Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-01

In the morning. For luncneOn, they
have cup of consomme and a sand
witch and meals are specially selected
| and prepared. They are taking the
Hot Springs baths every day and
Baseball is scientific game. 1t
takes men of trained hands and mind
to play it successfully Bad habits
of all kinds defeat the strongest men
and minds; well directed training and
care produces the highest attainment.
This is the goal of Manager McGraw.
VIII Leave for Georgia.
These pitchers and catchers will
leave here next week for Augusta,
Georgia. They go to the field each
day, weather permitting, at one
o'clock and practice for about an
hour l had expected that a team
of such note would be taken to the
field by autos (the field is about a
mile from their hoteD, but such is
not the case.
They went out to the field just as
commonplace and agreeable in con-
versation as the rest of us try to be.
Who They Are.
Here is list of the boys as ap-
peared on the Hot Springs field on the
afternoon, raw and cold, of February
oath. 1928:
I nrI L[f,n los f,oi inc
Rogers Bresnahan, Hans Lobert, old
Giant, now coach; catchers, Frank
Hogan, lack Taylor, Al Spohrer, Jack
Cummings, Bill Barrett; pitchers,
Fred Fitzsimmons, Jack Levy, Cergil
Barnes, Art Johnson, Larry Benton,
Ben Cantwell, Bill Clarkson, Chef
Nichols, Dutch Henry, Jim Faulkner,
and Melvin OFT.
Saturday, the 25th of February,
1928. Still cold. The thermometer
is around SO above and am not sure
there will be much pleasure watch
ing the Giants today even though
they have a hardihood to practice.
Gradually, l am beginning to for
mulate definite ideas about agricul-
tural conditions here. Shall express
| myself a little later. There is a
county agent located here who rep
resents this county, Garland. AS this
is the county seat, the county super
intendent of schools has his office
here also. The two make an access
ible combination where much reliable
information may be obtained
A Rural School House.
l have seen one rural school house.
1t was besides the road in the woods
as we motored our way to the Three
Sisters Springs" and is about twenty
miles from here. If it is typical
building, then they have many long
strides to make before reaching the
summit of the most forlorn little
backwoods school houses we have in
Minnesota. What type of elementary
education is forthcoming in these
little buildings will be known to me
later. A healthful cold climate has
it's advantages which far outclass
their disadvantages. This little school
building is the evidence of the lack
of necessity to urge to build better.
Rough pine boards, evidently the pro-
duct of local mill, were placed up
right side by side for the sides and
ends. Probably there is a double row
so as to overlap the cracks, other
wise the cracks are covered with a
narrow strip. Windows were on the
sides and ends and door in the CEN
ter of the front. There were no evil
dences of improvements about the
place-just little frame building of
coarse lumber set in the woods by
the side of the road. And this is
where primitive education in Arkan-
sas begins.
What a Difference.
What a far cry it is from this scene
to that of the city of Little Rock, or
any of the cities of the South where
the people seem to have outdone
themselves in the erection of costly,
well-equipped structures for school
purposes. Rural Arkansas has not
yet come into it's own. 1t is still
cropping in the dark, but we shall
have to look farther than to lack
of educational facilities for that is
but a result. There is basic cause
far deeper. That 1 shall speak of
later.