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Show MANAGER CLARK GRIFFITH AS AN ORATOR ' SCRAPPY LEADER OF WASHINGTON NATIONALS. Clnrk Orlfllth makes an Interesting spsccli when be presents a baseball out lit to a detachment of soldiers. "These outfits," he tells them, "are tho tributes of tho fans to tho pobllers. In giving them we uro actuated first by our lovu nnd respect for our soldiers. They nlsn are In recognition of what the United States army did for baseball and what It Is doing. "Our army preserved baseball. The game would have died out during tho Civil war but for them. They kept it going and Imvo kept It up ever since. They curried It Into tho 1'hlllppltiri and Into Cuba and have made It tho International game. With It they civilized the Philippines. "And now," continues Hrlff, rising to nn oratorical lllght, "you nro taking this gamo Into France. Moro than Mini, you nro going to tako It Into Germany when you roll tho Germans ncross tho Ithlne. Vou aro tho boys who nro going to roll them back. Nobody ele Is going to do It. You arc. And when you do, I want you to tnko thin gnme with you and tench It to thu Germans when the war Is over. You'ro going to carry baseball Into Germany, nnd when you do It will tench them sportsmanship and Ideas of honor, of which they pccm totally devoid." |