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Show Evers Under Shell Fire, but Comes Through Unscathed PARIS, Oct. 24. Johnny Kvcrs. known wherever baseball is played, who is in Franco serving as a Knights of Columbus secretary, has been under shell fire of the Germans, but came throuKh unscathed. un-scathed. Kvers was near the front fight -mg lines distributing K. of C. supplies to American soldiers when caught in a bombardment. Since the battle of Chateau Thierry, when American troops begnn their advance ad-vance In earnest, the Knights of Columbus Co-lumbus have employed several big motor trucks to convoy K. of c. supplies to the moving American troops. Small ears are employed for work near the advanced lines. Eyers was In charge of one of these. He. had Just finished distributing distribut-ing a quantity of cigoxets when tho Germans Ger-mans got busy. Describing his e perk ore, Rivers' Bftld ! "Heine was in tine pitching form that day and served everything he had hi stork high and low ones rind vicious In-shoots. In-shoots. I moved i he home plate n fast he couldn't put anything aver on mo and I went to first base on four balls. 1 never did look for second or third base first was good enough for me --It wss located lo-cated in tho rear end or a thirty-foot dugout. Tt's a good place to have h base, too, when llelrio Lets fly a, cargo of shrapnel." |