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BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL OVER. THERE SOON Plans under way in Paris call for &fllfl to the trench diamonds of a g league baseball outfit, after all. There were rumors some time ago of gomething like this, but an official . &l:etu was put on a proposition to ra over players from this side. When the Army needs anything it 't have to go outside its ranks get it nowadays, as a rulé. The K. of C. and Y. M. C. A. officials are working on the new scheme, which midea a picked team selected from ng major league stars in ser "viee in France. General Headquar :;-. at the K. of C. request, is try to have the men chosen released gom their units on detached service for a tour of the A. E. F. The prob able personnel follows: - Catchers—Color Sergeant Hank g;)wdy and Regan, ex-Cincinnati. tehers—Corporal Grover Cleveland . Alexander, Sherrod Smith, Leon Ca ore, Lambeth of Cleveland and oyes of the Athletics. First base— Mtiller, of St. Louis. Second base—Johnny Evers, K. of C. ath letic director. Third base—Cy Bates, ; g'tg‘l)etim. Shortstop—Chuek Ward, g klyn. Outfield—Menoskey and Rice, of Wnshlngton;‘ Miller, of Cleveland, and Lee Magee, of Cin cinnati, Y. M. C. A. athletic director. It i 3 believed certain practtcally all these men can be released temporar fly for the project. . Miller, the formed Cleveland out flelder, has seen more real ncuon‘ than any others of the array named. He wears a D. S. C. over his heart and has been wounded twice, but is well enough to help in mapping out the details of the tour and probably will be able to play when the call is given to “play ball.” The scheme is to have the stars go the rounds of divisional teams, hos &iottl staff nines and other aggrega ns, ‘‘for the benefit of the service.” | Particular attention would bé paid to stops in hospital towns, so that the -wounded and convalescénts may have| lenty of chance to see the games. ‘SO opening contest probably will be fi'y:d in Paris against an all-star picked ‘from the Paris league, - Jimmy was an aeronaut— Went up in his ’'plane, Dropped a bomb upon a Hun, : And then came down again! ~ WINNERS—ALWAYS e eo (= ;‘?i'“?f = C— : —== —==3 - ! —Td %j e | L\ "5(.31 N == W ARG = : B S - 3 a . -e _‘_.-:'!, s ‘—"':_..::—" ' s__%?;_____‘_:\ a - 4% _A_“{—_r_?”;; B ' ‘t-::_";: el o . | - WAN RELp e | :: " S B —_—__—— . 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And w . hi'sm“o just a little kick,—l°m strong and o] -Sips- or Sh-—cpea o iree I've got to learn to fight and understand L e, aching in ‘my heart for that command : ~o e ZRY> mgggl—;glm:o“.:i altransport, swing to ses, set foot in France. 5 in highest tye gt g lot of folks back home who think I built . Woody, Cobb 12th Compai GOT to cop a Croix de Guerre ‘:flm p d‘ll new uniforms? A fine dan the papers play me up they’ll be prou ir new Eroove Cluded manigsury'to Lims, 0., the band will swes 16 et 21r g‘:rilr?;vfl,? 'want to raush to France—why, man alive, d D.hut sta“, :’5 l:é‘;’:::&w__%l :‘fa.st__g.l,at,,opr Suggestiona 1 T T - When amé - o 3 o )A R SRR WG o whe h: / " 3 b/ . 4 % ) : - 2 A U - - hard to'tell ":';/)7 2N N 2 Le 8 U &(5 ey, )RS N ing ner for nei/, £Yk Sinstin YyrmPeitian. & £ GER ~ P s miave vou T ARGI . See e ORE] ) F 5= ' Eiie Uk Llns = { B Yo" - : , _ ;: A ! > A 3 4 < s . ‘_' : v g ) i:V ’ 9 Juckmiier. Py emerst eSO TR S 0 B o Talet ST LR o SRS R eediad | o TNG De renli- RAR I T T N N R R R I RR R R RRRRR RO RR R RO R R R RR R RN, 5 PO ;'Wv . e Caesar a Quarterback? Maybe—Scan This Stuff s Can you imagine Julius Caesar playing quarterback on the Rome University eleven, or Brutus skirting the ends in those days when the Forum was as busy as a three-ring circus? No? Nevertheless, it was a probability, for it appears now that football originated with the Romans. A few uneducated persons used to think that football was of Greek in vention, but Trench and Camp’s trained news-hounds, aided by Italian propagandists, have fastened it on Rome. The Romans, not knowing Lthat it really was football, called