Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-06-14

wv y greater rou In the world
las played iart Et nth. but the
sporting columns. full NJ base.
il bail activities. lrizo fgl' bat
tIgs. and other lafics Of sport
carried not I'm, Of n II vas game
That staggered tho lraglnation II
vas played In the r0st unique Of
stage settings ana o. q scale that
would dwarf The combined activities o.
Tho blk Leagues. ne tish leagues and
hll me Fand.lot contests Of The dia
mond rolled into or3 clcvrninning
match
The PLAYING grou1t WIS a. sea and
iis boundaries lappei over the circu.
lar rim ~ ocean me stretched 10 cy-
cry point Of tho compass when, with
The MOST powerful glass you swept
The horizon from a hip in iis center
Take the Polo Crumbs % INC New
York Giants. The white ribbed grid
iron Of Soldiers God at Cambridge.
the race track al .atonia Ky the
polo Geld a, Narraginse't and the Va
'ional golf course q Shinuocnck Hilla
Multiply them By Thousands sud toss
'hom INTO the center OF ibis deep sea.
held Tho resultant ripple would die
leagues away from us outer rim
Modes, Prize.
Tho ramo was ne record battle
practice OF the Atlantic feet The
Held VAS the southern drill grounds
Of the United suites navy. seventy
miles out 90 sea rom Tho Virginia
capes The priye. "A modest Do OF
bunting. From ue depfouing roar
o. the fret tvelycinch sun. aimed az
the half submerged han ~ the Old
Texas In Tangip sound, to the last
$50 pound steel soIcrtile. that tore
with the noisy ~ ot a hundred run
away freight tSs through a NOV
Ing target six miles away. the DAYS
piled up 10 total of ten
There were dozen ships IN this
unique lineup. nrstclass lighting bat
tlcghipg all. and on each was team
ranging from 90 ~ 600 men For
tho war worn hickorlos ~ Tyru8 Cobb
and llonus Wagner they substituted
the gray steel tubes % twolvoinch
guns. and Tor the horseh.do covered
baseball thcy rang m shells weighing
$50 pounds Tho base lines wore lanes
u dark green soa. fath0ms deep and on
soundiugs. churned into fury by the
quadruplc screws ~ droadnorghis
stcaminr az % lively rate
The home ritte was q scrocu.coy
cred target ihr size ~ the painted
sign advertising cigarette ln Your lo
cal hall park The homo plate tray
cled due north and now due south.
dipping and curtesying 10 the lazy
swell and az times careeniue 10 the
wind n was not ALWAYS q well man.
ncrei homo plate. and q was never
still Hctwcou 10 and the pitchers box
10000 Yards OF .oa, For your 'avori'c
sport on shore substitute miles for
Yards. tons for pounds thousands for
each single man n play and Won viii
grasp some f'ggincance Of this big
game
There were nu Dleachors and tower
'nE rraudstarIs packod iull Of straw
ha 'od. shirtslooved humanity 10
cheer the hrll1n, plays 90 10 urge on
The under dor loo this match Every
man Of the 10000 played his part be
fore gallery " only wheeling sea
Fuils and a handful Of observers This
wells Of tho bl,acheritos were missing
but In their place was q gigantic roar
ihat would hav, drowned the vocal ex
plcsions OF worlds series contest
No Gate Receipts
ignln. there vas no division ~ fai
ga'c receipts o. stake. no herowor
ship. no great Increase Of salaries and
no vistnB OF vaudeville contracts. In
their places was a plague ~ bronze "a
h. held for year. but the incentive
that spurred them on was tho knovl
edge that II Waterloo was won on tho
nClds OF Elton. then truly The next
great American naval victory viii hc
won by the annual game that the
navy plays ON the southern drill
grounds
The big game Is vastly more scirn
tic than football. Its thrills are u
,snic even when compared with a
ninth inning rally No golf course
ever boosted so unique a beauty Of
surroundings Racing stables In their
palmy DAYS never entailed such en-
pouse or represented so much invested
capital No other game was ever
played on such a scale or by ths
United States government. and. inal
ly. there Is no other game whose FOR
tunes 80 directly affect the 90oO00 90,
people q this republic.
You have seen the Yale bulldog and
the Princeton tiger grapple on ih'
gidiron' Substitute the Delaware
aud the Utah You placed your wagei
on the Red sox or the Giants wher
they met % fsht out the worlds 80
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