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Show i ! Ball Pitcher. Shoots Curves with Bombs, f Never Pass- ing a Man When I He Winds Up and Lets Go 'for the Allies in the Trenches . ' r S-? ACQUES KENAUD Is his iT" name Jimmy Fox. trans- lated a former baseball y I player, who has proved more I efficient In his position as a j soldier of the allies jthan Z Possibly any regiment. 1 An( Jt nas Deen uo en tirely to his training1 and capability as a ballplayer that ho has had placed upon his broad breast many of the medals for brav-I brav-I cry which ho has been exhibiting at homo slnco he has been invalided. For Jacques Ronaud has been using his great right arm, and his skill acquired on the ball field, In hurling hand grenades Into the Ger-jj Ger-jj I, man ranks with deadly effect. He has faced r almost suro death time and again, and finally, ! after having sustained painful wounds without i number, got a piece of shell through his shoul der which put him hors do combat. The Troy of Homer, the Marathon and Sala-mls Sala-mls of which Herodotus sang, the fall of Carthage, Car-thage, Hannibal's long trip over the Alps and his eventual defeat by Scloplo Afrlcanus. Na-. Na-. poleon's Waterloo, Leo's Gettysburg, Kuropat-kln's Kuropat-kln's Harben, Blanco's Santlngo all are but mere boy's play in comparison to. what Jimmy Fox has gone through In the great world's war. A C-footer. with a pair of shoulders so broad that ho sidles through an ordinary door, Jacques Renaud In his early years was a courier de bols (scout of tho woods) and piloted many parties of rich Americans Into tho wilds of Ontario and cUuict, miii purauise oi nunters and fishermen. But Jasqucs became tired of all this boforo ! ho had attained tho age when ho could cast a vote. Ho aspired to something greater, something some-thing that would take him Into tho outside world, whore he would not be compelled to wear a macklnaw, woolen socks and overalls. I A natural athlete, ho had played baseball In the vacant lots about Toronto In earlier days, I r S mwmBffi&mm tad hia heart was In the game. So ono day I Ifter he had "cleaned up" on a guiding trip I hto the heart of tho wilderness, Jacques said to himself: "No moro for me. I am going to Ico something of the world.' So ho hied hlmsoli westward and after a few honths ho became Identified with a Canadian V laseball team and mado such a reputation that Kjfe lo was signed as a pitcher. Wt And hero is where Jacques Ronaud disappears Hfj Ind Jimmy Fox cornea on tho scone, for ho lit iropped his French namo and ever 3lnco has It Ised tho translated one. During the ono season I )?hich he played as a. professional ho mado Buch a great reputation that ho received offers from the baseball ipngues of the states. But he passed them all' up when the great war began. No more baseball for him while England and Franco were fighting a common enemy. "Nothing doing at all," he said, to a scout "I am going to the front, where there Is some real lighting. Of course, we scrap some on tha diamond and thrro Is some excitement, but both Engkfnd, to which I owe allegiance, and France, from which r derive my parentage, need my .services. Sp I am gotng." And It was hard to lose a man like Jimmy Fox from tho game. And' ho went to Toronto from Moose Jaw, and the day lit) arrived there he saw a regiment regi-ment of fine-looking Canadians parading through tho streets, and then camo a detachment detach-ment of Canadian artillery. And that night ho departed, anil ho went across tne Atlantic and landed at Havre, after his vessel hail speeded away from the periscope' of a submarine, subma-rine, which had not the speed of the liner on which Fox .was traveling. "I thought that there would be something happening for a time." said Fox, "and I got on one of tfroso qork things which they call life preservers. But wc beat thorn to it, and an English torpedo boat came along and a blplano found the submarine. That Is a combination com-bination that no submarine can get away fiom I understand, that afterward they got the U-boat. But wc got In safely." Fox enlisted In the English army at Havre and was Immediately sent to tho front. For a time he was In tho motor car corps and was decorated .for bravery, and then he 'became a sergeant. "You see, at Yprcs. they evidently thought I was a sort of a husky Individual." he said, "and they sent mo to the front. They put mo Into tho hand-grenade squad I went along that whole