To the Editor of the onri-Catwa Dari News."
Si,—Is i too much to expect that journals in the East when publishing reporte of cricket matches shoal! show an intelligent appreciation of the national game?
Where all are at fault it would be in-vidians ts make distinctions, but it must shock the feelings of all lovers of the game to read of such things as "wind screens," "the pitch being so worn that it caused much trouble to the fieldsman," or that a batsman who barely reached double figures "had knocked the bowling all over the field Anyone who read the accounts of the inter-port matches published by the Honekong papers last. year will remember how misleading they often were on account of the ignorance or misapplication of the language of the game. (ne naturall expects that your contemporary, whicl devotes itself entirely to sporting matters, would be careful to avoid such innecuracies appear in the account of a mate it publishes to-day. A: atsmah who has taken the best part of two hours to compile forty runs ca hardly: be said to have played a" vigorous innings," nor can a side, which has three batsmen still to go in, have been call out for 100 runs.
The Press can do much to encourage the public interest in cricket which many think is sadly on the wane in Shanghai, and the first step in this direction is for it to take an intelligent interest in the game.
Tam, ete., 4 Cer to Square ne!"
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