The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-04-19

Tho time OF the visitors was not. h,Wevcr.
sTHasvG Lsd 5a ZEN up p NTH !, receptions &c so. and dinnsrs.
did almost evcry day.
By the time tie .sralding party finally left
and BalIasat, there wsrs Eighteen clubs ALREADY
0rgentzed In the three provinces of Victoria, New
S ~. Wales. and South Australia. and Mr..
simpson, WHO mas acccNnpat,iel the party thus
Tar, was left in Australia as u sort Of instructor
aud ofgantzer general for tho Australian leagues.
~ may be mentioned here, too. tliet g New zea.
Auckland. Wellington, Brisbane, aud other
PLACES. The single games tho teams were nblc
70 pay ,,a o. Auckland stimulated . baseball fever
Zealand league seems likely to prove o success.
The stay In Australia was shortened by the
determination to return home by way of India,
suez aud Europe. 1t was the intention at first
to go from Colombo to Calcutta and play a fcw
games there and a. Poinhsy; but on reaching
cou!aging, and alter playing u.,e game on tho
ai;eient island, very iaici. to the establishment
OF the natives, who coul! Lot understand why
men should exert Themselves in such q violent
plHSyers continued to Alden md :.ues.
Feb. Q. the day. after Suez was reached, the party
were under the shadow OF the pyramid Of
Ghfzel, and In full view Of the SPHINX. Hero a
sands of the desert made fielding rather difficult,
che players felt that forty centuries We're looking
down upon them, and exerted themselves. to the
utmost. Such q sight was never seen before,
and may never BIO again; tho most encient
monuments of almost prehistoric nun and the
'nsss m %sse1 pro aisssslSa o OF The The n fsss st the %sa aas ana
here were face TO face. Tho came ut the pyrn-
mids was the only one played in Egypt: No Stop
was made at Alesa,i.ir:n, AM the quickest tiilo
possible was maize to l~5ii::..i,i.
Rome used to bs 2 great place for physical
not sportsmen. Almost the only spectators Of
tho game ut RoMc were the Americans resident
there, moro especially. tho Irisll-American
10 ua 611IG. KIM Ht1YlIlprt Q1,i fIn 0rYsAaIN ara va.
ported to have passed by the villa Boigliesc
while the game was going on, and even to havo
very few Italian, spectators. At Florence a fine
game was played, but tho attendance, Us ut
isome, was almost entirely Of American rcsi-
dents and travellers, together with q few English.
men. At Nice the experience was repeated. At
Paris there was q large concourse OF, people, but
tho French did not a. all understand the game.
and are not likely to take to it,.
After a short stay in Paris the party crossed
tho clialneli in ono of the worst storms known
of March.
M THE s,xpesi s4;s', Of tho d's1 party s.ty as, as guests, nest ,,, Of the h.
ton oval WAS honored by tho presence of tho
Prince OF Wales, the Dukes of Buccleuch and
Beaufort, tho Earls of Londcsborough, Coventry,
sheffield, and Be5sbOrOugil, Lord Randolph
Churchill, md no end of smaller lordlings, be-
sides That great civic dignitafy, the Lord Mayor
title ut all. The next gamo In London wes
played on tho famous Lords ground, long sacred
10 cricket. Others were played ut the Crystal
Palace and ut LAeyton's, III the famous EAST
End" where there was All immenso crowd of
spectators. 1t is possible that baseball may
now DO added to the list of the diversions Of
the peoples palace"
Tho journey from London through tho aproy-
incas' was made in grand style i'll q special train
two lining cars of tho American pattern. No
body but tho Queen Los ever before travelled IN
such fashion in Great Britain. Games wcro
played in Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester and
Liverpool, which were NIL we'll attended, ,lal
which ELECTED some enthusiasm among the OLE
i ln In fact, tho English trip was as pleas
was favorably received everywhere. Still there
is small likelihood that baseball will take any
did i'll Australia, or that it will very soon be-
como oven o serious rival of cricket.