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Show GREAT INTERNATIONAL GAME American Pastime Will Be Played in Every Nation on Earth When War Is Terminated. When the gun and the bayonet are laid aside after the world's greatest struggle the ball and the bat will be" taken tip. Baseball will become the great international sport, according to followers of the game, and the American Ameri-can pastime will be played in every , patiou on earth. Already the possibility possibil-ity of the world's scries games being played off between America and France, on British ball diamonds, has been discussed. And it is not a far cry to such a day, when one considers the increasing popularity of the game. From the United States baseball bad invaded Canada and Cuba long before the war began. Both nf these nations, and England, Germany and Japan had furnished America with big league players. Camilla -took the game over to the battlefields of France, and paved the way for the American expeditionary expe-ditionary force. In the past year the gaihe has spread so in popularity that every nation on the allied side is playing play-ing it. The Olympic games have laid the foundation for the further expansion expan-sion of baseball throughout Fumpe. |