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Show EUROPE STARTS ITS BASEBALL SCHEDULE University of Paris Team to Make Trip to England. American Aggregations Are Playing Exhibition Games in Southeastern France Immense Crowds Witness Wit-ness Various Contests. The European baseball season bn. opened, the University of Purls having scheduled games with the University of Eyoijs, Nice, Dijon. Nancy and Toulouse, Tou-louse, willi a trip to England in June to play Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh. Edin-burgh. The University of Toulouse has four baseball teams and American aggregations aggre-gations are playing exhibition games in southeastern France. Ten thousand thou-sand persons witnessed a game at Toulouse recently, while at Pau there were .1,000 present. At Tarbes there was an attendance of 7,000, or a quarter quar-ter of the population of the city-John city-John T. Powers, now a Y. M. C. A. worker at Toulouse, said: "I think the French are the coming people in baseball. They have the best baseball eye of any people, next to the Americans, so f-ir as my observation ob-servation goes. Leaders feel the game is suited to the French temperament, although time will be necessary to introduce the game. The scientific attitude at-titude of baseball appeals to the French, but other features are interesting inter-esting to them, for instance. Hie speed necessary in playing the game and the necessity of making quick judgment. French youngsters are very keen in picking up the niceties of baseball. Several hundred boys at Toulouse- are now playing scrub games just like American youngsters. In a track meet held by men engaged en-gaged in the service of supply department depart-ment of the American army, bel.J at Le Mans, Pat Ryan, the Olympic champion, cham-pion, threw the hammer 1G0 feet 8 inches. Lieut. F. D. Maker, of tlje University of California, made a high jump of 6 feet. These athletes will represent America in the intercollegiate intercolle-giate track meet which has been planned. |