The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-26
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" i.hed tho seaa all over her and continued
rais,ne awrlIs and other nautical troubles
,yr about 5Oo miles This caused the liner
g. hc y day late despite the oft repeated
rro,nise- of skipper McAuley that he
would land the boys ~ well a. the other
tourists on Thursday, OF course there
wla some grumblinR. hut the discomfort
Gained down when the Republic anchored
OF quarantine,
Although wind and wave played pranks
with the big liner nothing very serious hap
rened to any one on board. A few hats
and wraps we're carried away and dozens
had gastronomic eruptions. but j. p.
Sullivan. the distance unne created a bit
of a sensation. He was nxious to emulate
the accident on the B~arbarossa, 10 when
the gale was at its height and the spray
was driving into the pilot house he took
a saunter on the upper deck. Before he
had gone many yards the s hip behaved
badly, for he slipped. and az he saidhimself
the deck came up and hit him in the eye,
with the result that there was a big cash
on the right temple when he came ashore.
The first man to break away from the
team at Athens was Parsons Of Yale and
he made a Decline for Cherbourg. Friend
and Lightbody left a day or 81 later 70 take
part in an athletic meeting at Budapest.
Prinstein had an invitation to the same
affair, but the expenses he demanded from
the managers Of the carnival we're too
steep and the jumper was left to do some
touring in the direction of Jerusalem.
This pleased him better, especially as he
had letters o~ftnf~oductien from Pat Conway
to friends in the Holy Land. Bonhag. went
"a far as Cherbourg with Parsons and 1t Is
his intention to try some running events IN
England an d Ireland n to bring back
some first class walking shoes with him.
Howard Valentine left with Edgren for a
trip in the direction Of Paris. Bacon and
Daniel s mapped out a circuitous route
through lower Europe heading toward the
French capital via Patras, Brindisi, Rome
and so on.
K~errigan. Sohick, Moulton, Bornaman,
Pilgrim, Forshaw. Spencer, Fowler, .Ewry
and d. A. Sullivan came as far as Naples
with the team and then took different routes,
the principal points to be covered being
Rome, Paris and London. A little pothunt-
ing in the British Isles occupied each ath-
'lete's brain, of course. although they did not
admit it for the stories Of how well American
athletes have beer treated in Britain had
worked on the minds of all.
From Athens to Naples the athletes made
the passage on the Princess Sophia, a mine
by Ave Mediterranean tripper which flew
the Greek colors at her stern pole. Until
the blast from Gabriel's trumpet sounds the
members Of the team will not forget the
'h%ardships IN the Sophia. She had a limited
first class accommodation and the athletes
taxed her to the doors with the result that
rooms were turned into sleeping apart
mepts al night, after being utilized for poker
games and dining purposes during the day.
When the athletes were not sleeping they
cuddled into the Gfeboats with blankets
and pillows and sang songs and cracked
Jokes as the humor struck them. Even the
captains bridge was invaded and the bare
footed first officer at the wheel had scarcely
room to exercise his huge muscular toes
All this, however, wa mere child's play To
the spell Of seasickncss which the boys
experienced after passing out of the u Of
torlnth.
nice gale churned up the sea into cnoppy
rollers and the Sophia tossed, twisted and
pounded like a washtub. One by one The
ath 'etic sea dogs who braved the raging
main on the Barbarossa succumbed, unit
only three, Hillman. Mitchell and Frank,
were on the top deck. But the hardshipf
we're partly c~ountefbalanced by the night
view passing through the Corinth Canal
and later by the volcano at Stromboli
The Sophia struck the Corinth about /:
O'clock at night and everybody remained
III II soc the sight. With her sides almost
touching each bank she glided along IN tow
If a tug for the three miles Of waterway
like a ship going by the proscenium arch
IN a play. Away abave ones head and
almost appearing to reach the clouds were
the banks at each side, as abrupt and clean
as If they had been sliced with a huge knife
The canal is about three miles long and II
took more thar an hour and a half for the
Sophia to glide through. The cone OF
Stromboli is remarkable al possessing
one Of the volcanoes now in constant ac-
tlvity. 1t was about s c O'Clock in the after.
noon when the Sophia went by 1t and those
on board had a capital view OF the crater
Al intervals Of about three minutes 1t would
blaze up like a huge forge and would die
away after about a minutes fierce blazing
With the team there was quite a host OF
souvenir hunters, but a good joke came
TO light over the telegram Of congratulatior
sent by President Roosevelt. MI. Sullivan
who received it, turned the message oveI
to Manager Halpin TO be read to the team
at gllDDAr the ayeninQ Of its arrival. in