Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1918 — YALE STAR PLEASED AT WAR [ARTICLE]

YALE STAR PLEASED AT WAR

Jack Kedzle, Old-Time Yale Baseball Player, Finally Gets Excitement He Craved. Jack Kedzle, who caught for Yale’s baseball team in 1893, and could have broken into .the big leagues if he had desired to, is at last'getting the excitement his restless spirit always asked—he is at the head of a Y. M. C. A* unit in France, and Was been given credit for his rescue of many French* children from a burning, shell-swept village. Kedzie’s life would make quite a romance. He was, as already remarked, a great ball player at Yale, and had to turn down major league offers on account of his large business Interests at home —Evanston, Hl. For more than 20 years he went along in a business track, always sighing for adventure, never having the least show to get any till the chance “fiver there” was offered. Then the wealthy Mr. Kedzle shut up shop, hastened to France and at the age of forty-seven is having a glorious time.