Show ATHLETICS S S IN GERMANY s. s f DEVELOPING S Fatherland to Struggle for Supremacy in Games at att t I t BERLIN Fe Feb 10 Germany IO Interest in track hack and f held field ld sports ports though of recent ori origin in b begins Ds to JO MC vic with ith that in tho United States and JO Great Britain is is' is preparing int to make ke a a formidable bid for supremacy at the thc Olympic games James Barnes in Stockholm this year jear At a a. m meeting etin to o the G German imperial committee for tb the panic games under the tho presidency 6 of C Victo- Victo von on I minister of ot agriculture it was vas decided to Mn send a team o of of bout about IGO nice Id to tho panics games pa paying their trans transportation f 1 fI I pota iou board and aDd other cX As a lack Jack of or hotel accommodations ons is already dready becoming evident c it is proposed pro propose proposed pose posed to charter 1 a special steamer for quarters for foi the Athletes Expenses J e for tho the German team are estimated at about OC or this itis itis it itis is is hoped that the German goy government o which las bas alrea already created a precedent b bv by providing fu funds 8 for or t the he German jc n an horsemen competing In in tho the military and bind ci civilian ilian riding competitions will pay tho the balance being met b by private subscriptions The sum 5 5 though email comp compared with irith the 00 GU- GU raised ed i in the tho United States will l be e sufficient lent as the faro t to Stockholm from Berlin BerJin is low 0 A special train tram will carry cary tho the expected crow crowd of German Ger Ocr German man supporters X To Pick Co Competitors Trials to pick t the e German competitors tors will wall be held in Leipsig il durin during the Whitsuntide holidays holiday Ma May 6 and nd 2 27 To Tot spare tho the Marathon runners the strain of full Marathon a course o so o close cloe to the bi big race trials for this er e mt ivill rill m be held about May 1 over O overa OCla a distance of only twenty five kilometers kilometers kilo kilo- meters about sixteen and a half miles mUes Germany has at least leRt three men Rau Eau a at sprinter Braun a n half miler and a pole vaulter au Iter who bo have shown close to t-o worlds world's championship form and a well bal balanced need lot Jot of men mentor for tor practically all the events in the Olympic ic program The material forthe for forthe forthe the team is far better than its training training train train- ing ing methods German ideas on this subject being of 01 the thc haziest nature The limitations imitations of the committees committee's knowledge on this thill subject is shown by bya a circular of ot instructions issued to candidates a short time a ago o Jn wending n lol solely ly light Ie dail daily exercise and a a. daily bath In Berlin BerHn and some other largo cities there thera are now a number of ot clubs dubs with athletic instructors instructors tors but most molt of or the men ar are are self trained athletes which contribute so soar ar elY io the success of the American te teams are entirely lackin lacking Scarlet Fever Ferer Serum A 1 serum scram treatment for lor scarlet fever was eras reported by two physicians of on Main at a meeting at a R Frankfort hospital Twelve cases of pure scarlet fever ferer which the customary tre treatment bad had failed to relieve relic were s selected se for the first trials trial a a. decided de-cid de d improvement im im- provement ement being observed i in n ten cases following the injection of the serum The fever beJ began n to diminish in in from two wo to four tour hours and disappeared entirely entirely en en- irely after fourteen hours hours' pulse respiration respiration respiration res res- and general condition also improving improving im im- proving markedly In the two other easels cases cas severe ere complications with blood poison poisoning n already existed but even in these the disease took a a. less Jess unfavorable ble course courle than in similar 4 cases sot not tr treated with tho the serum scrum No 10 unfavorable ble results of ot any nature were traced to its use The serum is produced from the blood of convalescing sciD fever patients taken during the third or fourth weeks of f convalescence and and mixed with phenol serums from three different persons being bems mingled before injection to secure uniformity Injections of fifty ft cubic centimeters for tor children and cubic centimeters for adults were made The experiments are being con tinned Conservation n Far Par Advanced Conservation of ot Natural Re Rr Resources sources and the the New New 1 Nationalism issues still und under r discussion iu in the United United- States hare hale reached far advanced ad ad- stares stages of settled policy 1 in Germans German Germany Ger Ger- many mans as all is is shown by the decision of the pru Prussian 5 an minter minister of commerce to turn over to the n noal Seal coal the treat reat German n U fuel fuel trust J the sale liale of all the coal prod pro pro produced by bv the government mines in This is a development scarcely conceivable under American Americ n conceptions of these p policies but quite in in harmony with German ide ideas of the tho proper proper relation of the government to great teat combinations t Und Under r its settled policy of public utilization of natural re resources t the be Prussian 1 state has now 00 become the largest individual owner owned of ot coal lands ancs n in the country its rec recent nt purchases ses under the law of Juno June 18 1907 1007 having basics given civen iven it a a. total of acres al almost almost al al- most three t times int as much us as tho larg larg- it et private private owner the fining Minine iniD company Mineral Rights Bights Reserved This hip law lag of 1907 Tt which ich aimed to prevent pre vent the undeveloped fuel r resources sources of the he country into the hands of ot some some monopolistic organization with tOwer rower to throttle industry at an any any- future fu- fu future fu tu ture time timo by controlling co the fuel supply supply sup sup- ply pI state tate state to re reserve erva the mineral n ri rights in iu 2 O maximal fi fields of approximately approximate 5 13 1 acres acre each cach before before be be- fore lore the remaining coal lands lande were thrown br wn open to general geneal private owner owner- ship hip Tho The state has hal now selected eI and acquired th tho full area authorized bytho bytho by bytho tho law some acres 1 p partly in inthe inthe inthe the Tien new u coal fields fieldson on on tho the west bank of or the lower ower Rhine near Cleveland Gel- Gel darn derm partly east of the Rhino in the dj districts of or Dusseldorf and Dortmund nd partly parth in the coal oal fields near sear the Russian frontier These coal deposits will probably p be hold held in- in in- in inre re vs ene for the tho present their exact value Cannot annot bo be determined until tb the mines ire ire are opened but hut the government Jo bas has been able to a take e it its pick of ot t the e most r e pec |