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Show BASEBALL IN BIG CITIES. The attendance at these champion games of baseball is reported as something extraordinary, but there is not a small town in the country where there is baseball rivalry that the attendance at every game is not proportionately greater. In Chicago last Tuesday there were 25,000 present. Chicago has a population of 2,000,000. One in every eighty saw the game. At that same ratio, a ball game in Ogden witnessed by 325 fans would equal the proportion in Chicago. A local contest with only 325 enthusiasts present would be looked upon as a neglected exhibition of the national game. Ogden has had 4,000 at a game of ball. Our memory may not serve us well, but the occasion, as we recall it, was a contest with one of the first aggregations of "bloomer" girls. This news is confidential and not intended to be repeated in the presence pres-ence of strangers. Chicago, to show an equal interest, would have to turn out 300,000 strong. There is only one event in Chicago's history that brought out a gathering of that proportion the McKinley parade in the campaign of 1896. |