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Show - - ...,44 - . - - .11. V. . v Eiis iz 1 Ccii:::rci2l Club Tc:::s Vill licet cn July Fcurtli. : Great preparations are being' made br both the Commercial club and the Elks, for their great baseball game which will be played at Walker's, field at 3 o'clock In the afternoon of Monday, July 4th. The Identity of. the player on the Commerclal'club team is being kept a profound secret. - The Commercial club men say that this Is for fear the opposing .nine will attempt some violence against this team, and thus Incapacitate the men, tut the ETtn ascribe a different reason rea-son for their reticence. They say that the Commercial club ' nine are all "dubs." none of whom knows a baseball from a fish net, and that they will not tell whom the members of the team are for fear the crowds would become disgusted dis-gusted and stay away. The sale of admissions is heavy. Fisher Harris of the Commercial club said this morning that there had already al-ready been between five tickets and ten thousand tickets sold. Both teams are putting ih all of their spare time practicing. Each team says that the other certainly needs the practice. prac-tice. A record crowd will attend, as both of the organisations have many friends who would like to see their defeat, de-feat, thus robbing them of some of their supercilious vanity. |