Canada, Mexico and Cuba to Participate Wichita, Kas., Feb. 7.
Baseball, "the great American game," rapidly is assuming impo: ance among the sport realms of foreign nations, and plans now are well under way for the first jnternational semi-professional tournment in history, according to Raymond Dumont, president of the National Semi-pro Baseball Congress.
The congress will sanction tourna" ments in Mexico, Canada, and Cuba ext July, Dumont said. Seleet teams rom representative sections of coen nation will play in elimination brackets similar to the plan in use in the United States, The Canadian tournament will be in Vancouver B. C. the Mexican in Mexico City and the Cuban in Havana, The 1938 tournaments are a foundation for a larger programme planned for 1939, when national winners from each of these nations will play in the international tournament which will be in Louisville, Ky. Each nationa! champion will have a chance for the $5,000 minimum first prize, and will get full expense money for the trip—United Press, (Auditorium), through whose cooperation and support this boxing programme has been made possible.
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