Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 199, 2 July 1921 — Page 13

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

"I am not a Virginian,' but an American." Patrick Henry.

TRACK MEETS ON ALL PLAYGROUNDS MONDAY, JULY 4 Events for the five athletic meets, to be held at 10 o'clock on the morning of July 4, at the Twenty-second street, Whitewater, Sevastopol, Warner and Finley playgrounds, are to be as follows: 100 yard dash open to boys 14 and 15 years old; 0 yard daxli open to KtrlH 14 and 15 years old; 61) yard lali tacli for boys and girls 11, 12 and 13 years old; 50 yard ilasli each ror boys an girls, 8, 9 and 10 years old; 40 yard dash each for boys and girl under eight years old. nasketball throw divided Into three classes. That for girls under 11 years old; that for those 11, 12 and 13 years old; and that for those fills 14 and 15 years old. Chinning the bar contest for boys Is divided into the three classes of ages named in the girls' basketball throw. The standing broad Jump event for boys is divided into the same three age classes as those named, as Is also the sack race for girls. There will also be the three legged race, one for boys and another for glnls. All of the foregoing events will be staged nn thf I'ivp eifv nl.iv. - - - j , y grounds: named on the morning of July 4. NEW EQUIPMENT FOR CITY'S PLAYGROUNDS IS DISTRIBUTED Four new tennis nets have been placed on the Twenty-second street playground and several new tennis rackets have been added to that ground's supply. A new bamboo vaulting pole has also-been ono of the popular additions to the east playground. Sandboxes were sent to the Whitewater and Finley school playgrounds last week. Croquet sets (ye children of Whitewater, remember what fun you had with your croquet set last summer?) have been sent to the Whitewater and twenty-second street play grounds. Other material for fun In games and handiwork is arriving steadily and will be delivered to the different playgrounds of the city as soon as possible after its arrival. WHITEWATER FORCES WARNER TO DEFEAT The Whitewater playground team defeated the Warner team on the Twenty-second street playground, Wednesday afternoon with a resulting score of 10 to 20. The Warner lineup was as follows; Harry Norton Pitch. Paul Reynolds Catch. Kenneth Iloltcamp First base. Robert Morgan Second base. Taylor Ilolliday Third base and catch. Ralph Anderson Shortstop. Herbert Norton Right field. Chester Collins Left field. Ccorge Horr Center field. SOCIETY Martha Lois Dennis of Chicago is visiting her grandmother in Richmond for several weeks. James Carr has gone to Winona, Indiana, to visit his grandparents for several weeks. From there he will go to Chicago with his parents where he will make his future home. Bobby and Betty Saxton arrived in Richmond, Monday. They will be the guests of Lestra and James Hibberd lor several days. Kathleen Conistock of South Seventh left Wednesday with her parents for Nantucket where she will ?rend the summer months.

DAVIS, CAPTAIN AIR SERVICE, TELLS STORY OF FOURTH SPENT IN FRANCE (Written Specially for Tht Junior Palladium by WALTER T. DAVIS, Captain with Honor in the American Air Service)

Having been granted a short leave of absence from my flying field, located in the central part of France near the email city of Issoudun, a very good friend of mine and myself decided to fly down to the historic, old city of Poitier, which, being some two hundred miles distance, was not a very long trip, inasmuch as our small, fast airplanes were capable of speed of about one hundred twenty-five miles an hour. Early in the morning of the Fourth of July we were u; and away. The wonderful blue sky together with the beautiful French landscape as seen from the air promised to make our trip a very enjoyable one. Leaving our field we flew direct ly over the town of Issoudun and in a very few minutes were over the city of Chateauroux which ia very famous for a wonderful cathedral built, as I understand, sometime during the seventeenth century. From Chateauroux we turned directly south until we were above the river LaCreuse which we followed until reaching the littlo city of LaBlanc. A word in passing relative to the valley of the LaCreuse. Many beautiful old chauteaux were along these banks, some of them of great historic interest. You may imagine the beautiful view to be had of them from the air where it was possible to seo the design and general contour of their many architectural ramifications together with the beautiful formal landscape patterns of their numerous gardens. A Landing and an Accident It was necessary for us to land at LaBlanc either going or coining from Poitier to refill our gasoline and oil tanks. 1 decided that it

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would be best to land going down Inasmuch as if anything happened on the return such as running into a very strong head wind we would be assured of having plenty of gas! and oil which is a most essential consideration. It was a very still day. Consequently our landing would be very fast and I was for tunate to get my plane onto the ground without any mishap whatsoever. My companion, however, did not meet with the same good fortune and after landing a slight current of air caused his plane to swing quickly on the ground and tip onto one wing, breaking the end off of the wing. Of course, this was a disaster. It was impossible for us to proceed on our trip and you may imagine that the things I said to my companion relative to his flying ability were not particularly flattering. French Celebrated Fourth of July However, it was all in the game and we decided to make the best of it and remain in LaBlanc which is a beautiful city more or less untouched by the progress of civilization and clinging to customs and traditions centuries old. We found, also, upon walking into the town that the French had declared a holiday in honor of the Americans' Fourth of July. . The French celebrate a corresponding holiday on July 14, and in view of Franco also being a republic, having won their government by battle and strife in the same manner in which we won ours, naturally they were very sympathetic to our celebration in thia respect. We spent the morning and afternoon looking this little town over, finding many interesting buildings as well aa observing a great many (Continued on Page Two) which will be celebrated on July i This historic photograph shows one of America's proudest mo-

