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Show Shipyards of Native Sons State Organize Fast Base bait Teams By SpecisI Nsws Servio. SAM FRANCISCO. Cel.. Juns t. The entry of the Cnited States into the world war has threatened to cripple professional baseball In Seattle, but has brought Into existence the Seattle Shipbuilders' league, with an amateur club In each of the four largest shipyards, which together employ nearly l.ihM men. Numerous baseball players dropped by professional clubs on ihe coast, and others who are tired of th uncertainties of Ih gam and like to Idraw pay the year round, have found employment in the shipyards snd there Is no trouble In picking out good teams. The league has equipped a ball park I within walking distance of the business district of iSesttte, and It la estimated that ' the patronage of the ahipyard men alone j on their Saturday half-holiday will more I than pay the ex,ens4 of the team. The Ipark was paid for by money raised by popular subscription. Attendance on th opening day was Tha shtn yard owners encourage the league, believing It Improves Ihe spirit of their plants. Portland, Tacoms. Grays Harbor, Olympl and other shipbuilding centers are adding thousands of men la their shipyards, and It la expected that each yard In the Northwest will have Its baseball team before th end of th summer. sum-mer. , |