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Show TENNIS AND GOLF CROWD BASEBALL During Last Decade Boys Desert Diamond Game. Golf and tennis have made great Inroads In-roads into the ranks of the boys who formerly ' manned the sandlot diamonds. dia-monds. Compare the number of golf links in the country today with those of a quarter of a century ago. Of the great hosts who knock the little white pill over the hill and dale the great majority have been at It less than ten years. Those busy golf courses need a tremendous lot of boys for caddylng purposes, especially on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The kids who ' used to get up at six o'clock In the morning on the Fourth of July to get the early baseball diamond now get up that early so that they can carry clubs over throe rounds. The American hoy doesn't change. He always stood ready to make an honest dollar, and golf gives him n chance to knock out from ?2 to ?." a day. Then the kids also are playing gulf. They also are taking more nnd more to tennis. Many can go back to the time when we regarded boys who brought their tennis rnckets to school with a certain amount of superior disdain. dis-dain. Tennis, they thought, was a "sissy" game, not to be compared with such a manly sport as baseball. Today most every one knows that playing a double-header doesn't take nenrly ns much starch out of one as a hard five-set match. |