Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — IRISH DON’T LIKE BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

IRISH DON’T LIKE BASEBALL

First International Contest Did Not Take With Native*—Game Played on Muddy Field. Irishmen in Ireland must differ from those in the United States, or the real sports have all gone to war. A Dublin dispatch says that the first international game staged there several days ago between a team composed of American troops and a squad made up . of Canadian soldiers did not seem to take very well with the Irish population. / ; The weather, it is believed, is the main reason for Dublin turning down the game. It was played te puddles and the men taking part in the game were mud from hgad to foot, which evidently did not agree with the Irish sport idea.