The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 24, 1920, Page 11

PA TiRED, OF BENG BawieD our BYERY TWo MWUTES AND ITS Nor HELPING ME ANY ~ YoU Go ON AHEAD AND PLAY Nour: Game «I'LL Come ALONG ar Shoattle Mo WoRDER You DION TT WT IT, You Looneo ue! Wow Many ‘Times HAve 1 "TOL.0 You "To keep ALRIGHT F ALRIGHT. WAS OMY + & @ * TStory Pook.” * _By Mabel Cleland Page 111 A LITTLE iT cn story teller sighed. “I @on't like to think, yet, how much I suffered those hours Between supper time and 10:30. “There I had sent him out, little Dit of fellow, ail by himself, 1 Would imagine him lost in the fane which grew high and thick Up toward the end of the slough. “I knew he was a good swim- mer, but I even pictured him @rowned and washed up on the Deach. . “The tide came In fast; so fast that, at 10 o'clock, being without ® boat, I was forced to go back home. “All the way back I thought + how I could tell the boy's mother; hat I might say that would make her believe that he stil! * might come in safe and sound. And what do you think? “When I got to the house, that Parca! had been in bed half an| “Hoe sald: ‘Well, dad, what did you think? Course I came back when I saw the tide coming in so fast. I'll bet you, if you take us boys up the slough tomorrow, I ean find your boat, ‘cause I think T know exactly who got it. “‘And I'll bet you anything tf Tonce got my hands on your oars, ) Td know ‘em, even if it was a hundred miles trom here.’ “He drew me down on the bed- Side beside him and told me why he thought an Indian whom we BOY'S PLAN ; will call Dan-Joe had stolen my | boat. | “But he said: ‘Now, dad, If jyou'l trust me, I'd like to work a scheme on finding the oars, ‘cause I figure he's going to deny it like everything when we accuse him of stealing’ “Well, early the next morning 1 bor rowed we set out on our hunt rowed a boat and up slough, while the boys followed jal ong the shore | “You see, having a boat was & necessity up there—we were prisoners without ft, and there we were, my boat gone, the chil- dren's gone, with the wonderful joars I had bought for them in Seattle, and which really were the finest pair I ever saw, we just had to bustle around till found them. “For a while we called back jand forth, but after a time I lost |sight of the boys, and could no longer hear the: call, but I had learned my lesgon the night be fore, and I wasn't going to worry; | No, no, not eyen when the tides played me false again, and I had |to spend the night with the keep- er at the draw-bridge. | “Twas tired as could be, too— and, now you folks can laugh !f | you want to, but it was no joke to me then, while I slept, that boat was stolen.” (To Be Continued) we Retaene #” laughed Munchie. “Why, this is only Monday.” “be tenants in Maple-Tree Fists whistling down the te Mr. end Mra Munchie the janitor and laundress, “3 saved your pie, Mra. Wood Decker, thinking you might want it, I'll send it right up on the dumb- waiter.” Which he aid ‘Then Mike Mole wanted to know what time it was by the sun Miss Caterpillar wished a burglar alarm PUL Onto her jewel safe right away, as she had had a fright in the night, Mr. Ow! wished Munchies to | Mr. Owl's voice, but he spoke very Up and get his bottles to give milk man. Munchie shivered when he heard obligingty, and said he'd send the milk man up himself. Which wasn't what Mr. Owl wished at all, at all! Well, Munchie and Mra. Munchie were kept #0 busy answering the| speaking-tube whistle that their guests got their dinner served in the most outlandish style Nick got his milk in @ finger bow!; Yove You EVE ON Tue Baie! Look VP avERY WEDLOCKED 1 UKE THis BACK SEAT PETER - ITS SO COMFORTABLE GvE-IF t UAD STck CANDY UKE War Pd DIVIDE Wu You. “TAL Divide Ir wre VA. LES SEE Awe Sus 7 KNOW Wow. TLL Ss ‘3 wih GWE You MIS Nancy, her pudding tn an egg cup, and