Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1918 — MACK SEES GREAT COMEBACK [ARTICLE]

MACK SEES GREAT COMEBACK

Leader of Athletics Predict* Big Things for Baseball—People Thirst for Sport. “Baseball going to come back strong,” asserts, Connie Mack. “If peace is arranged during the winter, the season of 1919 will be one of the best on record, for the people are thirsting for a return of sport on an unrestricted scale., - ~ ’J" “personally, I am not to favor of resuming baseball until the war ends. It has been suggested that some of the large major league clubs in the East form a temporary circuit composed of players under the military age. J-.'* “This would never be a success, for the fans would not take a half-hour’s car ride to see them play. “I am against anything that win tend to cheapen baseball. I would much rather see the parks closed than try to palm off the spurious artide on the baseball public.”