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Entered as second-class matter Au
•„u*t 29 th;* 1921S, at the postoffice at
TeVotua. Alaska under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
1'okotna, Alaska, Kebruary- 27, 192(5
1 MAR 192:> WITNESSED CON
ilNUEi) GROWTH OF I’OF
IT.AR INTEREST IN SPORTS
New Vork.—Though marked by a
return to somewhat normal pace in
the, scop* of athletic competition, by
r, lpparison with the unusual activity
r.t’ne previous two annual cam
paigns, the year 11*25 witnessed con
tinued growth of popular interest,
particularly in football, baseball, foot
ball and track, pesides an unusual
epidemic in individually brilliant-per
formances and a significant trend in
the development of • professional
spurts,.
Following a Tear of sensational
conquest, abroad on Olympic battle
fields, it was a >vatural reaction to
haye the major contests of 1925 con
centrate on native grounds. There
wu-s sufficient international competi
tion to add spice to the campaign, and
hcije the United States carried away
viiq I'utiv i uuuui«i in > «-* • *
parent renaissance, in the caliber of
British opposition, but the conests of
chuff interest were staged on home
soij.
In this home-bred panorama of ac
tivity, however, one invader of un
usual note, Paavo Nurmi,, the phan
tom runner of Finland, stood out to
challenge Red Grange, the Galloping
Ghost of football, for the roost spec
•uicjular individual honors of the year
These two occupied the major portion
•>f,the spotlight, even in a season
which saw- “Big Bill" Tikien carrying
th(\ tennis heights for the sxth
straight year; Bobby Jones capturing
the amateur golf crown for the sec
ond season in a row after also com
ing close to winning the national open
title in a desperate fight with Willie
Macfarlane; Helen Wills leading
women's tennis ranks, for the third
successive time; Rogers Hornsby
smashing major league hatting rec
ords as he led the National League
fori the sixth straight year; and
Swpde Oberlander leading Dartmouth
to ,a national football championship
with the greatest forward passing ex
hibition in the history of the gridiron
sport..
Whea all. these sensational feats<
and stars- have passed in review,
however, it remains for two peculiar
Iy paralle performances of Nurmi and
■Grange to produce the greatest thrills
of ,1925-from the viewpoint of indi
.1 - ..i—. _
calendar quite- matched the startling
running of Nurmi on his first indoor
performance in- America, at Madison
Square Garden, where he shattered
three world’s records and beat the
pick of his American rivals in two
races,, or tho startling exhibition of
Grange in putting to rout a hitherto
unbeaten Pennsylvania eleven on
Franklin Field with as great a dem
onstration of broken field running as
any gridiron ever.-witnessed.
These two performances were all
the more noteworthy because they
were made under handicaps and
against heavy odds. Grange made
football history on a muddy field
against one of the East's greatest de
fensive teams and before a crowd
-vhich oame there in a skeptical mood
•*n4 left marveling at his prowess.
Similarly, Nurmi, competing on an
mlpor-track for the first time and
n pn unfamiliar setting, cleared
thefe barriers and beat the best this
country could produce in the way of
competition. He conquered Joie Ray,
""^’h^^MvUovd Hahn and others,
with these stars running- the fastest
races of their lives.
Grange provided a sensational cli
max in his college career by turning;
professional and almost immediately
jumping into a class with Jack Demp
sey as a money-maker. His move was
tre most conspicuous and important
in the development of professional
football, attracting not only widely in
creased interest in this phase of the
gridiron sport but. being chiefly . re
sponsible for stirring up a contro
versy within college ranks on ipues
tions of ethics, commercialism and
“over-emphasis”' of the game.
Pittsburgh’s sensational overthrow
of the Washington'Senators in a pro
1 mged struggle for the world's hase
hall championship was the'high spot
of the diamond season and one of the
out-sanding examples of team victory
recorded in the year. Another was
the sixth straight triumph of United.
States Davis Cup forces over a rec
ord-breaking field of twenty-five
countries in the* international tennis
competition, which saw France’s
young stars, Lacoste and Borotra,
taking a gallant but unsuccessful bid
i for honors in the Challenge* Round at
t Philadelphia.
Several important championships
! changed hands, these including the
■aseball victory of Pittsburgh over.
