CRICKET V. BASEBALL

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21989, 13 January 1937, Page 7

CRICKET V. BASEBALL

TO THE EDITOB 07 THE PRESS. Sir,—That interesting photograph you published, showing a London school boy being coached in baseball, made me hopeful that in some corner of the paper, far removed from the court of King Cricket, I might find some description of this more excellent game. While the summer madness for cricket is on, I may be told that I am mad to make any comparison between the two games. But writing without a book o'f special knowledge, except for the defects of one of the games, I should say that baseball has•=some of the good points o£ cricket, and i£ laeka many c£ ifea

bad points. I have not counter! how many penny-a-line writers King Cricket has engaged to keep him and his minions in the public eye and spot light Does it really matter whether Bradman wags his tail, or is wagged by his tail (if some wag asks me to explain, I can't)? Yet "What went ye out for to see," in your thousands? Why, Bradman, whether he will I™**? his 0, or his hundreds, of course! But, while all these unseasonable holiday stunts are on, our many and various harvests are lying rotting on the ground for lack of man power, in some cases, to get them in. Get ye gone, ye flannelled courtiers of a decrepit king whose abdication is overdue — king of an erstwhile game that is degenerating into a not-worthwhile business, that is consuming too much time and space, at a season of the year when we would be much better occupied with more vital things.—Yours, etc., PETER TROL.OVE. January 8, 1937.