Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1917 — CRACK ATHLETES IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

CRACK ATHLETES IN FRANCE

Ball Players, Football Stars, Boxers, Tennis Players and Others on < \ Firing Line. _ •* By the time January 1 rolls around and the new year is born many of the leading stars in all branches of sports will be with Uncle Samuel’s, armies somewhere in France. Ball players, boxers, tennis and golf players, foqtball stars and the leading lights of track "and field will all be represented on the firing line. And with so many stars of the sport world abroad the public will take new interest in them, for. Instead of battling on track and field, the diamond, the tennis count or the golf links, the stalwart sons of the U. S. A. will >be battling on foreign fields in the great game of the i go—-the game of war.