The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06

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NAVY N The DIPLOMATS teuwne enthusiasm
wheh they nauser tha Intficaeiea " the
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up IN Enaland end IL . hrst rate efioAesef
learned tho lnslds kinks ~ hashaIt yeASs
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tlertnany and Throughout Europe
sif William Van Hufne. thw Canadian
| luiidsf ~ railways. vim was t,ofh w Illinois
and worked ~ q telegraph operator at
there IN hia Young manhgyh, st'endsd one
~ tha hall snmes here With -ofne attaches
~ thu british Emls,s sy last year 4
snohbish young chap ~ Washington
issnssss dofte, who had bern rdieated ~
oxford, was sitting In the nett boy. and
one ~ the attaches introduced him 10 Sir
william. The gildsd youth Thought to
ma he n hit With sir william, with whose
history We was not acquainted Nv leaning
over 10 he American born knight and
saying
sStoopid game, baseball. compainhed
with cricket, don't you think, Sir William
Sir William bestowed a slow, compre-
hensive gaze upon tho young ma and
then replied. with the greatest imaginable
dellbcration'
ION the contrary, I think that baseball
haa got cricket skinned seven different
ways from the ace"
The young chap was quiet for the re-
mainder Of the afternoon.
stnngers visiting the ball games here
are invariably surprised to see Sir Chentung
LianR-Cheng, the Chinese Ambassador
sitting In state In one Of the boxes. generally
with his young son and a few Of the attaches
around him.
1T must bore him frightfully,' observed
an elderly Daughter Of the Revolution at
one Of the games last week. How can
such an involved game as baseball amuse
a Chinaman when he knows nothing about
: I? / suppose he only comes to the game
10 give himself a chance to study out, in
the open air, the problems Of his ambassa-
dorial Office
The Daughter Of the Revolution had
scarcely emitted these words when she
saw. TO her Amusement, the Chinese Am.
bassador draw a regular baseball reporters
score book from beneath the folds Of BIZ
robe, and begin to make notes in the proper
column with his tiny gold trimmed pencil
And then she distinctly heard Sir Chenf
observe to one Of the attaches with him:
Pretty punk hit, that, and it ought really
to go for an error, but ] guess LII give 1t to thu
boy and. let him fatten up a bit, seeing tina
he's been whiting a lot lately
-Why, VIII ha-a-a-' the Daughter o
the Revolution began to stammer to thu
man esoorting the party Of Daughters. bu
he broke Of her inquiry by saying:
on, tlldtb an iibh'i y'N ''
Chepg's one Of the SWEETEST cranks view
got, you see."
but" said the ~astonished Dau ghter
she seems to know the game!"
We'll, he ought to-" said her escort
@He pitched for a New England college team
about a quarter of a century ago, and there
a story that he struck out eighteen men o
an opposing nine one day. Oh, yes, he
knows the game some
Representative Tim Sullivan of New
York, dropped in one day, last weel
and with a large number of the member
Of his suite and b%odyguard attended
game between the Washington and New
York clubs. Congressman Tim and hi
bunch sat in a lot Of front row boxes anc
some crafty chap in the grand stand starte'
the yarn that Big Tim had always been
mascot for the Highlanders-that Griffith
outfit had never been known to lose a gam
at which Big Tim was present.
The crafty one who circulated this yarn
which quickly spread all over the stand
was looking for odds on the game, and h,
got them all right. Washington was du,
to be trimmed. anyhow, for the club has
beaten the Highlanders on the day before
When the betting bunch in the stand saw
Clark Griffith, before the game began
walk over to Congressman Tins box anc
shake hands with him and nod his head i,
a confident sort Of way the u~nsentimenta
rooters who are always out for the dougl
took the hunoh after having swallowed
the story about Big Tim being a mascot
and laid 8 to 1 against the Washington team
1t was an exciting game, but the Washing
ton bunch trimmed Grifith's band to thu
tune Of 5 to 3, and the deep ones who hac
accepted the Big Tim huncE cast many
sour and dour look in his direction as h
passed out.