SPOHTS
Defeating Juneau 13 to 8 in one. of the hardest fought games of
the season, Ketchikan for the second succesive year has won the
"boys1 Kigh School cage title.
Paul Berlenbach called on the New York boxing commision and
received a final and favorable ruling on his plea for permission to
box a heavyweight before he meets the winner of the Jack Delaney
Mike McTigue fight in a light heavyweight championship.
Charles Hoff, Norwegian all-around atletic star seems to have * \
a corner on the sport columns of the daily press. Why not pass out ^ ~
a little of this free publicity to the home folks, There are plenty *
who deserve it.
Miss Helen Wills defeated Senodta de Alvarez, Spanish Champion,
in the finals of the tennis singles at Mentone on -^arch 8th.
We notice that last years champions of Alaska are out for therr
Spring Practice at foot ball. They evidently intend to repeat.
All inter-company sports and games with outsiders have been
called off on account of the "flu”.
IF YOU ARE
GOING TO FLORIDA WHEN YOU GET OUT
THE DOPE Oil HER.
HERE ’S
Florida is the chin whiskers of the United States. It is 600
miles long, 200 miles wide and three feet high. It is bounded on
the north by the 18th amendment and on the other sides by the three
mile limit. Florida’s principal sources of income are hotels, fruits
alligator skins, tourists §,nd vest-pocket press agents of California..
But the one big outstanding feature of Florida is its fruity Prangere
raising comes first, of course. Raising-oranges in Florida is a
cinch, all that is required is enough money to live on while raising
them. The next Florida fruit is the grapefruit. A grapefruit is a
cross between a lemon, a dose of quinine and a pumpkin. It nas the
color and disposition of a blonde ticket seller at a movie show. It
is usually eaten at brekfast, thus combining the advantages of a
meal and a morning shower-bath, at t e same time. The tangerine is
o. distant cousin to tne oraige. It wears a loose mid careless
Mother Hubbard style of-wrapper mid is much easier to disrobe than
the orange, but it has a more dry, withered and disappointed dispo
sition when undressed. A'he kumquat is the only thing in Florida
that lives up to its name. It looks and acts just the way it sounds.
DOES ADVERTISING PAY ?
Advertising has made the Victor Dog famous.
It fras put Castoria down your throat, left bristles in your gums,
and then came along with a Stablerset and took them out.
It has put Sozodont, Pebbeco and ^epsodent on your teeth.
It has put a Gillette against your hayfield.
It has put Murine in your eyes, sold you Cuticura for pimples, *
Pears for the bath and Ivory for the tub. ji
It has put Arrow collars round your neck and Ingersolls round your »