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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
AL DEMAREE'S GOOD RECORD
Nursed Along by Manager Mc1rS"'
Young Pitcher Won Most OF his
Games-Has Peculiar Motion

Young Al Demaree, the Giants cram
pitcher, went through the past seaSos
with an unusual record ana one ",
which he may well feel proud NURSE
along by McGraw he won most OF hi'
games and for long time hela ni'
own with the best twirlers in the pu0i
ness at the top of the National leasu'
For a virtual newcomer IN last w.
pany this was about all even the lnO'I
rabid fans could expect. DelnaiI o.,
peculiar motion when hurting the p0H0
is surely one Of the most decepVl'o ~
liveries possessed by any tWlrleI ~
in baseball. To see him pitch !oI ~ 10
first time you would imagine tnas ,t o.
was throwing with a sore arm, w..
Ed A. Goewey in Leslie's. BalS nara
affirm that while his fast ball appo .Iso
to come slowly it really has lei 4bn1
speed and is upon them before s mil
realize it. Al is rather shgnlS lin
for a star pitcher and he could 9@'
be overworked.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
YOUNG MEN PUSH TO FRONT BIG sTADIUMs IN AUSTRALIA
Antipodes Making Strong Bid as Box
ing Center With Three Pavilions-
Game Is FIourishing.

Australia is trying to corner the box
ing market. The game of the glove is
in highly fourishing condition out
that way, and the prevalence of "palmy
days" has caused new clubs to form
and new stadiums to spring up like
mushrooms
Naturally, competition is keen. In
the scramble for talent pugilists the
world over have been offered antipo-
dean contracts at remunerative rates.
Georges Carpenter, the Frenchman
who defeated Bombardier Wells, is
the latest to accept an engagement
from the Sydney matchmakers, accord
ing to all accounts, and he will be on
hand in the city named to box Eddie
McGoorty or some other opponent at
Easter time.
Here in this country numerous box
ers of note and quite few of the
other kind are receiving Australian Of
fers, and are in doubt as to the ad-
visibility of accepting them.
Not so long ago the Rushcutters Bay
stadium had the field to itself. Now
two other full-sized stadiums-the
Olympic and the Newton-have been
built on the outskirts of Sydney, and
still others are projected.
One of these will be the headquar-
tiers of the National Sporting club of
Australia, which has just been formed
and which a capital of $25O,oOO
Under the circumstances the fact
that the Australian matchmakers are
raking the globe for fighters is moth
ing to marvel at. 1t is to wonder, how
ever, what the result of the ring re-
Nuisance will be.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
TO DEVELOP TENNIS PLAYERS
Eastern Club Plans to Train Young
sters in Knee Trousers to Beat
Pacific Coast Lads.

Lawn tennis players will be caught
in early youth and trained to be the
McLoughlins of the future, according
to the plan voted on at the annual
meeting of the West Side Tennis club
in New York.
The members favored the sugges-
ton Of the national association that
the club open the way for at least
200 junior members to join.
The boys will be developed so that
the youngsters of the east may reach
that point of skill where they may
compete against the wonderful young
wielders of the racquet from the Pa
cific coast. The plan is the first move
ever made in this section of the coun-
try to provide for the young begin
ners of the game.
The West Side Tennis club will
make an application for the Davis cup
international matches on it's new
courts at Forest Hills. Long Island,
and expects to get the prize.
The preliminary matches for this
famous trophy, it is stated, will be
played in cities outside of New York,
with Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago
as the most likely to be selected.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Georges Carpenter.

championship from Jem Sullivan, and
then he began cleaning up the heavy
weights.
His latest victory was his decisive
win over Bombardier Wells, the big
Britisher. In this and other Of his
recent fights Carpenter showed
complete change of style from that
which he displayed in the early part
of his career. Formerly it was per-
fectly apparent to every spectator
that he fought for the love of fighting
He smiled from gong to gong anu
never sought to avoid punishment Il
by taking his medicine he could give
a larger dose of the same stuff to MS
opponent. But now it is evident tha'
he regards the game as a business
The old smile is missing and ne ID
cool and calculating in the ring Wla'
he has lost in youthful enthusiasm no
has gained in better knowledge u
the science of the game.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Gladys Ravenscourt.

