The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21

ings were shut out by a square mile
or two of flags, "Old Glory" and the
Union Jack predomiRating, but the
rest of the Allies not being forgot
ten. The grand stand was gorgeously
/ draped, and the king and queen went
to their seats by a flowery way
Queen Alexandra was the first of
the royal party to arrive and was ac-
companied 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
WILD ENTHUSIASM
Both for distinction and for enthu-
siasm the gathering was without
precedent in baseball, or rather 'the
ball game" as the more knowing
among the spectators were careful to
call it. Everybody appeared to real
ize that this was the kind of match
that makes history. "When we have
matched the racquets to these balls"
said an English king once to an enc
than Shakespeare's Henry gave to his
sentence was attached to yesterdays
match. 1t was symptomatic and
symbolic; for two people who have
learnt to play together are not far
! from complete understanding.
At the end came moment which,
of all the wonderful moments that had
characterized it, was the most won
derful. The game had been won for
the Navy. The Navy, in it's own cor
ner 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 another's shoul-
ders like one huge snake, the sailors
twined their hilarious path. The up
roar was tremendous. Englishmen
cheered, Americans yelled, tin instru-
ments of various kinds brayed rau-
cous din. The King and the Royal
party stood looking on. Suddenly as
by magic (whose magic it was did not
appear, but it worked) the tumult
dropped into silence. Across that ST
lence drifted the soft, almost pathetic
first chords of "The Star Spangled
Banner" played by the Welsh Guards.
Hats came off. Sailors and soldiers
stood to attention, sa1uting. After all
that noise. the quietude, accentuated
by the poignant music, came near be-
ing 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 after
noon 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 thought of it all. -
Somebody else said musingly: Il
wonder what the Kaiser would think
of it all if he could be here" 1t can
not be denied that ,superficially the
two great nations were just making
an afternoon of it. The "rooters," for
three parts of the time, were lords
Of the situation. "Rooters'' are the
zealots who assemble in companies to
howl their respective sides to victory.
There were boards at the entrance to
the ground directing Army "rooters'
to go one way, navy 'rooters" an
other, and telling them the number
of shillings they must pay for their
places. 1t struck one as small sum
before the game began; but when the
game had ended those shi llings ap-
peared an unjustifiable and impudent
tax on the hard work of honest men.
The "'rooter'' tolls with his mouth,
to which sometimes he attaches a
megaphone. Judging from this match,
the Army "rooter" is a tame and mar
ticulate creature compared with him
of the Navy, whose voice is that of
ocean storms.
SONGS OF THE FIELD
The Navy sang like this:-
Give 'em the axe, the axe, the axe,
Give 'em the axe, the axe the axe.
Where? Where? Where?
Right in the neck, the neck, the necko,
Right in the neck, the neck, the necko.
There! There! There!
Who gets the axe?
Army! (Very loud)
Who says so?
Navy! (Much louder.)
Then it sang like this
One, two three, four, five, six, seven.
All the Navy goes to heaven.
When We pet there we will veil