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"PEED UP" CRICKET LAUNCHED BY AMERIOAN LORD HAWKE GIVES VIEWS, This Side of At. lantic Believe Introduction of Baseball Pep" Would Brighten Great English Game. a American sport writers are hav- ing lots of fun these days pulling the grand old game of tricket to Invaders From pieces and have already 'reformed' / the game t0 meet with their ideas. While of course there ars a few things to be said against cricket, baseball, or, in® fact, any other game, sport in this country has a long way to go before the true sporting feeling as it exists in Eng- land is reached. Cricket is somewhat on a par with curling in this country, played solely for the sport that there is in it, not simply to win at any cost Here are the predictions of an American writer, *who brings Lord Hawke into print as favoring changes in the cricket rules. ------ and and Reformation Coming. One of the international reaotions resulting from the war is almost sure to be a reformation in cricket, and it will be due largely to the re- sults: of disseminating baseball among the British. A full fledged cricket match lasts three days, to sdy nothing of time taken out - for tea. A three-day {game may naturally be expected to take more time than the man /making a living can spare. Even a three-day poker game - be- comes a sore trial to the merves be- fore the end, no matter if a fellow be winning The talk in England seems to be along the lines first, of hurrying the. action in cricket; second, to shortén the length of the games. bere average Most Americans are familiar with the tale. credited to the late. Tim Hirst, the mest erratic and likeghle of All baseball umpires ahd Jexing referees." Tim went abroad. some | years before hiy 'death--and return- ed with thid yarn. He said he was in Dublig on Thursday, when he met one of England's Most [aipons cricketers, Tim knew there was a big match on and that this man belonged to ona of the teams. "I asked him," said Tim, "if the match had been cantelled." *Of courge the match is on, dear old chap, and I am in it," he re- plied, "but I don't go to bat until Saturday." ---- Lord Hawke is Awake. One of those who recogmize that cricket may undergo radical modi- fication, although he is naturally extremely conservative and- a sup- porer of the old order, ds Lord Hawke, five times president of the Marlebone Crickket Club, which was founded in 1787, and captain of the Yorkshire County Club, a great player and a great authority In a reeent interview, Lord Hawke 'admitted that he thought the . game . would . "need a littl@ brightening up." He said in part: "It may be some of the players were growing a little tedious--just a little dull--and- that the game will need a litte brightening, but that need nof"mean panic legisla- tioh. The plodding, self-made bats- man---like some self-made men--is inclined sometimes to bore one ter- ribly, and I must say there are one or two players. of prominence who are so painfully slow that you couid not persuade me to' pay to see them at the wickets." Baseball Lacks Subtlety? That 'Lord Hawke does not real- ize: the. extraordinary complexities of which baseball is capable, and the wnlimited variations of team work {pitcher and quick thinking - which makes the' game one 'of dlmost daily sur- prises men who have played, or written for twenty or forty years, is proved by the following of his re-' marks comparing ericket and. the 'American sport: "I have seen baseball in its nat- Ive land. It-s-a good game; but the English crowd is not the stuff of which your {baseball 'fan' is made. Somehow baseball seems to lack the charm and the fascinating stbtle- ties 'which go to make ericket the incomparable sport it jis. The ball players throw with great accuracy, and the catching is wonderfully spectacular, but is is lacking in the fine art of, say, a well-judged piece oF fielding on the cricket field. The may have something to teach us in the matter of 'curves' and swerving, but there is not much in it." - Former Champion Dies. The death is announced at Mont- real of Arehle~Mason, former inter- national amateur backward skat- ing champion, after a brief attack of typhoid fever. ' Mason was a popular member of the M.ALAA., a wonderful back- ward skater and-a noted long dist- ance swimmer. oi It was only on Labor Day that he swam over a mile in Lake St. Louis, and it is thought that thesgreat ex- ertion' on a cold day had something to do with his attack of the iHiness which laid him low. 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