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Show BASEBALL FROM 8 P. M. TILL MIDNIGHT The Yukon country went wild over baseball last summer, and crowds attended at-tended the games at Dawson twice a week between 8 p. m. and midnight, from May 31 to August 25 last. There were between 3000 and 4000 persons at each game, and I take It that nowhere else in the world has the game ever been played at night from 8 o'clock on toward the midnight hour." So spoke Sheriff R. J. Eilbeck, who Is in California spending the winter. Mr. Eilbeck's home is In Dawson. He is Sheriff of the Yukon territory. He Is as enthusiastic about baseball as any irrepressible bleacher, and In the summer sum-mer time in the land of the midnight sun he says there Is a good article of the game produced and some very clever players developed. Sheriff Ellbeck says that the Yukon territory authorities appropriated $12,-000 $12,-000 for fine baseball grounds and that the great American game has entered the Yukon permanently as a night pleasure during the summer months. Port Townsend CalL I ' ' rasaassirr-"- ' |