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Show 11' THE CHAMPIONS IN OGDEN. KJH ' Forty of the most clever and skillful Ijf "baseball players of the United States Hi III and in baseball that means the H -world made a trip to Ogden canyon H t in an observation car this morning. H! fj They were to be back at noon, but had I ill not returned at that hour. We I take it, they were held by the at-H at-H tractions of the great gorge, as the I f schedule of the special car was of H i their own making. I The men of the party there were I I ' a number of women and children II ' along showed vigor in face and limbs. H in There was no evidence of dissipation, Nf I and that to us, is a high encomium Hfl K of the gamo of baseball. To reach the HJ t0P PIace In the great AmerIcan ni I game, the young man must be blessed Rl with a good constitution and preserve Hi all nature gave him by a close ad-Hi ad-Hi t herence to the rules of right living. Hi The drinker, the loafer, the dullard falls behind; the energetic, clean-living, clean-living, bright young fellow gains national na-tional recognition. Our boys aro worshipers of the heroes of the diamond. In this group of 40 odd champions of tho game Is to be found a sermon for them an appeal which can reach their understanding. under-standing. They can bo made to realize that, if they are to bo good ball players, they must so control their appetites that when they reach their majority, abuses shall not have undermined their health. oo : |