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Show . m . BASE BALL. First Division of the Season Ends Today in the National League. New York, July 13. The first division of the national leasrue championship reason ends today, and the Bostons are the winners of the preliminary battle- This is due to the fact that they have played wonderfully good ball. The other teams are now strengthening strengthen-ing their weak points, and they propose to give the Bostons a hard rub. The patronage patron-age throughout the country for the past few weeks has furnished indications that the national game is regaining the popularity it enjoyed before the trouble between the as- sociation and the brotherhood was initiated. Strict economy is to govern the second half of the season. Salaries will be reduced, hotel biiis and other expenses scaled and altogether it is anticipated that the clubs in the league between them can get through with $100,000 less than has been expended since the opening of the season and up to the present time. i i ii a . . |