Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1918 — NOW PLAY AMERICA’S NATIONAL GAME RIGHT UP TO FRONT-LINE TRENCHES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOW PLAY AMERICA’S NATIONAL GAME RIGHT UP TO FRONT-LINE TRENCHES

Baseball promises to become through the exigency of the war an international sport, according to Harry R. Stringer of the war department commission on training camp activities,’ who has just returned from making a survey of recreational and relief facilities among the American oversea* forces. He accompanied Raymond B. Fosdlck, chairman of the commission. “It really takes a trip to the front to make one realize that baseball isthe national game of America,” said Mr. Stringer. “I saw our boys playing from London to Paris right up to the front-line trenches. Most of the unit* have their own teams and in some places leagues have been formed.” '

WATCHING BASEBALL GAME AT BOIS COLOMBES.