Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 12 | Alex the Great may Return for Spring Training

ALEX THE GREAT MAY RETURN FOR SPRING TRAINING CHICAGO, Dec, 20. Cub fans can read the long overdue overseas casualty cas-ualty lists with greater composure as the result of a letter received today to-day at Cub headquarters from Mrs. (.Trover Cleveland Alexander. The uifo of Alex the Great wrote from Newport, Ky., that she had a letter from her husband written on November Novem-ber IS, seven days after the last shot in the European war was fired, and the big pitcher then was well and I happy over the conclusion of hostili-! hostili-! tips, lie also held out hope of. being able to return to the I'nited States in time to partake of the spring traln-I traln-I ing trip, in spite of the fact that the division to which his unit Is attached ; is part of the Vartkce army of occu-' occu-' pation. Vke President Veeck' of the Cuhs also , had a long-distance telephone talk with Kill Killeier. Cub catcher de luxe. Killeier reported he was as-1 as-1 signed to the casualty detachment at Camp Custer, and his duties have to do wjth mustering out of service soldiers sol-diers returning from abroad. Tt miirht ho one of the freaks of fato that Killefer wouid be the man to rnusfr out the pitcher whom he caught for so many years before the war.