YANKEE VIEW OF CRICKET

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 14

YANKEE VIEW OF CRICKET

game called cricket, after all. Even the hardened baseball fan sat up with astonishment when lie read the account of the cricket game played at New York Oval on Labour Day between the West India Cricket Club of this city and a visiting- team from Bermuda,

writes an American baseball critic. It gems that the Bermuda boys went to bat first and banged out 145 runs before they stopped hitting. My word! Baseball was never like that unless it was the college contest of which a fair spectator said: “My dear, it was marvellous. Everybody who came to bat hit a home run.” But the box score carried a different report. The nearest approach to a real cricket

score was in the famous game played on some public park diamond where a casual spectator, lolling under a watched the right fielder - hase long drives for balf-an-hour and then inquired: “Hey, what’s the score ?’* "Twenty-seven to 0. so far,*' gasped the outfielder. “Golly, what a beating!” observed the spectator. “You caji’t tell,’ answered the fielder. “W« aint been to bat yet.”