Baseball Boom.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3347, 29 October 1889, Page 2

Baseball Boom.

An incentive has 1 bsengiv6n to intore3i'in the' itterioan game of

j.that the firm of A. G. Spalding aud Bros., of New York and Cliicago.uavfl decided to present a valuable championship cup to the cluba of New Zealand, aud similar emblems to Victoria, New South Wales. Queensland, and south Australia, to be ■ competed foraonuallv. The conditions aro tlioso usual in such contests—that any club winning the cup for three'successive years shall become its permanent owners, thus prouding tho nucleus of a sorjesof interprovincial matches. Sir A.G.Spalding.itwill berembered, is the gentleman who took two American baseball teams on a . tour round the world last year,playing exhibition niatches.and he maybe said to be almost at the bead of .the exponents of tho garao in Yankeeland. Messrs Spalding also announce, tbeir : intention to offer a special trophy, to be called the U'pa'ding International dip, to be competed for by the representative teams . of the . colonies. These inducements should heenough ; , 4 - to make a big boom iu baseball this season, when added to the undoubted interest of the game. Speaking of this, the' Australasian' says:— Once let the public .become educated, up to the beamies mid intricacies of baseball when played iu its integrity,' aud it is bound to follow, as tho night the nay, that they will accord it a very generous support. The game iB a legitimately good one, and only requires to be understood to become extremely popular with all classes." '-k.