Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1918 — TALK OF BASEBALL AT FRONT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALK OF BASEBALL AT FRONT

Grover Cleveland Alexander of Cuba and "Chuck” Ward of Dodgera Are in Same Battery. Corporal Charles (“Chuck”) Ward, a St. Louis bdy and former infielder for the Brooklyn Nationals, in a letter to a friend tells of his safe arrival overseas. Ward also writes of Grover Cleveland Alexander, premier pitcher of the National league, being with him.

Alexander and Ward are members- of the same battery, Three Hundred and Forty-second artillery. Since leaving the United States Ward said none of the boys in the battery, many of whom were former major leaguers, received any word of the pennant scrambles. Night after night, Ward concluded, the former t>all players, while on duty, tell of their experiences while playing baseball in the states.

Grover Cleveland Alexander.