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Show mIner's and saints meetonapril 24 Exhibition Game Will Bo Played in This City Walker's Field Drying Out Basehall Gossip. Salt Lakers will sec their first real bascbull on April 21th. The league season sea-son does not open until two days later, but the Butte and Salt Lako teams will play an exhibition gauic here before the cchedule commences. Tho game waa suggested when Manager Man-ager Wllmot of the Butte team was In this city last week to attend the meeting meet-ing of the magnates, but a decision was not arrived at until yesterday. The Minors will stop over In this city on the 24th on their way to Spokane, where they open the league season Avlth the Indians. The Smoketown ban players are doing their preliminary work at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and will play at Kansas City, St. Joseph and Denver Den-ver before they reach here. The Butte team will have secured a good advantage advan-tage over the other teams by going away to train and the Miners ought to make a string of victories when tho season' opens. A few more days like the past two will put the grounds at Walker's field In shapo for Improvement. The sunshine sun-shine has taken a great deal of the moisture out of the ground, and, with the kind assistance of the weather man the diamond will soon be In such shape that rollers can be put at work. |