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Show THE UTE SENT INEL 'PAGE FOUR Ba seb all • Ill the Fa r Ea st Japan Bas Taken Whole hearte dly to the An1erican Nation al Game Since Its Introd uction Into That Count ry in 1889. HENRY CHAUNC EY, in the LiterarY Digest. Babe Rtuth a~dn: ad te:m ot mlajor 1eague s urs VIS e • apan, s am· ming out home runs and fanning the best batters In. the Far East. The inv~ding Amerlca ns naturall y won tbe1r games, but th('y were playing teams ~hut wert- eager to learn every new ~r1~k of .the trade. It is a cl~ar· actensfl c of the. Japanes e that t ey plck up s.omethm g uew, master. it, and then Improve upon lt. AmerJca can o~e da~ expect that the problem of partty w~ll invoh·e ba eball as well as ?attlcsht ps. 1 ~he Japanes e not only Pay base ball and play it well, ~ut th.ey e~t, drink, and sleep i~. It Is the 1r mam source of recreatw n. Even t 1lOU"b the Japanes e are ~nthul5iastic. about all fon.ns of atblettcR from their own 'udo (Ju-jutsu ) and kendo (fencing ) to s.uch western s~orts as basketba ll, sklhng and rowmg, baseball outranl~s all other games put to~ether in the interest of Japanes e. In every puulic park, one tlnds games be~g ~ayed hom nrly mor~ng (I have seen boys walking to the park all dressed up in their uniform s at six o'clock in the morning ), until dark All who can play baseball , and those who are too old or too busy to play, follow the school and col· lege games closely. The intersch olas· tic tournam ents, which are held In the big cities, and all of the games of the Tol(yo Unl\'ersi ty league at·e broadca st from the two biggest radio stations in .l<lpnn. Millions of people listen in. Stores, where there are radios. are crowded . Bnsebnll In .Japan Is now several enerntio ns old. It was fir t lntro· ducecl into the coun~ry In 1880 by an Ameriea n engineer who wa. working on the governm ent ruilwa~·s. In his spare time he tau~bt some of the lnborer1S to play bsseuall , and organ· ized games between the dit1'erent gangs. America n visiting profes::-or · did likewise for their pupils, and it was not long before most of the colleges had teams. (.ames frequent ly were plnyed agatn~t the crews of Americn n ships docl~ed In .Tapanes e ports, and against teams made up of America n resident s. Then, in 100~. the Waseda university team made a trip to the west coast, playing against Stanford and other of the cuast college:s. Incidentally , it was the first time that ,.Japane se players used spil·es. WlH~n they arrived in Palo Alto, it was dis· covered that the spikes had all been put on backwar d. Every cobbler in the town had to be rounded up to mal(e the necessar y changes before the game the followm g day. From 1005 on, trl s back and forth between America n and Japanes e colleges have been frequent . Some of the other America n college teams that have \'islted ,Tapan are: Stan· ford, Californ ia, Washing ton, Wis· consin, .Iichlgan , nnd Illinois. A group of big tengue and coast league players went to Japan In 1908, playing gamt?s against Keio, Wasetla and an all-star team. Though the professi onals won all their games, many of them were dose. Five years later .McGraw and Comisl·e y brought their all-star N.1.tional and America n lea.,.ue teams to the Orient. Their ga~es were watched with eao-er eyes by the Japanes e who are e;er anxious to learn ail there is to know about the ame. g Perhaps even more importa nt in the developm ent of baseball In Japan was Keio's hiring, in Wll, two young players of the 'ew York Giants, Arthur Joseph Schaefe r and Fuller W. Thomp on, to coach them for a month in a winter training camp at Kobe. It was then, for the first time, that Japanes e teams learned to play base· ball scientific aUy. Since the uni\·er· sity players coach the middle schools (corresp onding to our high schools) during the summer, the knowled ge thus acquired was quickly and wide· ly dissemin ated. As far back as twenty-t hree years ago, therefor e, the Japanes e knew how to play baseball , and played with reasonab le success against America n colleges. In the summer of the same year, Hlll, Keio toured the United States, piaying against forty college and profes ·ional teams. winning 60 per cent of their games. 'l'he Japanes e take baseball very seriou~ly, even more ~o than Amerl· cans take football. The players live together in a dormitor y adjacent to the bll5eball field where they can talk baseball fifteen hours a day and practice three hom·s. All in all, the mf!mber s of these Japanes e college teams are either playing or coaching baseball eight months out of the year. In the Kobe-Os aka district it is possible to play all the year round. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- -~~~ I(EEPING YOUNG By LEONARD A. BARR ETT How old are you? Birthday s come and go. 'Ye either celebrat e or forget them depend ing on our mood. Age Is not a matter of years. It Is an attitude of mind. At forty, with ideals crushed and all lwpe 1 o s t, we certainly could not help feeling old. If there is n o ''f o r w a r d glance" then nge has already settled u p o n us. But why should a person permit such attitude to dominat e his mind? At three score years and ten we could be se>enty years youn,. as \Veil as seventy :rears old. Perhaps a few suggesti ons for keeping young may not be amiss, especially as the work of 1935 lies be- ITOPNOTCHERS ~~-tiHII+<Hi+H~HI-.i'<li'*H"*'Ii<li':'IMH'. .+V+++~++++ by KET I Midvale, Utah, Fliday , Januar y 11, 1935 ry Copyricht Public Led~ c.- The HE prefect T ing stroll o was set upon men badly beaten. There ls no men intended to murder im, but be was a strong and courag us person and he gave them sue a battle that they finally tQOk to elr heels and ran away. 