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Interesting World Items.

Contrasts have boen onterad into for a ten-round boxing con- itost without decision bolwoon Carpentier and Tom Glbbons at Chicago on July A.

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Tho New Zealand Cricket Council is endeavouring to ar- rango for the English arioket team which will tour Australia next season to visit New Zealand on their way home' and piny two or three matches there.

A baseball matoh has been arranged between England and Wales for Womblay on Monday July 21,the teama boing chosen by the English Baseball Association and the Walsli Baseball Union. Baseball in England is confined chiefly to the Liverpool district and in Walos to the southern portion of tho Principality. Tho rules are different from those of the Amopioan gamo.

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NEW UNION STATION, CHICAGO

WHEN FORT DEARBORN WAS CHICAGO, 1800

THE GROWTH OF CHICAGO.

Facts About a Big Railway Centre.

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Nino acres of playing folde have, bean acquired at Oatorly Park for the use of members of the St George's Branch; British Legion. In addition to oriokat pitches, there are three tennis courts

and ample space for ization and, as ho it also Prosi-athletics. Thore is pavilion and dent of the British Empire Ex-dressing accommodation and at- tractive fixtures are being arrang- hibition is it quite fitting that a ed. detail of Royal Canadian Mounted Police should act as guard at Harry Stokes, the well-known

If one were to address a letter wore succeeded by the railway ono of the finest terminale. and will be Choengou," oven a train, Chicago became one of tho in the world

by tho Pennsylvania, Canadian Pacific buildings in the trainer of boxers, has been ill and to-day to

oporated upon for.gastric trouble. olover post-office official would world's greatest transportation used Overseas Dominions' section.

In the Metropolitan Hospital he be puzzled, but that was, how the centres, boing on the eamo eld Burlington, St. Paul and Alton. is now gotting

on vory groat French exploror, La Salle, line of march from the east to railways.

Another new and important woll although living. on spelled Chicago 241 years ago. the west, and vice versa. Fort "baby food." This reminds Chicago was only a name when Dearborn was built in 1803 and rail development in Chicago is of the Canadian educated in England, went to me that Jim Driscoll had to go Joliet, Pere Marquette and the for three decades was Chicago. In the move

the Pacifio's rail and steamship pas- through the same bother a little Siour de la Salle camped thero 1812 Indians massacred Canada in 1908, was twice wound-while ago; but he told me with on their way to the Mississippl. garrison but the old fort was senger offloor and those of the ed during the Great War, and is grant gloo the other day how he Chicago was then a part of rebuilt and in 1852 the first rail- Soo Line to the new typical of the men taken into the had got through a lobster mayon- Canada-New France. It was way train entered Chicago from Building, corner of Michigan servies, being 6 foot, 3 Inches in

incanvenience. Fancy follows visited it 251 years ago, or ton groat railway hub, the spokes of a very attractive and Imposing during his tour of Canada in 1919 bestowed medals of honour on his stocking feet. Six of these tase with much relish and no called. Jelliet and Marquetto the east, To-day Chicago is a Avenue and Jackson Boulevard, theso having stomachic years earlier than La Salle. which run north, south, cast and 32 story building not far from The post at Regina put on a show various members for distinguish- men were born in Canada. two ko of superb horsemanship in the, ed war services. He was made an in England, one in Australia and troubles! Prince's honour; while ho, in turn, Honorary Colonel of the organ- one in Belgium.

With fifty years of gloriou rouord to their credit, the Moun tios of Canada, as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police popularly tormid, are still going strong. From a sin all organiza tion of 390 min. wh atombled. In Winnipeg in 1870, for the protection of Buttlers and to musia- tain order, they grew by 1910 into a famous army of 1,23) traspara.

No social event in Olanda ís considered complete without thi attendance of at least a squad of those Mounted Police. They were in evidence at many of the rscop tions tondored the Princeof Wales

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This detail is undor the com- mand of Inspector O. H. Hill of the Lethbridge Station, Alberta. He is of Australian birth, was

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The current issue of "Amdiloan Lawn Tennis." the official organ of the United Statos L.T.A., con- tains a picturesque account of the part played by President Coolidge in the making of the Davis Cup Hauso draw at the White Washington. Cards were made out for 21 challenging nations, and the President, having drawn the first oard, handed it to Mr. Dwight Davis, the donor of the cup, who played for America against the British Isles in the first Davis Cup tie in. 1900. The card bore the name of Ireland, a romarkable coincidence, sooing that the draw was made on St. Patrick's Day.

The English tourofa Californian Rugby team now in progress is one of the romances of sport. Yours ago so many fatalities oo-. curred in American football ini California that the educational authorities forbado the gamo. A commission of "Varsity under- graduates was sont to Australasia to study Rugby, and Callforais and Standford Universities decid- REQUIREMENTSed forthwith to play it. A tour in the motherland of sports bas boon the dream of California's Rugger men from the beginning

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Nuneaton Rugby T. C. have just comploted one of the host soasons on record. They have scored 480 points against. 126, won 27 matches, lost 7, and drawn 3. Frank Wood again hoaded the Hat of the scorers, with 19 trios, 4 dropped and 1 pounity goals. Iver Davies, tho Nonth wingor, although playing in only a fow matches, scored 15 tries, his work in cup-tios being particularly dangerous.

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The question of whether half- backs should score goals is one often debated, and James Martin,

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