don and Ray, the world-famed British
professionals, for the open champion
ship of America, is not yet twenty-one.
Jerome D. Traverse, foru times the ma
tional amateur title holder, an accom-
plishment never before equaled, is
only twenty-seven. Miss Gladys Raw
enscroft, the British girl who won the
American title, would not be eligible
to vote if equal suffrage were in or
der.
AS in other forms of sport, youth
will be served. 1t is true of golf, de-
spite the fact that it has been called
an "old mans game.''
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25

visit his two living predecessors in Of
fee, finding them at work in their
vineyards.
Rural Schools Progressing.
The evolution of the French peasant
is the history of modern France. He
is emphasizing education as never be-
fore. The development of the rural
school in France is a remarkable fact
in the republics progress. The con-
troversy between state and church,
bitted as it was in the extreme and
unfortunate, has made necessary larg-
er state grants to education which
have been administered even in re-
mote districts with increasing wisdom.
Certain distinguishing French charac-
teTistics, aptitude for science, clarity
of mind, concentration and the criti-
cal faculty, intellectually and artistic
taste, are shown nowhere more pro-
nouncedly than in the French schools
and reference is made not merely
to the Sorbonne or the Ecole de Beaux
Arts, but to the small schools far re
moved from the capital. The French
peasant wishes the best for his chill
dren.
The French peasant not only owns
France-he works. AS France leads
in percentage of her population en-
gagged in agriculture, France leads also
in the relative percentage of her pop
ulation who are economically active
members of society. In this sunny
land, where everybody apparently
loafs his life away, more workers are
to be found. in proportion to the num-
Der Of inhabitants, than in Great Brit
ain, Germany, or our own United
States. The census statistics show
that of every 100 persons in the United
States So are engaged in some chief
occupation, agriculture, commerce or
industry, including domestic service,
and not subsidiary or auxiliary In
Great Britain "A of every 100 are so en-
gagged. in Germany As, and in France
81. The French are workers, not
idlers, and this percentage increases
with each decade. Not only do more
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25

extravagant. Others, seeing the
French Sunday, learning that in the
charming French language there is no
word for home, observing the gay,
white ways of the cities, or reading
of a declining birth rate, quickly pro-
nounce France idle, undomestic, ire
ligious, immoral. Now France, curl
ously, is in many of her characteris-
tics the antitheses of these popular
and far-spread interpretations. To es-
innate her place and part in to-mor-
rows world, a more nearly accurate
knowledge Of her characteristics to-
day is of course necessary.
Paris VS.. France.
First, in Judging France it must be
kept in mind that Paris is not France.
Many of the descriptive adjectives en-
ployed in picturing France do apply to
Paris, or, at least, to the sections of
Paris where foreign travellers most
do congregate. The vivid, colorful
cafes, the all-night restaurants, the
prurient novels and post cards, are,
to large degree, an effort to give the
tourist-public what it wants, or what
Paris thinks it wants. The real France
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
YALE WON FOUR TITLES
DURING COLLEGE YE,n

While walls are coming from A.
admirers of Yale university devils
ing the weak showing of the 49,,
tuition in sports, it might ba woI,
to look over the list of the veor,a
years college championships aas
see if the Blue is really so decade.
as generally believed. Here io =
list of the college championsb;n~
of the country, as won by the ~ p'
rious institutions:
Harvard-Football, socker tor
mis-, lacrosse, hockey.
Yale-Baseball, swimming cole
shooting.
Cornell-Cross-country, basket
ball, wrestling.
Pennsylvania - Track. gymr.O
tics.
Columbia-Fencing, chess.
Syracuse-Rowing.
Pr1nceton-Polo.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25

