The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
By MARQUIS OF oUEENsBERRY.


What number and variety of
Christmas charities there arc, The
chief Of them seem designed for the
purpose of eating. /. C., giving food
AWAY.
In England there is no football or
racing for tho two or three DAYS which
prrcede Christmas. but on the great day
and boxing dav-tbe day after Christ
mas-the football fixture list is a
crowded one. So great are the attend
ants that on many grounds in the north
of England the gates have TO be closed
half an hour before play begins.
At Manchester in particular ono
Christmas they had $4,000 spectators
aud mob Of 10000 outside bowling ln
their disappointment 10 get iu The
Christmas day games are frequently
PLAYED in the morning TO allow a free
afternoon for the fcasting or guzzlmg
without which no Christmas seems con-
pletc.
In Australia Christmas is rare oc-
cssion for sport, They do not have
any fixtures on Christmas day, but the
dav after thcre are holiday race meet
lngS everywhere and many important
cricket matches are started BY the
by, the English cricket team touring
in Australia this season is Of particular
interest, in us much AS next year IN
England arc 60 be held ihc triangular
test matches between England. Aus
tralia and South Africa. II will be
the greatest season for cricket on rec
ord. provided the summer be in any
way a propitious one.
Cricket in Africa.
Cricket IN South Africa has improved
so much during the last ten wears that
the standard of play is now the highest
] wonder they do not take on 10 hasc-
ball as wcll-therc is plenty of talent
available, talent which has the . ball
game instinct, but which does not
take up 10 cricket, | suppose, however
a community has TO grow up with q
game in order to he properly cnthuSi
astic, and only enthusiasm can put j
sport on n sound financial basis
There will be LOT of money takcn
| pcXt year in England, in fact, enough
to make baseball managers think there
lis something in the game OF cricket
| All tho reserved seats viii be sold oul
| 4 long time in advance but there will
| be- no speculators. The idea Of these
| triangular matches WIS the simultan
| rouS inspiration of Sir Abc Bailey, 2
| South African magnatc, and the sport
| ing editor OF the London Express
There is, Of course. a lot Of lucll IN
every bali game. aud at cricket thsr,
are all sorts of luck factors which con
tribute 10 the result Of tue gamc-fa,
more than at baseball 4 fine dry
| batsmap S wicket may give the g in
side such an advantage that, given two
DAYS subsequently OF gapderous bow
| lcrs' pitch. it would be impossible 4,
combat against il. Those fond Of bal
games who may he visiting Europ,
next summer. should certainly stop
few DAYS longer in England than they
| have intended and he prcscni 1I M.
Of these International test crIckc
| matches.
II would show that the pulse Of th'
f'ugIishman can beat as quickly "a
| that of any other nation. and thu
cricket .'faus' are a. dcmonst ratiY'
ADD as rabid az their prototypes o
baseball.
know il may seem impossible T.
keep M excitement for three Iays. ar'
il has been said bv an American satiris
That only in England is game a
Tor three days would be possible .
Sport Is Peaoemaker.
In Wow Of The fact thai several peo
pie may think that | haze oyor-exag
I gcraled the effect Of sport 90 in;erna
tioual good feeling. I feel tempted b,
way Of emphasis 10 give u further OK
ample. which is not Of ny own Iuvcu
ton but purely matter of history.
During the Crimean war between Rus
sia and England and while armisiice
were N operation, The Russian an
English Officers fraterniZed openly n
did tho men of both armies. ST th
close Of the war some of the Ruasia
officers brcame so enamored with Tn
sportsmanlilte qualities Of their BritiS
foes, that several Of Them cmigrate'