Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — CHINESE TAKE TO BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

CHINESE TAKE TO BASEBALL

Thousands of Chinks Playing American Game—Want in on Any International Series. * ■ While we have been hearing so much about the advance of baseball In England, France and Italy, don't forget that, another one of the allied countries also Is booming It A newspaper man recently arrived In this country from China says thousands of Chinese are playing the game and that the contests put on in Shanghai often draw more than 5,000 persons. If there’s ever to be an international world's series this newspaper man, whose name is Graham Barrow, says China wants in on it