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Show Klepfer's Idea of j Gernan Bullets1 CLEVELAND, Ohio. Aug. 21, War can have few terrors for American league batters now serving with the colors, according to a letter received here from Eddie Klepfer, former Cleveland pitcher, now a sergeant with the American expeditionary force. Klepfer safd there is little difference in the "zip" of a-German sniper's bullet bul-let and the "whiz" of Walter Johnson's fast one, except that Johnson's offer --I ing may have a "hop" on it. The letter says: "I have been over the top and I came back without being hit. I was a member of a scouting squad. You know how it feels when you are up to bat and Walter Johnson buzzes one of his fast ones past your ears. That's how it! feel3 when the Huns are trying to pick you off. It suro is a great sensation j that of being fired at by someone ycmi know means IL" |