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Show UNABLE TO LEARN BASEBALL Game Proves Too Complicated for French to Master Can't Remember Remem-ber Where Bases Are. Tho French havo not been nblo to learn baseball. Attempts of American Ameri-can doughboys nnd "Y" men to tench them tho gamo havo fulled, It is now admitted. Baseball, under present conditions, has proved too complicated for tho pollus, who can mnster tho hardest of tho Irregular verbs nnd found out tho combination' of tho "Big Bertha", long ago, but cannot remember remem-ber which way Is first base. Intensive training was rendered doubly (lllllcult not only by the German Ger-man hnblt of picking out tho smooth fields for afternoon bombardment, but ulso by tho purely French habit of courtesy. Tlio pollu will savu his officer's of-ficer's life, but ho cnuuot enjoy striking strik-ing him out. Tho story Is told of ono player who slammed tho pill straight into tho pitcher's chest and mado a long detour de-tour on his way to first to apologize to monsieur. Tho sound of an American Amer-ican private bawling out his captain for an error nt third Is said to havo kept tho wholo sector from Toul to Montdldler Jn conversation Inst spring. |