Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1919 — BASEBALL GAINS IN MEXICO [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL GAINS IN MEXICO

National Pastime Bidding for FaVor and May Supplant Bull Fighting and Other Games. Baseball is bidding for favor in parts of Mexico and may supplant bull fighting and other distinctly native pastimes, according to>a Dallas sporting goods concern,/which has Just made a large shipment of baseball equipment to Monterey, northern Mexico. This concern recently sdht a salesman through the northern part of Mexico and he reported that baseball was rapidly gaining in favor and predicted it soon would become a national pastime in that country, t ’ ■ ; ■ .4 '' • ,V. ’- 3'