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Show JAPANESE STUDENTS PLAYING BASEBALL. )' The great American game rnas spread over the world wherever Americans Amer-icans have an Influence. Tho Rhodes scholarship in the English universities has been the means of furthering baseball base-ball conservatism in England, although the Englishmen do not take to the American game with anything like the quickness of other countries. For example, when the American missionaries first went Into Japan they carried with them many American ideas, and the later missionaries who went there were in some cases drawn from among .American university students, stu-dents, and took with them baseball as i , their favorite sport. The Japanese quickly imitated this, and today there i is talk of a Japanese team touring ( America to tee how they would snow up with American university teams. ! Their natural athletic ability, their quickness of Judgment and eye, mako them remarkably well qualified for the game, and they" like It. H Is said by men who have Eeen the Japanese In action that, should they como to America with a team, while they would undoubtedly be outclasHcd, owing ow-ing to their lack of training and coaching, still they would make a showing which would be a great surprise sur-prise to Vvery American fan. |