Evening star., 1924-10-05
Play American Bali Games in France

lists only) and the Tourists Club Obase
ball by tourists onIyD, have been
| merged into the others.
Eddle Thorn is an efficient catcher
Tor the American Legion Sedlev
| Peck OF Los Angeles who lives with
his family on a houseboat on the
River Seine (Which runs through
Parls) would be steadier ball play
| er If he did not waste so much time
| at his desk Of the Paris Times"
American afternoon daily Harry
Hoffman of San Francisco is secrc-
tary and treasurer. Other players are
Grossman, Brown, Coolidge, Miller.
! Haggerty, Hyland, knasin. de La
! porte and Berges
On July 27, ptcked gang Of Paris
ball twirlers went to London to play
! a picked Yank team on English soil
| for cup offered by Herman Huffer.
commander of the American Legion
! in Paris.
The cup has not been won yet. They
have got TO play the rubber The
! "Frenchies' came back victors to the
tune of to !. Then the American
boys of London came to Paris on
August 81, and slammed their for
mer cOnquerors by . to 3. The resi-
is in the lap of the gods. BE sure.
the French press is laying for it.
The French press coins words To
chat about base ball. The pitcher is
the 'lanceur" and the catcher is the
'receveur," but Manager Francois
! treai American. born of French
parents in New York;, has posted
them on short stop" right field"
| left field" and the classic names Of.
| bases. Paris papers are saying thu.
| 1t is the greatest of games" and Z
at the base of all physical educatioi,
! in America"
| In England. terms get mixed with
Cockney yearnings. a headline Of
| yesterday read Europe fails to
base baIl"' Really, we say falls
| for" When the darkies play. be
| lieYe me, Southern dialect gets mixed
with curiously excellent French of the
Louisiana colored boys. All mix
cake walking with the game. Being
| musical artistes they tear off rag
| with their jazz instruments, while
waiting turn at bat.
I ASKED sthe manager the highest
score-thinking of our own kid
days and those dirt farmers games,
when there were so many on bases
| and coming home that every one
| stopped counting,
You would he surprised Al the fne
! ball they play" he answered. -
score has reached - to ), but that's
| as high as any score in Paris ever
| got, and the best game this year was
to ., and almost league game, a.
| played"
But tell him how we lose balls"
| The speaker was the most llustri-
Gus base ball parsonage of Paris
shorty Lazar is so years old. and
still goes on short" when needed, In
Winter he bounces a hard rubber ball
| in his studio to keep as timber as any
young colt of the Legion.
Shorty is veteran base ball
player and great painter, both of fig
ures and landscapes. He has been
professor to famous woman painters
like Cecilia Beaux, and is author of
a book on THE Short Cuts of Art
He was pupil of Gerome, and knows
every theory of drawing.
Why, there's man." exclaimed
Phil Sawyer, who could draw Angus
| tus Thomas. the playwright. TO the
| ball grounds in the rain, along with
and Albert Gihon, the landscape
painter, all being lazy
All right.
Tell him how we use up balls.'
insisted Shorty" The umpire
stands with all his pockets full Of
perfectly good balls, and hands out
II per inning"
The Paris ball grounds. you see,
are in the mo Mans Land" outside
the walls of Paris. and a thousand
little vegetable gardens of squat
ters" go right up to the fence, which
is itself too q" TO the diamond on
all sides.
How the balls go is a wonder
into the potatoes and the green
beams muses. shorty" Now and
then one comes back out of a clear
sky-and that's the greatest wonder
of them all. Things don't come back,
as a rule, in this town, But so that
lost balls don't bust the heads of mu-
nicipal customs police at the Paris
Gate, we ask no more.
"Cramped grounds is our draw
back" he sums up.
Here, you touch the enemy of base
ball in all France. Otherwise, all
French kids would be playing base
ball-so great is its prestige, since
the 4. T. F.
When you and were boys, at home
in good old l. :. A. there were va
cant lots. on all sides, for any gang
to get a game up, in a minute! Here,