BASEBALL.
iVlr L. A. Cull, Secretary of the Canterbury A.A.C. and the NevvZealand Amateur Athletic Association, is taking 1 steps to form a baseball club in Christ church. __ The following is iroin a San Francisco paper : — A gentleman just from Australia who did not desire his name to be used expressed himself in this style to a "Chronicle " reporter last evening : " The Englishman is a creature of habit and convention. His father has told him that cricket is the gentleman's game,i and he-loves 'the game as he loves his church. He is the slave of duty. , He vows because it is right that ho should. He plays cricket 'because it 'is the proper thing. Any game Tbbati3 preSen ted to him must be placed before hini as"a game which is the 'light thing, you know,' or else he will have none of it. It. may be good sport, but he wants it to haye the approval of centuries or the backing of nobility before he will take it up. If the Prince of Wales said, '«I think baseball bully 'port, by Jove,' then every mother's son in Australia would be an enthusiast."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 3
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192BASEBALL. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 3
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