Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — HOW HOLLOCHER MISSED WAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW HOLLOCHER MISSED WAR

Star Shortstop Was All Dressed Up and Ready to Fight When Armistice Was Signed. Charley Hollocher, bright star of the Chicago Cubs last season, was in the September draft. Then came the tnfluenza epidemic and the call for that month and also for the next was suspended. But about the first of November Hollocher, with a lot of others of the “class of 1918,” got his orders and he showed up, all dressed for the part, on November 11. prepared to do

his bit for Uncle Sam —and that dtfy .came news of peace and cancellation of the draft call. So Hollocherdoes hot go to war, but stands ready for the baseball cathpaign next spring. "Seems harder to break into the army than It did to break into the big league,” he said, as he stood around all dressed and nowhere to go. ‘The shortstopping star Is a willing “Victim” of peace, however, though he has one regret. He had organized a ball team of St. Louis ’draftees In the same call with him that .he says could have beaten any•thing In the army, with himself as iplaylng manager. , He’s really a bit iM'cved that the team wiy never haw Its chance, now.

Charley Hollocher.