Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-09
WASEDG BALL TEAM COMING
Japanese College Club Will Make
Tour of the Country,
"PAT" PAGE THEIR MANAGER
To Make Systematic Circnit About
Through CITIES of the Nation
Great Crowds Expected in
the East.

NEW YORK. April S.-The most ambi-
tious athletic trip ever planned for Japa-
nese university has been arranged for the
waseda university base ball team. II is to
arrive here this month and make a four
months tour OF the United states, meeting
the eountry's large college base ball teams,
Early information concerning the trip
states that the slant-eyed invaders win
leave their home country on April 4. They
will sail on the Manchuria and arrive at
San Francisco.
Upon their arrival here the team win
tour the country under the American man
agement OF Pat Page, a former Univer.
sity of Chicago base ball captain Page az
present Is making arrangements TO secure
games. An effort will be made TO match
his foreign subjects with the best college
base ball teams Of the country. The tour
will so down in college base ball annals
as a record breaker, and incidentally will
show followers OF the national game how
the sport has edged It's way into foreign
lands and made fans OF people who a few
years ago were as ignorant OF base ball
as FIJI islanders.
Strenuous Schedule Framed.
Our college teams have journeyed to the
orient; but their trips were mere jaunts
compared to the one outlined for the resi-.
dents OF the FlOwery Kingdom The Wa
seda players will be in this country fully
! four months. Arriving here late in April
the nine Will not return to their native land
until late In the summer. The trip may
be extended to late in the fall
The trip is to be systematic. When Wa.
soda arrives on the coast, the first point
Of attack will be made in that section. Nc
definite arrangement with colleges on the
Pacific coast have been made. but 1t II
fairly certain that Leland stanford, and
both universities, California and Washing.
ton, will only be too well pleased to give
the foreigners a game. After the coas
battles waseda will cross the country and
try it's base ball fortunes in the middle
west with Chicago. Wisconsin, Illinois and
Michigan. Games with smaller colleges in
that locality will also be played II salts
factory dates can be obtained
OF course, the appearance of the Japa-
nese players win create lot of interest
west of the Mississippi but they will not
be welcomed by such crowds as attend the
eastern college games. The pick Of college
balloon lies in the east and 1t will be in
this section OF the country where the
games will secure greater attendanees.
This is especially true II waseda meets
Yale Harvard or Princeton in this city
or near by. New Workers. have never seen
Japanese ball team in action and would
be only too well pleased to welcome them
to the Polo grounds or American league
park. In the vicinity OF New York there
are enough good college teams available
to keep the foreigners busy for a week.
Eliminating the Big Three, there are Co
lumbia, Fordham. Rutgers. Stevens, Man
haitian and New York university.
Several College Games.
> Through the New England states can be
found numerous first-class college com.
binationsA While in the east the Japs will
appear in that locality Games with Col.
gate, Williams, Dartmouth, Bowdoin,
Brown, Amherst and others will in all
probability be arranged. The invasion OF
the south finds the Navy, Georgetown
North Carolina. University Of Virginia and
several other large southern colleges on
Wasedas tentative schedule
No Japanese university base ball team
has ever played here in America hence the
Ignorance of their ability. Three Amer
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