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Show I French Boys Delight . In Yankee Game of Baseball PARIS, Aug. 10. (By mail.) The kids of France are picking up baseball fast. Any day ono can seo them out in tho field when tho soldiers aro knocking knock-ing up flies in the Tuillcries Gardens. They arc regular and absorbed attendants at-tendants at the Paris baseball league games and walk miles, when they can't get carfare, to see the games in the suburb of Colombes or the Bois do Boulogne. Perry Tiffany is at tho head of tho movement to introduce baseball into France as boxing and association football foot-ball were introduced. At a meeting of the Paris Baseball league twenty-five clubs decided to co-operate with the Y. M. C. A. in sending balls and bats and gloves to the Paris schools- The .French press is encouraging the movement. The splendid physical condition of the American troops Is constantly remarked upon in tho French press and it is pointed out that the Americans easily become hardened soldiers because they are trained from childhood in sports. On the oilier hand, the French press complains the French child is coddled and "cotton-packed" by his over-fond mother, with the result that it requires re-quires sometimes a year to harden him to a soldier's life. It is believed that the French government, gov-ernment, which is doing everything in its power to make the Franco -American alliance a permanent after-war entente also is behind the press cam paign to organize a baseball league of French cities which in future years may send its pennant winning teams to America. French officers, too, have not been slow to recognize that baseball has played a great part In making the Americans and Canadians the most accurate and deadliest grenade throwers throw-ers on the western fronL Any sport which Incidentally plays a serious part in the training of soldiers will have tho earnest attention of the French army. |