Show Ix f u It H N WN t U NYU N I 0 NEWS w Of SPORTING G WORLD fl N J ABROAD A V I I G GAME Mt OF f t LL I IN Mt MERRY ENGLAND bL O Our Dur ur Pastime Is ing irig Very cry Popular I The Tue lond Ic AH At TALKS OF IT ITt t Englishman Says the tin Guns Is ll yost Wonderful in the lie Old i at lilt tt lr A from sey Mya All MI lovers of the American national game iii me ot of t s b l cannot but bit heartily 4 themselves on Ue Ille he Im Immense imI I manse mense which their fame fameI I Is Ic I at pr making makini In England Thus Thul spoke apok pole Mr James Jamee Wilson n an n English baseball enthusiast who ha hOR just juet left ift I ft after stopping tappin foi foia a few days day at one aile of the leading h hll toll lols nf At different games ame i I I n uril Mr 11 I Wilson VIlson are Included In th t ti it expression orl in lu lurr cry rr 11 fc tew un will admit tin I tb riny nn form of fit It I I cornea comes up In 10 cricket Ii I though thou h in the thc winter months montha which m III miff i ia a iff HH KI K r gard cricket t will indulge In Iii a H violent HIM nl II b t ul Ion with wit h f or it ha hull 1 1 Till The rh II IN V I K of t Inn wonderfully Ily hurrahed I iu nil d i Its It i 1111 I u I I In III m iu the year Nr I TI I juist thirty II Ie g yea lH 1111 is certainly aeu rot n II i long luni v foi r r oily hut but It II int t n ly be tit I lie Id that hat I I I was II aa II r lv l to 10 tile Ilio of or thi Ihl I until tint lilt II five yn r ngo A galm IIII pd III i l I that lit t time lime li litlie ly i till t aliI nut lh Ih Ph Ath 4 iIO t were weri n II tour nf ot till the h i Islee la giving H II number of ex IX exhibition Barne uti 1111 iiI 1 I Jilt Hut as 1 11 was RK woefully apparent H III i tr licy I did ii Id not g III I the I Ii light i t tto way W W to show flu ilIA in 11 the th m mist t utile able light play 1101 1110 was Val admittedly 1 skillful hut but as tN a Ii matter of fat fart It II was w too tao much no so and the l VerA wern to tn foll w and It so a 0 that ho Iho chance of nt baseball taking ven Ven a Ii lowly little place linIng Inn various of nt the were weN few Cew Indeed An All far M a any Ill Ut Interest In It was wall con cnn concerned I fl c the th was III tu tube tuI t tIit be I n it l I by alt all Including I the tile players th lh In what hilt may be hI called the til of the game took look place and anI lint would u have hen been i t Iee but for tor one thing I tho hI weather uThe present c of ff the I lh h now nov king of Hug Hugland land Wa and till the tI match took place ae itt nt the Ih historic Kensington oval o which during the th summer season In Ic I devoted exclusively to 10 cricket and KIIl j whore where all the great matches between the tite champion counties nf ot J n are ar played Hut But the th lii l were wern to the th grounds by b t one nf of their world fogs and an p occasional ghostly figure to 10 and fro fr wan all 1111 that could be bl seen 11 by Ii till thy To those tho i who wh understood the game It was a magnificent nt loh ut l those thoa assembled were fOri for the most mOlt part rt and knew as nil much about the national sport of lit if the tit hilled as asa asa a hool honl boy tray does of politics and Inti V ia iaan Van an exhibition game gam tho the extent of ot Its La sneers In popularising Ma WK was about equal quel to tl that Ihal achieved by hy the th and the th Ih Philadelphia Athletics 10 If yes N previous Hut But the 1114 th Ice ko had t broken and the th oval match malth was talked about The Th Ih presence of nf royalty helped hl fd In a II measure anti and Americans who at lit that time to 10 h II resident In hi a It few English friends how to 10 play and HI the t hI ball then I lot t rolling has baa not y yet let t stopped fine In nc of If the th games In London attracted much notice Willi WIlK that played between a II learn of It Hills cow cowboy boy slid fc ot I II who hall had until bean 1111 on nn the commons unD 1111 Ito hi i II k of the great metropolis I thi torrents of ot ofell th in ell ws is II a WIll