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FARGO TO PLAY OAK RIDGE, LA., IN FIRST GAME Initial Battle For No. Champs Is Set For Wed- nesday at 4 P. M. - (P) - The the | and their teams nips, pulled nd less often battled to out their came into t prep school hi Their word is where 40 of them are finishing touches h cach hopes will w p the seth the openin Dut 24 hours di members from every se United States are on possible chance to chances of their teams. This morn- ing or this afternoon w brisk work- out to remove the stiffness of a long train ride and tonight a long rest for the squad,.the coach today is making good use of the time which intervenes before 40 teams plunge into the first round of games to determine which 20 will mect in the second and, in rapidly decreasing number, the closing rounds, of play y States Represented The. influx of teams which started late last week continued today as the last of the nearby entries checked in to officials. Included among them are state cahmpions f: seaboard to the Rockie: dian border to the gulf. The first round of games gets un- derway at noon tomorrow, continuing ‘on into Wednesday night, when win-| ners of the first bracket will start on! and the Cana- the second series. The action will be almost continuous until Friday, when the surviving quintets will meet in the closing games. Teams eliminated in the first and second rounds will be re-paired in a consolation tournament, which will close just before the finals in the title play. Pairings Announced Pairings of opponents in the first round were announced yesterday, when University Wf Chicago officia supervising the games, also announced that 40 had been set as the limit of teams participating. the first round games PHILLIES HAVEN'T THE FLAG FEVER Fletcher, However, Thinks Club Will Make Some of the Rest Hustle BY BILLY ky iS EEA tA Re. slight vise out cher of the ‘At present is developing a i make interesti tense at petiniasit it from me, any « by the former Gian to play interesting his style. Fletcher, trained n @,natural aggressive bali player, hi no.use for the drones. we haven't got the pennant * remarked Fletcher as I dis- his ball club. with him. “The eget idea is to win every bali game } an on the-theory that you can't worry about those you lose and bring care ee i y's « Big Factor “T Peal say my ball club is at least 20 per cent stronger than last Beason. maybe 30 points better. “Jack Bentley will play first base better than it has been played for the Phillies in years, while his bat-, ting is certain to be a factor. at second, is sure to hel} * the best man at that posi- | ‘tion since I have had charge of the | elute. identally, he’s a dangerous mia 2 ability of Sind at shortsto, art: no.comment. ‘at ind, antsy, not flashy, is very de- tt Should prove the best all-round field that has ever played under my| pene Far that reason I look for improvement in our general play.” pine ig is another reason’ tcher believes his elub should ymore formidable. hat the many does Jimmy Ring for “There is spility said Fletcher, I wnderstand his tem: postoctly. Dean doesn’t thrive on eriticism; few players do. I havei teld-him that all he has to do for me Pat ball games; thet the pitching) the game will be entirely up to; itn on won't get any suggestions | Picker, i at tr irileneke patie hat shown form in the nae SACs. We ‘is to start asa ‘8 former member of the st. napolis last sea- the Phillies vin |’ “Fletcher believes rament , Dak.