'l'he prefect bot be determin ed to ftn his assailan ts and see that t ey Wt> it· required th rem natural life. The men had o denly and he was fo hard that he did ft look at any one t th But there wer h that gave the det ctl metlling to work upon. One was the odo ot The other was a gra lay on the Rldewalk: The prefect of poll of his men together them the glove. He directed them to very glove factory In the co and also every establish e gloves were likely to be hope of finding the mate glove. It seemed like a hop I but eventual ly they found tory where that kind of g manufac tured. There they secured a 1 shopkee pers who sold sue at retail, and finally as th r of almost superhu mun 1 tl nee they located a man name: 11 Dressler who owned the glo He was shadowe d for om because the police wnnted sure of their man before the him under arrest. While thh was going on cover~>d that he was being and took alarm. For five days he remalne o from his lodgings . But the minute he went lnt room an officer was at the oo manding admittan ce. "It's all up, Dressler ," said th llceman. ''Your pluce rounded and I render." "All right," he replied, l pleasant voice; "If you will e a minute I'll do as you wish.' The officer waited with lllcealed impatien ce, and jus ~ he was about to pound on t again be was startled by the loud report of a pistol. He burst in the door. On the floor lay the rlead hody of Emil Dressler , holding a smoking pistol In his right hand. The prefect of police was summoned and he made a careful search of the premises . In a bureau drawer he located the missing glove-t he mate to th& one that had been found on th& sidewalk on the day he was assaulted. On a table was a partly finished letter which the suicide had been writing to his mother. In it be confesse d that he belonged to a secret society whicb was pled~ed to wipe out the heads of the governm ent. They had begun, he said, by tryIng to kiiJ the prefect of pollee. But he was at bay now and would be compelle d to quit with his work unfinishe d. This was not all, for In a hiding place was discover ed a little wood· en cube, with the letter "A" inscribed on Its side. It was evident that the member s of the organiza tion drew lots when It came time to assassin ate a ruler, anr that the little cube was the notificat ion that had been sent to. Dressler . That same day a man was ar. rested while in the act of assaultIng a manufac turer of Prague. He had about him the odor ot musk, and In his pocket was found one of the little wooden cubes witb the letter •• A" uvon lt. He was glvt;n the third degreeand made a confessi on Implicat ing a number of other men the city. They were vowed to overthro w the governm ent and to set up a Red republic . All of the paper. and paraphe rnalia were found and a trap set for the ringlead ers. That night nineteen of them werearrested . Some were executed and others lrnpri oned for life, but the net reult was to nip In the hun the movement for the Rf'd republic . fore us. One of the most important mistake s to avoid ls the tendeucy to worry. Worry is like sand in a piece of machine ry. It creates friction, retards progre s, and may ultimate ly wreck the mathine . If yon must worry, then set aside a cPrtain hour In each day fo1· that purpose. Do it all at once, and then forget it. Next in importan ce would be relaxatio n. We may become so cn"'rosse d in our buslne._s affair. as to grow old and stale on the job. Get away from it long enough to study it from a distant point of view. You will tnl·e on fresh courage and new hope. It is possible that you will dl co,·er a \\'NU service. solution for your problem which could not be Reen before because Best in Canad a you were too near It. ~l.'ake tln.1e to play. "All work and no pla~'. makes .Jack a duB boy." Cultivat e the humor in life. A good hearty laugh is the hest pos. ible tonic. Develop a sincere apprecin tion of friendsh ip. A man to ha\'C friends must show himself friendly. l..tve close enough to nature to learn the secrets of perennia l youth. Have n garden in the summer time no matter how How Stradiv ari Violins small may be the parcel of ground Were Origin ally M upon which your home is built. Guard your health. It is your most There are many Imitatio n •io valuable possessi on. In other words, attribute d to Antonio Str dl • the secret of keeping young Is '£hey usually contain the Antoniu s Stradiva rius e To live in deed not year.s, in Faclebat Anno 1i16. Stradi arl thoughts not breaths, In feelings and not in figures on a gan to place his own labels n Un · in l G6G. It is e tim at d, (lJal. We should count time by heart cording to the Indianap olis 'e throbs. that he made 1,160 lnstrum t He mo.st lives who thinks most, feels tween the years 1666 and 17 7. the noblest, acts the best. these, 50 violins, 12 violas an 50 v ©. Western ~ew®apor Union. oloncello s are known today there are traces (unconfi rmed) Why Dream Time Differs about 100 more. Stradiva di The nature of dreams is gener- Decemb er 18, 1737. ally mi understo od. A dream Is Francesc o and Omobon o tr simply the memory of the thoughts varl, sons of the rna ter by hl fir that passed throllgh the uncon- marriage , embrace d his p f scious mind during sleep. When slon, although their father ent rei such memory does not occur we are eclipsed them. This accounts fo accustom ed to saying that we do specime ns of Stradiva rl work tha not dream, As a matter of fact, fl'equent ly give rise to controve rsy the unconsc ious mind is never quiet But for the hand of the vandal thes at any time. Rememb ering one's "doubtfu l" instrume nts would ben dreams can become a habit if per- the lahel "sotto la dlsciplin a d'An Harold Webster , forty-yea r-old sisted ln. The reason for the appar- tonio Stradiva rl," by which he dl . 1arathon runner of Hamilto n, Ont., ent differenc e between nlg.ht dream- tingulsh ed the Instrume nts made in 1; ·as selected as anada's outstand ing and day dreamin g Is that at co-opera tion with his sons. These J g athlete for 1934 by a nationnight the sleep Is more deep and the labels In many cases have been ide poll of sports \Vriters. 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