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Show FINS WILL SE 0. S. M DIAMOND STARS John Powers Champions to Give Exhibitions in Midwestern Mid-western States. (Chicago Tribune Special Sen" ice) CHICAGO, Aug. 0. Baseball fans of the middle west soon will have an opportunity oppor-tunity to glimpse the champion United States army team of the French unlver-sit'es unlver-sit'es In action. With the arrival of John T. Powers of Chloaco. who served lb FYance for the Y. M. C. A. as athletic director at Toulouse Tou-louse university, in the southern part of the sister republic, preparations were siarted today for an extensive tour by the returned fiphtinu diamond treats. It was Fot ers who assembled and coached the championship team, the members of which were chosen from amons officers and enlisted men who were taking the four months' course In the French halls of learning-. The Yanks were aeslened to fourteen different universities in France, there being from boO to 2000 men at each i n s : i t u 1 1 on . Sit full teams responded when Powers eaicd for clamor. i lak-nt at Toulouse, and the varsity nine was selected frm the field. In winning: the championship. Powers s club won thirteen out of fourteen four-teen battles, losing; the first, then mowing mow-ing down all rivals. The Toulouse university uni-versity players have been drifting; homeward home-ward at intervals since the conclusion of hostilities, and all are now in the United S'ates. They are due to report to Powers Pow-ers here. The personnel o( Ms team includes: in-cludes: Catcher Captain Loren Solon, formprly of University of Minnesota, an All-America n fullback (captai n cf the Iwm). Pitchers Louie I'rucke of the New York Giants, lM-lPM; Captain R F-Kennedy, F-Kennedy, University of Cincinnati; O-orge Russell. Cornell university; Carl Tucker, University of Sou; h Pakota ; Owen Williams, Wil-liams, University of Wa shine ton. First base Harold B. Lerk, University of Virsr'.ma. Second bss William Yoorhees, Trinre-ton Trinre-ton university. Shortstop Charles Watson, University of Alabama. Third has Lieutenant Fn Kelly, Harvard Har-vard university. L-ft field Oaptnin Ward Kingston, University of Pennsylvania. Center field Charles Bray, Boston Tech. Richt field Hussell Dlankenburs;, Florida Flor-ida university. The championship tournament was played off at the rate of two games per Powers will short' v announce the itinerary of the champions. |