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Show GROUND BROKEN FOR ODDSGHUOL Players to Be Graduated From Diamond College IOS ANC.nT.ES. Oct. 2S. Oround has been broken at Burbank. a auburb. for what la aaid to be the first baseball school In history. The eohoot. which will fIn ig flrnr tnrm a-.fi Iftniiary L. will. be known aa the National College of Base-ball. The purpose of the school la to train young ball players In the fine points of the same. Three months will be required to finish the course. The Instructors will all be retired major and minor league baavball players and during the term tha studenta will devote regular periods to intensive baaeball practice and instruction. Active Instructors will be "Death Vat-ley" Vat-ley" Jim Hcott, Ham Crawford. Frank ('ap imion. (Jeorge Rube Kilts. Walter Wal-ter Boles,- Jerrv lwwm. Jeas W. Orn-dorff Orn-dorff and tieorge Wheeler. Frsnk I. Chsnre, former manager of the Chicago club of the National league, will he connected con-nected with the college in an advisory capacity. PAH ANTONIO. Tex., Oct. 23. Tha claim of Burbank. Cal.. In having the first bhsaeball nrhoo) In history la disputed dis-puted here. Several years ago Charley ("a it, old Kederal league firat baseman, and other baseball men opened a baae-hall baae-hall school at Hot Welle, near Han Antonio. An-tonio. The achool continued for about a veer before It went tinder. |