Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-27
Sport in War

NEW YORK. October e6:-Thc popu-
larity OF baseball among the allied ma
,ions abroad Is spreading so rapidly
simple instructions and rules Of the
game, printed In foreign language. To
meet, these requirements. several OK
pert baseball antiquities arc cola borat
princr. which will b. distributed in
various sections or Europe.
The pamphlet. which will be printed
IN French. Italian, English and span
ish. WIN carry the rules OF the game
Will be pages Of apS
answers to the questions which arise
among those whS are PLAYING thei,,
answers viii be printed lin .bolaf Eng
FISH and various forsi srfs ian & uds * ;in
PARALLEL columns in order" that when
ta,ors meet. without being able 10
speak the language OF their opponents
or neighoors in the stands, there may
\ glossary OF technical and basebal II
terms in all languages is also 10 be
appended.
What !s probably one OF the last o..
the spccia, baseball wartime contracts.
which star players insisted the mag
the Federal League was raidinE the
majHr circuit w2s spread before the
i'rst bascman OF The Brooklyn Ma
tionals, carried his appeal TO the Ma
,tonai Commissiou. for the balance OF
OF his contract. the special articles in
the same were announced as follows:
for the sine Of TO III 'a Si
1917 and 1918, beginning on or about
the l4;h day OF April in each OF said
Sears, and nc,, ending on or about the !4th
salary at the rate OF nine thousand
$4,000 dollars per, season. In addi-
ton; this contract had eliminated from
1t the paragraph known as the ten
days notice of release clause, and also
had inserted therein the following:
1T is further understood and agreed
second part shall not be released, as
signed traded or transferred without
part"
1t is very doubtful, according TO the
baseball magnates: II contract con-
player will receive the signature OF club
owners for many years TO come. An
ssEeemeH5 giving salary OF $4,000
months work. with an annexation
which makes it impossible TO dispense
with his services without the consent
well worth framing in the future, il
the baseball club owners are to be be-
licved.
mingled in the reccn, Seine swim. the
big sport event Of the year In Paris.
The hero OF the race down the Seine
through Paris, distance of abou,
seven and one-third miles, was not the
winner, but the man who finished last
of the male competitors He was
Charles Sungesser. the champion avi-
ator, who, though still hampered by
wounds not yet completely hea led. his
left leg, in fact. became useless early
IN the race, pcrSevered to the end. and
finished In three hours and forty-three
minutes. receiving Il greater welcome
1;r;
than even the winner.
The French arc not usually regarded
as an athletic nation. but this race. or
EBniZed every year. attracted thirty
one entries, Of whom tWenty-eight
started and twenty-five thirteen men
and nine women) finished, without
counting the veteran, George Paulus,
aged fifty eight the winner or this
event in 1905, who gave an exhibition
swim. coming In sixth. The winner was
George Michel. a gunner In the heavy
artillery, whose time was three hours
and three rminutes. The first woman TO
arrive, Susanne Wurts. came in sixth.
in three hours, nineteen minutes fol-
lowed by Juliette Cardelle. in three
hours twenty .one minutes. Women
took the twelfth. fifteenth. eighteenth.
twentieth and twenty-first places the
asst but one being a little girl HcnrIette
Gardelle. only thirteen years old. who
with handicap OF half an hour. finish
Cd in four hours. forty-threc minutes.