Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-19
A GORGEOUS RECEPTION.
tr2ordinary Preparations TO Receive the
American Ball Players in England
Dukes. Lords and Earls Will Meet
Them and the Prince of
Wales Will be There.
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Wales Will be There.
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LONDON, February lS.-lf the present plans
are carried out the American baseball players
when they arrive here will have most cheer
full reception and make the acquaintance of
many grand and noble pcrsonages as well.
CIV. Alcock, editor of the Cricket and a
thorough all-round sportsman, is working hard
to make the players feel at home when they
reach this town. His idea is to have COM
mlttee to receive the Americans which shall
represent sports of all kinds. The members of
the committee, as far as it has been already
organized by Mr.. Alcock, includes the follow
ing: Duke of Buccleugh. President of the
Maryleboue Cricket Club, which is the princi-
pal club in England; Duke of Beaufort, the
Lord Mayor, Consul General Waller and Sir
Reginald Hanson, Jubilee Lord Mayor. Others
who will also form part of the committee,
unless absolutely prevented, are the Duke OF
Westminster; W. G. Grace who has been En-
glands champion cricket player for 20 years;
Duke of Portland, master of horse; Earl
Coventry, master of buckhounds, and good
cricketer; Earl of Darnley Earl of Latham,
who is Lord Chamberlain and good cricketer;
Earl Manners, another cricketer; Viscount
Holmes Dale, Lord Belpher, Lord Charles
Beresford, Lord Lyttleton who with nine sons
and one cousin has formed the entire cricket
eleven of Lyttletons; Lord Walsingham, the
great shooting man; Earl of Bessboro, Sir
William Hart Dyke, formerly President of
the Manhattan Cricket Club. and champion
racket player; Viscount Croishan, who goes
in for cricket and all kinds of sporting things;
Lord Hawke Captain of the Yorkshire Cricket
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Football Association; Niscount Waterford,
great hunting man; Mr.. Justice Chitty, who was
in the Oxford Boat Club ard Oxford Eleven in
the same year, avery rare distinction, and many
others.
The Lord Mayor is already wondering which
of his gorgeous rooms be will lunch the play
ers in. the long parlor being too small and the
Egyptian room much too large. A big dinner
in Whitehall rooms is being talked about.
The Prince of Wales will turn up to see the
players play, which means a good thing for
any kind of show in this country, even if the
Prince may happen TO know nothing about 1t
A cablegram from Naples says: Consul Gen.
eral Camphausen has sent out formal invita-
tion to members of the diplomatic corps and
to many members of the best society here, in
viting them TO see us play game on the Cam
po Demarte grounds tomorrow. This would
give us a sort of official standing. We antici-
pate having good attendance of English and
American tourists, but don't expect rush OF
much on outdoor sports. The weather is very
fine here at present, being clear and cold. De-
spite the talk of this being the land of
sunny skies, we only caught our first glimpse
of old Sol since arriving here yesterday.
Lynch has gone to Nice, to arrange for our
playing game there during the Flower Festi-
val, great society evenT, now in progress
there. Our adyices from Vienna representthat
there is great disappointment there on account
of the cold weather and the snoT, preventing
our playing in that city in the open air. A re-
ception committee of prominent citizens has
been appointed to welcome US. and they have
secured the exposition building. We may play
an indoor game, just to give the hospitable
Viennese an idea of our national game. We
had an interesting time in that wicked
but interesting city, Pompeii, to-
day. Carroll and Fogarty climbed to
the top of Vesuvius, looking for the crater.
They came back to the hotel tonight, half
dead with fatigue Mrs. Spalding and her son
Joined the party here. They will accompany
us as far as Nice. Ward says he will 60 to
Boston under Kelly or any other captain. He
does not know what the Washington PROPOSE
tion is. We are all in the dark about baseball
matters and doings at home, and have only had
a vague hint about some sort of classifca-
tion. The boys are wondering what it is all
about