Mertes, bullet-armed catcher, leading the team and most of their last year's team still intact, are considered the favourites to cop all honours but the Headquarters nine are expecting their new ace hurler to pick them up from the cellar and deposit them at the top of the heap.
This new ace is a Marine who had originally played in a semi-pro league in Chicago where he represented the General Electric Company and he is reported to have quite a bit on the ball.
The First Battalion boasts a new home tun king in the person of Robinson who displayed his wares in a practice game that the First had with the Orphans when he cracked out a homer to aid his side in trimming their opponents by the score of 6-3.
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