Tingaling, his coffee on a butter | plate, and, worse than that, the| Magical Mushroom got his butter in| a drinking glass. | “Mr. Mouse,” said Tingaling fina) ly, rising and wiping his mouch. | “Are you always as busy as th's?” “Busy?” laughed Munchie. "Why | this is only Monday. You ought te come in some Saturday. I tel my middle name is ‘Busy’ then. “All right,” sald Tingaling. rent from you! You can live here| rent free for a year.” | (opyright, 1920, N. EB. A.) | mer the Woodpecker Drums in Vain| (pe mIsTAH BUZZARD, looking 4 Gown from the blue, blue sky, | where he was sailing ‘round and) Found, could see Reddy Fox running away from Bowser the Hound. He @ould see, too, that Reddy Pox was more and more careless. In of minding where he was going kept turning around to laugh at Bowser the Hound. | OF Mistah Buzzard had shaken his bald head and said to himself that Reddy Fox surely would get in trou Bie right smart soon, You see, Ol Buzzard could look right| down and see that trouble waiting for Reddy Fox. It was waiting be » Bind an old tree trunk, and it looked to Ol’ Mistab Buzzard very like a Reday Fox didn’t know any about this, Once upon a time, he had grown to think him so very. very smart, Reddy would have been watching out and would have been very suspicious of that old tree trunk. But now all Reddy could think of was what a gplendid chance he bad to show all the little meadow and forest people how very bold and stnart he was. fo Reddy sat down and waited until Bowser the Hound way almost Just then Drummer the noise — rata-tattatatat tat, rata tat-tatatattat! Now, every one who heard that that it was a danger eignal.| Woodpecker doesn't But Reddy | Fox didn't pay any attention. His foolish little head was so full of his! smartness that it had no room grumbled Drum ker to himself. “I don't know what I am trying to warn him foi anyway. The Green Mea dows and the Green Forest would be better off without Reddy Fox, any- way. Nobody likes him. He ts all the time trying to catch oF scare to @eath those who are smaller than he. Still, he is so handsome!” | Drummer the Woodpecker cocked his head on one side and looked over at Reddy Fox, who was laughing as he watched Bowser the Hound work ing #0 hard to untangie his trail. “Yes, wir! Reddy Fox certainly is handsome!” said Drummer once more. Then he looked down to the | root of the old tree on which he was sitting, and what he saw there caused Drummer to make up his mind. | “I surely would miss seeing that | handsome red coat of Reddy rox.| here last night. | Leo Patterson, of St. Lonis, the sem! | windup bout, also went to @ draw. |The other rewults | Cash Travers, draw; Benny Hammer | was given the decision over Frank Then He Began Drumming on an Old Tree Trunk I surely would. If he doesn’t hear me now and take heed, it won't be my fault,” said Drummer, and then | began such @ furious drumming on the old tree trunk that it rang thru the Green Forest and out over the Green Meadows, almost to the Purple Hills | Down at the foot of the old tree trunk a@ freckle-faced boy looked up and scowled, “What ally that pesky woodpecker? Tr Young Walters defeated Frankie Ev lis. Wi SAY OLDTOP. WILL YOU. COME OUT AND PUT A BT OF PETROL wh AY CAR Z IN MY OWN WAY AND GET On Tike TO mien verre! HELP You “| WHY, TAGALONG-YOU PWoUD DWIDE Youve CANDY HONORABLY FRECKLES: FOR HEAVENS Sake! WAKE UP ANNIE — ‘VE BEEN DRIVING Ladi! OITCH Two | ILES AND wail For YOU To Pass’ Waa WHY, \'STUPID BEGGAH + DAUR BANTAMS BOX DRAW SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 24.— The bout between Al Walker, of San Francisco, and Babe Herman, of 6ac- | ramento, ended in a driw decision | Young Papke and Sidney White vs. McCoy in the second round; Young Eddie Clark, draw; | nch King defeated Young Sousa; | COAST MEN IN FINALS CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 24.