Arizona republican., 1914-02-18

was a fair sprinkling of spectators present. The star item in the pro- gram, a match between the New York Giants and Chicago White SoX, was advertised for four o'clock. When the more important match commenced there were 1900 people on the grounds. The members re- being much in evidence. and the shilling stands in the outer parts of the grounds held rather more than a quorum of curious spectators. The sum of e2S1 was taken at the gates. The weather was hot at the com
 mencement, but a cool breeze came up later in the afternoon.
 The first exhibition game, which started at 2:30 p. m., excited some interest and some amusement. It was the novelty of the thing that chiefly appealed to the spectators. To see an American baseball team taking the field is to be vastly i'm pressed at the outset. There are nine men a side, and the New York CTS. as they stopped onto the ground, looked a formidable and rather a 1 fearsome contingent. In size they i are above the average: one or two of them would easily turn the scale at II stone, and they add to their , bulky appearance by wearing loose and baggy garments, surmounted by i hite hats pulled down well over their eyes. It is hard to say which
 they most rcsemble-a band of Afc- tic explorers. braced for a march due south, or a contingent of prize fight i CTS getting ready for the ring The man who acts as catcher-a position corresponding to that of wicket keeper at cricket-is fearfully and wonderfully a!rayed against all pos
 sihle mischances of the game He carries heavy glove in one hand.
 he has his legs incased in pads of considerable size and thickness, and he wears round his body sort of
 leather buckler that would be fair protection against Macedonian pha-
 lanX. One would not be surprised to
 see him mount a charger and gallop
 tEree times around the ground defy
 ing all and sundry to mortal combat.
 It is rather a disappointment to find
 that he intends to do nothing more
 than stand in the base immediately behind the striker and catch the oc-
 casional balls that come his way.
 Several of the Americans have sad it is not their wish or expecta-
 tion to displace cricket in Australia,
 It is perhaps just as well they do not expect to do so. They would probably be disappointed. To say
 that baseball is very much like
 rounders-that juvenile game which
 the young Australian plays with his sister until he teaches a certain age is to state an obvious truth. Some one stands in the base with a wood :
 en bat in his hands: some one bowls or pitches at him; if he hits the ball hard enough or far enough. he will get around the ring-in other
 words, he will get what baseballers
 call a run and what children call a
 rcunder; if he is caught off the bat
 he ls Out-just as he is in rounders; and if he is not fast enough to get
 to base before the ball gets there
 he is out also-just as he is in the
 1oie primitive game. Of course
 there is all the difference between a
 game played by experts and game
 played by nondescripts The Amer-
 can visitors are all trained athl.tes
 TEey have been picked for this tour
 as the result of a process of selec- ton involving thousands. They are fast runners, good throwers, strong and clever hitters. And. of course