The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-18
JAPS WANT TO
GO WITH FISHER

SAN FRANCISCO, July 11.-Mike
Fisher is being deluged with letters
from Japanese who are anxious to make
the trip with the all-American baseball
stars to Japan next fall. One letter in
particular, written by Tozan T. Masko
of st. Louis, No., who engineered the
tour of the Jap team in the east last
spring called the Mikado, will serve to
show how the little brown men are TAX
ing to baseball invasion. Masko is one
of the first ball players that Japan ever
turned out, and he has been fan ever
since, acting as manager, umpire and
promoter of baseball contests here as
well as in the Orient. He has written
Fisher asking for the position of inter.
prefer and umpire.
He also inclosed piece of stationery
used by the Mikado Club which is rich
as well as original. Here 1t is:
"Mikado's Japanese baseball team
was organized in Japan during 1905 by
Tozan Il. Masko. Every japanese play
er is full-blood japanese. Not one of
them can speak English. They do all
their conversing and coaching in Japa.
nese, and it is certainly the most Japa.
messy Japanese you ever listened to-
There are in Japan 265 middle schools
and thirty.fve universities at which
baseball is played. Mikado's team is
composed of the pick of the players
from these institutions, and they have
crossed the 1000 miles of Pacific ocean
in order to reach America for this tour.
81. Under no circumstances will we
throw game. Leaving entirely out of
consideration the moral aspect of the
question, dishonesty with the public is
bad business policy
"2. Under no circumstances will we
play for n smaller admission price than
twenty-five cents. This must be paid
by every one, both men and women. If
game is worth seeing it is worth pay
ing for,
"3. We positively will not admit
| free of charge the relatives of friends
of ball players, managers, magnates,
stockholders or officers. We are not
running a charitable institution.
ga We positively will not admit al
any stage of the game children who
are unaccompanied by their parents
Children must be pretty small to ge,
Dy our TICKET tNktf
"5. We positively will not recognize
season books or stockholders passes
The owners may have paid you, bu
that doesn't do us any good.
"6. Keep your gates closed until w
are on the ground ready to sell ticket
and see that we get all that is coming
to us. We know, of course, that ever
one is honest, but business is business
so. We carry orr own tickets 70
both gate and grandstand. We sell am
you take. When You are ready to set
: tie count the tickets You have taken in
!. figure your share of the receipts an
/. we pay you instantly.
"S. We always reserve the right !
4, use two umpires, one of whom will b
. furnished by us,
. "9. Don't make a contract with u
: unless you are prepared 30 abiie by
-.fin straightforward, businesslilie mar
n ner. We expect 10 act honestly wit
!. you. BE honest with us,
$40 We are willing to furnish yo
all the free advertising matter you en-
t use to advantage. But don't expect Y
!, to pay for putting it up. You ougi
Ito have enough energy to look afts
/, that yourself,
}. "ll. Settlement must be made Il
T. each game as IL is played. We pos
,. lively win not wait until the end {
the series - #fhI