Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-12


Colombo, II days from Melbourne. II
had been intended to play some towns
in India, but the advance man was
waiting with the intelligence that
there were no inclosed grounds and
no gate was to be expected. So
SpaIding let it go with one game on
the open common at Gale Face, Just
cut of the Ceylonese port. and went
On his way to Cairo, by way of Alden
and the .Suez canal
Close Call for Arson.
The Oriental attitude toward ath.
letic sports is distinctly antipathetic.
No man east Of Suez can understand
why one should rim if he is able to
walk, or walk If he is able to get a
ffckshaw. The exerti6ns of 10 Yam
kee huskies hitting ball and rum
ming for a base leave him sold. Elk
cited discussion with the umpire over
disputed play are to him as the
chatter of apes II he must he will
attend game and will squat on the
ground as near to the players as he
is permitted. But II he is hit by a
foul ball he IS filled with bitterness
and is restrained from urder only by
wholesome fear OF the superior race.
Some such incident actually occur.
red near Cairo, where IL was deemed
worth while to play q game on the
desert in the shadows Of the Ghizeh
pyramids for the romance of the
thing and the edification Of few
Bedouin Arabs and q bunch Of globe
4.<st 1880 -. :. l,o@ I;T,or
down the third base line which found
a dusky in the bread basket. If that
man stfli lives it is q good bet that he
held it was his duty on that day, as
q lord of the desert, to slay the white.
invader and scatter his fragments to-
the winds.
The team did not play IN the Coli
scum at Rome, as had been Intended 4
because that historic enclosure is sew
eral sizes too small and torn up by
excavations In the interest of science.
A game was pulled off ito royal and
distinguished patronage at the beau
tiful villa Borghese in Rome, another
in Florence and still another in Paris.
After a somewhat hurried trip from
Brindisi to Dieppe, the Spaldings
were landed In Engiands
Here was a field, the biggest and
richest for baseball-or for any other
sporting novelty. So venture to pre-.
dict McGraw and Comiskey viii find
1t. Especially II they enter the coun-
try as Spalding was fortunate enough
to do, well introduced, they will find
the Britons ready to eat up anything
hat will amuse or surprise them.
The players happened to be in Nice
Turing the carnival, and there was the
Prince of Wales, big as life, mounted
IN the roof of q brake, conspicuous
figure in the Battle of Flowers. AS
he prince drove along the Promenade
les Anglais he passed couple Of the |
Yankee scoun-der-els armed with COM
,act balls of Nice yiolets rolled tight
missiles in the hands Of
men.
Two Fast Curves ) szes
AS the prince drove by one, of the
,itchers let drive. His floWer-ball
.aught his royal highness just abaft
he left ear. He turned his head and
his turning proved his bane, for as
le turned the second missile caught
i'm fairly in the face.
What trouble the prince could have
made for these baseball players one
hudders to think Did he? He did
lot. He saw his assailants plainly,
traightened up and lifted his topper
lnder a very princely bow. So far as
know that closed the incident OIL
curse, he was good fellow.
This is not an obituary notice, yet
ne cannot help but remember that
ome-a good many-of the youngJ
tiers who. made that pleasant journey
ave passed out since then. There is
ID Crane, the pitcher. then with the
iants, and Smiling Jimmy FogartyI
{ Philadelphia, and John Healy and
'ommy Burns of the "stone wall in
leld," and maybe many others. =
Others are very much alive. John
: Tenef, for example, he that. pitched
DR. Anson's Chicagos-is governor IL
no less. John Mont
emery Ward, shortstop and captain
f the New sYorks, is doing big
NV practice. He still likes to go to a
all game when he can. +:
Only one, I think, is still connected
/ any way with the. game. That is
ommy DAILY, one time "a catcher-and
rafting good one-for Chicago, and
lter. second baseman for Brooklyn.
hey tell me he is scout" for the
rooklyn club today.
Secretary Noon Of the California