Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-08-17

the DIGEST crowd we had drawn
during our sojourn in Great Britain.
Five innings were played that game
and the score was a tie, each team
scoring but three, only one hit being
made off Baldwin and four off Crane
1t had been arranged that after the
ball game was over an American
eleven, with Baldwin and Earle as the
battery, and with Tener, Wood, Fog
arty, Brown, Hanlon, Pfeffer, Manning,
Sullivan and myself in the field,
should try our hand at FOUNDERS with
team from the local FOUNDERS asso-
citation. Instead of being bags, the
bases in this game are iron stakes
three feet in height, the ball the size
of the one used in tennis. The bat
ting is done with one hand and with
a bat that looks more like a butter
paddle than anything else. base
runner has to be retired by being
struck with the ball and not touched
with it, and the batter must run the
first time he strikes at the ball,
whether he hits it or not.
Well, it wasn't exactly in our line
and we got walloped by score of 16
to IA. To get even persuaded
them to try two innings at baseball,
,, and they found there was more differ
ence between our game and FOUNDERS
than they had dreamed of. The score
stood at 10 to in our favor, the
crowd standing in a drenching rain to
see the fun and apparently willing to
remain a good deal longer than it did.
At nine o'clock that night we took
the train for Fleetwood, on the shores
of the Irish channel, and two hours
later we were on board the little
steamer Princess of Wales steaminE
+ across the "bit OF silvery sea that sep
arates the land of the saints" from
"perfidious Albion" don't exactly
get on to the point of that joke, but
It's there somewhere. 1t was Sunday
| morning when We landed at Belfast,
and l shall never forget the quietude
OF the place-a Quaker Westinghouse
on the First Day was the only thing
l could compare it to. Certainly those
North of Ireland folks do keep one OF
the Commandments.
The next morning was a puzzler in
the line of weather, but toward mid.
day it cleared up, and after luncheon
we were off In drags for the North Of
Ireland Cricket club grounds, where
we put up another great game In spite
OF the distraction caused by the pres
ence of the biggest bunch of pretty
girls we had seen since leaving Amer
lea. At the end Of the eighth inning
the score stood to Z in favor of Chi
cago, but in the ninth singles by
Wood and Healy and corking three
Dagger to left field by Earle sent two
men across the plate and gave the VIC
tory to the All-Americas by a score OF
9 to 8.
We were banqueted that evening at
the club house, his honor the mayor
OF Belfast, presiding, and before the
festivities Of the night were over we
understood why it was that Belfast
was SO quiet on Sunday-six days In
succession of the kind we had expert.
enced were the limit. Sunday was an
| absolute necessity
Between Belfast and Dublin on our
way 10 the capital we passed through
= section OF the most beautiful coun.
try ever saw. 1t was big surprise
| to me, for l had heard and read so
much about the poverty of Ireland
that l was prepared to witness some
rather narrowing scenes. Instead of
that, saw only a constant succession
OF highly titled farms and model VIII
lagos. There may be starvation in
the country, but l saw no evidence of
1t. Personally, l want to say right
here that 1 never came up against
better eating in my life, but of course
we were company, and were treated
accordingly.
Reaching Dublin about II o'clock,
we took the rest of the day off. All
the boys of our party who had Irish
names went off in search of relatives