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Show I TO BE ERECTED IN VENEZUELA I A baseball grandstand, tho first in Venezuela for the purpose of charging admission fees to see ball games, is to be erected at Caracas. This is hailed by the admirers of the gamo there as the first step toward putting baseball on a self-supporting basis. Tho company com-pany behind tho enterprise is the Com-pania Com-pania Anonima Stand Base Ball. There are about twenty-flvo amateur teams in Caracas and most of tho smaller cities and towns have two or more clubs. Large crowds attend the more important games, but It has not been customary heretofore to charge an admission ad-mission fee. With the. erection of tho grandstand it is proposed that a league of tho four best teams of Caracas and two of La Guayra be formed. The spread of baseball in Venezuela means the spread of English Avords, for the language of the game there is all in English, although "base hit," three-bagger" and "double play" rolled off by tongues accustbmed to the- fl sonorous Spanish, might not be read- ily identified by an American lover o M the sport. Baseball was introduced in H Caracas in 1896 by a group of young H men who attended school in tho United States. H BROTHER KNEW WHY. H Sister and little brother had been to H tho dog show and Avere greatly inter- ested in tho hairless canines from M Moxlco. At the dinner table mama IH told them tha some friends of hero H onco had one of thoso Mexican dogs H and that they had named him Minu5. ' H "Now, sister," said mama, "why do H you suppose thoy called him Minus?" H But sister didn't seem to bo able to H figure it out. H "I know, mama," volunteered broth- H er. "Because tho mines are in Me H ico,r Indiananolis News. |