CRICKET V. BASEBALL

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22003, 29 January 1937, Page 8

CRICKET V. BASEBALL

TO THE EDITOIt OJT THE PRESS. Sir,—Once again this page stands out unrivalled as an educator and an uit formant, rivalling the four YA's. Hundreds besides myself will thank Mr Robertson this morning for his very interesting description of baseball, which allows me to join p. R. Jardine and make further disparaging comparisons, if I had not one of the bright spots in my mind, when I think of my old friend Dan Reese, who at once became an eight handicap golfer—the way he used unselfishly to spend his summer evenings coaching at the nets. It is just here, that I do not quite see how one could get the practice necessary to make one proficient at hitting the ball with the perfect accuracy it must require with a bat that looks like a rolling pin and the pitcher throwing curving balls. The game seems to require so little paraphernalia that there would be no trade at all in balls, bats, bowls, clubs, mallets, rackets, etc. I do not know whether this is a good feature or not; also, the ground expense would be almost nil, so there would be no worry about "a gate" for upkeep. Whether baseball is able to draw the barracking crowds that cricket and football does, I do not know. The "gallery" at a golf match is a growth of my golfing lifetime and has come about through the enormous increase in the number of players. No holiday resort is now first class unless it can promise golf.—Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. January 28, 1937.