| the} championship of the United | the Atlantic) depends on their showing « Two of the biggest pitching disappointments of the 1925 season were Joe Shaute and George Uhle of Cleve- land. Shaute, especialy, was far below form. Much through the Indians may get ‘somewhere, if not, the oa will uy te in the rush, this year. If they come ter opinion of Fletcher's club if you saw i; in action. : Fletcher, a smart bail player,, is proving a smart manager and plays snappy, aggressive baseball Suet, the type you would expect. The Phillies are not pennant-win-| ners but are interesting. ‘WILLIE HOPPE WILL DEFEN HIS ONE TITLE} . | With All Other Crowns Gone,|\ | He Will Meet Schaefer For 18.1 Title New York, March ~P)— Willie Hoppe, bereft of his 18.2 balkline bil- liard championship, has placed upon his head an almost forgotten crow jand today goes forth to defend it against the wizard a of a wizard: aoe r Jake A dozen years ago Hoppe stopped in Paris long enough to capture the 18.1 title and immediately. Iai Only recently he recalled th | championship remained in his 8 | sion | after all others had been taken aw er, also without a title as the Evie Hagenlacher's surpri in Philadelphia r ght himself of the las crown and challenged. Others went into the scramble but Schaefer gained the match. Today Hoppe and Schaefer meet in 00 points each in a last through the | 5 ite dias an j from illness, iColeharbor Wins iecny Drake, 35-28 ed the ‘Drake ‘er hy a seore of it tournament he F was defeat y by a one point. marg het being some dispute over basket th ot by Coleharbor whi owed by the referee, usky and Cole- harbor easily took t! place. Many fans wanted to sce the leharbor teas: play Drake: content x Cole. harbor the best machine. The game as then arranged and the ubove score speaks for. itself. At no time during the game was Drake in the lead. Coleharbor played consistent ball throughout and the Coleharbor forwards came to the ‘front time and again with two and three baskets. The Soleharbor ‘guards kept the Drake forwards cov- ered at all times and did not allow them to get started. This ends the asqn for Cole- harbor. The players have a remark. able record for the past year and they ¢ y claim the championship of the county. The team is composed ‘of three former all state high sehool | ag one Valley C Teachers’ Col- legs star and a former all state col- 3 forward of Minnesota. eups: coicharbe: Vogel Moberg | Hailey Drake Nuerenberg Morrow Amory Ericksor, Johnson Points; Vogel 20, Moberg. 13, Nel- son 2, Nucrenberg Morrow 13, Armory 5, Erickson {> Refere Allen, Minot, N. D. | pe ea Salad MANDY BASEBALL DOVE BOOK One of the handiest baseball publi. cations put out, for some time, con- | taining cbiographies of prominent players, ‘major and minor. league schedules, instructions on how to atten gate featured in s of e¢ Dope Book, pu! lished’ by: G. nk id eoels Mo., Publishers) of Tae Short in, any baseball tan who isa reader | Cul Shin books tay obtain tas dy eh ook, may one ni ‘to Spink ( Son, St. Louis, i aan ‘eonts in stam gost of from Dempsey reiterating the cham- DEMPSEY AND TUNNEY FIGHT. IS DISCUSSED : Battle May Be Staged in Au- gust Under Direction of Tex Rickard March 29()—(P)Pros- | reiterating the cham- ‘w York this summer ussed today and there that Tex Rickard would ! nouncement shortly. { <, negro, so far has been by the state athletic com- ssion as the logical challenger for! »sey’s crown, but there are some indications that the commission will decide that Wills Drought upon him self some xort of penalty for signing se were being were report to meet Dempsey after the champion had drawn the commission’s ire. few York, having at- jrived from Miami Saturday night, and he says he stands ready to meet | ‘Th yone, but would prefer Dempsey or ls. The Times says today that a telegraphic word ntention of defending his title Tunney in August under the tion of Rickard. neh counting to put the White j Oakland 3 to 1 in the ox ‘appears: to”! promising colleetion of are % A return to form by -Pf jpRosx: Ryan, so highly r | John MeGraw a few yeas mc est much to the Braves, still a youngster, being only y \ jof age. He has a chaneor The work of Larry Benion, and Sot late {Genewich will: probably, in 4, {Measure, determine the plead the Braves, 1 oe {two clever tel jhelpful. Also’ the abi! ee (Cooney to work: reguiarly ‘the Braves’ question marks, i On paper the:Braves do not make iyou think of & pennant but a3 you watch the Boston athletes in action jyou observe they