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Show AMERICAN LEGIOH (Copy for Thl Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) WILL PLAY BALL IN JAPAN Ward Gilbert, Balloonist, and Emmons Em-mons Clay, Who Served as Gob, Off for Tokyo. Johnny Jap Is going to have another anoth-er look at the great American game as it is played by jf - ! ; the baseball nine "!E5SgSrkl of I1"""0 uni" SfC verslty. The rick- r2Jj3r: ' shaw men of f Tokyo and the V .--w'-. ' ;' merchants of v.!i'-ri"; i Nagoya are going i ,i; t0 carry and . f "Vv " " trade with two . . -vV .?- y JS- j members of the team who left I: ..; j Seattle, Wash., ; ' ,. " to the tune of a i-v x , vimi band and the cheers of the American Legion. Ward O. Gilbert of Kokomo, Ind., one of the Boosters' pitchers, went back to college col-lege after 11 months as a balloonist In France. Emmons Clay of the catching catch-ing staff served 19 months as a gob. When the Legion men In Seattle discovered dis-covered this they turned out and wished the pair good lucn. 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 Pacific and shown their w ares. 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 Indiana team's stay. |