Show College Diamond Stars to Tour Japan in Summer TOKIO March 4 AP Baseball kP-Baseball Baseball teams of ot Stanford university and university of ot Washington will tour Japan this year pear and a schedule of games with several e coll colleges has boas been arranged In announcing this Director I. I Abe of the uni- uni athletic department said th the Stanford nine nin was expected to ar arrie arrive ar- ar rive rie in June and Washington in September Opening games will be in Tokio In addition to the visitors will be opposed by I Klo Kio lo and Meiji universities Afterward the thet t teams ams will go to Osaka for a series lelies sei ies traveling from om there to Dairen instead instead in instead in- in stead of ot Seoul as did the University er sity of ot Chicago team last year I Preparations are being ma made macic de to handle enormous crowds as aa cc college baseball in Japan draws gr greater ate than thal any oth other r sport When James games ar are aie en Japanese teams and Americans they attract double and tiple the average atlen attendance anC has a reciprocal nc ment with Chicago university which has furnished a rivalry str over two decades but both w western west sl- sl em ern coast teams teams' are expected d tl to 8 10 Just as great drawn It will be the first Stanford ream tean to come to Japan under the us of ot university The Washington ashington nine has visited Japan four times limes In the past on every very occasion bringing a strong aggregation aggregation aggregation tion of players Director Abe said a proposed trip of the team to America next spring had 1 been en abandoned b cause of the defection detection of two star players It is believed the trip will willbe willbe be made early in 1927 |