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Show THE SUNDAY BASEBALL CROWD. It pays to advertise in the Standard. A local paper announced that Saturday's baseball games would be tho last of the series between be-tween Missoula and Ogden in the Union league. This was after the baseball managers had arranged to play a "double-header at the Fair Grounds. The object of the misleading statement was plainly evident. evi-dent. To overcome those narrow tactics, the Standard gave extra space to advertising the Sunday games, with the result that by Asr the largest crowd of the season greeted the ball players when "play ball" was called at 2 o'clock. The two granstands and the bleachers were packed, there was a crowd under the grandstands, the fence, at the entrance to the race track course was lined with people and many viewed the games from their automobiles This all goes to prove the influence of the Standard as an advertising ad-vertising medium and we direct the attention of our advertisers to this demonstration of the Standard's ability to reach the people. |