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OWLS DEFEAT BUMS The 13th street Old Owls defeat ed the 11th street Duma with a score of 11 to 8. The lineups are aa follows: 13th St. Owls 11th St. Bums R. Smith It. F. Oeier Busaon 1 B Fulle Carroll S. S Swalles Kettelforder. . . P ...... .Harmons Lohman 3 B Stoddard Brady C Grieswell C. Shiplett...C. F. F. Balling A. Smith L. P. Pligram Carroll 2 D Harrison By One of Them LIFE SAVERS STUDY TOWING ON TUESDAY Tuesday, July 5, at 2:30, instead of Monday, July 4, the members of the new class of Junior Life Savers will meet with their leader, Mr. Thomas Wilson, at the Y. M. C. A. for their second lesson, which will be towing. The members of this new class are: Norman Johanning, William Webb, William Marshall, Everett Hosea, Howard Dorst, Roy Byrum, Albert Parker, Dudley Cartwright, RoBcrt Thomas, Roland Worth, Robert Oennett, Melvin Studt, Jacob Worley, Johnson Healy, James Besore and Howard Thompson. ALL CHILDREN ARE INVITED TO PLAY ON CITY'S GROUNDS All the children of the city are privileged to play on the ctiy'a playgrounds, according to an announcement made by Mr. Slocum, director of ph.ygrounds. Anyone living near one of the school grounds which have been opened for the summer is Invited to play on the grounds at all times tha tthey are open, whether he his been accustomed to attending that school or not. -145 Years Ago Photos show the "Committee on Declaration," reading left to right: John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin; seated ia John Hancock. Delow is shown the thin steel safe which now holds the original of the Declaration of Independence. rhents, the "Committee on Declaration," headed by Thomas Jefferson, laying the completed draft of the Declaration of Independence before the continental congress :n Philadelphia. It was signed on July 4, 1776. The original draft i3 now kept locked in a safe in '. library of the state department ia Washington, . -

am an American." Daniel W?bter.

PLAYGROUND B. B, LEAGUE SCHEDULES ARE ANNOUNCED The schedules of the major and minor baseball leagues of the city playgrounds have been announced. Boys belonging to the Major Leagues are under 16 years of age and over 12, and play a "hard ball" game. The minor leagues are made up of boys, twelve years old or under, and these leagues use an indoor baseball. The Major schedule, showing days, dates and teams, ia as follows: Tuesday, June 28, Sevastopol vs. 22nd street. Wednesday, June 29, Whitewater vs. Warner. Priday, July 1, Finley vs. 22ml, street. Wednesday, July 6, Sevastopol vs. Warner. Monday, July 11, Warner vs. 22nd street. Wednesday, July 13, Sevastopol vs. Finley. Monday,-July18, Whitewater vs. Finley. Friday, July 22, Warner vs. Finley. Wednesday, July 27, Sevastopol vs. Whitewater. Friday, July 29, Whitewater vs. 22nd street. All these games will be played on the diamonds of the Twenty-second street playground. The Minor League schedule is as follows: Thursday, June 30, Sevastopol vs. 22nd street, at Sevastopol. Saturday, July 2, Whitewater vs. Warner, at Whitewater. Thursday, July 7, Finley vs. 22nd street, at 22nd street. Friday, July 8, Sevastopol vs. Warner, at Sevastopol. Tuesday, July 12, Warner vs. 22nd street, at Atlas. Thursday, July 14, Sevastopol vs. Finley, at Atlas. Friday, July 15, Whitewater vs. Finley, at Atlas. Monday, July 25, Warner vs. Finley, at Atlas. Tuesday, July 2C, Sevastopol vs. Whitewater, at Whitewater. Thursday, July 28, Whitewater vs. 22nd street, at 22nd street. The vacant lot on the corner of North Tenth and E streets has been offered for community games by the Atlas Underwear Company. SCOUTS TROOP 5 LEFT FRIDAY FOR FIVE DAY CAMPOH, BOY! WE'RE OFF So the scouts of Troop 5 probably said about 8:30 o'clock Friday morning as they set their faces toward the McConaha farm and camp. The farm is two and onefourth miles south of Centervillo and is all a farm, especially a farm that can be used for a camp, should be, for there is plenty of room well furnished with wood and water. The' tent and "eats" and other necessities for camp rode to the farm in a truck but the scouts (twenty of them) and their scoutmaster, Perry Wilson, hiked. No definite program had been mapped out for the four days that the camp will last, but the scouts planned to take as many tests as possible, especially those, on woodcraft. The campers will return to Richmond, Tuesday morning, July 5. TELL US ALL ABOUT IT We are interested In what every Junior does all the time, and especially on holidays. Where are you going to spend the Fourth? What are you going to do? Did you have some fire-crackers that were "fizzles" ? How many fish did you catch and how many ham sand wiches and sugar cookies did you eat? Write a letter or a story for The Junior Palladium, telling ua all about how YOU spend the Fourth. of July.