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Show BALL PLAYERS FOR ENGLAND Arlie Latham, Old-Time St. Louis Favorite, Fa-vorite, Comes to This Country for Talent. Arlie Latham, formerly of the St. Louis Browns, and for several years member of the Cincinnati Reds, now master of all English baseball fields, Is coming to America to get talent. Latham is very optimistic over the game's progress in the British kingdom. king-dom. He predicts that before many years have elapsed merry old England will be engaged in an international tournament with clubs of America for the championship of the world. And he goes further and says that when those games are played the crowds in England will be bigger than the crowds in America. . Latham, almost unaided, has estab- P r&'T 11 .( -:i;'::.:;:f3 M . j fx II -J VK r it " ' , -''41 I V$&fFhou bitbSXiigL K:::::y::v 'J.Wellern Newspaper IJ nton.::v? Arlie Latham. lished the professional baseball leagues in England on a firm and substantial sub-stantial basis. It was his wonderful personality that enlisted British capital in the equipment of first class ' baseball grounds, and it was under his direc-tion direc-tion that a regular series of games and regular schedules were made out. |