Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24

paper, the LOnQOn IlmeS, known
wherever English is spoken as THE
Thunderer," devoted two of its very
broad and valuable columns of a first
page, to describing the introduction
of baseball into John Bulls realm.
1t Is safe to say that a sporting story
never occupied such prominent
place in this reserved publication.
which has never given much of any
kind to American news. The writer
was evidently jammed full of enthu-
siasm, though somewhat dazed by the
adventure. He says:
'The baseball match on the Chelsea
Football Ground yesterday was an
awakener for London. 1t was a reve-
lation of America at play; and the
afternoon was as strenuous as a pill
'low-fight in a boys dormitory. 1t
took us completely away to those dis
tant times when we could rejoice un-
der a blue sky without looking for
Zeppelins and Gothas The afternoon
was crammed full of extraordinary
moments. 1t passed in such pan
demonium as was perhaps never
heard before on an English playing
field; not even on a football ground.
The United States seemed to be
shouting in chorus, and Great Britain
joiHed in, a little breathless, but de-
termined to make a good show of
lung power. Never, moreover, was a
football ground so arrayed. The
rather dingy surroundings were. shut
out by a square mile or two of flags.
"Old Glory" and the Union Jack pre-
dominating, but the rest of the Allies
not being forgotten. The grand
stand was gorgeously draped, and the
King and Queen went to their seats
by a fiowery way.
Queen Alexandria was the first of
the Royal party to arrive and was
accompanied by Princess Victoria, the
Princess Royal and Princess Maud of
Fife. Princess Louise Duchess of
Argyll came shortly afterwards. The
King and Queen arrived with Princess
Mary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asquith and Miss
Asquith, Admiral Sims, and Major
General Biddle were seated imme-
diately behind the Queen and Princess
Mary. and in the seats behind were
Lord and Lady Chesterfield. Cora Lady
STAFFORD. Lord Farquhar, Lieutenant
Colonel Give Wigram, Major Regi-
nald Seymour, Lord Herschell, the
Duchess of Marlborough, and Sir AL
fred and Lady Mond. The Duke of
Connaught arrived later with Prince
Albert (in the uniform of the Royal
Air Force.) General Sir William
Robertson and Lleutenant-Genera
Sir Francis Lloyd were seated on
either side of the Princess Louise, and
farther along were Mr.. and Mrs.
Winston Churchill. Mr.. Walter and
Lady Doreen Long, Lord Desbor-
ough, Mr.. G. N. Barnes, M. p. and
Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, while
Captain Twining, of the U. S. Naval
Staff, was seated on the right of
Queen Alexandria.
others present were the Duke and
Duchess of RoXboroughe, Mrs. Lloyd
George, Lord Richard and Lady
Moyra Cavendish, Major-General Sir
william Furse, the Hon. Henry
Stonor, the Hon. Lady Johnstone. and
Major the Hon. Waldorf and Mrs.
Astor.
Wild Enthusiasm
Both for distinction and for en-
thusiasm the gathering was without
precedent in baseball, or rather the
ball game, as the more knowing
among the spectators were careful to
call 1t. Everybody appeared to real
ize that this was the kind of match
that makes history. When we have
matched our racquets to these balls,
said an English King once to an
enemy herald. An even larger mean
ing than Shakespeare's Henry gave to
his sentence was attached to yester-
days match. 1t was sympomatic and
symbolic; for two peoples who have
learnt to play together were not far
from complete understanding.
"At the end came a moment which,
of all the wonderful moments that
had characterized 1t, was the most
wonderful. The game had been won
for the Navy. The Navy in its own
corner of the field had previously
packed serried ranks of sailors to
shout and demonstrate as soon as the
last stroke was made. The crowd
surged on to the field among them,
in single file. their hands on one an
others shoulders. like one huge
snake. the sailors twined their hilar-
ious path. The uproar was tremend-
Gus. Englishmen cheered. Americans
yelled, tin instruments of various
kinds brayed a raucous din. The
King and the Royal party stood look
ing on. Suddenly as by magic (whose
magic it was did not appear but IL
worked, the tumult dropped into sill
ence. Across that silence drifted the
soft almost pathetic first chords of
"The Star Spangled Banner" played
by the band of the Welsh Guards
Hats came off. Sailors and soldiers
stood at attention saluting. After all
that noise the quietude, accented by
the poignant music, came near being
painful. The meaning of this most
significant of all ball games was car
ried along the air. There was more
cheering afterwards, but cheering of
a radically different kind. The crowd
awoke to consciousness that the af-
ternoon had passed into the history
of two great nations.
The RoOters'
"A Chelsea veteran in his scarlet
coat was in the crowd. Somebody
wondered what he though of 1t ALL
Somebody else said musingly: i
wonder what the Kaiser would think
of 1t all IL he could be here 1t cam
not be denied that, superfclally, the
two great nations were just making