Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-04-15

"What do they want to como buttine
into tho game for7"
be now fought were anything hut
dubs. and victory did not come 80
easily. They were picked men. expe-
rienced ring generals. and each battle
was problem.
There were occasions when he found
it impossible to put them out in any
designated later round of q fight.
Thus with Sulzberger. the gigantic
German. try as he would in the eight.
eenth round. be failed to get him. In
the nineteenth it was the same story.
and not till the twentieth did he man
age to break through the battling guard
and drop him.
Glendon's increasing enjoyment of
the game was accompanied by severer
and prolonged training. Never dissi-
pating. spending much of bis time On
hunting trips in the bills. he was prac-
tically always in the pink of condition.
and, unlike his father, no unfortunate
accidents marred his career. He new
er broke bone, nor injured so much
as knuckle.
One thing that Stubener noted with
secret glee was that his young fighter
no longer talked Of going permanently
back to his mountains when he bad
won the championship away from Jim
Hanford.
The consummation of his career was
rapidly approaching. The great cham
pion had even publicly intimated his
readiness to take on (;lenilon IA soon
as the latter had disposed of the three
or four aspirants for the champion
ship who interviewed.
In six months Pat managed to nut
away Kid McGrath and Philadelphia
Jack Mcbride. and there remained
only Nat Powers and Tom Canaan.
And all would have been we'll had not
certain society girl gone adventuring
Into journalism, and had not Stube-
ner agreed to an interview with the
woman reporter of the San Francisco
COurier-Journal.
Her work was always published over
the name Of Maud Sangster, which, by
the way, was her own name. The
Sangsters were VIGOROUSLY wealthy
family.
The founder, old Jacob Sangster, had
packed his blankets and worked as q
farm hand in the west. He had dis
covered an inexhaustible borax depos-
it in Nevada. and, from hauling 1t out
by mule teams, had built railroad to
do the freightfng. Following that he
had poured the profits of borax into
the purchase of hundreds and thou
sands Of square miles of timber lands
In California, Oregon and Washington.
Still later he had combined politics
with business, had bought statesmen.
judges and machines and become a
captain of complicated industry. And
after that he had died, full of honor
and pess1mism, leaving his name
muddy blot for future historians to
smudge, and also leaving matter of
a couple Of hundreds Of millions for
his four sons to squabble over.
The legal. industrial and political
battles that followed vexed and anus
ed California for generation and cul-
minated in deadly hatred and unspeak-
Ing terms between the four sons.
The youngest, Theodore, in middle
life experienced change of heart,
sold out his stock farms and racing
stables and plunged into a fight with
all the corrupt powers of his native
state. including most of its million
aires. in quixotic attempt to purge it
of the infamy which had been i'm
planted by old Jacob Sangster.
Maud Sangster was Theodore's old
est daughter. The Sangster stock uni
formly bred fighters among the men
and beauties among the women, nor
was Maud an exception; also she must
have inherited some of the virus of
adventure from the Sangster breed,
for she had come to womanhood and
done multitude Of things of which
no woman In her position should have
been guilty.
A match in ten thousand, she re-
NAMED unmarried. She had sojourn-
ed In Europe without bringing home a
nobleman for spouse and had declined
a goodly portion of her own set at
home
She had gone in for outdoor sports,
won the tennis championship of the
state. kept the society weeklies agog
with her unconventionalities, walked
from San Mateo to Santa Cruz against
time on wager and once caused q
sensation by playing polo in mems
team at private Burlingame practice
game. incidentally she had gone in
for art and maintained a studio in San
Franctsco's Latin quarter. 3
All this had been Of little moment
until her fathers reform attack became
acute. Passionately independent, never
yet having met the man to whom she
could Gladly submit and bored By