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Show WILL PLAY BALL IN JAPAN Ward Gilbert, Balloonist, and Em- nions Clay, Who Served as Gob, Off for Tokyo. Johnny Jap is going to have anoth er look at the great American game as 7 " it is played by the baseball nine of Indiana university. uni-versity. The rickshaw rick-shaw men of Tokyo and the merchants of Nagoya are going to carry and trade with two members of the team who left Seattle, W a s h., to the tune of a band and the cheers of the American Legion. Ward O. Gilbert of Kokomo, Ind., one of the Hoosiers' 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 Lglon 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 learns will be taken on, but they will he 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 ?15AXX for expenses. Baseball has been introduced intro-duced In Japan before. Two other American college teams have traveled the racifie 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 Indiana team's stay. |
