The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-16

heCeHlly UdSeDdll SdHe was played in England between a team representing United States, composed
 from the members of military unit there at the time, and from a Ca
 nadian unit. The report of the g>me as printed in an English paper
 would do credit to Ruggles of Red Gap for pure, unadulterated comedy.
 The report as printed follows: BASEBALL Canada V. U. S. at Lords. Why the Game Will Not Be Popular in Britain. (By a County Cricketer) A number of spectators encroach- ing on the turf and marring the view and the pleasure of everybody behind them series of rancous shouts and cries; a great monotony of pitching" without the player making a stroke at all; now and striker knowing least of all where the ball was going-such was the scene at Lords yesterday, when sev- eral thousand people turned up to
 see a team representing the United States play another representing Canada, the gate" money going to the fund in aid of Canadian widows
 and orphans.
 Looking at it from cricket point of view, there is no question what ever that baseball is a very poor game indeed.
 Glove Does the Trick.
 Much has been written and said
 about the faultless catching, fielding
 and throwing of the baseball play
 CTS. Armed as each one is with a huge glove on the left hand, with
 web between the thumb and first finger of the glove, it is matter of
 great difficulty to drop a catch or
 be guilty of misfielding. The throwing is certainly straight and hard, but in most cases there is only one direction in which to throw, and the fielder is usually fac ing, more or less, in that direction, so ought to be rarely guilty of throwing wide. The difficulties of the game have been greatly exag- gerated; apart from the play of the striker, the rest of the game ap- bearing very easy.
 Of the wonderful swerving in wards and downwards, at which we are told any average pitcher is a fino Ilv
 none in evidence yesterday To the uninitiated it is believed
 that when a side makes a number of runs the baseball has been good, but such is not the case. The fewer the runs the better the
 play-a fact which drew from the
 King, when he saw a game on it's
 native soil, the very wise remark
 Ut seems to me that the better the
 game the duller it is."
 Game Will Never Do.
 That the game will never suit the British temperament is assured by reason of it's sheer monotony, the fuky character of it's hitting, and the mechanical aid which, in the shape of glove tends to negative the human factor, and in the case of every catch produces a decided feeling of disappointment in the spectator who is accustomed to
 cricket that it was the glove and
 not the man that did it.
 Apart from these things, the very
 uncomfortable looking uniform and the incessant batting to which the
 players are subjects by the initiated spectators quite remove the game
 from the sphere of pleasurable rec
 reation. Indeed, it has been said
 that but for allowing the onlookers absolute freedom in this way, base
 ball would long ago have ceased
 to exist.
 Amongst the 10000 spectators were Princess Louise, Lord Camp den, Lord Eldon, the Hon. Harry Stoner, Mrs. Waldorf Astor, Lord
 Howe and members of the American
 Embassy.
 Result-Canadians, 12 runs; the
 Jfnifed States