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c.ngiana, sa 1a ^otomons.NBC AssailedOn Bid to JapsTo Play in StatesARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 20—The decision of the National Baseball Congress to invite Japan to participate in a global baseball: tourney in the States next month was assailed yesterday by Rep. Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.), who asserted that “this monstrous idea must be canned immediately.”Celler described the proposal as the most asinine idea growing out of the war and suggested that directors of the congress “invite the spirits of the Corregidormartyred.”He charged the congress with temerity in inviting Japan when “there is as yet not even an official VJ-Day. Are we like dolts to invite the Japs to play baseball with us as though war was just a Sunday School picnic?” Then he suggested that Babe Ruth, Mel Ott or Hank Greenberg be asked if they would play ball withthose “sneaks.”“I suppose Ray Dumont, president of the NtBC, would roll out a carpet, cover it iwith cherry blossoms and invite Hiro-hito to walk thereupon to the grandstand,” Celler said. “After all, what can one expect from a man like Dumont who not long ago suggested the screwball idea of giving a batter the option of running to first or third base after hitting theball.”The baseball congress announced yesterday at Wichita, Kan., that anjinvita-tion would be sent to Japan at the“earliest possible date” to join the Sept.20 tournament, which will be held at Washington or New York., A TT* T TQL'rr\ L T?
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London Stars and Stripes
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Aug 21, 1945
Page 3
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Hiroshi K.
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