Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1918 — PLAYING BALL IN PALESTINE [ARTICLE]

PLAYING BALL IN PALESTINE

Equipment Sufficient for Four Team* Shipped by Clark Griffith to 'Holy Land. Clark Griffith announces that he has shipped to Palestine baseball equipment sufficient for four teams, on request of Americans of Jewish ancestry and otherwise who are In service with the British in the Holy Land. Several hundred American Jews, specially enlisted, have joined the army In Palestine, and they no sooner got there than the desire to play .ball overcame them. - x ~