The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-07
BASEBALL INVADING TERRITORY ALWAYS SACRED TO CRICKET
Americas National Game Invading France, Too
 Sale of Art Treasures.

1,ondon. June 7.-RasebaI is invad- ES France; the English people are Esssatisaed with cricket and are be- ginning to look to the American game hs a substitute; Germany is awaken Ing to a deep interest in outdoor eports with the holding of the next plympiad at Berlin: baseball has won Cuba. and Is making rapid strides in EeaEal America, and it has been in froduced with marked success among 4he savages of Northern Luzon as a Esnt for their energies that in the past have beer expended in head hunting and lcoting. In England the question is becoming daily more in Eeresting and the situation here to- hay gives rise to the question whether game instead of an American pastfme, with the logical outcome of tnterna- 1ionaI contests at the end of the sea son
 England's national game. cricket. is Facing a crisis. The people are com pIaining that it is too slow, and 1t is being compared. greatly to its disad- vantage, to the snap. speed and sus- Eained interest of baseball Gate re ceipts for the county championship matches have fallen so fast that crick- ct fang are worried over tAS future of the game. Cricket followers want exactly what the baseball public oc- casicnly clamors for. more hard hit I1nE- The great CO1npldlII IS l41S-L tue players of the present day are given too much to safe play, instead of talk ling chances by hitting the ball hard.
 A game which requires two days and seldom furnishes any exciting nn- fishes seems at best very slow to Americans, but one of the complaints against cricket today Is that the play ers loaf at their work. They stroll onto the field; take long rests for tea- and generally waste time Some news 1ho In 70 rules. and among other-suggestions are harder grounds. and a '1iver" pill to make play swhter.
 But a more radical note Is being RaearG with considerable insistence. day in England. baseball is being se- ,riously considered as a national suo- stftute, and the ques tSuS whether the great American game will not become Fthe summer pastime of the British Tsfes is by no means idle. gossip. Pro- posals have been made seriously by number of English sporting writers that the American game be given al fair trial These men are disgusted with the state of cricket, and declare any hope of reforming that game Is exeeedinxly remote. with the present. authorities in control
 Baseball has already reached some dezrea of popularity in Ireland, and a
  the AIidIands. Several teams are plan ming to play this summer in London. Among these Is a nine composed ex- clusive1y Of the employees of a Lon- riou branch of an American drn1s and the Columbia Park Boys Club of San Francisco. now visiting England, will endea~or to introduce the game among Rhe school boys here
 Of the many auctions of art treas which are a frequent feature of London life, mo recent sale has created so much Interest as the forthcoming disposal Df the treasures left by Sir Lawrence IAIma-Tadema-
 Tadepna was not only a painter, he also designed furniture and decorated houses His own house in St. Johns wood was one of the most remarkable in London, not alone for it's store or valuable art objects, ancient and mod ern but for the personal souvenirs from brother artists which enrich 1t. The forty-five panels in the hall, all done by eminent artists as gifts, are world famous These panels, together with all the other art works, are be- ing sold by the artists daughter Sar- gents Japanese Dancer, 1eighton's srRath of Psyche" and valuable works a,v whistler, Sir Alfred East, Sir Ed ward J. Poynter, and many other aca- rieufcians are included in the remark able group
 Sir AIma-Tadema had a magnificent ,piano-forte which he designed him self It was partly ornamented with silver and on parchment panels bore 4ha a11toerapt1s Of the most celebrated Roianists of recent time. all of whom had played upon it. Much valuable DId Oriental and European furniture, with furniture of his own designs, paintings, tapestries, porcelains and 6+har v-orlzs of art will be dispersed.
 The fate of the studio itself is problem. Few artists could afford it and those would prefer workshops Of their own design and with less of the personality of another artist attached to them
 A good deal of talk has been occa- Fioued by the recent resigna ton of Sir Gerald I1owther, the British Am bassador at Constantinople. whose wife was Miss Alice Blight of Phila- neIphia-
 It is very unusual thing for 8 British Ambassador to resign, for the Coveted IlI-heahth was given as the rause of the retirement, in the case pR Sir Gerald, but this was not ac- repted, and many surmises and sug- Festions have been voiced.
 One Government paper, the Man chester Guardian. usually very we'll Informed, has come out eandidly to ray that Sir Gerald's retirement can be traced to the fact that 'he was certainly not such a success at his nstantinopIe post as his previous activity in the diplomatic field had led pne to expect. He arrived in Con atantfnopIe in the very thick of the S11ne Turkish honeymoon, when our -,veStfge. one month after the revolu- fon- stood perhaps even higher than nj the time of Lord Stratford de Red -Efge within six months that pres {fEe was gone. and, strange to say, we even find the British embassy-s name Involved in that obscure and some --b.+ sl1nsavory incident which is known as the counter revolution of April, 1909 And that prestige was