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Show OUR GREAT NATIONAL GAME. fH Proof That Baseball Fever Is No Re H specter of Persons. BH Tho baseball fever Is no respecter H of persons. Tho broker with the high H hat and tho bank account and tho BB barefooted boy stand side by side and H eagerly await tho next Inning. But H thero is somo little Interest when It H comes out that the fever that comes A H with tho first game reaches the dlgnl- H fled ecclesiastic. But It does, and it f. IH sometimes goos very high. ? ,M One day last summer, whon the lead- H Ing teams wero running very close, . M a reporter oallcd on Cardinal Gibbons ft ,H to ask him somo questions regarding ,M the popo's encyclical which had re- ( jH contly been published. Tho cardinal M granted tho lntorvlew nnd tho ro- J M porter left tho room. Ho was going ,: down tho steps when his emlnonco, Tdflfl loaning over tho landing, called out: wfH "Have you heard to-day's score?" l "Yes," said the surprised reporter, ' i "it was 3 to 2 and in our favor." ffH "Good," said the cardinal, with a M smllo, "that puts us two points ahead, M doesn't It?" H Tho reporter didn't know, but ho re- H allzed that tho cardinal knew a great , many things that he didn't know. f , Public Ledger. 'J |