Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-12
JAP TEAM LOOKS FOR GAMES HERE
st. Louis Subject of the k Has
Base Ball Team Ready.

Base Ball Team Ready.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 11.-Mike
Fisher is being deluged with letters from
japanese who are anxious to make the trip
with ll-America stars to Japan next fall.
One letter in particular, written by Tozan
T. Masko of st. Louis, Mo-, who engineered
the tour of the Jap team in the east last
spring called the Mikados. will serve to
show how the little brown men are taking
to the base ball invasion. Masko is one
of the first ball players that Japan ever
turned out and he has been a fan ever
since, acting as manager, umpire and pro-
moter of base ball contests here, as well
as in the Orient. He has written to Fisher
asking for the position Of interpreter and
umpire. He also enclosed a piece Of sta
tionery used by the Mlkado club, which is
rich, as well as original, Here it is:
"Mikado's Japanese base ball team was
organized in Japan during 1905 by Tozan T.
Masko. Every japanese player If full blood
Japanese. Not one Of them can speak
English. They do all their converslng and
coaching in Japanese, and 1t is certainly
the most Japanesy Japanese you ever lis
tened to. There are, in Japan, 965 middle
schools and thirty-five universities at
which base ball is played. Mikado's team
is composed of the pick Of the players from
these institutions, and they have crossed
the 1900 miles of Pacific ocean in order to
reach America for this tour:
Under no circumstances will we
throw a game. Leaving entirely out Of
consideration the moral aspect Of the ques-
business policy.
q Under no circumstances will we play
for a smaller admission price than Is cents.
This must be paid by everyone, both men
and women. If a game is worth seeing 1t
8. We positively will not admit free of
charge the relatives or friends of ball
players, managers, magnates, stockholders
or officers. We are not running a charit-
able institution.
a. We positively will not admit at any
stage OF the game children who are unac-
eompanied by their parents. Children must
be pretty small to get by our ticket taker.
son b Mek Pos or Stock T SoIdn not recognize esog sea TSo
owners may have paid you, but that doesn't
do us any good.
g. Keep your gates closed until we are
on the ground ready to sell tickets. and
see that we get all that is coming to us.
honest, but business is business.
Z. We carry our own tickets for both
gate and grandstand. We sell and you
the tickets you have taken in, figure your
share, Of the receipts and we pay you in
s. We always reserve the right to use
two umpires, one Of whom is to be fur
nished by us.
0. Don't make a contract with us I'M
less you are prepared to abide by 1t in a
straightforward. businesslike manner. we
expect to act honestly with you. Be honest
with us.
10, We are willing to furnish you all the
free advertising matter you can use to adj
vantage. But don't expect us to pay for
putting 1t up. You ought to have enough
energy to look after that yourself.
II. settlement must be made for each
game as 1t Is played, We positively will
not wait until the end Of a series.
This may be on the square, but the rules
adopted by the Mikado team are an exact
duplicate Of those formulated by Guy
Greene several years ago for his Ind an
team.