Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1918 — ANOTHER TIGER ENTERS ARMY [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER TIGER ENTERS ARMY

John Couch Appointed Second Lieutenant After Graduating From Camp Fremont. Another former Tiger, John D. Couch, gets a star on a service flag with Detroit, as the last club on which he played, best entitled to it He has just been made a second lieutenant in the army, after graduating from the Camp Fremont (Cal.) training camp. Couch, a* former Stanford university and San Francisco pitcher, was bought by Detroit for the 1917 season and trained with the team at Waxahachie. He was taken ill that spring, later suffered from blood poisoning, and has done little or no *pltching since. Another ex-Detroiter, Ducky Holmes, is going overseas, having been made a member of the Y forces, and being now on his way to France. Holmes* last year was 1902, when he, Barrett and Harley did the gardening—first of the great outfields Detroit always has been possessed of.