Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — AMERICAN CAPTIVES TO PLAY [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN CAPTIVES TO PLAY

Leads Up to Question of What German Prisoners in This Country - Will Be Allowed to Do. The announcement that Germany will permit American prisoners of war to play baseball is interesting, but it opens up the question of what German captives in /his country shall be allowed to do. In a year or two we must get set for pinochle tournaments with the members of Von Hindenburg’s Own Kid-Killers winning the pennant, with the Death’s Head Hussars a close Second. The other great combined indoor-and-outdoor sport of Germany beer-drinking may not flourish so well in the prison camps, as the dry wave is very threatening. It will be obviously impossible for the United States to Indulge the prisoners in their other favorite sports. There are not enough cathedrals here for the Prussians to be permitted the glee of knocking down a few. All requests for wells to. poison, babies to bayonet and old men to crucify must be met with a polite but flrr i “No.** And then the guests will probably utter the German equivalent for: “Some one is always taking the joy out of life.** —Philadelphia Telegraph.