Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — BASEBALL PLAYED IN CHINA [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL PLAYED IN CHINA

American Game Making Rapid Strides In Far East—Contests Draw Large Crowds. While we have been hearing so much about the 1 advance of baseball in England, France and Italy, don’t forget that another one of the allied countries also Ui booming it A newspaper man recently arrived in this country from China says thousands of Chinese are playing the game and that the contests put on in Shanghai often draw more than five thousand persons. If there’s evefr to be an international world’s series this newspaper man, whose name is Graham Barrow, says China wants in on it