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BERNARD SHAW ON BASEBALL. | ches or the Sioux-I forget which—

"THE IMPULSE TO HIT SOME-

THING."

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on anakind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilised mon from kicking and beating their wives is to organise games in which they can

managed at last either to hit up three, or to fail to hit up anything, at which paint they suddenly left in disgust for Dublin; and the cricket-trained Duke, usual five or six hours innings, slowly who had been looking forward to the realised that the match was over, and, after some incredulous hesitation, rose and made for his earringe.

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a great occasion. very exciting and totally unintelligible only regrettable incident occurred at a kick and beat balls, writes Mr. George Bernard Shaw in the Evening Standard ions who were playing Puss-in-the-

acment in the game, when the cham under the heading, The Baseball Mad-

Corner, hurled themselves on the ground cess Hence cricket and foothall in like runaway boys when a policeman England and baseball in America. Wnvertnkes them. An American mest me men beat their husbands and children.

so far forget himself as to shout. for want of an energetic alternative Musical nations like the Irish resurt to Theatre. As this theatre is fanions for is better than the Birmingham Repertory instruments of percussion to satisfy the its performances of my irresistible impuls to hit something-Methuselah, I thought the remark un The Cister dram has saved many a Catholic from a broken head.

necessary add in questionable taste. any American can be so utterly benight- as to enjoy Puss-in-the-Corner more than my greatest play, he should. for the credit of his country, enneral that shame. ful preference instead of shouting it in HONGKONG-BANGKOK LINE the ear of Royalty and of the author.

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It was as a sociologist, not as a sports man-1 cannot endure the boredom of sport that 1 seized the opportunity of the Toulon visit of the famous Chicago Sioux and the New York Apaches (1 am not quite sure of the names) to with for the first timesa game of baseball... i

But if an Englishman had shouted, found that it has the great advantage This is better than Lord's," I should ** | have been disposed to agree with him, over cricket of being sosser ended. A

To go back to cricket mites baseball is far as I can grasp it, it combines the best features of that primitive form of like going back to Shakespeare played in five acts with 15 minute intervals after cricket (the only tolerable one) known 115 Tip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, seeing it played straight through in the Fuss-in-the-corner, and Handel's "Mesurrect Shakespearean way." Cricket is an old fashioned And it surpasses them all (ex doomed by its overs ept Handel) in giving scope for the Shakespeare is by its acts. It is slow, Bla-ball is swift. higher buman faculties of rhetoric. irony,todgy, and obvious. and loquent emotional appeal. Even

intense, and (as to what it is all about) inscrutabl those players who had no gift of elo- quence expressed their souls in dithyram- bic cries like the Greek Evoe! "which sounded to ms like Attaboy! I confess that I am not enough of a Greek scholar to translate Attaboy, but it is a very stimulating ejaculation.

A GRICKET HIST.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and ever expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.

I do not see why this feat ture should not be introduced into cricket. There is no reason why the wicket-keeper should not incite the bowler to heroic exertions by combined taunting and coaxing, or why the field should not try to put the batsman off his straks at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife' fidelity and his mother's respect ability. Iig true that the English ericketer would not do it exactly that way. He would

"Get your hair cut," cr Take off that paper collar," or Beaver" but the intention and the effect would he the same. And the spectators sould let themselves go utter- y, rivalling each other in every art of the satirist and every apostrophe of the hero-worshipper. But even with this bor- powed improvement I think cricket would still be unable to compete with baseball, except in slowness and stup- idity in which qualities it is without parallel or rival

When I arrived on the ground Royalty, in the person of the Duke of York (1 had rushed to the first game of the series), was doing its share of the daily taak, the common round, by shaking and,

hands with the carefully aligned and so far, spotlessly clean Apaches, who confronted Royal condes cension with Republican fortitude. They were not proud, these heroes, and I shall never forget that Mr. McGraw, in whom I at last discovered the real and authen- tic Most Remarkable Man in America, shook hands with me. He even shook hands with the Duke. But though he was very nice to us, there is no denying that be played us both right off the stage.“

ZEWILDERED SPECTATORS.

The Duke, by the way, failed to catch the part of the game that reminded me of Handel, -1 do not know bow it is in America, but in England the audience Hallelujah always stands up for the Chorus." In America, during, a game of baseball, it stands up for the seventh innings. And we all did stand up ex cept the Royal party, which, not having been properly coached in the ritual, ro mained seated, a scandal that evidently made a most painful impression on the Americans present. Lest this should re- sult in a war, may I assure the United States that it was an error of pure ig- norance The King will be present at the next match, and I have no doubt that if the President will write and ex- plain what is expected of him he will rise reverently at the proper moment, and instruct the Lord Chamberlain to see that the Court does the same.

The British spectators were bewilder- ed by the proceedings at frst. The players began by playing without a ball, and with an Indian club instead of a proper bat. They varied this by imitat ing a slow-motion cinematographic pic- ture. All this we in our ignorance took to be part of the celebrated but to us unknown game; and when the real play began we made no distinction, and in- Docently supposed that for some, myater- ious reason baseball was played partly without a ball and partly with one. The Indian club was a terrible stumbling- block. We could not conceive any ser ious players using such a thing. As to the bowing, an English bowler would have been ordered off the field for it. The bowler began like a Highlander throwing the hammer, and then skied the ball with all his might straight to the wicket-keeper for a hard catch. The batsman incidentally swiped at it, as it passed, with his absurd club; and if, ad sometimes happened, he caught it with a masterly drive to square leg, everybody said, Foul" (without the least foun- dation), and nothing else happened. But if he drove it back, then it was a case of tip-and-run and Pus-in-the-corner, unless he was caught out, in which case we of England applauded heartily, as it was the only transaction in the game which was in the least intelligible to us I regret to have to say that the Siouz ard-Apaches played equally-badly,-for- after extraordinary exertions their scores were 1 and respectively. An English cricket team would have hit up hundreds with half the trouble. Either the Apa

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AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION.

Of course, many Englishmen may dis- like it on that account. I once helped to establish a reform country hetel where the villagers could get good beer for their money instead of the horrible Far from stuff they were accustomed to, appreciating my efforts, they complain. el bitterly that the process of getting drunk, which the bad beer prolonged cheaply and deliciously for hours, was precipitated by the good beer, which re- daced then to insensibility in 30 min- utes. Men of this stamp are capable of preferring a silent game which lasts from tea to six, and which consists mostly of changing over, and going in and out of a pavilion, to an uproarious, impetuous, incessant, quick-firing whirl- wind of a game that lasts no more than 90 minutes; that is, long enough to give you all the amusement you desire, but not long enough to give you time to begin wondering which is the bigger fool of the two the Apache who is whacking at a ball or you who are looking at him ns if your life depended on his success. And that is just the right time for a game, to last.

As I left the ground one of my cour- trous hosts expressed a hope that I would come again. When a man asks you to come and see baseball played twice it erts you asking yourself why you went to see it played once. That is a totally un- answerable question. It is a.mad world.

Rat I will not deny that I enjoyed the afternoon. I may have the makings of a far in me for all I know.

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