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The University of Hawaii Chinese baseball team played and beat Columbia's baseball team in 1914. See Harold Seymour, Baseball: The People's Game Vol 3 (Oxford University Press 1991): 173-174 for mention of the game.

There were a number of baseball players from Hawaii named Akana, but this is likely Lang Akana, who later signed with the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. Source

All, Thanks for the information. It turns out to be a much more complex story than it appears at the outset! It appears that referring to this team as the Chinese team of the University of Hawaii is not quite accurate, despite the term being used in various sources. From Dan Cisco's Hawaii Sports: History, Facts and Statistics (University of Hawaii Press, 1999), baseball did not debut at the College of Hawaii until 1917. The College of Hawaii was not known as the University of Hawaii until 1920, according to the University of Hawaii's website. Since this event took place in 1914, it seems that the story told by Joel S. Franks in Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball: A History (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2008) might be closer to accurate. He indicates that a baseball team formed of Chinese Americans was sent to the mainland in 1912 to play against university teams, and this endeavor was supported by "Chinatown business interests in Honolulu", amongst others, in an attempt to bolster tourism and provide a connection "between Chinese Americans and European Americans". The mainland press publicized them as representatives of the Chinese University of Hawaii, even though that did not exist. It was later speculated by Honolulu sportswriter Red McQueen that they wanted it to seem like the college teams on the mainland were playing against other college students when facing the Chinese American team, though that was not actually the case. This team played Columbia University's team on May 31, 1914, and beat them by a score of 4-2, per this New York Times article. We will expand the description when we update.

Oh wow! That's fascinating.

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This picture is identified as Dr. Fritz Rausenberger, designer of long range artillery,such as Big Bertha and the Paris Gun for Krupp on this Dutch page: www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a... This page identifies him as the man who named "Big Bertha" "The name “Dicke Bertha” is said to have been given by the designer of the gun, Professor Fritz Rausenberger, naming it after Bertha as the owner of the Krupp firm. Bertha herself may not have been especially flattered by the implication of her size being associated with such a huge gun! As with so many of the names to be found connected with the Western Front battlefields, this German name was subsequently translated by the British soldiers into the well-known British name for this gun, and generally any other very large German gun during the war, as a “Big Bertha”." www.greatwar.co.uk/battles/second-ypres-1915/prelude/big-... He does not have a page on the American Wikipedia, but has one on the German site: "Friedrich or Fritz Rausenberger (born February 13 1868 in Frankfurt am Main; d. April 28 1926 in Munich) was a weapons engineer" de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Rausenberger

I thought that they were standing in front of the Reichtag Building, but they obviously aren't... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Berlin_...

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Erzherzog = Duke, this is Duke Frederick en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Friedrich,_Duke_of_Teschen likely a news story on his military appointment On 11 July 1914 Friedrich was appointed Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army by Emperor Franz Joseph I; it was thought that he would not interfere with the operational and tactical talents of Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf. He was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall on 8 December 1914. Friedrich remained Supreme Commander until February 1917 when Emperor Charles I decided to take the office himself.

He was a very good man and leader; one deserved to be venerated and loved by all.