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Show AMERICAN LEAGUE GIVES ROOSEVELT AND TAFT PASSES CHcago, March 17 President B. B. : I Johnson of tho American league has placed his O. K. on a design for annual passes for President Taft and VIco President Sherman. Both are baseball ' enthusiasts and have been frequent visitors at major league gamos in the . past. I The design Is complicated. But two prints will be made from the plate after which It will be destroyed. The i passes will bo embossed on thin ivory tablets which will be Inclosed in cases ; made of elephant's hide. On the back ; of the cases will be placed the mono-i mono-i grams of the Presidentind vice-pros-' idenL carved by hand, out of solid , gold. Both the American and National leagues sent passes to President j Roosevelt, but so far as Is known he did not use them. |