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Show Baseball Is Justly Called America's National Sport I NF.W YORK. Oct. 21. Bast-ball Is this year more Justly called America's Amer-ica's national sport than ever before. be-fore. Statistics given out hero snow that the attendance record in the two big leagues In the season Just closed exceeded all previous records by more than a million. Tho following figures, show the hold that baseball lias on the American poo-plo: poo-plo: National Chicago. 980,120; New York. U37.G40; Boston. 720.100.: Philadelphia. 610,190: Pittsburg. 000.000; Cincinnati, 530,000; Brooklyn. 510.000; total. 5,373,-510. 5,373,-510. American Now York. 00.71-l; Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. 020,180; Chicago, 010.200; Boston, Bos-ton, 100,010; Detroit, 100,000; St- LOViE, t 10.000; Cleveland. 370,000; Washington, 300.000:' total. 3.731.701. The total for both leagues was 0,1 00.301 as compared with 7.97S.I0S In lUOy. The Increase over last year, therefore, wus 1,127. IHO. Approximate salary lists of Iho two leagues show that the Chleaxo Nationals Nation-als are the host paid major league players. play-ers. The .following arc the figures: National Chicago. 5120.000: New York, SOO.OOO; Pittsburg, $00,000: Philadelphia. 570,000; Brooklyn, 370.000: Cincinnati, $00, 000;- St. Louis, S05.000; Boston. 500.-000. 500.-000. Americans Detroit. 573,000; New York. $70,000-. Boston. S70.000: Cleveland. Still -000; Chicago, $(10,000, l J-dujjj, &LVJQ0. Un'vstou, WSiMfc v-,Jia, |