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Show Baseball at Oxford to Amuse Yankee Visitors Baseball Is to be played In Oxford next summer for the amusement of the numerous American visitors to the city. Oxford hotel keepers are making arrangements for the games. American students at Oxford university uni-versity Indulge in the pastime and their team generally is conceded the best in Europe. But the season of the students ends late in June when the university closes. Therefore the hotel keepers are negotiating with English teams in several nearby villages to come to Oxford to play for the visitors. vis-itors. These English teams are in what might be called the experimental stage, so far as good players and knowledge of the niceties of baseball are concerned. con-cerned. The unprejudiced spectator at a game between the Englishmen would have no hesitancy In declaring that the players while at bat have the stance and the swing of the cricket player. Pitchers use the stiff overarm over-arm delivery of the cricket bowler. The catchers disdain to don the mask, considering that the wearing of the wire face, protector would be effeminate. effem-inate. Fielders wear gloves, but often In an exciting moment while running for a fly they discard them and make the catches barehanded. The umpires wear straw hats and linen dusters. |