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Show FRENCH BASEBALL GROUPS ORGANIZED PARIS, April l. The French Baseball federation, o, "I. a Federation Francalse de Baseball," as the nativ. a will know It, came into being thle month In tho club rooms of the Amer- j ican legion iu Paris, whose walls aru ; covered with trophies oi the great wai i in which Americans and French fought side by side. There are already three all French baseball teams in France, one in Paris. ' known as the RanoLigH baseball club. ; another at -Roubaix and a third at Toureoing. The Ranelagh team, which has been playing for three seasons, I last year competed in h contest be-; be-; tween the half dozen clubs formed ol j Americans in Paris attached to the American banks here, the Graves registration, reg-istration, and other similar orraniza- : Hons. While the Frenchmen did not head the list at the end of the season, sea-son, they were not the last on It, a noteworthy achievement when it is re-j membered they played against exper-j ienced American playerej This year.! thanks to the Federation Francalse do Baseball which has just bet n founded,! clubs will compete for the champion-1 ship of a real French league, and the honor of being the first champions will bt keenly fought for. oo |