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: would he amazed could he see the
| throngs that view a first class football
| match in London or any of the other
great centers of the game. Eighty or
ninety thousand spectators are con-
sdered merely good gate" and no.
500 people have paid admission to SEQ
q cup-tie match MT the Crystal Palace.
IN metropolitan London alone there are
20 fewer than II professional football
organizations, each one member or
one or other OF the three big English
leagues.
The football season lasts from Sept.
/ TO April so. From the latter date un-
til the following Aug. 81 the big grounds
of these organiZatio tons lie idle. In this
fact Cook saw his opportunity. lie
did little missionary work among the
governing bodies of these clubs, and
before long had the good will of six of
them I'm his pocket. They we're to pro-
vide the grounds and Cook was to raise
| and coach the teams. The latter were
| to pay their own expenses from the
start, and, strlnge to say, they did pay
from the very beginning.
STARTED TWO YEARS AGO.
Thus it was that the British Baseball
association was started in April 1906.
BY indefatigable labor % men, in adj
dition to the trio which already had
: been discovered, who had played the
game of baseball before and were Will
ing TO play again II given the oppor-
tunlty, were unearthed in London. Most
of these men were British-born, having
learned to play during visits to Amer
lea
With them the six clubs were formed,
care being taken to put certain num-
Der In each organization to instruct the
green men who We're necessary to make
up the mines. The clubs took their
names from the football organizations
that fathered them, and were the Clap
ton, Orients, Legion, Fulham, Totten-
ham. Hotspurs and Woolwich Arsen-
al. In addition to these five, an inde-
pendent club was formed called the
Nondescripts, who used the grounds
OF tho Ilford Football club. prom
inent London amateur organization.
WALKOVER FOR RHODES MEN.
Invitations were sent broadcast to all
who wanted TO try the new game. and
practise games We're played during
April and May on the various grounds.
In this way the green material was
whipped into some kind of presentable
form For the purpose of giving the
! general public a taste of what was
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ridiculous were they not so terribly in
earnest They throw themselves upon
The ground; they beat their heads on
IL: they kiss the stones under Them
grooming. signing, moaning ana weep
ing, clasping their hands in an agony
of fanaticism, entreatinS the Blessed
Mother of God Of C2enstochowa 10 give
them the things they most crave for
health, or happiness, prosperity,
children or forgiveness. Many burst
into tears of JOY when they SEQ the OBJ
iect Of their pilgrimage. The thirst
and hunger and heat of II are forgot
ten. Lame men and women, carried
to tho chapel. forget their innrmites
ana bend their knees. declaring that
they are cured. Others, with arms
that we're useless With paralysis nm
hour ago, stretch them out towards
the Virgin and vow To dedicate their
lives q hcr for the cure sho has
given them. Blind eyes, sprinklcd
with the holy water OF The chapel.
look and see the glorious image. III
any proof were needed Of the efficacy
of faith as a cure for human Ills, IL
can be seen Lt Czeustochowa. Many
of these victims OF auperstltion-as
most cultured Wcsterncrs would re-
gard them--return 10 their homes free
from the inhrmitics they brought with
them. IL shows, perhaps. that many
OF the Ills OF humanity are tho result
nf imagination and can be cured by
the same means,
HARVEST FOR PICKPOCKETS.
The church Is infested with pick
rockets Sometimes a thief, caught
by the angry pilgrims, Is hustled out
side ana badly hnndlcd unless a
priest iuterleres in time aud gives him
immunity az the crowd Is too close
uacEed for detection.
The pilgrims who como 10 visit
Czenstochowa, afraid OF the piclspock-
cts Ia the church usually give thor
money into the charge OF one OF the
priests and when "A large company
arrives even II each member has only
"A couple Of roubles, the gross sum Of
ten runs into "a considerable amount.