are tough to heat. Gloom and! optimism are Suipni neck and neck in the baseball ‘train- ing camps. The Philadelphia Athletics and a tye Phillies start northward from Florida retreats next Wednesday with the managers of both teams pretty well discouraged. But the gloom registered M448 tne Quaker city chmps was an aggressive optimism ao} By ers Hornsby, who bid the world up and take notice of his Louis Cardinals, | The Carts have just chalked. apt’ their 22nd straight win by drubbing the Fort Worth club of the Texas league 7 to 4. Manager Speaker of the Cleveland Indians is | another pilot satisfied with the condition “of his men. The Indians. leave. land, Fla, Tuesday for New Ol with’ virtually every man in shape f the season’s opening. —— ‘ The Boston Braves also continue to show improvement at St. Peters: burg. Although the St. Louia Browns have made a poor showing ih, the Manager Sisler is not discour-. ies see great possibilities in the team, McGraw's Giants resume theit bat’ and ball controversy with the Wash- ington Senators at Tampa today. Mc- Graw believes the Senators will be @ formidable contender in the’ Ameti- can league pennant fight this season if their pitchers hold up. Vance of the Bro Dodgers ‘showed well against the “New York fankees yesterday’ at Montgomery, Ala: ae ig the New Yorkers one ing six in the four inn-| ings he e picked The Chicago Cabs divided meines on the coast, losing the Oi t orning and trimming the San Francisca Seals in the afternoon 8 2. Their; fellow: townsmen, the White Sox, al3o ‘took the measure of the Dallas, Texas, club 13 to 6, in the Texas cfty, with Lyons and Cox in the box. The climate at New Orleans has not been very kind to the Red Sox. They have ‘only been able Louisiana city, rain yesterday caus- Orleans. They moved on to Gulfport, Miss., today. The Pittsburgh Pirates, aftet (rim. ming Los Angeles 14 to 6, left the member of the squad eccounted for, and_will .resume bas: operations at ents Kans., Wednesday. and urs The St. Louis Browns will be idle at Clearwater for a few days, while the Cardinals take on the White Sox at Dallas tomorrow. The Detroit day before a final strenuous week of training. The. Cincinnati’ Reds are still limbering up at Miami, basis ee the team last night for the bed- side of his dying mother at Havana. $< $n ar, » But you r on two iron men, ats i Dempsey has signed so many. al- | leged contracts t fight with Wills; step into the ring h aton on account of writ- f for no ,ovher reason, and Wt manding a ‘public golf experts who have been writing he is 10 strokes better than any other player in the world Marry Greb he does not run| around ax much us the newspapers claim, and he is right. . . . Harry; runs around more, An American Ania is reported engaged to Suzanne Lenglen. Boy, there’s a patroit for you! Version No. 1,567,452 MILDRED: I Babe Ruthed it last night. EDNA: How's ‘at? MILDRED: 1 walked, It was just about a wap ago, wasn’t} was coming to an end? Those who wish it had include! Willie “Hoppe. Harry Greb, Miller] uggins, the Harvard football team,i Bie Tiion the ation Tee ay the Farl of Craven,” Off-side Meditation: Why is it ne- cessary to pay desiknors fancy dough for creating new styles when women will wear anything? It may be true that nothing suc- ceeds like success. it try © get this week's laundry on last: year's batting average. Much has been written of late about; he ideal American, . . . The idi mackers until next Mot without asking {oo any questi Iv’s better to have loved and than to have promised too much. | Lyme com THE BRAVES © By NEA Sei St. Petersburg: This see is to be a big layers. breaking im. Fhe Braves” cnere? is” O¥ear Es: iteher and outfielder. aut isa that a mrajori fe STATE BRIEFS | eerie ® MRS. wineries DIES. Hazelton—Mrs. M. Peer; passed away at ie home last nesday follawing a prolonged | ‘tlness 5 ‘She hes spent the last 23 years in Hazelton. TO ERECT NEW BUILDINGS Dickinson—The Economy on com: | pany will. begin work the lat of the week on the erection 9! filling station and office: hel eotad building will be erected on ptoj apd ven recently purchased from James on the corner of Villard and ds ‘an streets. It will be a 50 by 100 foot building. ASK BOR PAVING BIDS Dickinson—A resolution - aythoriz- ing the county auditor to “Advertise | ‘for bids on ‘the city paving plan, | which been approved by the eity jengineer ind commissioner: ‘passed at @ meetin; mission Monday. are to be Bere. LANDMARK GONE ‘orty-seven blocks situat buill a Mel Mrs. Charlotte Ped owner of the ig ccrgh was located. SURICOIAE. 