Show JAPS GIVEN TO ATHLETICS from early infancy they are train ed to develop their muscles considering their size the japanese are undoubtedly the strongest people in the world time and again these little brown men have demons abed their ability to endure fatigues that would break down the most sinewy europeans in any japanese town one cannot walk tar without being confronted by athlea a in one form or another in the streets you can rare ly escape the painted and gaudily dressed tots who turn baby hand brings execute somersaults and do other infantile stunts in a wheedling to secure the hairy er s health A japanese matsura were not the fair it purports without the be spangled tight rope performance the bamboo ladder climbing youngsters the wrestlers tumblers spears men or fencers so deeply rooted Is the native love for the strenuous life that the na dional sports of other lands have been tried in japan the mikado with many of the imperial family attends the annual spring races in yokohama out nothing in the line of imported sports so appeals to the japanese as cycling and baseball cycling cluba are scattered all over the empire thousands of american bicycles spin across the island and the foreigners difficulty in keeping even a few of the records and trophies out of native hands fhe boklo baseball team Is an efel ent organization and it frequently drubs the teams from other ports and cities at the yokohama cricket grounds excellent and sharply con tested games may be witnessed occa nally between the boklo native team and the yokohama foreign or |