PATRIOTIC BASEBALL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 3

PATRIOTIC BASEBALL

KEEN PUBLIC INTEREST

If the early demand for tickets for next Sunday's patriotic baseball fixture at Athletic Park between two "all-star" U.S. Marine Corps teams is an indication, then there should be a very large crowd present. The match will provide most people with their first opportunity to see America's national game played by men who have been steeped in the sport since childhood. Most of them have played semi-professional baseball, and several in pre-war days- were minor league full-time professionals. One outstanding player who will be seen in action is Albert McGaa, a Sioux Indian. A right-handed pitcher with seven years' professional experience, he once pitched a no-hit no-run innings.

The match is a. challenge one between an American League side and a National League <team and will be played with all the spirit and spectacle which mark a big ball game in the United States. Each play will be described over a loud-speaker system by an American radio commentator, so that the public can be kept in touch with all phafees of the game. An added attraction will be the Marine Corps Band, which will play for the better part of an hour before the match and during it.