Show JAPS QUEER BASEBALL RULES Players In Land of Rising Sun Observe Strange Maxims The Tho following arc some Momo of the tho mn max maxims ims hns Oil on any an hasel baseball din dla 1 mood mond In Japan where the great grent American national 1 pastime is finding much favor The University of basc J hall ball team which returned to this country recently from rein the Land or of j 1 Nippon spending two months playing time the leading university teams that have huc leen heen formed there were Im ed with these tho rules The Washington nine was first white te team m over eer s seen n In Japan and It attracted no end of oC attention among the tho orientals Time Tho games somes played were also the first intercollegiate In which a foreign team was n a con contestant contestant ever enjoyed by b the sr great al universities Unprecedented crowds attended all Fames and the sport was wag the leading topic of con The Tho baseball Invasion was wasa a healthy rival to limo tho visit of at Admiral American fleet Heet Of limo ten games played In Japan th the 1 nine nino won but six Ix Time were played with Kole Kelo of Tol Tokyo o 1 y qt of Tokyo Yokohama HiS higher her Comm Comme school and time the Cricket find and Athletic club Thu Th personnel 1 o of time the latter team included Chinese Japanese Japa nese a an English Englishman i iman man and anel olio orio Yankee 1 The American players Were ero put or their mettle on every cry occasion to a majority of the games played The Washington players declared upon their return to this country that time the Kelo Keio team could ke keep p out of lar In any American Class Cluss B league One of oC the games somes pla played Ld with wilh the team was as a Inning game gam wIlI h was won by time the Americans 6 5 to a 3 tho news newspapers papers declared was the longest game gamo over 1 played on the tho eastern hemisphere and brought forth endless comment |