70,1 OIL evisbr. PROJECT Carcington stack iy taling $5,000 to ‘the Fubsestitions to- there is oil’ We reas ree ment f greet) vr a ‘number of 31 to The Parken ce 130. feet lo: ban boliding tn Can movoReD ON ak to work 13 of the 28 days in the]? ing postponement of a tilt with New!. California city last night with everg}- Tigers rested at Augusta, Ga., Sun-}- LaMoure—The sist dpelling erect~'| hi it, that someone predicted the world ed in LaMogre erin Noh: tus Defendant and lesion F MONDAY, MARCH 2, Prosperity Is Crossing the River By Herbert Kaufman ATIONAL development is hungrily eating its way: into.the Northwest. Population keeps ex-, pending and farm acreage keeps shrinking as towits and cities absorb olitlying mileage. States along the seaboard do uot produce a third of th e food.they consume, and vast districts between the Great Lakes and the Gulf import half their edibles. They are without timber resources; have no copper little iron, scant pasturag insufficient ‘dairy herds. Manhpttan’s breakfast eee seldom travels less than a Pome miles to the table, and nine out of ten strips He baton sizzling’ today. in Boston skillets were prairie- Central Park has just added a milk cow to its zoo be- cause thousands of Father Knickerbocker’s children had never seen one. except in a newspaper or picture book. Thus, the is gradually dividing America into two ti Bdatatont economic groups: A commercial-indus- trial class toward one bank and a food raising, mining community beyond the other. The West is basically 3 ‘seif-sufficient—the East is not. From the Qhio to the Atlantic, once abundant. stocks of raw’ materials and original fertilities have. all but vanished, - re Hetorie a Ley agiier Tallis by: the thou. u , fi finde dnd tnd people ‘by the millions would soon die of starvation ““New ‘Eiigiatid would weave no woolens: Pittsburgh no ppt Png and New York would perish of famine : fosters fh aecqasion merely erely shut down the looms of the North—bi juld the West secede, the older, denser crowded sections of the country would be utterly prostrated. itions were not. so extreme before 1914, The vo- of the Great. War—its immeasurable needs and its cag spacenly rep eulnene pontion of re nent’ position of re- fertile and begrsetege teiritories of the Union Minnesota stid ene Nofthwest rank first in ity and genéral ihdustrial requirements. Here aire the richest and nearest ranges and granges and mera commissaries. Dareasiced by Cour’eiv The cision i NOt subject to judicial re- ara and the nd thet iM fell cecreest i 900,000 new | vi the-action of the Ad- Ge fb General may not be controlled Appeal from. the us. pnnee pu oJ aon ae sei Cos Court of - ‘AGED NEER DIES Gi ounty, Cooley, J. Napoleon.—William Paney, 90- Ropt His “by the State on the rearvold L piDaser: lent of Napo- bert of Isabella Howieson for morning after ne Adjutone General of the State of e nt. General. of gaused by partial North Dakota. ir. baaey, From an order granting a Li 8 b i oe and ie th pity st ihe the. er Ash writ ‘che defendant Sppeal: is. ie sities Pemnaes Opinion © ‘of the coitt by Chrstian- fr, ‘Attar Genor- apect) Attor- fel Butte.