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Show vw MAYBE BALL STARS WANT DRINK ON WAY WASHINGTON, Oct. ll. Announcement An-nouncement that a group of American professional baseball players. Including Includ-ing six who participated In the world seius will use a ahlp carrying a foreign flag to transport them to the orient on a barnstorming tour has brought a protect from tho Nation il Merchant Marino association. The organisation or-ganisation telegraphed Judge Kene-saw Kene-saw M. Landls. baseball commissioner. Innlstlng that he urged the players who, It is said, go as "representatives Of the United States in sports," to obtain passage on an American flag vessel. Attention was called In the message to bcheduled sailing dates on or near the time players plan to depart and the association volcod the belief that patronage of an American ship would make the trip "wholly American." oo |