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Show FAVOR BASEBALL IN EUROPE Canadians Had 101 Teams In Series for Championship French Show Interest in Game. Some idea of the excellent work which the Canadian troops have done toward the spread of baseball In France and Kngland may be gleaned from the fart that a series for the championship of the Canadian forces overseas was played In England this fall in which 101 teams took parts. A creat many players who were members mem-bers of minor leagues and semi-professional semi-professional clubs in the dominion are "over there," and of the teams which took part in '.he championship series several were really first-class aggregations. aggrega-tions. The French also are reported to he greatly interested in our national na-tional game, and in years to come, when the war Is over, and the affairs of (lie world are in a normal state again, a real worid series may be an annual feature and the great American Amer-ican game have an International scone. |