Jap Ball

Home from a tour of Japan, a graduate baseball team from the Univertisy of Chicago related that the game of baseball has "taken hold" in Japan. Annually an all-Japan high school tournament is held in Osaka. Innumerable semiprofessional teams tour the country, though there are no professional leagues. In a college tournament held while the Chicago men were there, Pitcher Yuaso of Meiji College held Chicago to two 0 to 0 games, pitching three contests in three days, resting two days, then pitching three more in a row, for four wins. In the last game that the Meiji men took from Chicago, two of their batters poled home runs, Chicago poling none. In Tokyo, two English newspapers and one Japanese published extras after the games, wiring inning-by-inning reports all over the country. Waseda University, frequently a visitor to the U. S., scheduled three games in Chicago for next May.