The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-27
WORLD SERIES HERO
DOPES OUT WAR GAME
CBy J. w Pegeler, United Press Staff
Correspondent

Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDI- |
TlONARY ARMY IN FRANCE, Jan.
10 Thy maiD.-'I wonder If the folks |
back home realize that we fellows will
be going up against the real thing
pretty soon?"
A world series hero of few seasons
back thus expressed the perplexity
that is bothering thousands of thinking
Sammies. To them the war is becom-
ing m0fe'f and more imminent with
each shutdown.
Last summer they measured by
months the period before they will go
into the line against the real thing
Now they calculate the time. by weeks
assuming without any official in
formation, that our army will go into
the line during the winter or spring.
The big, red-haired ball.player Is
color;sergeant of champion regiment
which practices democracy to the full,
He was sitting In his coloneps office
airing his views which are typical of
those to be heard nowadays from one
end to the other of this widely scat
tered war-camp. 49,
Anyone keeping in touch with the
dope in this war league can see that
the kaiser's about to send in all his
pinch-hitters, trying to win in the
ninth" he said.
"As see it, the allies are about
one run ahead. The kaiser has a
chance to tie the score this winter
and send the old war game into extra
innings,
Now suppose the allies show signs
OF webbing. What will happen?
Well, what would any wise bench
manager do If he saw his club begin
ming to falter in the ninth, with the
game already on ice2 Why he'd call
in those dark-horse American ball
players whove been warming up back
under the grandstand the last ssx
months waiting for chance to show
what they can do in a pinch"
The ex-home-run swatter leaned for
ward for a reflective moment, stirring
the fire in the colonePs stove with :
twig from the kindling,box. Here II
an ugly little French village, thou4and
! of miles from the velvet diamonds O
the National League parks he might b,
thinking of that hot Indian summe
DAY a few seasons back when he wor
a worlds series game with a four-pI,
Blow and the bases drunk. Perhaps
there came to his ears faint ech,
of those explosive cheers from thou
4 SANDS Of throats as he rounded thirt
and stTeaked for the plata baseball
hero of future-greats to look up to.
Say he said, after a few MON
ents, Il wish the United Press coult
shock the folks back home | dom
believe they appreciate the fact tina
it's about time the American soldiers
were fighting-nOt in quiet sector bu
where the Smelling is hottest
when we go into the trenches the,
will have to send US thousands of tom
of fOed and clothing and shells. AnC
I'll have to have a belt full of bullets
all the time or I'll just be a wild bool
for the Boches to shoot at.
Maybe they're building a lot o
ships back home and keeping it undel
their hats. We've got to have lot o
shtps-that is granted And we've
crowed so much about what we're go
ing to do that it seems to me if W,
really had done something in the ship
building line we'd have said somethin;
about it,
you tell the people this-That l
they don't build ships and quit rag
chewing about it they'll be sellin
us out"
That's practical Sammy's view o
the situation and a fairly accurat
view at that.