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Show NAVY SEEKS CRACK PLAYERS Every Big League Athlete Will Be Asked to Join, but No Special Ratings Offered. Every big league baseball player In the country Is to be invited to Join the navy at once, according to letters prepared pre-pared by Ensign W. I. Denny, recruiting recruit-ing officer at the Great Lakes Training station, under the direction of Cnpt. William A. Moffett, commandant. "We are asking them to join tho navy because we want the best men we can get," Captain Jloffett declared. "However, there will be no special rating rat-ing for them, but we will give them the best ratings for which they can qualify." Captain Moffett also intimated there would be no permanent "shore duty," but that the baseball men enlisting would be prepared for sou service as fast as possilde. |