That such methods are not always
proof against criminal ingenuity the
following incident proves Father Adnl-
bert was recently entrusted with tho
funds OF q large Company" lfc kept
Inc money locked NJ IA his writing
tpble drawer one day, after early
mass he received a Visit from a strang-
eI who said he had come from tho
DEPTHS OF Russia 10 pay homage 10 The
miraculous picture, and that God had
rewarded him IN advance, having cauH.
ed him 10 find some treasure buried
I'm a forest where he had passed the
night and which Was shown 70 him
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ly with the energy which is denied to
all except the born enthusiast, and did
some real good work that was deserv-
ing Of a more lasting success But all
though the popular comedian had the
limelight and the center of the stage
i'm those days, the careful observer
might have noticed also behind the
scenes. so TO speak. the debut of the
subject of the sketch 1t was Nelson
Z. Cook who did all the donkey work
as he would express IL, In connection
with this attempt to establish baseball
on this side OF the blue Atlantic, 1t
VIZ s he who chased all over the English
metropolis looking for possible baseball
material and who worked upon the
smouldering enthusiasm of tho players
and made possible the temporary but
ali too short survival of the game.
DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED.
Things dragged along until the spring
OF 1856 when, thanks to the organiz-
ing ability of Cook, the season opened
with four evenly balanced teams play
ing regular League schedule. A few
weeks later a junior league was formed
with four new teams, and a permanent
success was in sight for the organizers.
Unfortunately they ran up against n
very serious obstacle Only one ground
was available and that I'm a very
impossible to remedy this during the
season and the result was that ut the
finish baseball was about as popular In
London as the standard oil in Kansas.
and the attendance at the various
matches as numerous as the hairs on
John D's head. Thus the season, which
opened with a blaze of glorious promise,
closed in gloom that was ominous.
Whereas at the beginning there were
four centers of baseball in England
at Derby, marlborough, Newcastle
aud London, at the end it was hard
work to get II bakers dozen of enthusi-
asts onto the field in any one of these
cities.
When the heirs TO The remains of
the baseball boom of the preceding
years got together in the spring of
1897 they had the greatest difficulty
IN discovering any one who was Will
ing to admit that the game had any
life in it, ON The other hand. there
We're many who were willing TO testi-
fy that they had been present at the
burial of the poor old cripple the fall
previous,
DARK OUTLOOK.
There were a few, however who,
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town and march together to their
Mecca. They carry banners from
their parish churches. pictures Of
saints and other priced relics The
priests march with them and choris-
ters carry bells with which 30 an
nounce the beginning of a chant. Tho
effect OF this multi-colored crowd, the
women in dresses Of orange, green and
red, the men In their long white coats
and colored belts, a priest here ard
there sombrc soutana, Is impressive
enough; and when their thousands Of
voices take up The melody given by one
Of them, the forests and fields resound
with their music, People cease work
40 listen and pray, and often tho
scet teal observer who acknowledges
no religion himself, bows his head in
silent admiration of the faith that
makes sore-footed, under-fed human
fly tramp for miles ana endure all
manner of hardship TO pray 10 IL pic
tpre OF woman's face painted on a
piece OF wood.
JEWEL CLAD VIRGIN.
For 10 the faithful the greatest at
traction Of this Mecca is "A picture Of
the virgin. and the crowds who pros
trate themselves before II shade their
eyes and dare scarcely look upon It's
glciy. Nothing Is stranger than the
scenes daily enacted before this pic
t.ro, centuries old, swarthy with the
swarthiness OF eastern art, and of or
igin that Is wrapped In strange mys-
terry and strange tradition. Two
gears mar the Virgins right check
and were given by the YaIidai hordes
who stole Il once and only gave II
up after a bloody war II has three
robes which are fastened over the
! form Of the Virgin and Child. one Is
composed OF pearls. the second OF
iamonds ana the third OF rubies. The
objects on the altar around II arc of
gdd and silver, offerings or the de-
volt who vie with each other TO have
thor gifts put in this favored place
Thealtur Itself Is OF silver, so are the
ilguRs at the top, which are life size
DWELLING or PICTURE.
Thlsrelic N uncovered once a day:
the drss being changed when some
feast islt hand---the rubies being used
as sin II martyrdom. This un-
yelling ekes place early In the morn
ing Ory the lucky few CAN get
near enogh TO see this ceremony; for
the chap, Is small. The others have
10 renal outside often outside the
church ltslf and can tell. BY the
groans an oXclamations OF those
within thai the miraculous picture "a
uncovered
u The sightyf these people would be
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Unlimited Enthusii-
asm and Persever-
ance Win Where
Money and Talent
Had Failed Miser-
ably.

