9, where we were the recipients of a most enthusiastic ovation, in which brass bands and a banquet played a most important part, and after the buffeting about that we had received from the waves of old ocean we were glad indeed that the voyage was over.
The impression that base-ball made upon the lovers of sport in England can be best illustrated by the following quotations taken from the columns of the London Field, then, as now, one of the leading sporting papers of that country: "Base-ball is a scientific game, more difficult than many who are in the habit of judging hastily from the outward semblance can possibly imagine.

It is in fact the cricket of the American continent, considerably altered since its first origin, as has been cricket, by the yearly recourse to the improvements necessitated by the experience of each season.

In the cricket field there is at times a wearisome monotony that is entirely unknown to baseball.

To watch it played is most interesting, as the attention is concentrated but for a short time and not allowed to succumb to undue pressure of prolonged suspense.

The broad principles of base-ball are not by any means difficult of comprehension.