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Show SIX MONTHS FOR SEEING BALL GAME San Francisco, Au:' 5. Six months' hard labor and a dishonorable discharge dis-charge from the army will be the probable cost to Frederick Baker, private pri-vate in the Sixty-first conHt artillery, for watching ? baseball game. Baker was detailed to guard a military mil-itary prisoner who was slightly de-merited, de-merited, and while the two were sunning sun-ning themselves on the Prosldio, two post ball teams passed on their way to a game. The appeal to the diamond proved irresistible (o Baker and he marched his prisoner along. While the gallery was wildly rooting a slide for second, the prisoner made a dash for freedom. Teams and rooters root-ers promptly gave chase and he was soon captured, but Baker was taken to the guard house and probably will pay the penalty set forth in the regulations. |