The evening world., 1913-10-18
CLOSE CALL FOR ANsoN u
GAME At cEv.ON.

GAME At cEv.oN.
The oriental attitude toward ath-
letic sports Is distinctly antipathetir.
No man east OF Suez can understand
why one should run II he is able to
walk, or walk II he can get r!ckshaw.
The exertlons of eighteen Yankee
huskies hitting a ball and running for
a base leave him cold. Excited dis
cussion with the umpire over dis
puted play are to him az the chatter
ing OF apes. II he must he will attend
n game ana will squat on the grouni
as near to the players as he IL per-
mitted. But II he Is hit by a foul ball
he Is filled with bitterness and 10 re-
stra ined from murder only by whole-
some fear OF the superior race.
Some such Incident actually occurred
near Cairo. where 1t was deemed worth
while to play a game on the desert In
the shadow of the Ghi4eh Pyramids
for the romance OF the thing and the
edifcation OF a few Bedouin Arabs and
bunch Of globe trotters. Arson
knocked a hot liner down the third
base line which found a dusky In the
breadbasket II that man still lives it
Is a good bet that he held II was his
duty on that day. as a lord OF the des-
ert, to slay the white invader and scat
ter his fragments to the winds.
The team did no, play IN the Coils
scum at Rome. as had been intended.
because that historic Enclosure Is sew
eral sizes too small and torn up By en-
cavatons in the interest OF science. \
game was pulled OF ito royal and dis
!nsulshed patronage" at the beautiful
Villa Borghese in Rome. another In
! Florence and stu another In Paris.
After a somewhat hurried tHp from
Brindlsi to Dieppe the Spaldings were
landed in England.
| Here was a field, the big-est and rich
est for baseball-or for any other sport
Ing novelty. SO l venture to pred,
Mcciraw and Con.skey will md 1t. Es-
pecialy II they enter the country as
Spalding was fortunate enough to d..
we'll introduced, they will ind the
Brltons ready to eat up anything that
will amuse or surprise them.
Tho players happened to be In Nice
during tho Carnival and there vas the
Prince Of Waes. big as life. mounted
on the roof OF q brake. u conspicuous
] Isu"e III tUc bdttie OF .NS
the Prince drove along the Promensd e
des Anglais he passed a couple of the
Yankee scoun-der-els armed with conf
pact balls OF Nice violets rolled tight
formidable mis- siies In the hands OF aole-
bodied men.
As the Prince drove by one OF the
pitchers let drive. His fowsr.bai ~
caught his Royal Highness Just abaft
the left ear. Ho turned his head and
this turning proved his bane for a. ne
turned the second missile caught n m
fairly In the face.
What trouble the Prince could ba, .
made for these baseball players on.
shudders to think. Did he' He did not.
He saw his assailants plainly. straight
ened up and lifted his topper under :,
very princeiy bow. So Tar As know
that closed the Incident OF course ne
was good fellow.
This Ia not an obituary notice. vet
one cannot help but remember that
some-a good many-of the youngsters
who made that pleasant journey have
passed out since then. There II Ed
Crane. the pitcher, then with the
Giants. and Smiling Jimmy Fogarty Il
Philadelphia and John Healy and
Tommy Burn OF the stone wall In
fleld" and. maybe. many others.
Others are very much alive. John
X. Tencr. for example. no that pitched
for Anson's Chicasos-is Governor Of
Pennsylvania. no less.