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Show Ball Team Urged by Business Men A red-breasted robin, the true harbinger har-binger of spring, perched himself on a tree yesterday and lustily sang out that the passing of March was the signal for spring and summer activities. activi-ties. This red-breast shouted at the kids to seek their baseballs and bats and go to the vcant lot and there announce an-nounce the arrival of the baseball season. It's here, fellows, both old and young the ball season. What will be the plans for the summer. For years Gunnison maintained a strong aggregation of ball players. In fact the aggregation proved the champs of all Southern Utah. What will the future be. ' A well known Gunnison business man has declared himself out and out for a baseball club for the city. It stimulates business, it makes the old young and it helps develop our young men to better habits and better health, he declared, and without a ball team a town is a dead one. While it is true much of the talent that played in former games has gone to other fields, there is enough right here to assemble an aggregation that could be developed into real champions. champ-ions. The younger lads have it in them and at last season's try-outs there proved some likely material. Gunnison has a splendid ball park and with little trouble the grandstand grand-stand could be repaired. There are suits and much of the equipment used by the former champs is available avail-able and the expense of piloting a team to efficiency would be nominal. Let's have a baseball team and let's have a good oneone that will afford amusemgnt for all. Orion Myrup, who is a student at Provo, came in with the B. Y. U. band Tuesday and visited with his mother, Mrs. N. C. Myrup for a few days.' |