Evening journal., 1903-09-04
LANG cHrN ruNa As A pAsEnAII PLAYER

LANG CHEN TuNG AS A BASEBALL PLAYER |
AT PHILLIPS ANDovER ACADEMY.
ries Of his baseball prowess, his old |
classmates say, are not exaggerated in
the least. He was q splendid pitcher, |
and his mastery of the curved ball won
more than one game for the old acad-
emy In one notable contest between
Phillips Andover and its traditional
rival. Phillips Exeter, II was three
bagger" knocked out by ri Nuk Liang
which crowned his team with victory
In addressing an after dinner audience
at the celebration OF Andovcr's one
hundred and twenty-dfth anniversary
Sir Liang described this game with q
huency Of which no admirer of the ma
tional game would be ashamed.
Il shall never forget" he said. ''the
game with Exeter in 1881. in which /
happened to take part We had been
defeated the year before on our own
grounds and were straining every nerve
to recover our lost laurels. The game
was now to be played at Exeter. Feel
ing that the reputation OF our school
was nc stake every member Of the nine
went into the game with a determina-
tion TO win, encouraged by a contingent
OF faithful supporters who had come
over from Andover Our opponents
were first at the bat. The batters were
easily disposed Of by our left handed
pitcher, Hubbard. Then our turn came.
In a twinkle we had two men on bases.
/ was next at the bat I smashed the
ball 70 center for three bagger. This
gave us a commanding lead. which our
opponents could never overcome The
result Of the game was Immediately
flashed over TO AndOver, and when the
train arrived there with the victorious
nine we were met by the whole school
with torchlights, a brass band and an
omnibus drawn by enthusiastic stu
dents. Rome could not have received
Caesar with greater pride"
An oriental who can play baseball in
this fashion need have little doubt Of
his success in a diplomatic mission to
the American nation Sir Liang has
been too busy to frequent the Washing
ton baseball park during the present
season. but he expects TO renew his
youth when the next contest for the
championship pennant begins.
ri Nuk Liang was one Of a number Of
Chinese boys who We're sent to the
United States by the Chinese govern
ment TO learn chow they do things in
the west" lesson I'm which they were
strained to recall them lest they be
turned into foreign devils" II IS said
/ that ri Yull's baseball playing was re-
| garded as the most Ominous indication
Of the evil effect OF American educa-
ton upon youthful Chinamen. How
! ever Pi Yuk was not long exiled from
I Americn, being sent back here 70 act as
interpreter for the Chinese legation I'M
der Minister Chang Wing Hoon, When
that minister returned to China, Liang
went with him. He afterward held
many important positions in the gov
ernment service and was secretary Of
the Chinese envoy TO Vlctoria's dia-
mond jubilee, at which time he was
knighted by the English queen.
The new minister is extremely demo
cratic and is fond of everything which
brings him into contact with the peo-
pie Of this country. He is bringing
up his two little boys, aged respectively
eight and six. in American ways, and
they play with the other children Of
the noighborhood either IN the legation
grounds or on the daisy sprinkled hill
across the way His sixteen-year-old
daughter has not the same freedom
Chinese conservatism with regard "a
the treatment of women being toe
strong 10 be broken even by so al
vanccd a man as Sir Liang.
WATIES NJ. KERNOCHAN.