Show BASEBALL IN MIDWINTER Game Was Played at Medicine Hat Alberta In the Month of February Baseball in Canada in midwinter When tho professional ball teams begin be-gin their practice for the season they go south but apparently it would not bo unreasonable for them also togo to-go north On February 2 this year reports the Now York Tribune the machine shop hands and pretty nearly everybody else in Medicine Hat Alberta Al-berta Canada went to see a ball game without wearing overcoats It was such a day ua one mighte pcct to experience in May in the latitude ol New York Medlclno Hat situated many miles north of Montreal is recognized rec-ognized by the United States weather bureau as the birthplace of blizzards and ordinarily one of tho coldest places on the continent For nearly half of the tall and winter the dato lino Medicine Med-icine Hat on the bulletin Is followed by 40 below zero New Yorkers who complain of the changeableness of the weather ought to go to Medicine lint If they would get a firstclass specimen of changeable change-able weather Prepared to bravo the chilly blasts they would arise ono morning to find the chlnook had arrived ar-rived and the temperature like that of southein California The chinook is a peculiar wind which is experienced expe-rienced frequently on the eastern side of the Hocky Mountains It Is caused by a high atmospheric pressure In the upper heavens This creates a downward down-ward current of air through compression compres-sion The compression heats the air at the rate of ono degree Fahrenheit for every 18U feet of descent A drop of 5500 feet which Is common on the Hocky mountain slope would mean arise a-rise In temperature of about 30 degrees de-grees Owing to Its dryness as well as warmth the chlnook quickly melts snow and absorbs any moisture that may be on the ground |