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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Last Week For Zoo
Summer Opera Season

"New Moon" one of the best of
Sigmund Romberg's numerous and
popular operettas is the attraction at
the Toledo Zoo amphitheatre, the
seventh and last of the summer light
opera series. 1t will continue every
night this week thru next Sunday.
Performances begin at 8:45 o'clock
The current production will close
seven-week run of musical drama
that began last June and has drawn
good crowds from all over north
western Ohio every night since then
in spite of the wartime transporta-
tion difficulties.
Frederick Schweppe, managing di-
rector, of the series appears in the
cast this week in the leading male
role opposite Marguerite Piazza who
scored a hit in the role of Stephanie
in Roberta, last weeks attraction.
The summer opera series has been
witnessed by many music lovers in
the Bluffton district who have found
it worth saving an "A" coupon in
order to attend.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09

After long service in Italy with
the 18th Air Force, S/Sgt. Wayne
w. Habegger of Route 2, Bluffton,
viii soon return to the u. S. with
the veteran 459th Bomb Group, ac-
cording to a recent announcement by
Brig. Gen. James A. Mollison, COM
manding general of the 18th Air
Force.
The veteran group which will
receive additional training and equip
ment before reassignment in the
Pacific Theatre of war has been
serving with the 18th Air Force in
Italy for the past eighteen months.
During this time, the 459th has
flown 244 missions against strategic
targets in German-held Europe, con-
tributing to the German downfall by
the bombing of Ploesti, Vienna,
Steyr, Munich and numerous other
targets whose loss crippled Nazi
resources, supplies, and communica-
tions.
For one such mission, the precision
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09

The Ladies Aid Society will meet
at the Hilty park Thursday evening
for supper.
Mickey Gleason is visiting rela-
tives in Indiana this week. Danny
Gleason is visiting his grandparents
of Westminster.
Gerald Jennings and family, Clara
Jennings, Winston Jennings were
Sunday dinner guests at the Willard
Jennings home.
Joan Bichnell spent Sunday at
the home of JoAnn Barnes.
Miss Betty Null of 0rrville, Arden
Baker and family, Tommy Wenger
were Sunday afternoon callers on
the Dennis Brauen home. Sam
Swaney also called on day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen call
ed on VIM. Reichenbach family Sun
day evening.
Past week callers at the Arthur
Phillips home were Mr.. and Mrs,
VIM. Younkman and grandson, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Younkman and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Younk-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Caf,nery Seeks Help
Thru Tomato Season

Prospects of bumper tomato crop
in the Bluffton area this summer are
reflected in an appeal for help during
the canning season sent out by the
Pandora Cannery.
Louis Macke, manager of the cam
merry, former Bluffton resident said
that the tomato acreage in this ter
ritory is larger than last year and
outlook for the crop is excellent.
Macke said the plant needs both
men and women to help if the crop,
which is highly perishable, is to be
handled. Eighty per cent of the
plants output goes to the armed
forces, he added.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Sgt. Wayne Habegger Will Return
Home With Veteran Bombing Group

bombing of the German aircraft
works at Bad Veslau, Austria, the
459th was awarded its second Dis
tinguished Unit citation. This bomb
ing was called a superb job" by
Lieut.. General Nathan F. Twining,
who was then commanding general
of the 18th AAF.
Under the command of Col.
Mardan NJ. Num- of Alband, Calf,
and later under Col. Henry K.
Mooney, New Orleans, La, members
of the 459th Group won an impress
sive array of awards and decora-
tions. They have flown over $500
sorties and dropped more than A.
900 tons of bombs during the
strategic, tactical and morale bomb
ings that German military leaders
have labeled as the cause of Ger
many's defeat.
After returning to the United
States, the 459th Liberator Bomb
Group looks forward to carrying its
devastating bomb-loads against the
last enemy of free nations-Japan.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
HuftOn Mar, On
Famous BdttLesllip

