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THE LANGUAGE OF BASEBALL.
With the tear approach of an all-Amori- can baseball rasm to show us how the great American national game is played, Hongkong sporteren may feel interested in the following article abstracted from || the denudes Monthly:-Man mado cricket,
g. it to proceed with the languid
| broad of a Chinese tragody, while from time to time some hot-hand might arise and exclaim, "Flayed, sir Played, indeed!* Man, made football, endowing it with COAL DEPARTMENT. benign carnage, but giving it a small tou brief Man made golf, wherein the
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KOUHI, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO,parison of records. Man made tenris, a SHIANEW and KAMIYAMADA Col pleasant pastime, got not for heroes. Man at his best and highest made baseball, Harica.
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On the bleachers, however, there is much the same talk as among collegians, though moathed less gently and absolutely, the same belief in cosmic importance to sport, Hava kot vanquished football braves beau known to weep! Once, when a victorious 1049elaves were shodding their moleskins amid
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profano axulting, their trainer burst into the dressingroom, lifted a reverent hand, and cried, "Silence, boya Now cery- body sing, Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!'"-which they did, in perfect solemnity. When such excessc occur among seekers after wisdom, why seoru poor Micky for calling baseball the In the Matter of the Estate of ArraED most serious occupation of a serious people?
HEBBERY BEANIE, deceased,
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They exact from their manager a con.. aideration as delicate as that displayed toward his mariners by the gallant captain of the Pinafore. They demand dazzling ewoluntate Corot died rich, Paderewsici "carrius" kome a fortune orang jent, yet höw insignificant their services to humanity compared with those of a baseball player || Meanwhile the fraternity resente impata.
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Yet while there exista a code of goals boween pitcher and catcher, and whüle exitaneous channel from rachers mitigatos the consternation from which men on hason are so richly farmished, still further hints and persuasions proceed from the manager. He aigne in esoteria symbole, unknown to i
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theless rajnice in the parfection of bis discipline, as when, us another oumaión, Bad Bill rejoined his comrades at break- Fast,
the hottifed manager stroke his
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