Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — EPPA RIXEY NOW IS LIEUTENANT IN ARMY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EPPA RIXEY NOW IS LIEUTENANT IN ARMY

Eppa Jephtha Rixey, left-handed pitcher of the Philadelphia Nationals, who lives at Charlottesville, has been commissioned a first lieutenant lit the sanitary corps of the National army. He probably will be assigned to the gas defense section.