The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-23
BASEBALL GROWING
IN english FAVOR
Rhodes Scholarship Students
Introducing Game at OK
ford at Present.
ENGLISHMEN NOW
ADMIRE THE GAME
Football Experts Slowly Becom-
ing Adopts at Great Ma
ti0nal Yankee Sport.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service
NEW YORK. Dec. 22.-Harry Clay
Pulliam has Just been interviewed upon
his trip 10 Europe concerning baseball.
He said: "The American game made
greater headway i'll England in 1906
than it ever did before. The American
bows. who won the Rhodes scholarships
and are studying at Oxford, have been
splendid preceptors on the other side
of the ocean. They do not play them
selves, but they have been foremost in
teaching the Englishmen how to play
baseball after our ideas.
"Therc is an American in London,
Mr.. Nelson Cook, who halls from Con-
necticut when he is at home on our
side of the Atlantic, For long time
he has tried TO introduce baseball into
English athletics with varying success.
Not that there has been no demand
for baseball in England, but 1t received
very little encouragement Tor the Tea-
son that the amateurs did not know
how to play the game, and the protes-
sionals were very slow TO become IN
tercstcd in it. After the American
bows who are now in England became
acclimated and somewhat al home they
began to talk about baseball, and it did
not take very long for their enthusiasm
over their own national pastime TO car
ry further than they might have I'M
agined,. In any event, other Americans
who were residing in London, among
them Mr.. Cook. took up the idea of
forming an English baseball league, and
this year it went through full sea-
son with six clubs. and, if it may ap-
pear strange, made a little money.
That is the first time, so far as ] know,
that baseball ever has prospered to that
extent outside of the United States. -
Is it possible for baseball ever to
become a summer sport in Englaud?'
"It seems to me so. Most of the
players who are now connected with
the English Baseball league are foot.
pail players. in the fall and winter.
There is an interim, in which they have
little to do in an athletic way, and
they have been only too eager TO grasp
an opportunity TO play the American
game, especially when they have such
aid as coaching by American college
boys. who are now completing their
education on the other side Of the
ocean. The managers Of the profcs-
sional football elevens are quite as en-.
thusiastic over picking up baseball for
summer game as are the players,
since they believe that their men are
in better condition to play football in
the cold months. after they have had
field exercise all the summer. All those
connected in a professional capacity
with football with whom | had op-
portuDity 10 converse assured me that
they thought the introduction of base
ball as a professional summer pastime
in England was one of the best moves
which had been made in their athletic
world. y
Z" Has baseball any hope as an anna
tour sport'
- am not SO sure that it has at pres
ent. had no means of ascertaining
much information in reference to that. |
So far as ] could see. the English anna
teur sport most nearly corresponding to !
baseball is cricket That is the game |
brought up with the boys, as is base
ball in our country. On the other |
hand, ! think professional football is
more like league baseball in the Uni J