Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1918 — CRICKET IS DIFFICULT GAME [ARTICLE]

CRICKET IS DIFFICULT GAME

Americans .in War Zone Who Scoffed at English Pastime Have Changed Their Opinions. American ball players now In the war zone, who scoff Ad at* the English cricketers, are Revising their ideas s’nce they have seen the British disporting themselves at their national pastime. The cricket ball Is, If anything, harder than the Ameican basetall, and yet the British soldiers are not permitted to wear baseball mittens to minimize the shock. Barelumded, they make creditable catches, going far afield for flies, and their all-round work has roused much admiration among the Yanks. The one thing the Americans cannot see the sense of Is the fact that you can make a long hit and score a run, in cricket, off a baseball foul. Long drives hit backward, fqr behind the batter, are great stuff with the British, and they -practice them continually.