Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — CATCHER WILSON HAS SPIRIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CATCHER WILSON HAS SPIRIT

Backstop for Boston Braves Registers While Over Draft Age, but Says Let It Go. The spirit that will help win is that shown by Catcher Art Wilson of the Boston National team. Some men are of draft age and don’t want to be in the army, but it is different with Wilson, so goes the story. Wilson doesn’t pay special attention to birthdays and when time came to register a year ago last June he didn’t remember whether he was over thirty-

one years old or not, so he registered with his home board anyway. Later he found he was over thirty-one and did not have to register. Then the draft board sent out questionnaires and he filled his out anyway and was placed In class 2, being a married man. The time Is now drawing close when some class 2 men may be called and the matter of his being over age was taken up with him by mall, by his draft board. “Let It go,” was the substance of his answer. “I’m no better than anyone else and if called to fight, I’m going.”

Catcher Art Wilson.