Deseret Evening News | 1904-06-18 | Page 21 | Baseball is Universal

IS UNIVERSAL U c to it It h ii I No So r Baseball may fila no longer bu bo to 10 as us a I national game gRine said Harry flurry Pulliam of ot the thus National league le the other day It tenly Is in nn nil Interim international sport and 1 nil U is runt fast the national sports of other countries oil all over tha ho he world Within a 1 short hort time I 1 have received Inquiries front from Mexico texico Africa or the tho mune subject namely a n decision on a it I phay that lint occurs quite frequently In the tho big leagues und mind over liver which no controversy ever nver occurs Hoth of ot these the at nt Torreon Mexico arid and tho the other nt at louth Africa wanted to know how a 1 hail ball should bo he e called that lint had been incidentally hit bit by b a Po and lund had then gone Into Inlo fair territory In Iii both instances tho the no ac accidental hit having occurred while the tho were trying to Ret get out of or tho the thoa way a of wild hitches In both th thue umpire had halt called the hits hilts fair an nil they time tho lint hud landed in fair territory In both huth Instances tho the umpires had lund nearly been mobbed and andin In both instances the umpires were right Had the thu balls bulls gone gono Into foul toul ter territory they the hould should have been called cRUet fouls foula i but bitt In every ever ca case o of thIs thU kind the lilt hit U Is I either cither foul toul or fair That runt shows how baseball In is I extending and to what extent thue thorn people playing tho the In other othor countries look to the tha United 1 Statu for their lessons III in time this game Another Instance of oC the growth of the limo game Is found In tho time of a n gentleman flom the tho Philippines who U Is I visiting here now lie He says an that tho the league which has hili been heen formed on the Island of at Luzon In which the time players aro are largely American soldiers whose terms of ot enlistment havu expired now In is I The fht are aro taking up Rh the game antI nr are rapidly becoming expert exp rt In It tl In Jut Canada baseball line has hn succeeded la In Increase crease croue So you s see e the game gRille In is fast fait property