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Show LIONS HUNT COVER FROM CEDAR DEFY TEAM TAKES FLOP Lack of one hundred per cent co-operation on the part of the Milford .Lions made it necessary for Clifford Cook, manager and captain of the Lions base ball team to abandon the plan of arranging a game to answer the challenge of the Cedar Lions Club. Owing to the smallness of the membership mem-bership role of the local Lions it was necessary for entire co-operation of all the members to make possible a base ball team. Part of the members turned out and worked enthusiastically enthusiastical-ly at the three practices held Thursday Thurs-day of last week and Monday and Wednesday of this week. Their willingness to put over an undertaking that had been voted by the Lions in meeting was lost through the lack of spirit on the part those members who considered themselves too old, too wise, too dignified, and too important to spend a half hour after work in healthful play. The young in spirit the dependable, the "good sports" of the organization turned out for practice only to see their efforts wasted because of lack of support from their fellow members were : Thursday practice: J. R. Murdock, Myron Lewis, Harold and Sam Cline, O. C. Koch Monday practice: Myron Lewis, O. C. Koch, Harold Cline. Wednesday practice: Myron Lewis, J. R. Murdock, John Coffeen, O. C. Koch. Some of these men managed to turn out for every practice, others of the group were unable through illness or absence from town to attend all the practices but attended those they could and expressed a willingness to do all in their power to put over the undertaking they and their fellow members had voted to back. However, a baseball team cannot be made up of five members, no matter how willing or enthusiastic those five may be. The project had to be dropped. drop-ped. o |