it ““Calcium.” It appears to have been ‘a goodly, rough-going game, full of spirit, feet and broken elbows, played more on the soccer order than the style .in favor with the Tank Corps and Yale and Pitt. With the fall-of the Roman Em pire, “Calcium” also fell out of the spotlight, not to reappear in favor until the time of the Florentines and their Medicis. There is no record of Machiavelli having participated in the games, but we imagine that if he did he played a foxy, clever game. Giovanni De'Bardi, & well-known Florentine newspaper man, wrote as follows in 15680: “The Calcio (later name) is a pub lic game played bhetween two groups of young men, on foot, not armed, who playfully compete in making a ball, by means of their feet, pass out gide of a certain line back of the op ‘posito group. The ball is mediocre in size, filled with wind, and the game is- played purely for the honor of winning.” " This chipper bit of sporting news is all right, but we never could see any ‘“playful” competition in foot ball. When we think how Elmer Oli phant, the West Point elephant, used to make martyrs out of Annapolis t}q._m!; we hate to call it ‘‘playful.” FOR GOOD UNDERSTANDING Good care is to be taken of the American soldier’s shoes while he is Over There. The Quartermaster General of the Army recently an nounced that about 7,000 complete cobbler outfits had been shipped to the American Expeditionary Forces. SBOS Waste reclaimed is ground re gained. P YANKS’ PEARLY TEETH ADMIRED BY BRITISH Our British cousins have not been slow to find things to praise in disem barking American contingents. First it was their appearance as they filed through London streets, then their deportment, and new it's their teeth. Take it from an expert writer in the London Daily Mail, the Yanks’ teeth gleam as bright as snow, and attest full efficiency in the toothbrush | drill. Says he: . “From childhood the Yank lls taught to take care of his teeth. He has tooth drill thrice daily and visits his dentist every three or four months. If by chance a tooth does decay, the rot 4s at once arrested by a filling. The result of all this is that our United States cousins, besides adding to their appearance, gain in health by having good clean teeth, and when war came very few men were turned down by the military authorities for having decayed teeth. So daily we see them, their faces tanned, smilingly exhibiting perfect sets of teeth. It is a distinctive mark of the American—as distinctive as his uniform or his slang:” AR NR S SRS o e Ttte e ‘): 1- | LU. S. Officers Are |- ‘ | |.| Invited To Writ | 4 <3 | | For This Book A | | | For s book , | 1] l | | : ‘ - ‘Sals, Pemnsylvania, | Nesers. Cox & Co., ; , | | Oare of Dorland Advtg. 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Army and Navy. ; g - Movie Men Will Contribute To Soldier Smileage Fund Under a plan recently announced, motion picture houses all over the country are pledging themselves to turn over ten per cent of their gross receipts for one day each month to the Smileage Divisionm of the War De partment Commission on Training Camp Activities to be used in supply ing smileage books to the men in training. This mnngo?:nt is to con tinue during the duration of the war. The idea origlnged with Leonard Meyberg, of the Clifford Film Cor poration, of Los Angeles, who secured the approval of the War Department several weeks ago, and voluntarily toured a number of large cities, lin ing up the motion picture houses to sign the pledge. CONSIDERABLE SOAP During the past -six months the American Expeditionary Forces have been supplied by the Subsintence Di vision of the Quartermaster Corps, with 82,780,000 pounds of issue soap, 97,781,000 one-ounce cakes of hand. sgt;r and 3,743,000 pounds of soap chips. f 3 o D .‘ V 2 g R Y }\& | .;fi%- - o ’ L, AT i ‘ = S ) | : \_.,W‘ ‘ ;‘;‘ ot y ! 5 Pk Ar ’- X o ‘/ ; ! " / N !'my;\ P 5 !f g JE ot E'J-“ o (’ . - e ..4& '“‘ o : rFe {\.\_n‘ ’Q‘ V N ‘ ; b, ! %{ 3 7 AN (Y i A “ 'i ‘;:f /:Tfl s 4 . Bl VARSI IR YO w 77 / Sy o (fi” b % .‘ 'Vfl &. i ‘ '/’ ~ . .‘.,;; f e N 3 T et