Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — AMERICAN SOLDIERS PLAY BASEBALL IN GAS MASKS, BUT NOT INCONVENIENCED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICAN SOLDIERS PLAY BASEBALL IN GAS MASKS, BUT NOT INCONVENIENCED

Not in the least inconvenienced, these American boys in training for the “big game over there” are playing ball in their gas masks. Throughout the training camps in this country gas-mask drills and tests are held almost daily, and when the American boy gets overseas he can manipulate a gas mask to perfection and can adjust it just like the “oldtimers.” The usual time in adjusting a gas mask is six seconds, although after a little training It can be put into position in the twinkling of an eye.