[Ads-l] "a regular Bulgarian army" (1917)

[Nancy Friedman]

The volunteer archivist at the bay swimming and boating club I belong to
has a question about a phrase she came across in a July 1917 club document:

“Our athletes will be lost in the shuffle among a regular Bulgarian army of
contestants, and their chances of showing or even getting mentioned in the
papers are practically nix.”

Any ideas about what the phrase signified?

Nancy Friedman
@fritinancy

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