Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — POPULAR GAMES IN ENGLAND [ARTICLE]

POPULAR GAMES IN ENGLAND

Yankee Stars Create Enthusiasm for Baseball and Other Sports—Talk of World Berle% American athletes reign supreme in old England. Scores of baseball players, who recently cavorted around the diamond in the good old U. S. A., have arrived in London. Clever pugilists also are arriving with the Yankee troopers. Virtually every realm of sport is' represented in the thousands of American soldiers and sailors who reach England before they are sent to the trenches of France or to Uncle Sam’s fleet in foreign waters. After four years of hard fighting, the ranks of British spertsmen have been thinned to alarming proportions by the loss of hundreds of crack athletes, now resting in heroes’ graves, and enthusiasm was on the wane until the Americans put fresh life into every indoor and outdoor sport. The organization of the Anglo-American Baseball league has laid the foundation for baseball and the games in London have been largely attended. So much enthusiasm has been created that there is talk for a real international world series with contestants from America, England, France and Canada.