The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-10-12

Headquarters for the various state
departments, American Legion Auxili-
ary and the American Legion ~ New
Orleans during the national conv.G.tii
October 1920, have been selected de-
eording TO an announcement received
from convention headquarters,
American Legion national head
quarters will be at the Grunewald
Hotel, which will also accomodate the
distir guests and the following
state departments:Alab
California, Canada, Florida, Indiana,
Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri,
New York, Ohio, Oregon, Washington,
Texas and Wyoming.
The ST. Charles Hotel will be de-
partmental headquarters for the fol-
lowing delegations: Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Connecticut, District Of
Columbia, New Jersey, North and
South Carolina, North and South Da-
5kota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
West Virginia, Virginia, Vermont and
Wisconsin. 1.
The Monteleone Hotel will house the
delegations and be departmental
tsrs for Idaho, Maine, Mary
land, Mexico, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, PAN
anna, Philippine Islands and Utah.
The delegation from Tennessee and
a number Of crack military organiza-
tions will be cared for at the Planters
Hotel. Y W. ~ r. 'Ez KY
American Legion Auxiliary national
headquarters will be at the Bienville
Hotel, which will also house the dis
tinguished guests of that organization.
A half dozen years ago baseball
box scores were almost unknown OUT
side the American newspaper field
and those magazines devoted to
sports. Major league teams visited
foreign countries. and showed the
game off. Like some vaccinations it
didn't take. The European and Orient
al countries were slow to take up
baseball before the war. Now, howev-
er, hardly a. country but has it's base
ball teams. The men who went over
seas in 1917 and 1918 mixed young
men of a dozen countries. These al
lied soldiers saw for the first time
real amateur baseball and it did take.
When the war ended three or four
young men took off their ar
my uniforms and started looking for
job. Some of them have gone far,
to Turkey, Japan, China, South Am
erica and other countries. They got
the jobs for the first time had some
in common, these world travel
ers. They yer war veterans and
eligible for membership H.
organization open to world war
men alone, the American Legion.
In virtually every foreign country
has a post of the Legion and in each
club are baseballs and
bats. For the first time there came
into being an American organization
young men and American young
men play their c~ountry's national
game. The result of these foreign
units of the American service mems
organization has meant a formation
Of teams and leagues that reaches
the globe. =<" III
London, which before the war
on sourly at American teams
baseball presents a changed
today. A full eight team lea
que has blossomed where not a
sprout existed before. Such typically
playing fields as "The, Crystal
Palace grounds" and "The Stamford
field" are utilized by the
for their contests.
The league was started by the Lon
Ion post of the Legion which has
spread baseball to the four winds OF
he island and wind carries q long
way. In speaking of the London lea
que at Paris, France. edition OF the
New York Herald says; "The Anaeri-
AN Legion is making every effort to
baseball in London ard is
a. great deal of time and
money in enlisting both American and
English interest AT a recent game at
Stamford Bridge between the, Amer
can University club and the United
States Shipping Board the Legion
;ent out more than 500 invitations to
American families living in England
attend the game" Lila
Yokohama and Tokyo in Japan felt
Ill the thrills of a real world series
when the mines Of the two cities en-
ragged in a recent series Of their own.
The Japan '"Advertiser" of Tokoyo
aid just prior to one game: Inter
in Yokohoma and Tokyo is at few
II heat In contemplation Of 9 base
,all game to take place thisi after
between the American Legionf
cam and the Yokohoma Country and
Athletic club. Not bad for q coun-
which took baseball by adoption.
Since the arrnistice thousands OF
have learned to call