Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — BASEBALL DURING WAR TIME [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL DURING WAR TIME

Suggested to American People That Game Is Likely to Be an incongruity Next Season. ...... For the present it may bs all right that baseball continue, At least it ls not mandatory that it cease, and that the healthy bodies on the field and the healthy bodies in the stands and bleachers go about some other business, but it may be just as well to suggest to the American people that professional baseball is likely to be an Incongruity next year. An American newspaper will sacrifice a great deal of self-respect If It has to print, or does print, box scores and casualty lists In the same issue, says Chicago Tribune. Baseball already Is getting on the nerves of a great many people who know that catastrophic times are ahead or who fear that they may be ahead. It is fiddling while Rmpa la bummfr