Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — Playing Baseball in the Air. [ARTICLE]

Playing Baseball in the Air.

Airmen at one of the flying fields in the South devised a new sport some ■weeks ago, and now word comes abroad that Yankee “sky pilots” over there are adding frills to it The game, incidentally, seems to be most excellent practice for baseball outfielders. As originally devised, says Popular Mechanics Magazine, it consisted in endeavoring to catch baseballs dropper from am airplane flying at an elevation of 700 feet. As revised by the overseas force, it includes the award of a world’s championship medal “and everything.” To go the home crowd one better, the overseas men began the game with the pitcher at an altitude of 750 feet A ball dropped from that elevation and caught at the ground means that the next one must be launched from 800 feet, and so on.