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Show MALL Young Men in a Big City Have a Navel' Way of Practicing. New York, March 22. Een among the tall buildings and crowded thoroughfares of the Watt street district, dis-trict, the preliminary baseball season sea-son has opened 'Almost, every office building has one or more teams of ofhee boys and junior clerks who repair re-pair enUiusiastlcally after the mai-ket mai-ket closes to some far removed suburban su-burban f.'eld for practice In a few of the larser buildings, tho ingenuity of youths seeking Indulgence In-dulgence In the national pastime has found a way to get in poriods of Practlce at the noon luncheon hour b utilizing the roofs, and on pleab-ant pleab-ant days one may rise In an express olevator 20 or 25 stories above tho street, and there, overlooking the big city, may find a score or more of boys and young men busy with glote, bat and ball. Tho space on tho top naturally does not permit much hnrd slugging but it is sufficient for bunting practice and ball tossing, rvn |