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Show I BASEBALL IN UTAH. mH There is more real rivalry and interest in the baseball games of a leighborhood than in the big league games. On July 24 there was a baseball contest at Ephraim, Utah, and I more automobiles were parked in the near-by ten acre tract than were ever assembled in one place in Ogdcn. The editor of The Standard at first was unenlightened as to the great gathering. He inquired and was informed that two towns or the valley were in intense rivalry in a baseball game. "But from where are all these automobiles?" he asked. "Why down here we farmers," said the man questioned "think nothing of driving sixty miles to a game of ball." There you have it the great American game which every boy learns to play and the playing of which makes every girl a "fan," so that today young and old delight in the pastime. Today Lehi and Amcncan Fork are playing for a wager of $1000 and Cache valley has been stirred all summer by the contests among the towns around Logan. Tliis suggests the good to be derived from having Ogden represented repre-sented in these rivalries. A league made up of the teams of Utah should be formed The state might be divided into a northern and a southern league, with the leaders of each league at the end of every two weeks meeting to battle for supremacy. |