by his efforts are strictly amateur He
gets no pay for his work as organizing
secretary. and he expects none If the
truth must be known, he has expended
out of his own pocket more than $4,000
to forward the interests of the sport.
When he first started people said he
was In il for money. When that i'm
preston cleared away some said he was
r. millionaire with q hobby. Later it was
rumored that he lonEed to hasS in the
blaze Of the lImelisht; hut he kept
steadily In the background, ana In time
this idea went the way of its prede-
cessors Gradually 1t is beginning TO
dawn upon everybody that Cook is do
ing 1t because he cannot help It; in
short. because he IS the greatest base
bah fan in the world.
COOK is TOO MODEST.
have told this story myself because
Cook himself refused to tell 1t. He has
a sense of modesty that covers him like
the hide of a rhino. A 20-mule team
would not draw a personal tale like this
from him. But he did tell me some OF
his experiences in introducing the game
over here that win illustrate, better
than anything | can say, tho enthusi-
asm of the man.
THOUGHT HIM a CON" MAN.
from the captain of one OF the league
teams that three Of his man would not
be able to play on the coming Saturday
afternoon and that the scheduled game
would have to be abandoned. l called
the captain up on the phone and said,
Go ahead with the match; i will see
that you have three men that can play
the game Now. of course, all the 9TH
er league teams were to play on tho
same day, so / could hope for no help In
that direction. London had been ex--
hausted of men who could play the
| game when We made up the teams. so I
was utterly at n loss as TO what was
best to do until a bright idea struck me.
The following morning / went down To
the Strand and took up n position I'm
front of the Hotel Cecil. / knew / was
pretty certain to meet some Americans,
and sure enough, 1t was not long before
a couple of them came along. You
know you can spot them a mile away.
I Immediately stepped up to these two
and siad Excuse me, but would you
like to play a game OF baseball? one
of the men was tall and the other short.
The former grabbed his companion
tightly by the arm and, turning his
back upon me, marched him quickly
across the street. Then the two Of
them turned and regarded me with re-
proachful glances. There is no street
I'm the world where the petty con man
Ia so numerous as In the strand, and
did not blame the two men. 1 suppose
they had been warned before they left
home I persisted. despite this rebuff
and finally landed three men who were
willing to I'LL up the gap In the team
"a little later in the same season
n similar difficulty arose and l was
compelled to go on the hunt again. /
finally spotted two Americans on the
top of "A bus crossing Piccadilly Circus.
At first they. too. took me for a smooth
article, but / eventually landed them.
They We're two brothers from Pittsburg
and We've making quite a long stay in
London. They played for me on sever
chance"
ERNEST i. HEJITKAAIP.
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as popular in Great Britain as st was
in his Native country. To be sure, he
found ready AT hand, as a valve for his
surplus enthusiasm, the English game
of cricket. But who. having been
brought up ON Whirlwind baseball such
as they play in Mount Holly. ever
could be satisfied with the slow and
tedious national game of these isles,
which generally takes three days TO
play, and, like as not, ends either in a
runaway match or an unsatisfactory
tic? Certainly not this red-hot Yankee,
whose love for baseball hordcred dan
gerously upon worship and who would
rather have stood at the top of the Ma
tlonal league batting and fielding re
cords than have been president of the
United States.
When Cook landed i'm England the
first literature that he consulted was
not a Raedeker, but a short history Of
the two attempts that had been made
to- gra II baseball onto tho English cata-
log of sports. He found that the first
real attempt to popuariZe the game
had been made IN 1874, when the Bos-
tonians and the Philadelphia Athletics,
OF the National league, toured the
country.
FIRST CLUBS FORMED.
This effort was a. failure, as was the
one made 10 years later Dy a. W.
Spaldmg. who brought over two
teams, one representing Chicago
aud the other All-Anerica. As
a result of the latter at
temps in the early nineties, profess
slonal baseball teams We're formed at
Preston, Stoke. Birmingham and Der
by. These clubs were furnished with
professional coaches from the United
States and were backed by people in
the same quarter of the globe. They
lasted Just so long as these hackers
were content TO send over monthly
check to make up the ever-increasinS
deficit. The deepest of pockets has q
bottom. however, and the most altruis-
tie of incentives limit, and in this
case it was not very long before both
were reached.
r. C. KNOWLES INTERESTED.
