Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — WHEREABOUTS OF PING BODIE [ARTICLE]

WHEREABOUTS OF PING BODIE

Yankee Fence Buster. Thought to Be Headed for Fighting Line in France or Italy. Ping Bodie quit the Yankees with the avowed intention of taking a job in a munition plant. Ping’s decision to stick in the East instead of returning to San Francisco, where he might work in a shipyard, is regarded as suspicious, and some of his teammates say that what he really intends to do, if he can arrange it; is to head for France or the Italian front. A new offensive in Italy would so excite Ping that he’d be on the fighting line as soon as a ship could get him there.