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Show BASEBALL NECESSARY TO AMERICAN LIFE NK.W YOl:K, !'.''. 1... Holding fhat U; Kliii II If f u li a ii Import.-) nt f:n'tnr in Ani.rlnin life t)al It Ik "indi.spf ns;i l!." John K. Tr-n.-r, pi-'-sid.-nf of rho Na t ion-;i ion-;i I IfiwTH. In hia ii nniKil address to t hr or-t;;i rn.H t Ion In ft Tur-Nlnv. madf public lirc tnriiiv, urcd thf owners to maintain ,uM uh hicli a skt'id.ird of pl'V as pos-Mi.hi pos-Mi.hi during the war. IT" ri pi da red htm-H-'if confident t ha t ly "fosi erlnv. pro-t".-finK ami arlvnncinp the. K;imp" lane-h;t lane-h;t II would he. more pojmla r than ever After tlie war-. "With respect to the interest the A rm-rlra n fir; op! i' w ill ta ke in their na-t na-t i'na I Rame neN t , ear." he said, "T do not hf'Mitate to express my confirierrce In their loyulty and attachment, to it. "Our patrons are, not interested in your f i na uclal gains mid losses, but they are interested nw sportsmen in ou national name. For, after all, baseball to them is but ji. sport." Reds Buy Blackburn. ("THCUrO. Per. b"i. Aucust Hernnann. president of tho ChvinruUi Nationals, closed n dea I here today for t he. pnr- chase of liussell ninckhurn. a shortstop with the Toronto club of the International Interna-tional league Irint srasoii. Blackburn, who formerly player! with the Chicago Americans, was sought hy several other dubs. The purchase price was said to ho hi excess of $iiiofl. Two More Red Sox Enlist. TvOSTON, Per. M.-Two more members mem-bers of the Huston American leapue baseball team hart! enlisted in the navy, It was lea rued today. I 'it.chers Pen nook find Hador signed as yeomen, ma king-eleven king-eleven members of the team to enter war service. |