In the spring of 1893 there appeared
on the scene a famous vaudeville star
who, along with so many OF his fellow
professionals. was a baseball crank
To the backbone r. q. Knowles was
then and Is today a cOmlnedian of the
first rank. but there was nothing of the
joke about his attempt to establish base
ball in England. lie went at it serious
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speclal Colrespondence.

Special Correspondence.
wv ARSAW, April 9,-"H there
NY/ should appear in Russia
WV man who can arouse the
religious enthusiasm of the
populace In behalf of freedom nc
would start u movement that Wou'u
sweep everything before 1t.
Such WAS the observation made TO
me by an unusually shrewd observer
after recent visit to CzenstoehoWn'
the Mecca of Poland. Nowhere else
can one obtain such comprehensive
understanding OF the tremendous holu
which religion has on the RUSSIAN peu
pie. Ignorant, apathetlc ana steelleu
IN superstition though they are oAens.
tochowa attests 10 the world that there
Is a deem. abiding something in them
which responds to religion with u Ter
Vor that nothing else can arouse. TOT
their faith am speaking OF the
masses--thoy win do and dare any tHIils
while the specious promises OF lho 81
clalsts of speedy material millennium
leave them unmoved.
FAMOUS IN EASTERN EUROPE
Situated Just outside OF Il dirty little
manufacturing town, where Jews make
toys for the whole OF the Russian en-
pre, the monastery and the chureh ht.
tached 10 II are as famous IN eastern
Europe as the city OF Rome Itself IN
Poland's better days u was fortress
a. Well and sustained sleges In the lare
~ Russians. Swedes AID Gefln!llr'
once an abbot, with handful OF men
and monks. defended II againss p's
Swedish army.
GREAT MECCA,
But this belongs to It's past glory. To-
day Czenstochowa Is known to every
Seryia, Roumania ana Bulgaria as the
great Mecca, which All who would be
saved, must Walt II has been 80 Tor
centuries and has therefore become az
much part OF their lives as the son
they til and the rivers they hsh m
Every peasant. man or woman, musl
visit II once In q lifetime If not theiT
souls would be in danger. a little seam
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Ancient Polish Church the
Mecca of Eastern Europe

stress, who has spent 80 weeks Of the
wear stitching in stuffy work room
will devote the remaining fortnight
and her years savings 10 pilgrimage
to Czenstochowa. She Will not so IN a
train II she can possibly help II, Tor
the spiritual cure would be but halt
effected unless her feet We're swollen
with Walking and her face blistered
by exposure TO The weather. Those VINO
use the railway are looked down upon
by the "tramps" with a plying con-
tempt.
SEEK TO BE CURED.
SO great Is the spell of this Mecca
that hundreds OF thousands OF people
suffering from various ailments yearly
make n pilgrimage to Cznstochowa
Arm I'm the faith that th@ will be
cured When child is III the parents
not only peasants. but aristoc'atic ones
MS well-will often make IA TOW that
if the ohifr RECEIVERS, IL shall make a
pilgrimage on foot 10 Gems ochoWa'
And the vow IS Invariably kelt II re-
covery takes place, Those wlo can
posslbly afford II complete the fulfil
ment OF the vow By depos,uhg ~ the
shrine some article Of gold or srNer
that I'm some way symbolizes their nal
adv. For instance, "A person VINO he'
had n diseased leg VIII oifer a mode
of d. leg in miniature TO the czenstoch-
owa church: II an arm has been th'
cause of the trouble an arm Is ohered-
q hand for q hand ana 40 iorth'
heart Is offered by those who have re
covered from various illnesses as
sign OF gratitude, These offerings ar
piaced round the different altars In IN,
rhplch, Those who cannot AFFORD sucl
things give small sums OF money
rhese offerings mean, for the ma1orit,
of the pilgrims, the savings OF severn
years,
STRANGE PILGRIMS
The pilgrimage itself generally cost
nut ntlle, ua ihe vaat majority OF IN
rilgrins carry bread ad barley on thei
hacks and sleep In the helds and for
ests on the way or u they are luckS
I'm some empty barn on granary.
company" OF pilgrims conslsis OF an
number between 200 and 10000. IN
usual way Is for the pilgrims froi
several villages 10 meet IN some lars
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American Peerless Twice
Snubs the Queen of Spain
s.I,:-::**:::.-::::.*3

IN London. Although the latter have
tried 10 allay the fears of the woman's
relatives and friends it has now be-
come tolearably certain that her mind
IL In danger Of giving way altogether.
