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Show SUGGESTION MAY SAVE ALEX Secretary Baker Favors Discharging All Men Who Have Attained Age of Thirty-One. If the suggestion of Secretary Baker goes through, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Alex-ander, star pitcher recently purchased by the Chicago Cubs from the Phillies, will not he drafted. Secretary Baker advised the military committee that the war department favors the discharging dis-charging from service all men who have attained the age of thirty-one since the registration, June 5, 1917, without having been called to the colors. col-ors. Alexander was thirty-one on February 26. |