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Show I. iWS FAILS Tl EXCITE MLL FEVER ';.No One Seems to Be Willing (o Tackle Baseball I Proposition. . ' Fred rc. Dawson of Denver has tried "In - .every way to Interest local baseball fans lo. try a Utah-Colorado four or six-team six-team league, but up lo the present time ' .has fallen short In arousing- anything like "a. live wlro or baseball angel. The usual ' '.'calamity howlers" say that it would -never pay. and there the league stops ; and dies a natural death. Since the days of C. II. Griffin. Salt .Lake has had no real baseball, and, according to the fans, almost anything would do at the present pres-ent time, efforts have been made to got In the coast leagues without success, i ami unless a combination of one oc more j of the surrounding States can bo Induced to support good teams and organize a league. It appears that this ellv will starve ' for the national game. Baseball pays In Idaho. Nevada and Colorado, and i if ought, to pay in Utah. Some sav It , will and others say it will not. Good teams linve been supported and money lias been lost, yet It is a matter of history his-tory that when the people were given gnpd ball . the games were well attended. Local baseball paid big twenty-five years , ago, and thousands attended games which , were then played on a diamond where the. city and county building now stands. . ..Prom present appearances there will be scholastic baseball. In which the high school, University, AH Hallows college and L. D. S. teams will play. |