may not be seen on Paris streets aft
er dark. Paris is beautiful city, and
the French are lovers of beauty. But
Paris is royalist and France is repub-
lican. Paris is politically restless, and
France is stable. Paris is extraya-
CANT, and France is thrifty.
Paris is a sparkling diamond on the
broad blouse of all France. 1t Is not
strange that the diamonds sparkle is
first seen and longest remembered.
But the republic is clothed and kept
In its right mind by rural France.
A Nation of Farmers.
The real ruler of France is the
peasant-farmer. Other great nations
are rapidly becoming urbanized. The
city is drawing men and women from
the farm with rapidity that is alarm
ing in Great Britain, in Germany, and
even in the newer United States. Civ
ilization confronts problems, created
by modern industrialism. That fac
tory products have thus far too often
meant distressful conditions of liv-
ing for the factory laborer and his
family is a grim fact in every indus
trial nation. France, in this change.
remains almost stationary and takes
time to adjust herself to the newer
and different conditions. The one
great European republic is an agri-
cultural empire. The high and sta
BILE position which agriculture occu-
pies is significant. More than AZ per
cent of the population in France is
engaged in agriculture, far more than
In any other country of northern Eu-
rope, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium
or the Netherlands, and one-fourth
more than in the United States. This
percentage of the population engaged
in agriculture shows a slight increase
In recent years instead of large de-
crease, as in other leading nations.
This condition is maintained despite
q density of population greater than
In neighboring countries, and nearly
six times as great as in the United
States. Density of population almost
Invariably means urbanization. France
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
CARPENTER IS YOUNG BOXER
Heavyweight of Europe Will Be orIv
Twenty on Next Birthday Ami.
Versary-Began Early,

Georges Carpenter, the heavyweight
champion pugilist of Europe and the
idol of the French sporting public is
to be given big blowout" in Paris
on the occasion of his twentieth birth.
day anniversary.
In view of his remarkable achieve.
ments in the ring, it is difficult to real
ize that Carpenter is still in his
teens. 1t is not so difficult to under.
stand, however, when it is remem.
bred that he began his career as a
fighter at the early age of twelve
years.
At that time he weighed but rs
pounds and was known as the Little
Demon" At the age of thirteen he
was proclaimed the amateur bantam
champion of France. One year later
he won the feather honors. In 1912
he took the European middleweight
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
FRANCE-WHICH PARIS Is NOT
UALTER WILLIAMS, IL.
san The SCHOOL, fJoarnal.m of The Unhesv fhIsour0

is a notable exception. Here the
farmer continues to farm.
Peasant Farmers Land Owners.
The French peasant farmer must
not be associated with the German or
the British farm laborer. He is of a
different and a higher class. This
difference is brought about, in large
measure, by the fact that he is an
owner Of the land, not merely ten
ant. Sixty-three per cent of the
French peasants are householders,
owning their homes, oftentimes "a
small thing but my own" Revolution
does not easily originate among the
owners Of homes. The French peas
antry are the conservative force In
the republic. 1t must not be inferred,
however, that with them conservatism
spells stagnation. Though not rev
olutionist, the French peasant is not
reactionary. He is materially and
morally progressive. He thinks with
a clearness that some philosophers
might envy. He expresses himself
with a grace and a precision that, in
herited by his children, gives them a
birthright of speech in pulpit, tribune,
journalism, unsurpassed by any land.
Distinguished Sons of Peasants.
1t is not strange that Rochefort and
Clemenceau, the journalists, Labor,
the advocate, Millet, the painter, Poin-
care, Fallieres and Loubet, statesmen,
and host of others, scientists, schol-
ars, preachers, legislators, are the
sons of peasants. When the newly
elected president of the third republic,
Emile Loubet, halted his triumphal en-
| try into Montelimar that he might en-
brace his peasant mother, the Incl
dent which moistened every French
| eye and warmed every French heart,
assured the new presidents popularity,
| for France recognizes its dependence
upon the peasantry and honors, above
most nations, motherhood. 1t is good
politics, therefore, when the present
scholar-president of France, motoring
through France to his country place,
as this letter is written, turns aside to
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25

Boulogne-s u r.
Seine, France
Fra n C q surely
laughs in her
sleeve at her in
terpreters from
other lands. The
majority of these
interpreters, fas-
cinated by the al
Turing gayety of
t h e boulevards,
find in Paris the
key to the French
character. 9th
ers though, look
in G b yon d ,
sprinkle their in
t erpret a tons
with such adjec-
tives of descrip-
ton as light
hearted, violate
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
preyfuss Is Blamed.

Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the
Pittsburg Pirates, is blamed now for
the existence of the Federal league
He refused to allow President Barrow
OF the international league to put the
Jersey City franchise in Pittsburgh in
1912. Barney might .as well give his
own franchise away.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
cuban Bali PLAYER in Demand.

Brooklyn expects some trouble with
the Reds before the signed contract
of Shortstop Romanach of the Ha-
vana team is received. 1t is under
stood that the Cuban is willing to
accept the terms offered by the Dodg-
ers, but it is said that Cincinnati has
entered claim for the player, who is
said to have signed contract over a
year ago, but never reported.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Another sneedx Johnson

The Boston Red Sox declare that
they will have Johnson that will be
a rival to Walter Johnson in another
year. Johnson comes from the SYRIA
cuse team of last year, of which Fred
die Payne, the old White Sox catcher,
is manager.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Rick.v Favors coIIegians'

Branch hickey has signed up ~ ,
of college youths for the Br ROW. M
coming season. Being Co409 % VI
himself, Hickey believes that n0 GA -.
be able to get more out OF INC Il
rab bows" than he can out o. u, - -
roughnecks that learn the game -
back lots.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Game Any More-Gladys Ravens
court Not Eligible to Vote.

"What has aged to do with goif?"
is a question on many sides in the
course of a season. The natural an
swer would be Nothing" Yet the de-
velopments of the last season show
rather conclusively that it has. Fran
els Ouimet, the amateur who beat Var
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Marsans in Condition.

Frank Bancroft of the Cincinnati
club, who went to Cuba to sign Mar
sans, says that the little outfielder is
in excellent condition, as he has taken
on a little weight during the winter
and he was in need of few extra
pounds behind his big bat.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25

from a stake opposite the Allen dock.
On the first of the four laps covered,
the Imp took the lead and held it until
the finish Time 1870. A strong
northwest wind was blowing. The
Imp also won the morning race in a
series of races for the club trophy,
she being the only boat to finish.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Aao+bAr soft Match for Wells.

Bandsman, Blake, the Ensi-S etched
dleweight champion, has been m sl'rmsr
to fight Bombardier Wells, Inc Nurse o.
heavyweight champion, for : pull Mac.
$4,000. The bout viii take
March 8.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25
Furnishes Winter sport for Resid.n+,

The city of Toronto provides S5
free skating Kinks, 80 hockey cush-
ions, five toboggan slides and eight
miniature slides, the latter for the
use Of children as winter pastimes
fer residents there
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-25

Il Jne of the most keenly contested
races held on the North Shrewsbury
River, New Jersey, this winter, the
Imp, one of the fastest ice boats in
the world, owned by Robert Heitmey-
er of New York, won the event in the
best time this season. The race was
held over ten mile triangular course
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-15
SUMNER SCHOOL AT
VALLEY CITY CLOSED

Valley City, N. D., Aug. 16.-The
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS marking the
close of thF s~sn1tner session of the
Valley Cityaegpnnal school, were held
yesterday wien forty-tRo received
normal diplomas and thirty six rural
department diplomas. The exercises
were largely attended. Theg raduates
in normal work follows:
Advanced Course-Miss Anna Gun
derson, Valley City.
Two-year Advanced Course-Oswold
Brett. Park River: Laura Hill. Beach.
Domestic Science-Elsie Baertsch,
Marion; Signe Bekerus, Hurdsfeld:
Etehel Cochran, Milbank. 5. D.; Yer
onica Murray, Crosby; Fannie New
berry, Cooperstown: Ida Rattan. Val
ley City.
Agricultural Course-Andrew B.
Netting, Montevideo, MINI.
Manual Training-Mona Cannell.
Valley City.
Elementary Course-Andrew c. An
derson, Marion; Roy Cowdrey, San
born; Margaret Blake, Delamere;
Jennie Henderson, Darcy; Alpha Fer
guson, Valley City; Florence Foran.
LoMoure; Flossie Gaines. Jamestown;
Selma Hall, Benson, MINI; Anna
Hamm. Jamestown; Bertha Hilder-
brandt, Wahpeton; Gladys Johnson,
Cando; Annie Laurie, Crazy; Vera
Mahon, Inkster; Ida Morton, Veron-
lea; Fannie .Newberry, Cooperstown;
Dora Peterson, Jamestown; Julia No
vacek, Edmore; Peter Romstad,
Starkweather; Jennie Witzeg, Beach;
katherine Zinck, Bordulac.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-15
BY
COMMISSION

