DATES CONFLICT

Sports Lovers Must Choose Between Baseball and Automobiles

The postponement of the Des Moines Speedway races until Aug. 7, the date the Des Moines Boosters' club set several weeks ago for its benefit day to the local and Lincoln Western league ball clubs, will interfere seriously with the attendance at the booster day but will not change the plans of the Boosters for observing that date.

With the speedway races at one place and a ball game, together with the added attraction of Charles A. Comiskey and Edward Walsh, the baseball celebrities, at the other, sport lovers will be forced to decide between the great national pastime and the lure of the whizzing wheels at the board track.

The Boosters' club, according to the statements of several of its members last night, attempted to have the races put off two weeks instead of one, as it would be impossible to postpone the booster day, already set for Aug. 7.

By previous arrangement every city in the Western league has held or is to hold a benefit day for the ball clubs, the teams in the west having one while the eastern teams play there and the reverse being true in the eastern half. Lincoln was paired with the local club for Saturday, Aug. 7. As the Tigers play here only Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 7 and 8, it is impossible to change the date of the booster day.

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