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SYMBOL OF "MELTING POT" COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., May 25.— Baseball was hailed by President Roosevelt today as the symbol of America as the "melting pot" in a letter of felicitation to the National Baseball Museum, which will be dedicated June 12 in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the "invention" of the game. "Baseball has become, through the years, not only a great national sport," the President wrote, "but is also the symbol of America as the melting pot. The players embrace all nations and national origins and the fans, equally cosmopolitan, make only one demand of them, can they play the game?"