Well fIl attended I and we It I j it II I I lire nrc Interest I l II tl rp game The game made steady progress In Inthe the th north of England and In lii the m ki kiln ln in ml nil coil lit I but bul t In I n the t h soi t 13 strange strangely ly Iy enough where the first exhibition game lit me Wilt was given rIven It languished Any gamp game which la III worth playing al nl always ways whys finds a 1 welcome among the hardy hordy miners miliuM and workers III In tho Iho great IeR manu InstIll manufacturing towns of the Ih north nor tit anti and It II very 1 soon became there A fw few years ysra para ego ago II the National Baseball as II M or of f nd was slatted ant and anda anta a em eci e the II th association was formally A was taken at lit a Ii sub lub suburb urb orb of ot London and Ind the lamp game am was WI commenced but hut the were Wale obliged to 10 give II V over at the third thirl In ln Inning nIna ning owing to 10 a drenching downpour of rain In this VOir r 10 were Sete clubs In the th Js Ji J and Thespians the th then champion team And II so after an no extremely e opening educational Ih ilu I h gume of ot hll given romil of r I b be one of ot pe lie Quill to III The h game lOW are till all of or them seriously contested t and tulle quite H from the I to be bt won which vh I h tire 1111 ti to many mUll of them very valuable the honor of be hi th the It team Ilam of Ut the year yeara Is I a much coveted and hardly fought for Of 01 course the h supporter and players of uC the bate bo II lt across tho the thoI I water I are the III n Americana American In London but the number of I Is Increasing every day dey and nf It 11 now 1101 to promote the vimo I II IM I pry 1 ry wits Wilt III In tOwer power When HI I Ii It to cricket It la Is not M 11 1 I il 11 1 to If t lh th of or the latter in r n vy iy III in they thy think It a II dedd i 1 i on cricket s the hUm nuin hUmI l ri I nf or u time 1 i placer goes In to but bat butI batI I mi hi lh hI whole course of an at 11 after fter IK I II MI u I I a U 1 Vl us aS n u nile only oil y in l i WH 11 to I onto one Inning with th Ih thi thItu i ti The Th reil rist of the time he Is III either ell her herl l idly tilly 1 uniting for ills his III partners to hell 01 or II la out fielding UK If It Iho tin to be what II I V be hI II termed t and a pOl r i in Iii lIMit bait after ater hull bull making I no It If effort Ift whatever to runs It Is II both bolh for tor he lb opposing side aides end IIII tOIl Tile hl Interest which the general Enl lish public now itow take In the tilt gume Is hi atil It U Is II to tn be hoped lust last lusting lug ing III At t I first It Will was tut ni as ac could tie ho done dam to 10 get an i iI out by b II a liberal lI rul supply of paper itt hut I i they Ih tile iH w their hair t shilling ac y In III Ii see 1 a n ll match us ustin u tin III hi did C I Kven tho I I I 1 boy hll In III I ii has learned lea med the lIP I fl wI II Mr lr 11 nh of ot a jt master 4 i hi II k OIl I I Rume gI of to w h i uin i likened mi 1111 iii Us its I I M he li Imd titI I a good lood educational ed I t ii i mii 1111 it tile din mysteries of lil hit itla new now love 1011 lovei i 1 Ii Ii IiI fur I I the lit board this 1111 tl I i III If lIlt 1111 UM tIll III lifter the gamp game hull hati I ryd iv Y il I but hili hi it I I the III I I ti sa saI i tn t the Ihl Intricacies of lit the till ili tilt Ih hud had yet lo tO leant leani the lii t I II of the Iho lu I ml td i JOI days 10 during the this most In Ill game gaines this the attention of ito tho i mud wd MIS riveted upon this most litot oven In to 10 till the PilOt nf I r the line II no plays on Oh the diamond I ml IR 1111 Al At last however they to under understand stand iti mill n al il t present t the he I acerb i In Ih be latest latent American style Is I a It pro prominent fee tore of ot all II the ih English J grounds U It 1 t would today he le drained an aspersion on oil 1 acumen to 10 tell hI hi w long lou g II It I I I till the t operator to lea vu how to 10 work the scoring board |