Washington. Dartmouth displaced
■lotre Dame as the nationally reeog
: nhsed college football tithe-holder,
outhern California also took the col
lege tjiack and field crown from Yale,
hill ftv New York A. C. lifted na
- ional club honors in the same- spend
from the Illinois A. C. The Navy dis
daced Washington as intercollegiate
crew title-holders. Macfarlane de
prived Cyril Walker of the open golf
title, and Miss Collett repl&ceu Mrs.
Hurd as women’s champion.
On the other hand, Tilden, Miss
Wills, Bobby Jones, Hornsby and
vValter Hagen retained honors they
had held in their respective special
1 ies eh eseason before, while the U. S.
Davis Cup team and British. Women’s
Wightman Cup squad defended tennL
trophies they held in 1924.
Most of the boxing titleholdevk- also j
"lung to their crowns, although in j
the case of Jack Dempsey, the he&yy ;
weight champion, the only Sign of ac-j
thtity was the signing of articles for
a 1926 match with liafry. .Wills, and!
these have since, been somewhat dis- !
credited.
FORMER DAWSON NEWSPAPER
MAN WRITES OF FLORIDA
Following ,is an excerpt of a letter
received by Arthur H. Dever, of the
Dawson News, now sojourning in
Texas, ar.d forwarded to Dawson, |
From Cogence C. Stahl, for years con
nected with the News and other* news
papers of Dawson, but for the past 15
years located at Miami, Florida: ; !
“As for chances in Miami, many |
millions have been made here almost ;
overnight. We had 5,000 people when
I came here, and now we have better
fhan 150,080; with every promise in
the world of reaching 600,000 fths less ■
than rive years. I think the oppor
tunity is just as good here now as |
years ago, except that it takes more ,
money to get in. I believe;, too, that
a-person with a few thousand dollars
can just sit tight and good things will
fall in his lap sooner or later if he is
not asleep, tuvery man, woman and
child, almost, in Miami is loaded to
the guards with property, and many
are carrying more than they can com
fortably, with the result that now and
then someone has to throw something
overboard in order to save himself,
and that is the time when a man
with ready cash, in his mitt can pick
up something worth while. I put up
$1,000 today as a binder on a property
that is costing me $45,000 cash and
must be paid for December' 1, the
closing date, ft is a little piece of
i acreage I will subdivide, and I expect
to get better than $100,000 out of it
before the date of closing. I am gam
bling $1,000 on that possibility, and
if my expectations arc not realized
I simply lose, and that i.- all there is
to it. I will be glad to send you any
literature or any other information
you might wish if you will but say
j the word.
“We have three dailies, and two of
t them are corkers. Forty-eight-page
1 editions are common, and the after
noon paper puts out three editions
daily, with a Sunday morning paper
as well.”
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Oscar Saxe, * Belgian. invented the
saxophone ninety years ago. v
The shortest light waves known vO
man are the Gauma rays »f radium. ^
An electric light bulb In which no
filament is used ha3 been invented.. ’
—
Professor Albert Einstein, in addi
tion to being a famous scientist and
mathematician, is an accomplished
violinist.
The Patent Office in Washington
still receives from 25 to 30 applica
tions a year for patents on perpetual
motion.
Special rubber insulated gloves and
sleeves are made for the purpose of
protecting electrical workers from
shock.
The u.-e of various waters in the
prevention and cure of disease is one
of the oldest therapeutic measures -
known to medical science.
By a new process discovered by
Bureau of Standard experts at Wash
ington sugar twice as sweet as that
from cane or beets can be obtained
ifrom artichokes.
A rotor ship propelled by a new
type of revolving power has been de
signed by two memners of the School
of Naval Architecture at Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
_ I
A machine has been developed for
mining coal, making the use of explo
sives unnecessary. The device under- ;
cuts the coal by chewing into it with
steel teeth. Then the coal automatic
ally falls down upon a self-loader and |
is carried away by machinery. It is
expected that this machinery will re
duce the cost of mining 50 per cent.
John A. Spencer, of Cambridge,!
Mass,, invented a thermometer device
which he sold for $1,000,000. He con
ceived the device when he was only
15 years old. It will be used to eon-.
Max Simel
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trical apparatus of vnrious kinds.
A motion picture camera has beei
developed that can be controlled by i
radio transmitter. The invention -i:
devised for use in photographim
long-distance scenes showing battle
and similar large spectacles*
How fast the land develops. There
are more millionaires in jail now than
there were at large in ,1890.--Port
Arthur News.
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