| Show BOYS OVER THERE E NOT TOO BUSY TO BE INTERESTED IN SPORTS OVER HERE Overseas Fighting Men MenI I l Hope That Great National Game Will WiIl Survive War F BASEBALL vanishes with the I IP cooling breezes of ot October not to return until H Heinle the Hun Is whipped and sent back to his hole ans Jans in America will not be the only sufferers Evidence comes from the American expeditionary tor forces es In Franco France that there ther will be many mourners mourners mourn mourn- ers under the Iron hats of ot Pershing's army Baseball is one sport of which Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans never tire They watch It all summer summer sum sum- mer and read about it all winter News News- papers give columns and columns to its in season and out Weekly papers live on it Monthly 1 magazines exist on the publics public's Interest in the great national pastime all the year around Hence it Is not stran strange e that the lads now OW as have another Interest in addition to that of ot knocking the Hun out of the Hun and that It Is baseball Clark Clarl Griffith In his capacity as chief of ot the now famous Bat and Ball fund has received the following letter from a first ser in a machine gun battalion now In France We Ve may be far from the actual scene of ot the favorite pastime but our hearts heart are ure still yearning to keep in touch We eagerly await the coming of the SportIng SportIng Sport Sport- Ing News a baseball sent b bv Griffith to the American soldiers and although we e are kept busy with our work of eliminating the boche w WA always alway find Cind time to read the paper from cover to cover and discuss pro and con as to who are the best players and who we think will cop the pennant Very often heated discussions arise and we play some of ot the games over again but never yet have haye we changed the final score Whenever we have the spare time j OU ou If It you were here would find us on a vacant lot enjoying t he favorite pastime and we have plenty of rivalry thanks to your Bat and Ball fund I know It is accomplishing ac ac- Just what you intended it should It will stand jou ou in hand to keep an eye on the doings of ot the A. A E. E F. F baseball baseball base base- ball leagues If It you ou want to strength your batting when this show is ov r r. r We Ve are not only batting the Hun but also the pill He Ue has hils played a stiff stitt game by hitting out a a. two-bagger two and stealing third but he will be put out at home that sure This looks yke the best of ot evidence In the support of ot continuing baseball if there arc those who would suspend It be because be- be cause of the boys over there how about keeping it up for those same earnest lads over over there |
