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Show uo LAND IS TELLS WHY FOREIGN SHIP'S USED WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. If anybody any-body In baseball had had "the foresight fore-sight to have known that the world's aeries would be over In five games." tho American baseball players, soon to leave on a barnstorming trip to the orient, could have engaged pa.sago on an American ship, Judge K M Landls, commissioner of baseball, advised tho National Merchant Marine nssocatlon In a message. The commissioner's , telegram was In reply to a protest by the marine organization against thel ust- of foreign shlos by the tourists who, tho association said. would I "travel as representatives of the United States In athletics." Judge Landls explained that tno forthcoming trips was arranged " months ago" and conditions at that time necessitated such a schedule, but the association. In a further telegram Insisted that the commissioner should urge the players to return under an American flag even though they must travel on the outward Journey on a foreign-owned ship |