Show Jumping The Gun GunBy By Heck A Plea PIea for fOl Old John Baseball During the war the schools of the western division of the Rock Rocky Mountain 1 Conference decided that baseball had no place in the curriculum curriculum curri curri- curriculum culum of college competitive athletics athletics athletics ath ath- and forthwith ruled i it out out They did so more on the grounds that it was too expenSive expensive in iii proportion proportion pro pro- portion n to the financial returns and since the country was at war it was better to carry out the policy pol policy policy icy of conservation and Ho as the rest of the nation was do do- ing Since that time one would think that the national game did not ex ex- Other colleges making teh same move during the war return- return i el to the sport as soon as the so- so I called exigencies were r removed moved by bythe bythe bythe I the armistice Over in the eastern half of the conference the schools I again took up the national game I I B But t here in the western half we westill westill westill still shun the bat and mitts |