Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1918 — CANT CATCH BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

CANT CATCH BASEBALL

American soldiers in Franco recently tried to break the record set at Kelly field, Texas, by catching a baseball tossed from an airplane more than 700 feet above the ground. Tht catch on Kelly field was at a height of 700 feet. The Americans in France failed in their attempt, although more than 150 soldiers tried to catch balls thrown from bn airplane 750 feet and 900 feet above toe ground. Nearly aH the balls Mt the earth without being touched, wMle a few struck waiting mitts bnt bounded Otlt.