University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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ca egign ,CID ann oocmnn- The Invasion of the East BY ONE or THE TEAM On September 2, IQIO, the baseball team of the University of Chicago left for a series of games in Japan, at the invitation of VVaseda University of Tokyo. The party consisted of Pro- fessor Bliss, faculty representativeg Manager Pageg Captain Peguesg Paul, Cleary, Sunderland, Ehrhorn, Collings, Boyle, Steinbrecher, Glen, and Orno Roberts, and Baird. In spite of the fact that there were thirteen in the party and that we left on a Friday night, the team had a wonderfully successful trip from every standpoint. Following a strenuous week of barnstorming, in which we won a majority of the games, we arrived in Seattle on Thursday, September 8. Here we were met by an enthusiastic crowd of Japanese representing the Mikado team, champions of the Pacific Coast Japanese League, and royally entertained. The next day, however, we beat our hosts by a score of I5 to I, the Japanese players being exceedingly nervous because of their desire to register the first defeat against our players by a japanese team. Saturday morning, September IO, found the bunch waving farewell to the United States as the Kamakura Maru slowly turned and headed down Puget Sound, bound for Yokohama, 4300 miles away. As the ship stopped for only a few hours at Victoria, B. C., we were soon going again in earnest. We continued for sixteen days without sighting so much as a single sail, and, although a few of us experienced some new feelings, mostly unpleasant, we enjoyed the voyage over. Practice was indulged in regularly in order to keep in condition for our series in Tokyo. But this was anything but beneficial to the manager's stock of baseballs, which dwindled rapidly as ball after ball was thrown into the water. We sighted land for the hrst time on the afternoon of September 25, when we passed a northern island of japan, and the next morning we ran up Tokyo Bay to Yokohama. VVe were heartily welcomed at the wharf by Stuffy', Place, a former maroon athlete, and several other foreigners, together with a crowd of Japanese. As we went from the wharf to the railroad station on our way to Tokyo, we experienced our lirst ride in Homo-mobiles. Carriages were waiting for us at the Shimbashi station in Tokyo, and we were shortly established in the Im- perial hotel. i Despite the fact that it rained seventeen out of the twenty-eight days we spent in Tokyo, we managed to play seven games, winning all of them. We beat our host's, Vfaseda University, by the scores ofg to 2, 5 to O, and I5 to 4, but were forced to do our best before we registered three victories over Keio University by the scores of3 to 1, 2 to I QIO inningsj, and 5 to 2 fIO inningsj. The second game was won from the VVaseda alumni team by the score of II to 2. Although we had been frequently warned against the Japanese players, we were surprised to see the high-class game they played. They are excellent lielders, daring and swift base run- ners an l accurate throwers Jlayinva heady tivrhtinvvameuntilthe last man is out in the last 1 ., L 1 . ,I ' 1 b. -I , b I inning. Their weakest spot is in batting. The games were exceedingly well attended, T T 1 2 Ll.