Word: waseda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Chicago and other American colleges have taken advantage of the Japanese invitations in the past and have made successful trips to contend with the almond eyed diamond men. Waseda University of Tokyo has reciprocated by sponsoring several Japanese teams on American tours. The Orientals have soundly trounced the strongest college nines in this country...
...season's best-selling books is the biography** of a Japanese school boy in his native precincts. Besides much colorful description of the Japanese demimonde, family life, taverns, houses of joy, there are intimate schoolroom pictures and gossip about famed Waseda University.*Creator of Hashimura Togo, whose ingeniously ungrammatical letters satirize U. S. modes, manners...
...four wins. In the last game that the Meiji men took from Chicago, two of their batters poled home runs, Chicago poling none. In Tokyo, two English newspapers and one Japanese published extras after the games, wiring inning-by-inning reports all over the country. Waseda University, frequently a visitor to the U. S., scheduled three games in Chicago for next...
...Waseda University was one of the first of Japanese institutions to take up baseball as a sport over 20 years ago. Since then this University has consistently turned out the best teams in the Japanese Empire. The Tokyo university's squad has made several trips to the Pacific Coast besides the national tour...
Among the many college and university teams from the United States to tour Japan, only one, the University of Washington, has succeeded in winning a majority of games from the Waseda nine. The Japanese collegians have taken naturally to baseball and ordinarily produce brilliant fielding but weak hitting teams...