Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — SHOOT THE UMPIRE! [ARTICLE]

SHOOT THE UMPIRE!

During a lull in one of the “qtiiet sectors” of France — spots where the opposing troops only go through the motions of warfare and give each other due notice when they are going to drop afiy shells, a ball game was started by American soldiers, and was watched with much interest by the 'Germans in the hostile trenches. In the seventh inning a German megaphoned across the open space, “Better go under cover now—a general is coming, and we must shoot something!” And toe doughboys, as though trained In ai regular chorus, shouted back: “AH right—shoot the umpire I” a<7 /