Word: nankai
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After 18 years pitching for Hanshin, Nankai, Hiroshima, Nippon and Seibu in the Japanese League, the 36-year-old Enatsu is trying to hurl his way onto the Milwaukee Brewers this spring...
...tongue, Blasingame at 41 is now enjoying his greatest success-Oriental or Occidental. His Nankai Hawks of Osaka, a last-place team four years ago, won the first half of the 1973 split season and are assured of a place in the Pacific League's playoff...
...clubs in a series of postseason exhibition games. All along, of course, the Japanese players were learning while losing. Just how much they learned became shockingly clear to the San Francisco Giants last year. When they went to Japan to take on such supposed pushovers as the Taiyo Whales, Nankai Hawks and Chunichi Dragons, the Giants were clobbered in six out of nine games. Now, anxious to pick up more pointers, the Japanese have sent two of their best teams, Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants and Lotte Orions, to train in Florida and Arizona respectively. As intended, their performances have...
...hundred planes with a monthly carrying load of 9,000 tons would replace the loss of the Burma Road, writes H. D. Fong, Economic Expert in the Chinese Ministry of Economics. Mr. Fong was formerly Dean of Nankai University College of Commerce...
...last week, having moved its universities 1,000 to 2,000 miles, beyond reach of Japanese guns, China had virtually completed its great trek. In Chungking, where Nankai University's foresighted Chancellor Chang Poling had started to build several years before the Japanese invasion, were fully equipped, new greystone preparatory and postgraduate schools. At Kunming was great new Southwest Associated University, with 90 buildings. To these and other centres China had moved 77 universities all told. Out of its pre-war total of 108 colleges and universities, it has saved 91, added four new ones...