As yet, however, she Is perfectly nor
mai in every respect except this as
sassinaton deusion. The advice OF
tho doctors who have been called In is
20 humor her rather than 70 combat
the dea.
SNAP FOR DETECTIVES.
The lady spends most or her spare
time In interviewing amateur ana pro-
fessional detectives. enlarging at great
length upon the efforts of her closest
friends and relatives to do away with
her and thus get nor money. She in
sists upon her bedroom being guarded
every night ana within the last few
days those in attendance upon her have
had the greatest difficulty In getting
her 10 take any food.
SHE WAS TOO NOISY.
A certain rather loud taking Amer
icah woman here Is seriously consider
ING a course I'm voice training L hear
NM King Edward recently refused 10
meet her mt dinner hecauOs OF a par-
tieularly penetrating and annoying
quality OF her articulation. AS n rlile
MS majesty does not mind tho loud
ness Of the average American; at any
rate, he docs not make any OBJECTION
20 IT, Bnt on this particular occasion
he was Huff ring from one OF his rare
attacks OF nerves" Ii was soon after
the death OF the king and crown prince
OF Portugal and the king was yisltlng
Brighton Lady Sasson was his host
ess, and among the guests she proposed
inviting 10 meet him az dinner was n
well known American woman. Edward
threw w his hands In protest aud az
claimed petulantly, mo, no. she rs too
noisy. ] can't stand her at present .
KING rs TOO PARTIAL.
There is whole lot OF heart burning
In Tho English smart Set at present
over the spring arrangements az their
king II Is freely complained that he
is paying entirely too much attention
TO the Anglo Amerioan hostesses and
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snecIal Corrosnondonce.

Special Correspondence.
II oNDON, April s-Lady Suffolk.
who was Daisy Letter of Chica-
go before her marriage TO Lord
Curzon's former aide-de camp.
has made society gasp by her twice ad-
ministered snub TO the queen of Spain.
IL appears that the latter has ~ pas
sion for lace; already she possesses one
OF tho finest collections In the world.
Much OF II belonged at one time TO the
Empress Eugenle aud TO the late Queen
Victoria, Some time ago the queen
Of Spain became aware that Lady Suf-
folk owned n superb piece that could be
traced indlsputably az having been
owned by Cardinal Richelleu, She i'm
mediately set her heart upon Il and
sent a letter 10 the American peeress
asking the latter 10 set price on IT,
BY return post Lady Suffolk answered
that the lace was not for sale. Later
Princess Henry OF Battenberg, mother
OF the queen. called on Lady Suffolk
aud endeayored to get her 10 part with
the treasure, The request was refused,
this time emphatlcally ana with CON
siderable heat.
DOESN'T CARE A RAP.
The incidents are causing a whole lot
OF gossip ana II ~ SAID tnat Lazy
Sntfolk's Independence has not done her
any good in royal eyes. II IL pretty
well known that the girl from Chlca-
go doesn't care q rap" az you would
say In the United states. what royalty
thinks. She has never made the slight
est bid for royal favor and is not apt
10 begin at this late day.
Tho Suffolk collection Of lace Is
famous one and the family, more es-
IA tta ~
ly proud OF Il. Lady SUFFOLK has an
artist IN Lace lately ia inspect Il an
ana 10 put it IN perfect repair. Unui
the advent of the American ehatelalne
It had not Tor years seen the light
Lately / have heard an Oft repeated
and pathetic story OF n rich American
woman who IL suffering from delu-
sion that shu Is soon TO be murdered by
her near relatives She Is one OF the
wealthiest OF your many rich women
here, ana IL now In the hands az a
couple OF the best mental specialists