| Show I PREDICTS BASEBALL REVOLUTION AFTER THE WAR John Evers Interviewed in In Fr France nce Says Old Regime in Game Is Dead By Edward M. M Thierry Paris Correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise Association AlliS Sept 21 Revolutionary re reorganization reorganization reorganization re- re P PARIS organization of baseball will be In Inevitable inevitable In- In evitable after the war wIth war with major league teams recruited ex exclusively exclusively ex- ex from flom men who have fought for tor Uncle Sam In France That Is the radical statement made to the tho N. N E E. A. A representative In laris by DY Johnny Ever Evers for tOI many years ears a big league star and member of several worlds world's champion teams Evers is now in France attached to the Knights of Columbus overseas unit baseball among American sol soldiers soi- soi diers and teaching caching the French how to play the American national game They say the soldiers soldiers' of this war willbe will willbe willbe be a a. power in politics back home after aHel its it's over Evers said ald Quite likely likely but but put puta a bet down that the boys boys' fighting over here will be the big power in ic the reorganization reorganization reorganization of or professional baseball Baseball will never be as It was before be be- be fore the fore the same old stars drawing fabulous lous bus salaries The game has received its death blow till the war is o er over and and won for tor democracy And the big league stars of the future future and and of the minor leagues I too of course course are are the doughboys playing here within the sound of ot the guns In the rest and recuperation camps and in the innumerable American military centers scattered over France Boys never heard of in baseball are going to go back home not only with bright military records but possessors of baseball fame earned in games gamell snatched between battles be Id almost I be willing to bet that after atter the war wal the baseball fans tans In the major and anti minor league circuits will hoot oft off the field any player no matter matte I how good If It Ithe he cant can't show that hes he's done his bit for fol Uncle Sam Evers' Evers opinion was born of ot his survey of conditions here of the spirit of the themen themen themen men In the American army of their thell continued con con- Interest In the game as exhibited in their thell own games here and of their candidly expressed approval of the suspension suspension sus sus- pension of professional baseball in the states for the duration of the war Ev Every ry has its baseball team and in Paris the troops stationed in or 01 near neal the capital league season the season the Paris league which league which ended late In August The season ended with eighteen teams out of thirty that started the others having been compelled to withdraw because of troop movements At the outset o French army commanders command command- ers sent men to watch natch the games with the view of introducing baseball to French soldiers The results are meager however During the latter part of August August Augusty Au Au- gust gusty after Evers' Evers arrival he has been touring the French front at the official Invitation of ot General Vidal He was furnished fur fur- fished a staff of Interpreters and the necessary materiel de baseball baseball mean mean meaning ing bats and balls balls and and in various sectors sectors sec sec- tors he laid out diamonds showed the how tho the game was played and fl picked time ed Evers teams SI left and d French umpired r g camps games r early By ry t the In September to give baseball a boost among American soldiers the French were enthralled with baseball In French newspapers Evers Is hailed as Monsieur sl r Jeannot t Evers ancien champion a de b baseball g l lh h In Chicago ca le he maitre de do geographic de la Ia base celebre du sport national which I which Is to say approximately Mr WY Johnny n Evers old id baseball gli glie champion e epi pi the geography of o Chicago of the second c man na b base who mas- mas celebrated cole cele e professor of the national American American Ameri Amen can sport All right if they say so said Evers Evens but what did they want to tack on that tha t ancien business for |
