One answer to the question: Is Jericker losing its popularity?—a ques-Yon seriously posed as a result of Surrey's alarming defeat Inst season—may probably be found in the favourable response to the efforts fo-popularizing baseball. For some years! London has supported a number of baseball clubs and a regular league Jand even in Leeds and Bradford, in the heart of the cricket county, the /zame has been played for some lime. /Shades of Rhodes and Hirst but it had to come and there is now in existence a National Baseball Acroc!ation which is the supreme authority Jand in which Lancashire, Yorkshire's lerleket foe, has a large part, Baseball In its present form was introduced In the North of England by American troops in camp there during the war. Ther2 was a distinct inclination on the part of Yorkshire spectators, born Ju the cricket tradition, to scoff at the hew game and its similarity {o the children's game of rounders, but Interest has increased and this summer the game Is expected to be played on fan extensive scale. Indicating the anticipated appeal of the game to the detriment of cricket is the ouncement that there has appeared the first issue of a weekly publication. devoted to the game and published under the authority of the National Baseball Association,
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