Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-08-02
BASEBALL POPULAR.
LONDON TAKES KINDLY TO THE
AMERICAN GAME.
Many Clubs Recently Formed and
Promoters Are Busy Among
Football Players to Adopt
the Game.

London.-Over here they are tryin'
to make baseball popular. The move
ment is being pushed by two English
| men, who have been to America sew
eral times and have seen the game
| played. Their names are Cook ant
| insolvency. They are very enthusl
astic and it looks as if their ms.lo6
of procedure to make the game popu
lar is bound to meet with success.
The persons who tried to introduce
the game before always brought pro
fessionar players over from America
This was mistake, as the pros were
too fast and played too intricate
game for the conservative English
men, who could not follow its details
The present scheme, however, is far
different and is already taking good
hold on the English fancy.
An association has been organized
under the name of the British Base
ball association. This has member
ship of ten clubs and it is calculated
that this will get the Englishmen in
terested in playing the game them
selves. Besides, there are many
Americans here who would be only too
eager to get in a game of baseball,
and these men are all available for
the English clubs. With the assist
ance of a few American players, the
English will probably feel more con-
fident.
The first big game was played re-
Gently at Plumstead. The match was
between the Oxford Rhodes scholars
and team representing London.
Needless to say, the Oxford boys won
rather easily, all having played the
game before, and besides that, they
were players of no mean ability. w
c. j. Kelly, an American, played at
shortstop for the London nine, and
surprised his teammates by his agili.
ty. He was all over the infeld and
sometimes ran far into the outfield
to get a fly, something unusual to the
Britishers. Mr.. Kelly is manager of
James E. Sullivan's London Office.
The English were not at all slow.
They got onto ''Slide, Kelly, slide''
without any difficulty One time after
reaching first, Kelly stole three bases
sliding into every one to the accom-
paniment of the slogan by his team
mates.
There were about 1900 people pres
ent and nearly all seemed to enjoy
the game. They liked the coaching
done by one of the Yanks, but they
thought he did not do enough of it
All sorts of remarks were passed
about the game. well, I'd rather
see golf" said one Britisher. eyes
beastly dull" agreed his neighbor
20, isn't that fellow funny sliding
that way on the ground?" But there
were plenty that praised it, and a few
cranks are soon forgotten.
Each of the spectators was handed
pamphlet, entitled, Baseball in
Brief" explaining the more intricate
features. The score card published
Tor this game was the first baseball
score card ever gotten up in England.
and 1T certainly created surprise
among the English.
An effort is being made to get the
FOOTBALL men to take up baseball. The
FORMER game is played in the winter
nere' and the promoters of baseball
ngure that if they can get the foot
oall players to take up the diamond
game in the summer that that would
make At a success. The people Are
'eEed upon to, go to watch their
.~vorite football favorites PLAY anv
saone' and once they see baseball and
set to know it, they cannot fail 10
zee its merits.