Pfc. Lowell M. Shatto, of the
Marine Corps, whose wife, the former
Miss Rachel Schifferly, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Schifferly,
lives at 10 Washington street, fought
at Okinawa aboard the USS West
Virginia, the only battleship which
has taken part in every major landing
operation in the Pacific in the last
six months.
Blasted at Pearl Harbor by two
bombs and at least six torpedoes,
the old battleship was resurrected
and repaired, then joined the fight
against the Japs with a vigor that
has won her reputation as the
zone ship task force"
In the last year and half the
West Virginia has fired more
than 5000 rounds from her new 16-
inch rifles, nearly 10000 rounds from
her secondary batteries and more
than 100000 bullets from her auto
matte weapons, a total of $500 tons
of ammunition.
The West Virginia made her first
strike by leading column of fire
support units into Leyte Gulf, flying
the same colors she flew when she
was damaged at Pearl Harbor. She
poured salvo after salvo into the
Jap, lines, interrupting the lombard
ment to splash her first plane.
With other old battleships of the
Fleet, she helped sink two Jap bat
tleships and three destroyers in the
epic Battle of the Sumigao Strait.
She was the first to take the Jap
ships under fire. Later, at Mindero
and Lingayen, she operated with a
protective screen for carriers and
transports.
She arrived at Two Jima just after
| the first Marines landed, bombarding
the enemy. From Two she travelled
to Okinawa. She emptied her maga-
zine several times in bombarding
the Japs during that operation. In
all her action, there have been less
than 20 casualties.
So pesky has she proved to the
Japs that Tokyo Rose, the notorious
propaganda broadcaster, once an
nounced thousands of the Japs' best
fiers were attending their own
funeral services before taking off to
| destroy her. They didn't.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09

Returned World War IL veterans
with bonafide needs now may obtain
priorities to buy new farm equip
ment providing they can find a deal
er who has it in stock.
Thru new orders issued by the
War Food Administration, veterans
of this war receive preference over
nearly all other prospective purch-
asers of farm machinery, according
to an announcement made this week
by Clair Patterson, chairman of the
Allen County A. c. A.
However, the priorities apply only
If a dealer has the equipment IN
stock, and the acceptance of veterans
priority by a dealer does not mean
that he can in turn go to jobber
and obtain immediate delivery.
Neither does the priority provide
for extra implements in the quotas
allowed by the WA. Irrespective of
the number of priorities honored by
a dealer, the quota will remain the
same, which puts the dealer "on the
spot" in disappointing regular Gus
toners whose names previously have
been on waiting lists.
Provision for this special oppor-
tunity for veterans is made in War
Food Order No. 1S5, which was ef-
fective June rs. Under the order,
veterans who can show both the need
and the inavailability to obtain farm
machinery to establish or reestablish
themselves in farming may obtain
preference certificates that require
dealers to give priority to their
needs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Meteor Shower Is Visible Here
This Week Low In Northeast Skies

fathers have watched them, our own
grandchildren will continue to watch
them.
These meteors light up the uni
verse at various times of the year
and cause men to wonder. But bring
one of the meteors down to earth in
the form of a meteorite and you see
material that is kin to our own
rocks and soil which indicates there
is a community of stars and planets
that remains one of the great mys-
teries of the universe.
With the sun moving south the
days are growing shorter. The me-
ridian altitude of the sun decreases
nine degrees this month, shortening
the day one hour and six minutes.
Astronomical twilight lasted for an
hour and three quarters at the begin
ming of the month and will last 10
minutes less at the end of the month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Dinner HonOrs Guests

A family gathering and basket din
ner were held at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Reichenbach on West
Elm street, Sunday, honoring Mrs.
Dale Reichenbach of Terre Haute,
Ind, and Mrs. William Cox of Lo-
mita, Calf, who are visiting here.
Present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Steiner, Mr..
and Mrs. Will Luginbuhl, Cyrus
Steiner, Mr.. and Mrs. Aldine Steiner,
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Habegger and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Reach
enbach and family of Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Moser, Hay
den Basinger and family, Lewis Lug
ibill of Pandora; Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
Gus Moser and family, Mr.. and Mrs
Jesse Steiner of Mt. Cory, Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Moser and family and
Miss Olive Steiner of Col. Grove.
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War Veterans Get Priorities For
Purchase Of New Farm Equipment

