Word: waseda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...championship baseball squad from Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan, will again meet the University diamond team on its second invasion of the country within five years. The Japanese manager wrote requesting a game with the University and Major F. W. Moore '93 has set June 15 or 16 as tentative dates and also suggested that the team from the Orient schedule games with some other college in the vicinity of Boston...
...Crimson ball players won a close decision over the Waseda team on May 26, 1921, by a 6 to 5 score and the nine from the Orient will make a strong bid for a victory this year. The Japanese team will leave in two months and the trip will last well into next summer...
...Tokyo a court sentenced Gaku Sano, one-time professor at Waseda University, to ten months in jail for attempting to form a secret Communistic Society. He had recently returned and surrendered himself for trial, having fled to Russia two years ago when the Tokyo police were lodging radical on radical in jail...
...cries of "Lynch the shooter!" The would-be assassin stood petrified with fright; the angry crowd seized him and he was severely mauled before the police could rescue him. It was later discovered that he was Diasuke Namba, aged 27, son of a minor politician. Formerly a student of Waseda University, he had been forced by circumstances to work as a laborer and had become interested in Communism. He said he had no accomplices and that he had fired the shot in the hope of starting a social revolution. The police thought he was crazy. Later, a young...
...latest tennis star to arrive in America seeking the Davis Cup is Masamosuke Fukuda, of the Japanese team. Fukuda, recent graduate of Waseda University, is described as a " sensation" on the courts of the Orient. His euphonious name completes an exotic array of players who will contend in the Davis Cup lists this year. The following are culled from the rosters of the French, Indian and Japanese teams: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Lacoste, Fyzee Ramaswami, Ranga Rao, Jaga, Mohan Lai, Zenzo Shimidzu...