Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1914 — ANTIPODEAN HITS BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

ANTIPODEAN HITS BASEBALL

<Australian Cricketer Severely Criticizes American Game—Associated With Bpirlt of Bluffing. Baseball as played In America is severely criticized by a member of the ‘’Australian cricket team which recently toured the United States and Canada. A Sydney paper containing an interview with the cricketer on the return of the team to Australia haa just been received here. “Candidly,” the Australian athlete is quoted, “I don’t like baseball as played in America. Baseball tn Australia is a fine game, played In the spirit of our cricket. But that spirit is not known in American baseball, which is a professional game and, associated with bluffing of a character foreign to the Australian and English ideas of^sport. “There is, of course, money In it, but if baseball Is ever to become & big game here it will need to be divorced from the spirit which pervades its American atmosphere.”