Many veterans were forced to dis
pose of their machinery when they
answered their country's call to serv-
ice, the VIA pointed out. 1t is es-
sential that they be given an oppor-
tunity to equip their farms again
quickly. These men have earned the
right to reestablish themselves with
out delay, and their contribution to
wartime food production is also need
ed.
County AAA Committees will issue
the Veterans Preference Certificates.
Dealers are required to honor these
certificates Notwithstanding any prior
commitments or contracts for sale
other than those carrying War Pro-
duction Board ratings. The only
orders carrying War Production
Board ratings are for the military,
or in those rare cases where farmers
may be given a rating in an emer-
gency situation.
However, no dealer is required to
honor the certificate of a veteran
who is unwilling or unable to meet
the regularly established price and
terms of sale or payment. In case
a dealer receives more than one vet
eran's certificate for the same piece
of equipment, he is required to honor
the certificates in the order of their
receipt.
The items of machinery and equip
ment for which preference certifi-
Gates may be issued are those listed
in the War Production Board farm
machinery order not including repair
parts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Brother Of Mrs.
Minnie LelUis Dies

George L. Cramer, 55, brother of
Mrs. Minnie Lewis, Bluffton, died
Tuesday of last week at the Veter-
ans hospital in Chillicothe where he
had been patient for the past 10
years.
A veteran of World War I, he was
born Nov. 8, 1889, in Hancock coun-
ty, son of the late James and Eliza
beth (Wise) Cramer.
He was married Aug. 8, 1924, to
Hazel Claypool, who with one daugh-
ter, Harriet Pearl, survive. They
live in Lima. Mrs. Bert Lytle, of
near Findlay, is another sister, and
Ed Cramer, of Detroit, is a brother.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09

Bluffton residents will be able to
see meteor shower low in the
northeastern skies this week. The
showers occur every year about this
time from the constellation Perseus.
The display will be seen most fa-
vorably in the northeastern sky be-
tween l a. m. and dawn, Sunday
morning.
Fiery trails of stardust may be
viewed, at the best after midnight.
Perseids have been seen as far back
as the legends of man. They are
likely the debris of a comet which
once fell into the orbits of the solar
systems.
Astronomers say they are a COM
cts tail left wandering thru the
heavens. Ultimately they will burn
down to cinders. But there is every
likelihood that even as our grand
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man, Mrs. Graber and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Blosser, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ballinger.
Mrs. Marcyle Smith and son and
Mrs. Hazel Hess and family called
Friday in the Fett-Huber home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Bell and family were Sunday callers
on Orton Stratton in honor of Jim
Stratton home on furlough.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Allison and
Roger Bell were Sunday afternoon
callers in the home of Lille Fett
and Nellie Huber.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all those who
extended aid and sympathy in the
death and burial of our beloved
mother, Mrs. Emma Cummins; also
Rev. Anglemyer who officiated and
all those who assisted at the funeral
and those who sent flowers.
Elmer Cummins
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Wagner
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wagner
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ewing
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that will even further increase is use.
Before the war, nylon was made from
coal. So were the life-saving sulfa drugs.
During the war, new medicines, chemi-
Gals, plastics and things beyond imagin-
ing have grown from research in coal.
Postwar, you will find sheer, wrinkle
proof dresses made from coal. Sturdy
shoes made from coal Shimmering, fire.
proof table-tops made from coal. There
are even revolutionary locomotives-in-
cluding the c G. O-planned steam-tur-
bine electric-that operate on coal and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09

VI THAT OPPORTUNITIES will there
w be for jobs after the war is won?
Jobs for returning soldiers, sailors, war
workers?
No one can say, exactly. But this
much is known: business is planning to
meet quickly the demand that will exist
for all sorts of things after victory-and
out of which Jobs will come.
Take the coal industry. Not only
will coal continue as one of our basic
sources of power, but from coal research
.tLe.c t-s co.zse host of new products
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
ArmOrSvilIe

Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Irwin, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Irwin called at the Ivan
Montgomery home, Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. I. Moore of
Carey called Thursday evening on
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Klingler.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Mertz called
at the Chas. Montgomery home one
day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. P. Hartman call
ed on Mrs. Dora Hartman, Sunday
evening.
Ellen May Wilkins spent several
days last week with her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Klingler.
L. A. S. and w. M. S. of the
Liberty Chapel church will meet
this Thursday afternoon with Mrs
o. P. Hartman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lysle McCarty and
son, Mrs. Howard Hover and son,
Mrs. Edith Fox and son Jimmy
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Erwin Moser and family
Afternoon callers were Mrs. Eunice
Zeranti and children of Lima.
| S. Sgt. and Mrs. Joe Bell of
Austin, Texas, called at the Ivan
Montgomery home, Monday after
noon.
| Wednesday evening supper guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Moore were:
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Nonnamaker
and family, Mrs. Catherine Fire
stone and children, Cpl. Leland
Nonnamaker and Mrs. Lenna Haas.
and Mr., and Mrs. w. I. Moore.
Mrs. Rhea McCafferty, Miss Mar
garet Guider called at the Wayne
Guider home in Harrod, Monday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
and daughter were Sunday evening
supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Ream and family.
Born to Sgt. and Mrs. Herbert
Moser of Brownwood, Texas, q
daughter Carol Kay, August /
weighing 8 lbs, OF.
Tommy and Patty Zerantie OF
Lima is spending a few days with
their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
Irwin Moser.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A Klingler Of
Findlay spent from Friday to Sun
{ day afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. c
/ f. Klingler.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Wilkins
e and family called at the C. E. King
} Ter home, Wednesday afternoon o,
last week.
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Cloudy skies and wet ground
complicate the sheepman's problem
of parasite control. A midsummer
treatment of phenothiazine is recon-
mended for lambs that stop gaining.
If the lambs fail to respond to the
phenothiazine treatment, sub
sequent combination drench a week
or 10 days later is recommended.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
How Many Postwar Jobs from Coal? w.

develop undreamed-of smoothness and
efficiency. All this will increase the de-
rnand for coal = and remember, its
demand for goods that makes jobs.
After the war, there will be lots of OPP
portunities. So, if you are on war job,
stay on it until Uncle Sam says it's fin
ished. Victory must come first.
Chesapeake & Ohio Lines
Cleveland
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY
NICKEL PLATE ROAD
PERE MARQUETTE RAILWAY
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11
Injuries Alter Gard
al Olympia Friday
Mexieon Tokes
Place Of Russo

DETROIT, Jan. II - (FD -
Injuries have forced two changes
in the makeup of Olympia S
doubte-headliner fight card Fri
day, matchmaker Nick LondeS
has announced.
Fred Russo, Railway, N. j.,
suffered a cut over his eye while
winning from George Cooper in
Newark, N. j., Monday and can
not meet Leroy Willis, unde-
feated Detroit featherweight
Russo's place on the card was
given to Angel Aviles of Mexico
who will oppose Willis in 10
round bout.
Nate Bolden, Chicago, vii!
meet Vern Escoe. Toronto heavy.
weight, in the other featured 10.
rounder. Escoe originally wa
slated to mix it with Jimmy
O'Brien, New York, who with
drew because of an ankle injury
Three supporting bouts fill GU
the card.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11
Sneod's Game
Improved by
Navy Service

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. IL -
P)- Two years in the Navy
made better golfer out of
Sammy Snead. the Hot Springs,
Va, star, asserts Fred Corcoran,
tournament manager for the
Professional Golfers Associa-
ton.
His temperament" explain
ed Corcoran, lis much better
now. He can take the bad
breaks without letting it bother
his game. .
The 32-year-o slammin'
Sammy is the top heavy favorite
for the $4,000 Phoenix open
starting Friday. Yesterday for
the second successive day ne
posted a practise round sc -
five under par-to lead the
warmup field.
Sammy now plays every
stroke like it counts" Corcoran
said. That's a little different
than his pre-service attitude.
Snead gained a wide reputa-
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ton in pre-war days for his ex-
.plosive demeanor on occasion.
One highlight of the 1889 u S.
open was when he blew up with
eight strokes on the last hole.
"Sammy's game is lots keen
er than it was before he went
in service" Core6ran said in ex-
planning what he thinks ac-
counts for Snead's current hot
playing streak, The layoff from
competitive tournament press
ure has given him relaxed
confidence that has helped his
game.
Snead has been anything but
a temperamental golfer on the
current swing during which he
pocketed S8,431 in war bonds by
winning the Portland. Ore,
Richmond, Calf, and Los An
geles opens and placing in two
others.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11
Detroit Tech
Bows 10 PHO
Lone Undefeoted
Teom Hos Follen

