Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-09-26
BASEBALL IN ENGLAND

Reports from England indicate that
tho attempt now being made to pop
ularize baseball In that country is real
izing considerable measure OF sue
cess. Similar attempts in the past, at
ter promising fairly well, have
dwindled into complete failure, but the
Rhodes scholars seem to be putting
real life into the present one, and IL
is not improbable that few years
hence the great American game will
rival cricket as u summer pastime. II
this should come about. baseball will
enjoy the unique distinction of being
the old form OF athletics of wide pop
uarity in Great Britain which Is not
motive TO the soil. Football, cricket,
golf, lawn tennis, rowing. bowls and
polo are British games, and sports,
such as horse racing, hunting. cours-
ing and boxing are likewise the out
ccme Of British love OF outdoor life.
England is, indeed, the home OF sport
and athletics. and has taught them and
still teaches them to the whole world
| Teams of English footballers and
cricketers tour In Europe and North
and South America. giving exhibitions
OF their skill THE famous Corinthians,
every one OF whom Is either an Oxford
or n Cambridge graduate, Will be seen
in Canada and the States this fall, the
! best horsolcsh In this country and on
the European continent is Of English
stock, the majority OF the best jockeys
in France, Germany. Austria and Rus
sia are Englishmen. English sport
/ has conquered In many countries, and
/ curious evidence of this Is found in
the fact that the English names and
terms OF the different games are In
practically universal use. Germans who
play at football--to cite one instance
speaking of goal. "kick-off." throw
ill.," pass "huif-back' and centre
forward, and never think OF adopting
German equivalents. The spread OF
English sport must have played a no
Uncomfortable part in the spread OF
the language
And new the time seems to have
come for England to learn something
from two or ;hree of her erstwhile
pupils. Her cricketers have learned
from Australians the tick OF "swerv'
ling the ball In the air: an American
jockey. the celebrated Mr.. TOD" Sloan
convinced her horsemen that there was
something 10 be gained from the use OF
the short sjrrup; and last winter the
New Zealand Rugby football team
astounded and delighted the land with
a display of methods which players al
home had not even dreamed OF. Fol
three or four years past there have
been complaints In certain quarters
that cricket Is becoming stale anc
stands In need of reform. What l:
wanted. II Is arguer. is more snap. ant
rs baseball has features not unlike
those OF cricket and condenses the In
tercst into much shorter space o
time. the American game Is thought tt
have an excellent chance Just now o.
earning popularity. But though base
ball may find great favor. cricket will
remain king OF English summer pas
time. That Is certain. Like golf, 4
can be played by men at almost an,
iage--Dr. Grace. who must be neari.
sixty. Is still making plenty Of runs
but II has more fine points than goll
and. unlike the game of the links. hai
charming spectacular attractiveGess
The charge thgt cricket is slow is ;
superficial one. the mere fact that tn,
game takes, as q rule, two or three day
TO decide being wholly beside tn,
point. The true cricketer watches tn
bowling, the playing and the iieldin,
OF every ball with full appreciative III
tcrest; II IL the man who does no
, understand the game who finds II ted
ious. Few Americans understand II
and many OF us are wont TO expires
surprise that vast crowds Of pcopl
should assemble ON English ground
day after day 10 watch such an appar
emily dilatory game. But we must re
member that to the British peopl
cricket serves, as II were, as a reactio
I from football. For exactly eigll
a months every year--Sept. / to Apr
30-millions of Britishers take an al
D most foyerish interest In the great win
5 ter pastime, and when summer come
}. round the demand Is for somethin
Z restful. Perhaps nowhere Is crickt
. followed with such keen interest as /
$ Manchester and Sheffield. great citlo
I which palpitate with Industrial an