Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

The time OF the visitors was not, h,wever,
They had comtA 70 play baseball, and play they
did almost every dpy.
Melbourne, after playing in Sydney. Adelaide
and Ballarat there We're eighteen clubs already
Srgahlzea IN the three provinces of Victoria New
Sou0h wales, and South Australia, and Mr.
ssnnpson, who has accompanied the party thus
Tar, was left in Australia us sort of instructor
ana Organizer general for the Australian leagues.
~ may be mentioned here, too, thNt New Zea-
lana league was formed also, with clubs at
Auckland, Wellington, Brisbane, and other
places. the single games the teams were able
to play at Auckland stimulated baseball fever
thnt mad already been caught, and the New
Zealand league seems likely to prove success.
!. me stay III Australia was shortened by the
GetefmlnGIlon to return home by way of India,
ouez and Europe. 1t was the intention at first
10 so from Colombo to Calcutta and play few
games There NE and ut Bombay but on reaching
Ceylon the advices from Calcutta were not en-
coufaslns; ana after playing one game OH the
ancient island, very much to the establishment
OF the natives, who could not understand why
manner who were not compelled to do SO, the
Players continued to Alden and Suez.
cairo was the next objective point and on
fen. ., the day after suez was reached the party
were under the shadow of the pyramid Of
Ghizeh, and in full view Of the Sphinx. Here q
game game, was played, and although the shifting
the players felt that forty centuries were looking
down upon them, and exerted themselves to the
utmost Such sight was never seen BEFORE
monuments of almost prehistoric man and the
most modern diversion Of the newest man, and
Inc most progressive on the face Of the earth,
mids was the only one played in Egypt. No stop
was made at Alexandria and the quickest time
possible was made to Brindisi,
Rome used to be a great place for physical
contests, but the Italians of the present day are
not sportsmen. Almost the only spectators Of
the game at Rome were the Americans resident
there 1Hy %ho oh, A,,,or
youths attending the College of the Propaganda.
To be sure, King Humbert and the Queen are re-
ported to have passed by the Villa Borghese
while the game was going on, and even to have
stopped for a moment or two, but there were
very few italian spectators. At Florence a fine
game was played, but the attendance, as at
dents and travellers, together with few English
men. At Nice the experience was repeated. At
Paris there Was large concourse of people, but
the French did not at all understand the game
and are not likely to take to it.
After short stay in Paris the party crossed
the channel in one OF the worst storms known
there for years, and reached London ON the 9th
of March,
The experience Of the party as guests of the
Marylebone Cricket Club was very like their ex-
perience in Australia The first game on Kensing-
ton oval was honored by the presence of the
Prince Of Wales, the Dukes of Buccleuch and
Beaufort u the Earls of Londesborough, Coventry,
churchill, and no end of smaller lordlings, be-
sides that great civic dignitary, the Lord Mayor
o. tti London and about 5000 people without any
played on the famous Lords ground long sacred
to cricket. Others We're played at the Crystal
Palace and at Leyton's, in the famous East
| End, where there was an immense crowd OF
spectators: 1t is possible that baseball may
now be added to the list of the diversions Of
| the peoples palace"
The journey from London through the prov
inces" was made in grand style in special trai1
| OF seven cars, which included two sleeping auG
two dining cars OF the American pattern. No
body but the Queen has ever before travelled il
such fashion in Great Britain. Games wer'
played in Bristol Sheffield, Manchester ant
which ELECTED some enthusiasm among the on
lockers. In fact, the English trip was as pleas
ant as possible, and the great American gam
is small likelihood that baseball will take an,
such hold of the public mind in England as
did in Australia, or that it will very soon be
come even a serious rival of cricket.