Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1918 — FORMER BALL PLAYER IS WOUNDED AT FRONT [ARTICLE]

FORMER BALL PLAYER IS WOUNDED AT FRONT

Lieut. D. Sturgis of Uniontown, Pa., well-known athlete and a former member of the Philadelphia American league baseball club, was wounded severely in action June 7, according to a telegram received by bis father, Attorney W. J. Sturgis. Lieutenant Sturgis, who played with the Philadelphia club in 1913, and part of 1914, anfi >who was well known in Bucknell sport circles, was commissioned during the first officers’ training school at Niagara, and was sent to France shortly thereafter.