— Roland Roberts and Charles Griffin, San Francisco, will meet W, Merrit! Hall and Leonard Beckman, New York, in the finals of the Inter City tennis doubles here today \1¢ he don’t keep still he'll scare that fox,” muttered the freckle faced boy and ghook a fist at Drummer the Woodpecker, It was Farmer Brown's boy. Next story: Too late, Reddy Fox Hews, EXHIBITION AT CRYSTAL POOL Members of the Crystal Swimming club team will give an all-star exhi bition at the Crystal Pool next Wed nesday evening, The affair will be staged for the purpose of raising money to wend the swimmers to the P. N. A. outdoor meet, in Victoria, August 14. There will be 12 events on tap. Don | Vickers promises that it will be the newest and most novel exhibition ever seen in these parts. Every member of the crack local team will! be seen in action, ( WOLTERS IS PLAYING FIRST Harry Wolters, the veteran out fielder, let out by the Seattle Stwashes to the San Francisco club, in covering first base for the Seals, He's getting away with the job fair ly well. MIDDIES TO PLAY KNIGHTS Middies, ball tossers from the U 8. B, Connecticut, will tangle with the"local Knights of Columbus nine at Hiawatha field in West Seattle today at 2 p.m Yeatorday's hero: Colomus of Bwat, He bit homer, and helped | the Indians the third trimm row, and hop inte first place by » score of @ to 3. Greary Nett! tripled tn the eighth tn- ning, and scored the rus that beat the 1 to 0, Ruether stopped the t first base after the fourth in Art Pletcher biffed a homer with two on in the ninth, and clinched the game, the, Phils beating the Cubs, 10 to 7 elped the Traves beat 6. Dighee’a wild throw tn the ninth, on top of two bits off Babe Adama, gave the Dodgers « pair of runs, and beat the Pirates, 6 to 6. Marphy’s pinch hit in the eighth gave the White Sox two run@ and they beat the Red Sox, hits In succession in Pennock to the show Rommel, one of Connie Mack's Infante, pitched his first full major league game, * 7 4 to 1, with atx hite was a feature of the George Sisler'e home run tn the pinth inning deprived Erickson of « alAitout victory, Washington winning, § to @. Shanks’ triple and Rice's single gave the Senators their first rua in the siath, ‘ "Suds" Sutherland, tm rare form, @) lowed the Solons only twa hits yesterday. the Beavers winning, © L oneal ‘ The Tigers shut out the Angels, 1 to 0. Doubles by Mitchell and Chadbourne produced the lone tally The Onke batt three Seal pitchers for 15 hite 12-to- victory. SCHUPP IS COMEBACK ,Ferdie Schupp, the young south- paw who was a star with the New York Giants a couple of years ago, is coming back with the St Louis Cards, He bad arm trouble for ‘a while, but he has won 10 out of 14 starts this year, which is @ record not to be snecesd at. FITZSIMMONS IS RELEASED Tommy Fitasimmons, given a trial with Oakland in the Coast league, has been released, He is an in: fielder, Seattle made an effort to land him earlier in the season, but didn’t. We evidently didn’t lose any- thing by it, NAVY EIGHT - IS FAVORITE LAKE QUINSIGAMOND, Wor- cester, Mass. July 24. e navy eight was strong favorite in the senior race in the national regatta here today, when the Annapolis middies, Syracuse and Duluth will battle forgthe championship and for the honor of representing America at the Olympic regatta next month. HEYDLER WANTS DRAFT AGAIN President Heydler of the National league has given out the announce. ment from St. Louis that the Na- tional league is anxious to re-estab. lish the draft with the minor leagues. ANNEX NET DOUBLES Mrs, Bourque and Vida Robinson won the women's playfield doubles when they beat Gertrude Pearl and Dorothy Little in the feature match of yesterday's play in the playfield meet at Woodland park. 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