Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — RESUME BASEBALL IN 1919 [ARTICLE]

RESUME BASEBALL IN 1919

Manager Robinson ,of Brooklyn Dqdgera Confident Sport Will Be Taken Up in Spring. Wilbert Robinson, manager of the Dodgers, who is as close and wise a student of the game as anybody associated with baseball, says the major leagues will operate—in 1919. have no Idea whatever) as to the sentiment of the major magnates,” said Robbie. “The_war ended so suddenly W to WvFlmsiness half stunned and it will me some time before the bigness world comes baejr to. its senses, but the game will go on next season as its pre-war days. “Ebbets field has been remodeled into a gigantic warehousing proposition, with 'every evidence of its becoming a tremendous business success. The same idea was to have been applied to the Polo grounds. Jim Gaffney has made all arrangements to follow suit with file Braves field, Boston. But these plants will be returned to-the baseball fans by next spring.”