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Date	Sunday, October 3, 1875
Text	The following dispatch, per Atlantic cable, is just in time for this issue. It comes from our special base ball correspondent in London: “Cricketers, heads of schools, of athletic clubs, and of the universities in England, have long been deliberating over the merits of base ball. Their decision is at last arrived at, and it in unanimous. It is to the effect that the game is more fit for boys under twelve or fourteen than for men, and that it is never likely to find favor with English adults. Excitable and erratic young gents may safely indulge in it. The authoritative and dictatorial powers wielded in the game by umpires are sufficient to militate against the possibility of its ever becoming popular in England.” So it would appear that “Capt.” Spalding’s mission to England was a failure in more ways than one.
Source	Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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