Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1917 — HAS QUALITIES OF LULLABY [ARTICLE]

HAS QUALITIES OF LULLABY

-Baseball Is-Balancing Medium, Says Major General Wood—Goes to . ‘Sleep During Game. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood believes In baseball as a balancing medium in these days. He is satisfied, too, that it has the soothing qualities of a lullaby. = He went to the Polo grounds in New York on the opening day to lend his approval to the sport and to throw out the first ball. That over, he sat down in a„ reasonably uncomfortable chair and fell asleep. Tired nature simply was demanding toll, and the napwas "a trtbuf?to*b® unflagging steal and long hours of work in the previous two or three weeks. The hours at his desk and the Jpter hours of speech-making- robbed him of needed rest, but be was able to make up three innings of it in a box at the Polo grounds, as the Yankees went down to defeat before the Boston Bed Sox.