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Show ISLANDERS KEEN FOR HORSESHOE FLINGING. Philadelphia. Jan. 8. Pitching horseshoes bids fair to rival baseball among the natives of Santo Domingo, who have taken to this old-time sport with wild enthusiasm, according to United States marines just returned to the United States from the island republic Horseshoe flinging is a dally habit and the keenest rivalry exists nmonc the leaders, who, following follow-ing the custom of Uncle Sam's proteges pro-teges everywhere, take readily to all American games, introduced by the "soldiers of the sea." Since the American occupation the Dominicans have developed many promising devotees to the national game, but the majority of the natives prefer the more leisurely pastime of j making "dead-rinKers" beneath the , palms to rounding the bases under a tropical sun. oo |