Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-26 | Page 10 | Detroit Leads the Majors in Number of Men in Service

DETROIT LEADS THE MAJORS IN NUMBER OF MEN IN SERVICE Recent claims that Cleveland led American league baseball clubs with eighteen s:ars in 'L'-.i Us service flag, sixteen of them representing j players in the army, caused Presld-nt B. B. "J Johnson to BSb each cf the eight clubs in the J leagne to give the number of its men in the service. He announced at Chicatjo recently that 1 the Detroit clob was the first to respond. I with an official list of seventeen players in 'K I the army and seen in the nary, and a manager man-ager going overseas fur the Knights of Co-I Co-I lumbos to promote athletics. iV j With only one man In a shipyard. President Navin of Detroit challenged tbi major leagues jtfi I 10 beat its loya?y percentage. The Chicago ; club has sixteen players in service, four of them Ta I offleers. while other clubs in the league are to SaaV be heard from.