Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1918 — BASEBALL DEVELOPS STRATEGY IN ALL SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL DEVELOPS STRATEGY IN ALL SOLDIERS

Omaha, Neb., May 20.—Baseball has made strategists of all American soldiers, Gen. Pershing says in a letter just received by Capt. C. E. Adams, former state commander of the G. A. R. Capt. Adams and Gen. Pershing are great friends. In part, the letter just received says: “The avidity with which American soldiers are entering into the activir .ties of the war on the battle line is astonishing to European armies. In the matter of grenade and bomb throwing ' the Americans become proficient in but a few days’ drill. I attribute this in part to the American games football and baseball, which make strategists of them all.”