DETROIT, Jan. IL - (Hp -
Detroit Techs hopes of an UNI
defeated basketball season went
a-glimmering Wednesday night
when they bowed to Port Huron
Junior College RI to q after
having won five straight games.
Tech, which was the lone UNI
defeated college team in Michi-
gan, trailed 1875 at the half and
could not quite make up the de-
ficit in the final period. The
Tech team will attempt to re-
sumo its winning ways Thurs
day night when it meets the
Hannah YMCA of. Detroit.
Grand Rapids Junior College
dropped its ninth straight
game, bowling to the Kalamazoo
College quintette 48 to 80 on
Wednesday night at Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo had beaten the
Grand Rapids Club "A to 35
earlier this season.
Other games scheduled for
Thursday night include:
Albion College 40 VS..
Michigan Normal Hurons (0-6)
at Ypsilanti. Albion holds an
early season 5l-32 win over the
Normal school.
st. Mary's College 40 VS..
Fort Wayne Army Ordnance
(2-6) at the Servicemen's home
court. Fort Wayne beat ST
Mary's 44-35 in their first gam
/ this season.
Michigan State, with two
and four record, was scheduled
to leave East Lansing today en-
route to a date with University
of Cincinnati Friday night and
Il ; University of Kentucky al
Lexington, KY, Saturday night
Cincinnati nosed out the
Michigan aggregation by 80
g. score week ago, while
sports writer's have classed
Kentucky as one of the nations
best teams.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11
Bothers Open
Big 6 Play
at Port Huron

Coach Roy Quinn's Battling
Bathers will play their first
game in the newly conceived Big
Six League (pending name) to-
morrow night when they meet
the Port Huron five on the OPP
ponent's floor at 8:15 p. m. The
reserves of both schools will
meet-at 7:l5 p. m.
The new league in which
Mount Clemens will play tomor-
row night is composed of Hazel
Park, Birmingham, Ferndale,
Port Huron and the Bather team.
1t was thought that Crosse Pointe
would also enter the league,
making it possible to be called
the Big Six. The POinte school
prefers to play in the Border
Cities League, Quinn said, but
East Detroit may enter the new
league, completing the six.
Last Friday the Bathers suffer
ed hard loss at the hands of
the Royal Oak team, 35 to 81,
and again will be out to- avenge
a defeat. And, if the Bathers
do turn out on the winning side
of the score Friday they can feel
that they have made some re-
pentance for their sins in prev
ious games. Port Huron is al
ways. one of the biggest threats
in the state in the basketball sea-
son, and this season is no excep-
ton, as they have lost only one
of their five games, bowling down
to Lansing Sexton.
One of the main elements that
60 to make good teams is expert
ence, and that is one thing the
Port Huron five will have, as
they star basketball. in the jun
Tor high grades. The Bathers will
again rely on the man to man
defense, and it is expected that
their opponents will also use the
same.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11

The Atlas mountain range, ex-
tending through Algeria, Moroc-
co, and Tunisia, has greater
average elevation than the Alps.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11
Fina|P|ays
in Game May
Be Limited
National Football
Leaders Attempt
To Speed-Up Come
BY HAROLD HARRISON

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. IL Up
The football team that by
some hook or crook stalls away
those last few seconds of game
seemed today TO have become
the No. | subject of the National
Football Coaches Association as
they got into the serious part of
their first general meeting since
the start of the war.
A few big ten coaches have
talked about having a game con-
sist of 100 plays, 40 TO each
period, but still another sug-
geStion came UP today.
E. c. (Irish) krieger of Col
umbus, secretary of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
rules committee, and Charley
Bachman, head coach at Mich
igan State College. had this to
offer at session Of the coaches
rules committee:
nat the second ana IOuTtH
periods be l3 minutes long each
and that after that certain
number Of plays-perhaps six
be allowed in each period. The
first and third periods would
continue to be the regular Is
minutes.
The meeting of the coaches
rules committee and session of
the National Collegiate Athletic
Association executive committee
were the only. items on the pro-
gram today. The coaches how
ever, can only recommend to the
NCAA what rules changes they
think should be made.
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The answer is that there never
has been a Chinaman who made
good on a Major League team.
And that's where Manuel Hi
dalgO makes his entrance =.
possibly with the Washington
Senators next Spring, il there is
another wartime Big League sea-
son.
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Chinaman's Chance

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL P)
-Irishmen and Italians, Poles
and Czechs, Russians and Swedes
men of almost every ancestry
have been good baseball play
ers, but whoever heard of a
Chinaman becoming a Big