Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27

Panmure-Gordon, the English capitalist.
Panmure-Gordon spent a considerable por-
ton of the years 1929 in Chicago, where
he was engaged in some syndicate opera
tons, and recall the extreme difficulty with
which he induced to attend a game of
ball in Chicago one summer day In 1892.
When he got to the ball yard he sat in his
box in a state of profound ennui for a long
time watching the plays, and, of course,
| hardly understanding one of them.
Absurd = humbug nonsense fiddle
sticks" he kept murmuring the game
progressed, and every minute or so he
would heaYe Il deep sigh and say that he d
like TO see good game of cricket, he sure
would.
But the newspaper men who had him in
tow were determined that he wasn't going
to quit the Chicago ball yard with any
such unfair idea as that of the American
game, and they kept right at him, explain
ing the kinks that he didn't understand,
pointing out where the inside work of the
players counted. and all that sort of thing.
When the game was about half over Pan
mure-Gordon began to chirk up and look
some interested.
"Umph-not so bad-Well caught. that
well. that man hit that ball like bowler
now he comes home. doesn't he? l de-
clare, that was fast work The English cap
itaEst began to comment when the actual
meaning of the game commenced to per-
colate through his British preji.dices, and
before the game was over there was
queer light in his eyes and 4 bright spot
on either of his cheeks, and he was affirm
ing to the newspaper men that the UNI
pires decisions hadn't seemed fair to him
that it looked as Chicago was getting the
worst of it.
From that day It was all off with H
Panmure Gordon British capitalist. He
asked the newspaper men to take him out
to the game on the following day, and the
day after that, and before the week was
over Mr.. Panmure-GOrdon was just plain,
everyday, yowllng, enthusiastic, roofing
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to every game in Chicago during the re-
mainder of his stay there that season and
the next, and he kept a score card, and he
Hacked his arms and denounced the UNI
pires from his box, and his glasses tumbled
off his nose in his excitement, and he got
red and mad in the face. and he knew all
the patter of the game, and he declared
and vumned and vowed that he was going
to make the effort of his life to get the
English interested in base ball when he re-
turned to his own tight little isle. He
came to admitting that cricket while 1t had
its points, wasn't in it with American base
ball, too
This English gentleman, however, was
an exception, and, moreover, the oppor-
tunity was before the people endeavoring
to convince him of the beauties of base
ball to get him to see more than one
game That's the trouble with most Eng
lishmen and base ball-they only see one
game of it, as a rule. and they don't grasp
the meaning of it at that one game, and
more than one game for SO intensely con-
sentative an individual as the average
Englishman to see the science and grace of
base ball.
When American Teams Visited Eng
land.
When Spalding's All-America teams that
toured the world many years ago played in
England the British crowds looked on DULY
and with no apparent interest at the play
ing Of the games. They were unconvInced,
because they didn't see enough of it. The
English at that time were of the opinion
that the Americans were drawing the long
bow about many of the features of the
game of base ball. They didn't believe, for