The true northerner., 1889-04-17

The time OF the visitors was not, h 'wever,
entirely taken up with receptions and dinners.
They had come To play baseball, and play they
By the time the Spalding party finally left
Melbourne. after playing In Sydney; Adslaide,
and Ballarat, there were eighteen clubs already
organized In the three provinces OF Victoria, New
South Wales, and South Australia, ana Mr..
Simpson, who has accompanied the party thus-
far was left i'm Australia as "A sort OF instrucs~~
and organizer general for the Australian leagues.
IL NAV be mentioned here, too, that New Zea-u
land league was formed also. Win diuDs osh a..
places. The single games the teams were able
To play at Auckland stimulated a baseball fever
that had already been caught, and the New
Zealand Ieaeue seems likely TO prove a success
The stay In Australia was shortened by the
determination 10 return home by way OF India,
Suez and Europe. IL was the intention Mt first.
TO go from Colombo to Calcutta aud play few
games there and at Bombay; but on reaching
Ceylon the advices from Calcutta were not en-
couraging, and after playing one game on the
ancient island very much TO the nstonishment.
of 1.-The natives, who could not understand why
men should exert themselves In such a violent
manner who were not compelled 20 do SO, the
players continued 10 Alden and suez.
Cairo the next objective point, and on.
Feb. 3, the day after s9ez was reached. the party
7 'wero under the shadow OF the pyramid Of
Ghizeh, and in full view OF the Sphinx. Here "a
game was played, and although the shifting
sands OF the desert made fielding rather difficult.
the PLAYERS felt that forty centuries looking
down upon Them and exerted themselves 10 the
utmost. Such sight was never seen before,
monuments of almost prehistoric man and the
most modern diversion OF the newest man, and
the most progressive ON the face OF the earth,
here were face TO faco. The game at the pyra-
mids the only one played in Egypt. No stop
was made at Alexandria and the quickest time
possible made To Brindisi.
Rome used 10 be great place for physical
contests but the Italians OF the present day are
pot sportsmen. Almost the only spectators OF
the game at Rome were the Americans resident,
there, especially the Irish-American
youths attending the College OF the Propaganda
To be sure, King Humbert and the Queen are re-
ported 10 have passed by the Nila Bofghese'
while the game was going on, and even to have
stopped for n moment or two, but there were
very few Italian spectators. AT Florence fine
game played, but the attendance, as AZ.
Rome almost entirely OF American resi-
dents and travellers, together with n few English
men, AT Nice the experience was repeated. AT
Paris there n large concourse of people but
the French did not at all understand the game
Gnd are not likely To take 10 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 keDsing-
ton oval was honored by the presence OF the
Prince OF Wales, the Dukes OF Buccleuch and
Beaufort, the Earls of Londesborough, Coventry,
Sheffield, and Bessborough, Lord Randolph
Churchill, and no end of smaller lordlings, be-
sides that great civic dignitary, the Lord Mayor
OF London, and about 5000 people without any
title at all. The next game in London was
played on the famous Lords ground, long sacred
10 cricket Others were played az the Crystal
Palace and at Leyton's, in the famous East
End, where there was an immense crowd OF
spectators. IL is possible that baseball may
now be added 10 the list of the diversions OF
the peoples palace"
The journey from London through the prov
inces" was made in grand style in IA special train
of seven cars, which included two sleeping and
two dining cars of the American pattern. No
body but the Queen has ever before Travelled liz
such fashion in Great Britain Games Were
played in Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester and
Liverpool, which all well attended, and
which elected some enthusiasm among the on
lockers. In fact, the English trip was as pleas
ant as possible, and the great American game
was favorably received everywhere. still mere
is small likelihood that baseball will ttAe any
such hold OF the public mind in Englana rs IL
did in Australia, or that will very soon be-
come even u serious rival Of cric1ot.