—Jémes Gowers, 3 re- F ismarck, N..D., at ‘on the river bot of | $1000. or. * To thé’ South~and toward the Pacific‘are other re- serves of power, raw material and sustenance. But. n6- where else are gathered all the essentials for a going. commonwealth, Consequently, Minneapolis and the Northwest per immediately. inherit an ail-pervading -.and - enduring # é “Mecuisity-casi-ira-tn-no-othior abit, “ree Thé riatket thriftily reaches forthe closer supply aad seeks the shorter haul. — The Northwest can deliver its produce at the least cost: because it may: travel the least-distance to consump- tion centers, Its yields can be raised and sold ‘for leds money be- cause the overheads of irrigated, crop-rotated and trans- mountain larders. are far srester oe raves Chee aos ‘and carrying charges on these adaptable and continu: ously sclea soils. It can provi ender the East. dnd adopt its surplus popv- lation besides. * It alone can “offer tanbory and. worker the complete heeds and facilities of commerce and-the living comfort: which they expect. Its roads are built; its rail ‘are down ; its schools arc ready; its oil and. fuel-beds are: exhaustless; every con- venience and resource that efficient manufacturing a mands, is ready for instant employment. The Northwest can demonstrate to any balance shee’ that more goods can be made for less money at th source of supply—and in a land of abundance where housing is reagonable,.land is cheaper and all busines: ~ and individual expense lower—than in congested hie’ rent, dear food, ‘long-haul territory. Commerce is. ruled by Seana, population by oppor- tunity, trade follows the lines of least resis’ » an those lines were long -since laid across this region an: converged at Minneapolis. Prosperity is:crossing into Jim Hill Land t i ti U2 clouds and burnish the silver = ee hay while it shines, / It’s ‘the ‘Noithwest’s turn now.’ Copyright, 1926, by Herbert Kau’: must be made, if they are.to carry any prestige. One stich récital costs from $650 up, based ‘on how well it is done. - During ‘the sori” these halls, and smaller, oni mand for The and publicty stars have vouched for her, this girl gets private recitals row and then © at $25 per aphearances» When -she finally appeared: at Steitway Hall’ she didn’t have an evening’ dress in which to made her appearance. She redt shoes and durable i The vague had to fit her worth w: performer: tether Parts. af the pear in private. recit ft the New. ork news| er a piusi, magazine: columns, men- fen, hele ella, bk. ich. the better, | h; ion on bs gs “Given great réc Hall on such-and-st “ne course she was. n't. she person- ally paid-for the. hill and were not many of: - heaters oecepion friends and fi holders? The outaille towps 20, not stop. to ircumstances ler under wi recital was ae hich doesn’t Ha story. In a may. have a fai than even Mario ‘al pine "listers fot depicted—and 4’ probably far Teas Draw your own ‘ the type here =H these haye rail RT SWAN. (Copyright, 1026; NEEA Service, Ine.) fe in that the pete in--question is os March veolea the” Met: ie re tight from Lie noe Surprising th that jicture of Ey Gnusic in- ererern of i scenes” pict! worth going to rs—it- merely: ig Presented here a: “behind-the- for those who have visions of getting’ into New York. T have in mind th story of a girl, told me by an officer of the Na- | i tional Music Le: which was es- nd ih Sissel. woes tablished. to help young artists. ry at the Tol lefsdn home Friday This-girl fromje ane, mid-wentern | n ange town where abe been “dis and Mrs. John Hotives and Mr. ieoveredy while. pig He sho bome me and and rn eo Sedi alled on wr ‘movie’ ‘theater. ir, on rs. @0! Talley, “fniterest was taken by. the | atte a ie vig thome folk ahd/a fui Hog al feed a tion was secered. uditions w! ‘she eg in "New York, after studying for some: time in Europe. She interviewed many anal b oe received no en- ving) schoo! days’ on ‘account 1 mumps, Mrs; apart 5 Stiles left: for Minneso- ‘paella Tote iB the ‘olefas week- er Mra Ralph Ish- end with her sister, Bel cat Menoken. im Clark ison the sick Mr, and’ M: orge ‘Magn 4 tored to farnarek Mon k aodar: a 7, daughter Alice Were out to thelr farn ) to keep in 8) Hee bp tebe day Aor museums or eeline sis. ligne and Wneily | Beg ches i to their farm