Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1918 — LONG DRIVE WON HIM FIFTY [ARTICLE]

LONG DRIVE WON HIM FIFTY

But Ray Schmandt's Check Covered Many Miles Before Reaching Him at Camp Pike. .' Ray Schmandt, the former Brooklyn second baseman, is at last to receive his check for SSO for hitting the “bull" sign in Philadelphia last April. Schmandt pasted the sign with a fine drive and earned the bonus, and his check was sgpn ready, but it has had a hard time catching up with him. The check was forwarded to Brooklyn and was to have been presented to Schmandt with much pomp and circumstance at Ebbetts field, but before it arrived he had been called by his draft board and had gone to St. Louis to see his family. The check was forwarded to St .Louis, but he had'left for Camp Pike, Ark., in the His family forwarded it to Camp Pike, where he is a member of the Tenth training battalion.