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Show : MX! ORIENTAL OLYMPIC GAMES TO BE . . IELD I 1AILA I YEAR 1919 Japan Has Assured Leadership in Olympiad Is Superior in Swimming, Baseball and Field Events No Orientals Can Yet Show Dangerous Competition. By Glenn Babb International News Staff Correspondent, TOKIO. May 15 (by mail). Japan, aspiring to the hegemony of the far east, has assured the leadership in at least one field of international competition. compe-tition. In the third far eastern Olympic, Olym-pic, just concluded here, the Japanese athletes won by a large margin, scoring scor-ing 120 points in the five days of athletic ath-letic contests, while the Filipinos, the nearest rivals, scored 80. China's score -was -18. Tho next Oriental Olympic games, in 1919, Will be held in Manila, where the first contest of this sort was staged in 1913. At the same time that the games committee decided on this place and date, the rules governing the scoring of the meet were changed. Instead of using a system of scoring to determine the Olympic champion, each branch of sport will be scored separately. There will bo, for instance, in-stance, a champion in track and field, a baseball champion, a football champion cham-pion and a SWlmmin? nli.nmnlnn hut Tin , Olympic winner. I Japan won the games mainly through the superiority of her swlm-5 swlm-5 ming team over the paddlers of China r and the Philippines. Japanese swim-1 swim-1 mers Avon every one of the nine tank events, in each case setting a new rec- ord. Out of fifty-three points in swim- ming the Japanese took forty-seven, 1 while China and the Philippines had to be content with three each. Tho baseball series, counted one of the features of the games, was Avon for Japan by the Waseda university nine, Avhich made a tour of tho United Slates last spring, meeting most of the leading western college nines and being be-ing defeated by most of them. Waseda Wa-seda Avas good enough, hoAvever, to trim tho aggregation picked to repre sent the Philippines in tAVo straight games. Kishi and Hashimoto, avIio faced tho batters of many colleges in the United States last year, boi-e the pitching burden for the" Japanese. Although Oriental athletes havo not yet reached the stage Avhere they -will make dangerous competition in tho Olympic games of the Occident, they are learning rapidly. The marks made in tho meet here Avould, Avith few exceptions, ex-ceptions, look bad in a first-class in-terscholastic in-terscholastic meet in the United States, but for the Orient they shOAved improvement. The best performance on the track was that of the Filipino dash man, Catalon, avIio negotiated the 100 yards in 10 flat and also won the 220 in 23 seconds. The Japanese distance runners demonstrated the recognized endurance endur-ance of their race, Avinning QA'ery place in every race of more than -M0 yards. Hashimoto, a little runner standing 5 feet 3 inches in his tabl (Japanese socks), and Avelghing 10G pounds, captured cap-tured both the ten-mile and tAventy-fhe-mile races. Ills time in the latter race, run over a road course, was remarkable, re-markable, 2 hours 32 minutes -13 seconds. sec-onds. His time over the ten-mile course Avas 55 minutes 57 seconds. In most of tho field events, however, especially those requiring weight, height or "form," tho Oriontals are still far behind athletes of the west. Tho high jump champion went 5 feet G Inches; the winner in the pole vault. 10 feet G Inches; the shot-put Avinnor tossed tho sixteen-pound Aveight 35 feet 1 inch. a A great international sporting event like those games Is something new to Japan, and great interest Avas taken in ' tho contest. The croAvd averaged between be-tween 15,000 and 20,000 every day, these figures constituting records for attendance at paid admission sporting events in Japan. The opening of tho sumo, or Japaneso wrestling season, coincided vrith the beginning of tho pames, and in spite of tho fact that the May sumo season is ordinarily Japan s nearest approach to the Avorld's series in America, the Olympio crowded the mammoth Japanose Avrest-ling Avrest-ling champions out of thoir usual front page space. Japaneso newspapers have hailed the Olympic games as a means to n. better understanding between tho nations na-tions of tho far eaBt. Certainly tlie apirtt manifested by .the, yeIlowrgncvif V broAvn athletes through most of the contests was worthy of the best traditions tra-ditions of American or English sportsmanship. sports-manship. Before the basketball game between theChinese and the Japanese, two races between Avhom no love is supposed to be lost, the athletes got together and agreed to try to play without fouling. The referee called only three fouls in that game. The Oriental athletes have much to learn before they can produce from their ranks any Simpsons, Merediths, Muckses or Murrays, but they are learning the spirit of friendly rh'alry, of "playing the game." something which has been lacking in the mental equipment of the eastern athlete up I to this time. By 1919 it is hoped that the scope of the games can be extended. Imitations Imi-tations Avere extended this year ro I Siam, the Dutch Indies and French Indo-China, but Avar cendiuons pre-1 A'ented any of these from sending teams. These countries and probably) HaAvail Avill be invited to take part in ' cue manna games. i Certain Japanese sport Avriters.j probably slightly overcome by the completeness of Japan's victory this year, have urged the extension of the' games to include the Avhole Pacific ' world, taking in the United States and i Australasia. Better informed Japanese, Japan-ese, hoAvever, realizing that American ' or Australian athletes Avould leave i few points for the yellow and brown boys, are content Avith confining the games to truly Oriental races, and are not yet looking for more Avorlds to conquer. The one Oriental athjete who 'has proved his ability to compete on eAen' terms with the best of the Occident I came to tho fore in the Olympics here. ' Ichiya Kumagae, peerless among the tennis players of the east, needs no in-, troduction to American readers. Kumagae played four singles matches during the meet Avithout losing a set. j His four opponents together gathered, only fourteen games in twelve sets. In ' the doubles, Kumagae and Mikami, I also Avell knoAvn in America as Kuma-I gae'a partner in the invasion of last J summer, defeated tho Filipino pair. Suarez and Fargas, in straight sots. I Tho Filipinos had defeated the same' Japanese pair at Manila on iavo pre-Arlous pre-Arlous occasions. The games were held at Shibaura, on the shore of Tokio bay. The blue of the bay, dotted by five green islands which Avere once the forts built by tho Japanese against the second coming of Commodore Perry's squad-1 ron, formed the background. KILBANE AND LEONARD ; CLEVELAND, 0 June 8. Johnny ; Kilbano, champion featherweight, to- j day signed a contract to box Benny ' j Leonard, champion lightweight, in a tAvelve round bout at Canton, 0., July j 1. Tho men will Aveigh 135 pounds, i i rlngsido KUbane is to get $12,000 oi ? the privilege of 30 ner cent of recelnts |