UNINSPIRING BASEBALL.
ENGLAND NOT IMPRESSED.
London, March 1. The baseball game between the Giants and the White Sox failed to convert England. The Graphic said of it: "It is a superb game, and it was superbly played. If we wanted a national summer game we might adopt it, but we happen to have cricket." The Morning Post, commenting on the enthusiasm of the American barrackers, said that the majority of those who witnessed the struggle were left wondering if the wisdom of the Americans was as great as was supposed." Londoners, the paper added, were certainly not thrilled by what was an exhibition of ill-balanced exercise. "Baseball may be a \ery exciting game," it added, but it offers a poor spectacle compared with cricket or football." The Citizen remarked :—" Baseball is a game at which men hurl insults and a hard white ball at one another. It is precision gone mad. In many ways it iB the fastest game in the world, yet it is one of the slowest to watch." The opinion of the Chronicle is that the game is an interesting novelty, rut it adds:— It has not challenged our sense of the superiority of cricket."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15552, 9 March 1914, Page 8
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198UNINSPIRING BASEBALL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15552, 9 March 1914, Page 8
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