Harvard Baseball Nine Returns From Japan Trip September 29

Completing the longest trip made by any Harvard sport team, the Crimson baseball nine returns next Wednesday to the shores of the United States, when it disembarks at Sun Franciso after a long journey ever the Pacific Ocean from Yokohama. It arrives here three days later.

Not as conquering heroes, however, do the ballplayers come, for although they took all five exhibition games in Hawaii, several Japanese found Crimson mounds men's wares to their liking and set down John Harvard in short order. As a matter of fact, Nipponese teams took no less than six of the ten contests in the Far East. Slip-shod fielding on the part of Harvard and heads up baseball by the home teams contributed to the downfall of the Crimson.

The Harvard squad of fourteen players, Coach Henry Chauncey '28 (also a Freshman Dean) and Mrs. Chauncey left Cambridge on July 11, travelling by bus to Chicago and then by train to the Pacific Coast where they arrived an July 17 just at the time of the deck strike there. The teat managed to get aboard ship, however and set sail for Hawaii where they spent two weeks and played in five exhibition games.

Arriving in Yokohama on August 16, the Crimson nine proceeded to win its opening game 4-2 against Imperial University two days later. Thereafter, Harvard went to a slump and took only three of the remaining nine games. Harvard lost to the Tokio Baseball Club Hosei, Rkkyo and Meiji before it found itself and finally stopped Keio, 9-7.

The results of the games played in Japan follows.

Aug. 18, Harvard 4, Imperial 2.

Aug. 19, Tokio Club 8, Harvard 6.

Aug. 26, Hosei 12, Harvard 3.

Aug. 28, Rkkyo 9, Harvard 3.

Aug 30, Meiji 10, Harvard 8.

Sept. 4, Harvard 9, Keio 7.

Sept. 5. Waseda 17 Harvard 2.

Sept. 7, Keio 6, Harvard 5.

In two games played at Osaka after September 7, Harvard defeated Kansei University 3-1 in 12 innings, and Keio 13-7.