I was at a girls' school which played, and was dragged out to watch without any information given. So I played red ants versus black ants in a little arena in the grass, only they wouldn't fight like the ones in the Disney (?) film, so were just as exciting as the cricket.

I am told that baseball satisfies the statisticians in the States.

I also acquired some information as to why some places learned cricket and others didn't on a broadcast somewhere this year. Canada was not colonised in the same way as other parts of the Empire, with the nobs running things and taking their game there. In the West Indies, they did what they did at home and employed the help to do the fielding and bowling and other strenuous stuff. Football (soccer, that is) travelled with other ranks, such as engineers, ships' crews and so on, and so spread beyond the empire.

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