Japanese Back From Sojourn In Homeland

After a tour of Japan during which they saw the land of their forefathers for the first time, seven members of the Taiyo baseball team returned to Seattle yesterday afternoon aboard the Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Hikawa Maru. Six members of the organization remained in the Orient and will return on a later ship. All of the players were born in the United States. They sailed for the Orient from Seattle September 29 and played a series of games with teams in Japan. The trip was made under the leadership of Henry Okuda, prominent member of the Seattle Japanese colony.

Miss Maude Cook of Chatham, Ont., who made a tour of the Orient, returned on the Hikawa.

Capt. B. Kaneko, master of the liner, reported a stormy voyage. The vessel fought headwinds for several days, but did not receive a scratch during the encounter. Although the ship was voyaging through rough seas, all the passengers attended an elaborate Christmas dinner. The Kikawa was delayed several hours by fog near Blaine on the Canadian side.

Cargo aboard the Hikawa included shipments of sake, a Japanese wine, twenty tubs of goldfish and a large variety of other products of the Orient.