line of about 2o0 miles from Bel-glum Bel-glum to the Marne. Do you know what a hand grenade Is?" And then ho went along and told some Interesting Inter-esting facts about those terribly destructive lit tie missiles that" arc being hurled from opposing trenches In Europe. "Some of them are much like a baseball ' ho said, "but they weigh several pounds moic There Is a tlmo fuso attached and wo regulate that fuse according to tho distance that the bomb Is destined for. Both sides have habits of picking them up when they drop, squeezing the fuses and rendering them useless." Fox said that tho explosive contents of the grenades were unknown quantities, in so far as the mixture of explosives are concerned."- .-. , "But the basis of all of them." "'he said, '"is what they call nitro-tulolol. It Is the most pow- mkWVfM FOR THE "OLD COUNTRYs'5SS"'3Mi J of ",odorn Mow-upa and has been used "nV5' in"" war. "It is made from gun cotton nitroglycerin and picric acid. And ir5jTthraKnClab?Ut aU th,s plosion, tho death-dealing lead." And Jimmy Fox, ex-baseball pitcher, told of armln nSn l0 h 8mUd oar'rled one wh,n m, US ,llmPGd n rUtchca ttnd tithed hen tho muscles of his powerful body felt tho sting of ohrapnel which atlll romalned in his body. fmV10. mr tl,an a ycar tbnt Jlmr Fox fought In tho blg War ho had many adventures. adven-tures. Early la hia career, when -with b wP Mir' i - f I 1 m H ' ff0C!r CANADIAN FIELD 'AS) Th I grenadiers, he acquired a great reputation U3 a hurlor of tho hand grenades. Ho simply Just Put them over tho plato at all times. His aim was deadly and after a tlmo the allied men In tho trenches turned over the grenades to him. "Well, it. is just Hko tills," ho said, as ho smllod and then closed his oyes in agony as ho forgot his bad leg. As ho came to ho smiled again and said that it was Just a little hitch ho had In tho aide. "It was Just Hko this," ho continued. "Thoso grenades aro just liko a basoball in slzo, and a man with my flngors and ho has tho digits of tho Ideal fllngor "can got a grip on them, nnd In a short toss do about anything that ho wants with them. Wo wcro so closo together In tho trenches that the distance between tho slab and tho homo plato was nut3 to me. "I got to experimenting with thoso grenades, even thoso with handles, picked up a few of them In the trenches when they wore not loaded, and found that my curves wore working in a shnpo that would havo got mo a Job In any of tho big leagues. And thero was no umps to chaso ino from tho rubber when I used tho pnjery, tho rosin, or any other; .dcUvcry barred by tho rules of tho game. Thero aro no rules of tho gamo In tho big war. "Well, I got tho delivery of Uiobo grenades down ilno. I would send a Toxas leaguer, with a roundhouso curve on it, CO feet Into tho air, started for tho first sack. But whon It landed it would bo In tho Bhortstop territory. You know, you can seo them coming, and then overy-body overy-body ducks to cover. But I got thorn on that curve They thought that It was going straight for whoro it was headed, but thoy mlsacd their guess." Jimmy stralghtond out his damaged leg and gTlnncd. And then again ho started on his reminiscences. "Say, I got that spit (ball working perfectly," he said, with tho same genial grin. "I'd start one straight up Into tho air and tho Germans would not pay any attention io It, Then It would duck and finally land .into a trench. Then It was that I got my reputation. I just had nothing to do but lmndlo thoso grenades. gren-ades. Thoy handed them over to mo and I passed them on with tho ins, outs, drops, splt-lors. splt-lors. and everythins clso that I could put on tho baJL"' Later ho wont to Paris on a brief Turlough, a.nd ho tells a story of a duol ho fought there. It Is given hero In his own language. Taking It all -without a grain of salt, it may bo that they woro having fun with Jimmy, but, at any rato, this Is how ho tells It. "I vlsltod a cafe thero a couplo of times and mot qulto a numbor of French soldiers back from tho front on furloughs. Wo becamo vory friondly, all except one, Maurice Tho second sec-ond night I was thero Maurico accidentally, trod on my toes, or at, loast it could havo been passed ns an accident, and I mado a pass at him. Ho ducked and I didn't got to hit him. Tho othor fellows Immediately came between us and pro-vented pro-vented further trouble Thero happened to bo somo Amorlcans, raembors of tho Foreign Lo-glon, Lo-glon, In thero