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Show BASEBALL PLAYED IN Ml PARTS OF WORLD Chinese Have Developed Remarkable Remark-able Proficiency. Baseball Is fast spreading to all four corners of the earth. France, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Mexico, Cuba, Canada, several South American countries, Australia these are only a few of the places which have taken up the great national pastime of the United Unit-ed States. Strange as It may appear, the Chinese have developed remarkable proficiency In baseball, ranking even better than the Japanese. During the tour of the big leaguers In the East last . winter some stiff opposition was encountered in China. A team of all-Chinese players has been coming to this country for the last five years. Their record against the best college teams Is 80 per cent on the credit side. The first year only one college nine was able to beat the Chinese, who won 27 games out of 28, and that was the crack Notre Dame aggregation. "Buck" Lai, a Chinese living near Philadelphia, was a member of the first team to come over. He was offered a berth with the Philadelphia Nationals but was unable to stick. He played for two years In the Eastern East-ern league, however. Cubans have also shown great aptitude apti-tude for baseball, and there are several sev-eral Cuban teams that are almost a match for any big league team In this country. Loque, the best major league pitcher of the year, Is a Cuban. Mexico is becoming quite enthusiastic enthusias-tic about baseball. In the majority of the other countries mentioned, the pastime is still In the experimental stage, though slowly winning popularity. popu-larity. It is not at all bej-ond the range of possibility that within five, or ten years a world series may mean an ocean trip for one of the two contending contend-ing teams. |