Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-01-24 | Page 18 | Uncle Sam Needs Diamond Stars in Canal Zone

Uncle Sam Needs Diamond Stars In ill Canal CaBal Zone SAM Is advertising for U UNCLE ball players Down in In the Panama canal zone there has been a baseball league for br several years composed of six ix army teams and two civilian nines and the army has consistently carried carried- off oft the honors in the past But now since so many men have been discharged from the army be because because because be- be cause of the end of or hostilities the garrisons in Panama find themselves so sadly depleted in strength that they greatly fear one of the lowly civilian teams will cop the pennant next year So a wail has haa gone up from the canal zone a wail wall so long and loud that it has reached the ears of the adjutant general in Washington The commanding officer at Corozal the Corozal-the the post which won the championship this year In year in fact wrote a letter of lament to the high official Now one of the first requisites for foran foran an adjutant general is that he ho be a good fan so fan so so things Began to happen happen happen hap hap- pen In Washington as soon as that letter arrived with the result that last week the army recruiting office in Chicago along with the other five fifty main stations in the country country country coun coun- try received special instructions to get ball players for the canal zone Incidentally the army's looking for tor fora tora a lot of ot men who arent aren't ball players to go o to Panama Panama for for youve you've got to have fans for your our team And according to Colonel Charles C. C Ballou who commands the re recruiting re- re district t ct of C Chicago there are Fact ctt crl ow he few places Fac In t the world which are more agreeable for the soldier than the canal zone