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Show . ' s x i r , ' T " ' " t ' ' " ''"':" OLD AMERICAN CUSTOM TRANSPLANTED . . . Not so many years ago, anyone caught playing baseball base-ball in Japan probably would have wound up playing shortstop before a firing squad. But things are different differ-ent now, and the kids are taking up the game. Cpl. Roy Blumenauer of Frederick, Md., is shown here-catching here-catching for'his team of Japanese youngsters, G. I. guests at the army's Kanbayashi rest-hotel at Tu-tanaka, Tu-tanaka, a Japanese mountain village. The Red Cross encourages the pastime and supplies the equipment to spread the baseball gospel in Japan. I |