Tokyo (INS) - Japanese interest in baseball is running so high today that it bids fair to supplant the national sport of sumo wrestling.
    Japanese arbiters of the formalized Japanese version of the grunt and groan pastime were outraged when their national champion Maedayama deserted a tournament in Osaka.
    Maedayama played hookey to take in a game between the Tokio Giants and the barnstorming San Francisco Seals. The athlete's absence from the mat precipitated a formal investigation.