at tho time, and, after qulot had been restored and Maurico had been taken away by somo of his friends, theso Americanr told mo that Maurioo was certain to challengo mo to a duel for trying to punch his nose. "Well, I thought it ovox. can't shoot, I don't know what a sword looks like, and I was up a stump. My frionds said that T certainly would get a challengo In tho morning. This prediction was entirely truo." And then Fox told of a visit to him by a representative rep-resentative from Maurico demanding that ho. Fox, meet him on the dueling field. "Of course, you understand," said tho emissary, emis-sary, "that tho choice of weapons is yours." "I get you," said Fox. "I'll get some gink to eettlo tho conditions with you. And I want you to tell that friend of yours that he is In for a fine trimming." Then a happy thought camo to Jimmy Fox, the former pitcher. "I have the cholco of weapons," ho soliloquized, solilo-quized, as his brow knit In unaccustomed wrinkles. "Now, this Maurico would spilt mo like a fowl with a, sword. Ho would put a pleco of lead through me while I might possibly hit tho moon. What shall I do about it? What weapons shall I choose?" And Jimmy Fox thought long and earnestly upon this momentous subject. "I am not much of a boxer," ho thought. And tho corrugations on tho forehead of tho former baseball player grew moro prominent Then It camo to him. His hurling of bombs Into the trenches of tho enemy gave him tho big Idea. "It's a dead mortal clnch that ho Is going to get mo," he said to himself, "but I have tho choice of weapons, and it Is going to bo a '60-GO stunt. If ho gets me I am going to get him." And thus it was brought about that whon tho seconds met tho dictum of Jimmy Fox was that tho weapons should bo bombs, that tho dlstanco should bo CO feot, which, it might bo mentioned, men-tioned, is tho dlstanco betweon tho homo plato Jimmy the Fox. "And It Is to bo a routrance," was tho ultimatum ulti-matum of Jimmy Fox. Tho second of Maurice threw -up his hands In horror. "No, no," he said. "Those conditions nro barbarous. It would bo nothing but suicide. It is uncivilized, entirely without tho palo of decent dueling regulations. Swords or pistols are tho weapons which aro acceptable among duelists. Anything elso is absurd." Then tho ballplayer, tho famous thrower of bombs, arose In his wrath. "If you don't want to uso bombs, we will tr something clso. This man has forced tho quarrel quar-rel upon mo. I havo tho cholco of what I snail fight with. Ho may havo his saber and I win uso a weapon of ray own. Is that satisfactory?" "You will not uso a pistol, or a bomb, or any form of cxploslvo?" asked the representative of Maurice "No, I will not," was tho response of Fox. I ubo an American baseball, or half a dozen of them. But tho dlstanco shall bo CO feet, and I shall remain on ono spot. Maurico can como to jno and Jab mo through tho ribs if ho can." cAftei; a talk,, it was decided to flgbt I out r along thoso lines. Jimmy Fox had brought H with him half a dozen baseballs, simply becauso IH ho liked to have something with him which re- IH minded him of happy days. It was early in tho morning when they met, H on a beautiful green just on the outskirts of IH Paris. But flvo were there, tho principals and IH seconds and a surgeon, the last of whom Jimmy IH eyed askance. Tho twenty yards were paced off IH and tho duelists took tholr places. Maurice had H a rapier and was stripped for- the encounter, IH whilo Jimmy Fox had simply taken off his coat. IH But on his foot wcro a pair of shoes that had H on tholr soles plates which were tho object of H somo curiosity to tho seconds. IH They woro the spikes of tho baseball worlds IH Jimmy wanted to havo his too hold. A second fired tho oponlng gun as a signal IH that the duel was on. Maurico rushed for Jim- IH my, but was met boforo ho got woll started by IH a bean ball, which glanced off his temple It IH stunned him for a moment, and whilo ho stood IH tottering Jimmy shot a fast ono right over tho IH plato, catching Maurico In that spot which Fltzslmmons mndo famous in his fight with IH Corbott at Carson City. It was all over. H Maurico collapsed, Just wilted, dropped his j rapier, and pcaco was declared. That Is tho story which Jacques P.cnaud, Jim-' IH my Fox, lias boon telling at home. Ho wont back into tho trenches, and, after having been J shot up pretty badly, was sent homo on a fur- H lough. j IH a i ga i r,ud IH |