The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21

over Tor the play Another was soon
substituted, however, the intention of
the Anglo-American Baseball League,
which had arranged the match, being
to hand the autographed ball as
memento to President Wilson.
The onlookers, who were estimated
to number forty or fifty thousand in
all, were gently persuaded to en-
croach no further on the field of play;
and the game began. Now, baseball
| tempts every man to exaggeration. AS
all London ought to know by this time,
it is one of the fastest and most ex-
| citing methods of getting breathless
ever invented. 1t calls for great skill,
and its rewards are salaries beyond
the dreams of avarice. The dignity of
cricket it disowns; the tremulous tu-
multi of football is as the recreation of
well-mannered mice by comparison to
it. The players live on springs, pos
sessing the activity of a high-grade
machine. They think by lightning,
and field, catch, and throw with the
certainty of a stop-watch. AS if the
chaff of the spectators was not suf-
ficient for them, they chivy one an
other. The pitcher can grin diaboli-
cally, if he is a good pitcher; and his
comrades are thereby reasSured and
the striker daunted. The catcher is
padded like an armchair and must be
able to take punishment with the calm
of a prize-fighter.
VICTORY OF THE NAVY
All these qualities were superbly
displayed in the match. We should
not care to say which was the better
side, because, frankly, we do not
know. But the Navy won by two to
one, and appeared to deserve its vic
tory. Some Of the catches in the long
field, or whatever the baseball fan"
calls it, were enough to rouse Gum
or Bonner, those past heroes of the
pavilion rail, to emulation. The
throwing was as near perfection as
the human arm can make it. Those
who saw baseball for the first time
must have agreed that first-rate
player is worthy of his hire.
Many present yesterday made no
secret of their innocense. 1t may be
that the prize for hard work, had one
been offered to the whole assembly,
would properly have gone to the
American officers who strove hard
and continuously to explain fine
points to their English companions,
fair and otherwise. These people,
though often corrected, persisted in
calling the pitcher the bowler" the
catcher as the 'wicket-keeper," and
the striker as the 'batsman." But
American chivalry was very patient.
1t smiled through every mistake, and
never once vaunted the ball game at
the expense of cricket. For the credit
of England, it should be added that
the superiority of cricket, when be-
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most courteously suppressed.
Nothing really dimmed the brill
lance of yesterday afternoon. Of good
play there was plenty, and it was ad-
mired by Americans and Englishmen
alike. AS a spectacle, the game and
the audience might strive for pre.emi-
nence Naval officers rubbed shoul-
ders with Army officers, the uniforms
of the United States of America with
those of the United Kingdom. Ad-
i, mirals enjoyed themselves with the
light-heartedness of ABS, and pri-
vate soldiers could hardly laugh more
delightedly than the generals. The
Stars and Stripes were worn or
waved by every man, woman, and
child; and there could be no doubt
whatever that it's adoption meant a
whole-hearted acceptance of America
as comrade in play and near re-
lation in the great work that lies be-
fore the two big English-speaking
families.
DETAILS OF THE PLAY
The Navy batted first, but it was
not until the fourth inning that a
run was scored. Then Ensign Fuller
crossed the home plat through a fine
two-base hit by McNally. This success
was greeted uproariously by the
Navy's "rooters," and when Fuller
scored a second run in the sixth in
ning-making it two-love in their ia
vour-the greetings were redoubled
The pitching and fielding were brill
liant, and just when it looked as if the
Army would be beaten pointless, To
ber made a fine two-base hit in the
ninth innings, and as a Lafitte fol
lowed him with a 'two-baser," it took
Tober home, and thus the Army regis
tered their single run in their last
knock