Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1923-11-08
Baraboo and Portage Stage a
Snappy Football Cntest At Con-
clusion of Exercises
JUDGE EVANS WRITES
LETTER or APPRECIATION
Park Board Expects to Beautify
Grounds Says President In Short
Address

One of the largest football crowds
which has ever witnessed football
game on a Baraboo field gathered at
the Mary Rountree-Eyans memorial
athletic field tCls afternoon. The
promise of real football game and
the dedication of the new field drew.
many Baraboo people as well as those
from the surrounding country. Por-
tage rooters were conspicuous on the
field, which was in fine shape for the
event.
Baraboofs High Achool band in
uniform opened the dedication exer-
cises with spirited selections and the
first event was the presentation OF
the field by Attorney Herman Groto
phorst.
At the dedication exercises today
Mr.. Grotophorst, president of the
Park Board, said in part:
We have met this day to appro-
priately dedicate our new athletic
field. Through the generosity of one
of our most distinguished citizens,
Honorable Evan A. Evans, and
through the liberality of our common
council, we were able to obtain this
beautiful field. This field will now
be dedicated in memory Of a loving
wife. devoted mother, and a noble
woman, Mrs. Mary Rountree Evans.
Hereafter this field will be known as
the Mary Rountree Evans Athletic
Field. The care and est enlistment of
this field has been placed under the
supervision of the Board of Pars
Commissioners and with the aid Of
the good people of BaraboO the board
will try to make it place OF beauty
and a field for recreation. This tiel0
is especially designed for the youth
of our city. The smallest child thar
wishes to play here is as welcome as
one who has arrived at full age. We
will now turn over this field to the
youth of Baraboo. All we ask is that
it be used as a sacred gift and leC
the young people show by their &C
ton that they appreciate all that has
been done and is being done for
them. Be true sports; let the best
man and the best team win Although
YOU may elate over a victory right
fully won, do not glory and boost over
your opponents defeat Only he who
takes earnest, willing and intelligent
part in any game is apt to win. Re-
member that success in life depends
upon the same principles that assur-
es success upon this field. Only the
youth who gets the game can expec>
to win a victory The youth who par
ticipates in a combat is the youth who
gains strength and self reliance.
It is the intention of the board to
have a beautiful entrance erected to
this field. We shall expect to plant
shrubs, trees and flowers in the prop
err places; we shall lay out field for
football, basket ball and baseball
and establish proper race rack. We
ask that those for whom his fed
has been established will take d pride
in it and will keep it clean and beauti-
full and help to make it one of the
beauty spots of Beautiful Baraboo
The president of the Park Board al
so read a part of letter received
from Judge EVAN A. Evans to be used
upon TIE occasion of the dedication
Of the field. The letter is in part:
81 read in a Baraboo paper that
the new athletic field is to be
dedicated, and I received an in
vitation to be present at that
time. 1t pleases me very much
to know that the busy men of
Baraboo should be so kind and
thoughtful as to leave their BUS
mess to participate in the cere- ,
monies. / appreciate more than
can express the action of the
public authorities in naming the
field after the one who was, and
whose memory still is the source
of so much inspiration to me. ]
confess my actuating motive in
making this gift fors the estab-
4 lishment OF. the athletic field was
the thought that il living It
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