Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1918 — CALL HOBEY BAKER, FORMER PRINCETON STAR, A “TIREUR D’ELITE” IN FRANCE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CALL HOBEY BAKER, FORMER PRINCETON STAR, A “TIREUR D’ELITE” IN FRANCE

THreur <TeHte. w TBiat is what they call Lieutenant Baker of the United States army aviation section over In France; “Hobey” Baker, as he is known in the sporting world, formerly the captain and star of the Princeton football and hockey teams. No one who remembers Hobey on the gridiron or on the ice or his wonderful nerve and eye will be surprised to hear that his shooting was the his instructors and that his average was declared to be astounding. „. •• , . • • It explains the prominence to which the one-time Princetonian has already attained in aviation and why he is the first American flier operating under the Stars and Stripes to bring down an opponent in a fight in the air. Only two United States aviators have so far been brevetted from the highest schools of France. The two, who are graduate “pilots de chasse from Avord, Pau and Cazau, are “Hobey” Baker and Edwin Post, Jr. of New York city. Of these two Lieutenant Baker made the better shooting average and Lieutenant Post the better flying performance.