Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — GAIN RESPECT FOR CRICKET [ARTICLE]

GAIN RESPECT FOR CRICKET

British Game, Thought to Be Mild and Harmless, Praised by Boys In Service Abroad. Occasionally letters from boys in the service abroad show that while they are teaching France and England the beauties of baseball, they are gaining new respect for the British game of cricket, which they ITad previously thought about as mild and harmless as croquet. One soldier, writing of a cricket game he saw, declares that the British fielders, “while weak on grounders, are pippins on fly balls. They’ll go down the field for a long fly, judge it just right, and grab it without gloves. Some of the catches they make would do honor to Roush or Speaker.”