Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-30

rouse greater interest in the game over
here. We'd like particularly to interes,
the young fellows. To play the game
right player has to start young. It's
not so much the actual playing as that
the principles be inculcated in him while
he's young.
Cricket is the best education in the
| world. In our country it's part of the
schooling of every youngster. in public
and private schools alike. 1t teaches a
little fellow to be sportsman in after
life. They start, many Of them, as
young as four years old.
1T teaches him to play for his side
and not for himself, obedience to his
| skipper, to give the other fellow q
chance, to play square. to accept with
cut question the decision of the arbiter.
There's no betting on cricket, nor any
Of that sort of thing. A cricketer plays
for love and the spirit of the game"
Colonel Metcalfe paused to place his
foot more comfortably on the rail-of
the veranda.
We're all amateurs he continued,
"and my team all served the colors
during the war. Our interest in coming
over was entirely, as you would say, to
boost the game. For q combination of
all the elements that make good game.
and the right principles Of true sport,
you simply can't beat cricket
1T is strange that Philadelphia is
really the only city on this side where
the game thrives at all! SO far as that
goes this is the Philadelphia Cricket
Club, but how many, in proportion t.
| its golf, tennis, and soccer players
players, play cricket? A handful.
Short Write. Ups
X, "You will pardon me for saying so,
but believe it Is the fault of the news
papers that there is not more Of the
wonderful game of cricket played in
America. When you do have a cricket
match, the newspapers give the account
of the game about that much notice. "
The tall colonel indicated with two
J fingers about two agate lines of space.
But il your Babe Ruth knocks a
home run, my, my he shook his head
sadly. columns, columns. And so
30, 900 watch baseball game-prob-
ably less than 500 will watch the
cricket games.
Baseball, rugby. tennis and golf, of
course. are all good games. Golf for
instance. is so much easier to arrange
than cricket. You call your friend on
the phone-'Come along you say,
| we re ROlnnH tOudy, Ola CHdp, anu IL
all done. But cricket. well-I started
last April to arrange these few little
matches over here, and / had to write
at least 200 letters to get them. It's
too bad.
The colonel re-lit his pipe.
Binding Ties
You have beaten us at tennis. al
yachting, at running. and just about
everything else, but it doesn't matter
We just say. Here, come. along some
of you young Britons, get leg on you
and get up a team to beat these fel
lows International sport is the great
est thing imaginable to promote the
good fellowship between the two coun
tries.' 1t keeps us stirred up aud for
ever at this competition. / believe that
cricket is one of our great holds on oul
colonies. We send our English teams
to Scotland, Wales, Ireland-er, thai
is-South Africa, Australia and sc
forth. and they come to us.
I'VE love to compete with America
We believe if you will play at it hare
enough your cricket teams could reach
the standard Of your baseball teams
The Incogniti and all the other cricket
lovers over there would like to see you
youngsters educated in cricket as they
are in baseball. Then send them ovel
and we shall have a 60 at them.