Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-31 | Page 14 | Buenos Aires Fans Boost Baseball Game

en s Hi BOOST BASEBALL GAME Teams Start on Read for Title With Fans Howling for Their Favorites Incomprehensible cries of "Atta boy," "Slide, you boob," and "Kill the umpire," curious hurlings of a leather sphere, efforts to hit it with a big stick, and the dancing about of queer-ly queer-ly attired persons in tho midst of a diamond shaped field m?ant to Argentines Argen-tines that the baseball season had begun be-gun in Buenos Aires last Christmas- j tide. j To the 3000 members of the American Ameri-can colony there it was the opening game in preparation for the annual series In the Buenos Aires baseball league, the winners of which always claim the championship of South America. The Buenos Aires league consists i of teams, composed of employes of I three of the North American cold j storage plants there, a team of em ! ployes of the branch of a New York , .bank, and a local picked from the American colony. Tho "pennant" is a , big silver cup, for which the teams j have been competing for several years, permanent possession going to the champion of three seasons. There are a number of ex-college stars and ' some one-time professionals on tne teams all of which put forward claims of ability to defeat any North American Ameri-can team that will go down and play them. The season winch opened on 'December 2S will close March 29, the games being played on Saturday and i Sunday afternoons. !