Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — GETTING WISE TO BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

GETTING WISE TO BASEBALL

Scottish Sporting Writers Beginning to See That There Is Something Ln she Game. Some of those Scotch sporting writers are beginning |o see something to baseball. A Glasgow critic, after watching a game between an American naval team and some Canadian soldiers, wrote: “After all. It Is rather difficult to strike a strenk of white light with a policeman’s baton, "and when the fielders have all the prehensile certainty of our Simian ancestors. It was little wonder that there was no scoring.”