Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-05 | Page 4 | Japs Beat Americans

JAPS BEAT AMERICANS After the baseball season waned In Inthis Inthis inthis this country a capable team traveled across the seas and ventured ven against the players In Japan And the taps raps beat them The Yankees of the Orient played faster were more sure batters more clever in base stealing more venture venturesome venturesome venturesome some in the field and on the base lines They outplayed a team that would make a good showing against the win winners wInners winners ners of the world series of games in America Incidentally they have extended the vogue of baseball They have stimulated stimulated stimulated a love for the game on the other side of the earth Another year we may mays maysee see sea s the struggle for baseball honors widened by the breadth of the globe It will not be simply a question qu stion whether er Detroit or Pittsburg Pitts burg is the better It t may be a question between America and Japan There Is a good business reason against war with the people There is a sentimental reason as well But the strongest bond In the world will be the universal love of baseball and the ability of managers to draft players In any land from Greenland s sicy Icy mountains to Indias coral strand with minor league possibilities from Manchuria to golden sand