OCR Text |
Show H Japan Loves H Baseball Game H "Tho game of baseball Is the gift of H no United States to Japan," sas Cap- Hj aln Matsuda of the Was eel a nlno. M "Only1 a few jcars ago we knew H lothlng of this honorablo game. Now Hl he Httlo ones In tho streets of Tokyo )lay It. The excitement which attends H game of baseball with us Is so great H hat for four jcars now there hac fl cen no cpntests between tho team of H Vaseda and tho team of Keio, her H lval In Tokjo Four jears ago we B lad planned a scries of three games H rlth Kclo They won tho first game. H Arascda won the second. As tho time fl br the third contest camo near oxclte- H nent among tho students was grow- H ng stronger and stronger. Students H f Waseda were ready to do battle H vlth students of Kelo Finally our H president decided that the game must 1 jot take place lest the students should Hj become ocn more excited and somo- H oody be killed. H ' Wo And that the most difficult thing H to learn in baseball Is the batting" Hl |