The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-23
British Papers Illuminate On
 Baseball
By DAVID M. CHURCH, international News Service Stan Cor
 respondent.

! s,;.e London, Aug. 2s-"weil played. 1 Jolly well bowIed, sir!"
 l Ripping. perfectly ripp5ng." These mild expr essions, accompan- leo py very dainty hand-clapping, gre the only obstacles there are to a | me afternoon doze in the sun at l Lords W 3I
 Now Lords is one of London.s fa-
 nous cricket grounds. Twenty thous- sna snerv L1ndoners 4nd ne s., jam Lords nearly 1 oentally watch the cricket match. ! Cricket Satisfies.
 l EEsnsn sportsmen are entirely sat put the restless Americans can't get
 much Of thrill out of this cricket game and so they have boldly and courageously made an attempt to in troduce baseball into London.
 l f1rst of all the American baseball
 players shocked London by staging
 .hGr games on Sunday, and Sunday
 games are looked down upon in Lon
 goa The Americans have persisted,
 however. and every Sunday afternoon
 mas mob of Americans thrilling at
 or English men staring in amazement
 at the absolutely absurd antics of
 these wild Americans
 At hrst the London press paid no l attention to the American baseball
 games. because the sporting writers
 were always busy on Sunday after 1 noon figuring out the cricket scores
 % or Saturday; Finally the baseball
 mach noise that the the editors just
 had to pay attention. One paper after another began running weird
 Monday morning papers. "Ameri-
 can Nine Bowled Out in Sixteen Inn inss, says one headline. "Gentleman Umpire Suffers Indfgnities,' com Makes Circular Run,' another in- forms it's readers. Crowds Cheer Excellent Bowler" is Just another. feature writers. began taking notice of baseball and now they even have the society writers contributing weird
 items about the American pastime. "Gadfy" Gives Version.
 Gadhy, who writes knowingly ! and oh so wisely, on politics for the
 Daily Herald, is the latest victim. He
 knows all about it and tells his read CTS about it as follows:
 Having spent a quiet Sunday af- 3 ternoon at Stamford Bridge amid g
 crowd of gum-grinding. but other , wise well-conducted American citi. zens. I am in a position to inform al
 whom it may concern and divers oth knurr and spell, coddam, spi1likins ant l beaver is played by the spectators
 This simplifies matters greatly. a ''It is true that two teams, mum I nothing on earth. wamble on to tht
 field and proceed to knock a bal t about.
 "A citizen known as pitcher , (poor old Arthur BinsteadD, ana
 wearing an out-size in gloves, hurl balls with marked ferocity at anothe 2 citizen known as the batter, who's 3 life invariably is saved by yet anoth
 CT citizen. masked and padded lik l an Assyrian bull-fghter, and denom ! mated a catcher.
 'Also there is an umpire, wh a makes guttera1 noisae at intervals And there are tha> also rans,' un
 couth-1ooking individuals who stant
 about the field and hope for tn - best.
 "Sometimes the batter. who : armed with a sort of over-fed trun Y cheon, takes an unexpected swipe a ,, the ball and knocks it into the ad joining borough, or, alternatively ont the roof of the homeplate' pavilion e on which it desce.ds with unseeml | violence. More often he lets tn d catcher absorb it.
 f "A1l these things I learned whe | I visited the American University Clu' , ! versus London Canadians match i a company with the talented Mattinso, l. with a view to studying the Ameri n can in captivity"