Rounders

Game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, 1913.

The morning report from camp: Harry enjoyed today's parachute games, declined to make paper boats and is apparently very good at "rounders."

"I'm sorry," said I, "at what?"

"He's a solid hitter, we were very impressed," says camp Counselor Jane.

"I'm sorry," repeats I, the confounded American mother, "at what?"

It took some translation from multiple sources, but Harry is apparently a natural at something akin to baseball. I credit his grandfather Jim.

(Courtesy Wikipedia for those equally ignorant: Rounders is a game played between two teams each alternating between batting and fielding. The game originated in England and has been played there since Tudor times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it is called "baseball".^[1] It is a striking and fielding team game, which involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat and then running around four bases in order to score.^[1][2] The game is popular in Britain and Ireland among school children.^[3][4]
Game-play centres around innings where teams alternate at batting and fielding. A maximum of nine players are allowed to field at one time. Points ('rounders') are scored by the batting team by completing a circuit around the field through four bases or posts without being put 'out'. )