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Show T5fi AMERICAN LEGION (Copy for This Le part merit Supplied by l lit American l.eUrn Nwi Mfi vice WILL PLAY BALL IN JAPAN Ward Cilbert, Balloonist, and Emmons Em-mons Clay, Who Served as Gob, Off for Tokyo. Johnny Jap Is going to have anoth er look lit the great Amerlcun game as V : . i -Yr- It Is played by the baseball nine of Indiana university. uni-versity. The rickshaw rick-shaw men of Tokyo and the merchants of Nugoya are going to carry and trade with two members of the team who left Seatlle, Wash., to the tune of a hand and the cheers of the American Legion. Ward O. Gilbert of Kokomo, Ind., one of the Hooslers' pitchers, went back to college col-lege after 11 months as a balloonist In France. Emmons Clay of the catching catch-ing stall' served 19 months as a gob. When the Legion men in Seattle discovered dis-covered this they turned out and wished the pair good luck. From Seattle the Indiana party went straight to where the sun rises. There Japan college teams will be taken on, but they will be the guests of Waseda university of Tokyo. So great has been the interest shown in the visit that the Japan university has guaranteed guaran-teed the American players $15,000 for expenses. Baseball has been introduced intro-duced In Japan before. Two other American college teams have traveled the Facific and shown their wares. Tokyo has an American Legion post and its members are planning to show the ex-service men much of the Orient and its attractions during the Indians team's stay. |