Bismarck. N. D., Aug. 15.-The
board of railroad commissioners, ac-
companied by three N. p. officials,
made an inspection trip over the Will
on-Pingree line.
The officials were General Superin-
tendent Nichols, Division Superinten-
dent Berner and A. M. Burt, chief en-
glneer of maintenance and way. The
train was a special and raj made UP
of the special cars of these gentlemen.
Mrs. Nichols and MI. and Mrs. e. j.
Engle, of Kansas City, Kan, were with
the party.
Wilton over the 500 line. At Baldwin
the commission inspected the depot
and grounds, where improvements are
wanted. AT Wilton they were trans
ferred to the Wilton -Pingree branch.
At Regain the commission made an at
tempt to arbitrate between the new
Farmers union and two elevator COM
panies for the sale of one Of the pres
ent houses, failing in which, steps
were taken to secure a site for the
new elevator company.
At a point about midway between
Pettibone and Woodwork about fifty
farmers were waiting to interview the
commissioners Ind the railway Off
Gals regarding the establishing of a.
siding. The railway officials were very
agreeable n promised to build the
siding within two weeks. The party
then went on to jamestown.
General Superintendent Nichols was
on the Mott branch yesterday on a tour
of inspection and today will INSPECT
the Stanton branch. The latter branch
is being built this season from Olanta
to Dunn Center and right-of-way is
being secured between that point and
Sidney, Mont. which is almost due
west.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-15
JUDGE BUTTE TO ISSUE
SECOND PAPERS soon

Devils Lake, N. D., Aug. 15.-sept
2S to Oct. 1 is naturalization week
In h second judicial district. During
that period Judge C. w. Buttz will
swing through the five counties of his
district. The various dates. are con-
tanned in the following notice issued
by the court:
TO accommodate all persons de-
string to secure their final (second
naturalization papers, / hereby fix the
following places and dates for the
hearings on all application in the
second judicial district, for citizenship
under the laws of the United States:
at 1870 p. m.
Minnewaukan, Tuesday, Sept. 20.
1914. at 9 a. m.
New Rockford. Tuesday, Sept. 20,
1914, at 1:10 p. m. &C.,"
Cando, Wednesday,, Sept. 80, 1914,
at 8 p. m.
Rolla, Thursday, Oct. /, 1914, at 3
p. m. .. -
THE clerk of court for each county
will notify ali applicants whose appli-
cations have been posted thirty days
or more before the date fixed in their
county. These hearings are arranged
at as late a date as possible fnasmuch
as under the present law no one can
be naturalized within thirty days pre-
ceding a general election.
"At the above places and dates the
court will also hear any motions that
may be properly noticed for hearing
and try any default cases."
The date for holding the na~turaliza-
ton hearing at Rolla is Oct. 1 and at
that time Judge Buttz will hold a
special court term at hat place for
the trial of all cases triable without a
jury. There was no June term of
court at Rolla this summer, as the
work was practically all cleaned up
during the January term of court and
there vas scarcely any work left. Up
on a petition signed by the practicing
attorneys of Rolette county the June
term of court was adjourned until
the next regular term, at which time
all Of the court cases will have been
cleaned up by the special term In
October, .
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-15
NORTH DAKOTANS CHASED
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 15.-After
a mad race across the Atlantic. during
which their vessel was chased by a
German cruiser, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Grasvak Of Grafton and Mr.. and Mrs.
M. j, Kallestad and M. Master of
ichigan, arrived in Grand Forks
Thursday night.
The five North Dakota people wree
passengers on the Mauretania on her
last voyage across the Atlantic. When
the vessel was two days out of South
ampton a wireless message was re-
ceiyed from the British cruiser Essex
that a German warship was lying in
wait for the ocean greyhound.
All lights were extinguished, and in
total darkness the Mauretania plowed
her way across the Atlantic. Several
times the searchlight Of the German
vessel was seen but, owing to a heavy
fog, the Mauretania escaped unoh-
served, and finally arrived safely at
Halifax.