Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — WILL TEACH JAPS BASEBALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL TEACH JAPS BASEBALL

Msnaysr McGraw of New York Giants See* Much Promise for Our National Game In Japan. Not satisfied with developing soma of the best baseball players in the United States, John J. McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, is going to act as tutor, to the Japanese nation in the great Yankee game. Togo S. Hamamoto of Tokyo has applied for the position of baseball apostle to his countrymen and McGraw plans to do all in his power to spread the gospel of the game in foreign lands. Hamamoto, who has the backing of a number of influential citizens of Tokyo, will go to Marlin Springs with the Giants when they start training, and will devote his time to mastering the game. His backers plan to develop professional baseball in their own country as a great popular sport. With their characteristic enterprise, when desiring to learn something from the western nations, they decided to send a delegate to America to study the game and bring back the best of American methods and training. As a matter of fact the Japanese have been playing a sort, of indifferent baseball for several years, but the game has not been brought to a high stage of development. Several of the college teams of this country have made excursions over there, among these being the trip of the University of Chicago nine last fall. While the Japanese do not play much of a game as yet, they are said to be alert and quick. Their speed makes them promising material and Manager McGraw is

prophesying that some day a real world's championship will be played' with the United States and Japan as rivals.

Muggsy McGraw.