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Show THEN AND NOW. Sunday's baseball games in the Pacific Pa-cific Coast league, in which Salt Lake holds its franchise, marked tho end of the first fifteen weeks of play. They also found tho various clubs engaged in a heated race for the 1019 pennant. Everywhere interest runs high in baseball base-ball and in other sports as well. At no time in tho history of America's "national "na-tional game," or of tennis or golf or of many other branches of athletics, has the public been so deeply absorbed in competitions of skill. How different is all this from the spirit of the nation one year ago this day! The close of the fifteenth week of baseball in the Coast league in 1918 found also the close of the season. One year ago tho Coast league clubs locked their parks and the club owners and ball players turned their attention and efforts to prosecuting the war. The major leagues continued play in a halfhearted half-hearted way, but there was no popular demand for baseball or for any other form of outdoor amusement. Since the day one year ago when the Coast league shut its gates, many things have happened, the most momentous of which, of course, is the winning of the war. And now that the end has been accomplished for which the American j people strove, baseball and tennis and golf and every other outdoor exercise have not only resumed their former places in the hearts of the people, but also have taken a firmer grip on their attention than ever before. Truly, tho twelvemonth which has elapsed since that day in July, 1918, when the bat and ball were stowed away has been fraught with events of tremendous importance; aud the good of it all is that we are back where we were then shouting for our home club to win or for our favorite contender to succeed. |