BOAT Purchase of a $65,000 electrically driven fire boat to protect the Salmon IS SHOT DO Wapato Tuesday Boyle, 42, ot Marsh 28 Vastiake ave. form merchant and politician, Elizabeth's hospital at Nor while Charles Stante ld pending investigatia e. alleged to have ahi He surrendered. The two ed 1 days ago, and t shooting is believed to be the come of the quarrel. James C, P Ba @ | snot Stuart twice at fon ¢ in St Yakima, laborer, 1s } of the ah Stanton 1 746, of which 9,006 for additional 80 addi to carry out ent council] BURLINGTON day off| former treasurer of the C. radtroad, dead [Ba THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT Tricolette Dresses Very New and Very Special Values at $16.95 A Few Accordion Pleated Taffeta Models Are Included —Dresses of good quality Trico- lette combined with Printed Georgette. —The skirts are of Tricolette— the waists of Georgette. —Round neck, short sleeve style, trimmed with tricolette to match the skirt. —Taupe, Brown and Navy. —Others of the same style, but with skirts of accordion pleated navy Taffeta. —Sizes 16 to 38. Georgette Blouses A New Lot Offering Special Values at $3.95 A Large Variety of Plain and Combination Colors —Blouses with and without col- lars in a number of pleasing, styles. —Slipover models that have em- broidered fronts; others with collars and fronts in white or contrasting colors. —The styles are numerous as well as the colors. —White, Apricot, Orchid, Sal- mon-Flesh, also combinations of white and colors. —Sizes 36 to 42. ESTABLISHED 1890 TheBon Marché 12 Fiber Rugs, Size 9x12 Feet, Damaged in Transit, $12.00 Instead of $22.50 An even dozen Fiber Rugs, bought to sell for $22.50, Full room size, 9x12 feet—good allover |’ ba wo i n blue, green and tan mixtures. Rugs were slightly damaged in transit. The railroad paid the loss—so we can offer them, “as they are,” for $12.00. FOURTH FLOOR THE BON MARCHE Interesting Specials From Petticoat Lane Have you ever visited Petticoat Lane?—it’s a space set apart espe- cially for petticoats—there you will find both silk and cotton petticoats —of every variety and price. Lovely Silk Petticoats $7.45 Such a host of extra good quality Petticoats to wear ’neath your best silk dress or suit—you'll jump at the chance to get them for $7.45. Good values in All-jersey Petticoats Combinations of Jersey and Taffeta Solorful All-taffeta Silk Petticoats Made with deep accordion plaited flounces, some with wide or narrow ruffles— plain colors—changeable and fancy color combinations in flounces. —Cotton Petticoats—flounces with ruffles and tucks—black only—$1.50. —Light-fildwered Sateen Petticoats, black cotton taffeta with flowered flounces— at $2.50. —Cotton Taffeta Bloomers, knee length—with hemstitched ruffles—at $2.50. 2COND FLOOR- July Clearance of Little Tots’ Wearables We have selected for this clearance — small lots and nearly are yours, Girls’ 9 Babie: reduced to $2.95. 12 $1.95. 12 Bassinet Mattress ues, reduced to $1 sY SHOP. is Black and White Checked Coats At One-Third Less Short White Dresses are machine-made Gertrudes, ex- tenaenss bargains at 65¢. 6 Bo Peep Potty Seats reduced to —good val- sold-out lines—and made big reductions on them—the savings 2 Coats reduced to $5.70 2 Coats reduced to $5.97 3 Coats reduced to $6.68 3 Coats reduced to $8.34 24 Play Suits, for summer we 95¢. 19 Beach Suits, pink and blue seersucker, reduced for clear- ance to $1.75. 25 Jim Dandy Play Suits—khaki color only, reduced to $1.50, SECOND FLOOR ( just the garments ather, reduced to Mid-Week Specials From the Delicatessen —Washington Cream Cheese, spe- cial, pound, 34¢. —Bon Marche Mayonnaise, made fresh daily; special, pound, 44¢. —Libby’s Apple Butter, one of the best brands, special, lb. 21¢. —Come to the Bon Marche for Henry Jilg’s Famous Sausages. DELICATESSEN—UPPER MAIN FLOOR -THE BON MARCHE Two New Aprens at $2.95 ESPECIALLY GOOD VALUES AND ENTIRELY NEW STYLES —Checked Gingham goes into one of these attractively-styled Aprons—at $2.95, Elastic waist-line, with head- ing trimmed in solid colors— fastening in front in surplice style and possessing two large pockets. —A second style is of white sheeting of a good quality. Slip- over style with square neck, belt and sleeves stitched in pretty colors—nice to wear around the house at any time. APRON SECTION—SECOND FLOOR O, Joy! A DELICIOUS CUSTARD DESSERT Requires no eggs—not a gei- atine. 20c pkg.—2 for 35¢ UPPER MAIN FLOOR a Se aane2 6 e@Beics?e2@e282 75 20 | s

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