Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — UNCERTAIN AS TO SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

UNCERTAIN AS TO SOLDIERS

Major League Players May Not Be Released in Time to Get Back for Spring Practice. There is still much uncertainty about the prospects for getting back in time for spring practice all of the nyijor players now in the military and naval service. One theory was that General March intended to discharge soldier players as soon as might be, irrespective of the demobilization of their units. The other theory was that General March would do no such thing. He had recommended baseball so hlghlv as a sort of semi-public utility that many thought he would make exceptions for the athletes in the army, but that Is beginning to be doubted, and no man can say at present precisely what material the clubs will have when they count noses. It might be mentioned, by the way, that the Eighty-ninth division, in which is the artillery regiment taining Clarence ARtehelland Chuck. Wart! of the Superbas, and »Grover Cleveland Alexander, of the Cubs, lias left its former camp on tjie old battle line, and has joined the troops ait vancing into Germany. As this army of occupation and garrison will probably be the one which will be kept most intact, the prospects are not ing discharged.