Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — AMERICAN LEAGUERS ANSWER APPEAL FOR EQUIPMENT [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN LEAGUERS ANSWER APPEAL FOR EQUIPMENT

Chicago, May 17. —President Ban Johnson, of the American leagpe of baseball clubs, announced tonight that in response to an appeal of the Red Cross for baseball equipment for the use of hospital units overseas, his organization had (appropriated $5,000 for the purpose and that shipment of paraphernalia will start tomorrow for France. The shipment will include 2,000 balls, 500 bats, fifty first basements mits, fifty catcher’s ■mitts, 100 chest projectors and fifty masks.