Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-27
FOOTBALL THRILL
WINDS UP RULERS
!, VISIT To PERsHING
King of the BeIgians Decorates
Leader of G, H. @, Band,
While Queen Snapshots
Players After Goth Wins,
(By CYRIL BROWN


Copyright, 1919 by The Press Pub |
fishing Co. (The New York Worldl |
Headquarters of the American |
list Army, Bar-Suraube, France, Mar |
26.-The chief feature of the enter
tainment offered by Gen. Rershing to |
his royal guests, the king and queen |
of the Belgians, was the gruelling |
real American football game when |
the 36th Division team, eliminated !
the 7th Division team, champions of !
the I'd Army, in the last few minutes
of play by the score of to 0 in the
semi finals for the championship of
the American eXpeditionary forces.
Gen. Pershing provided a strenuous !
but in tresting program for the king
and queen for the third and last day |
of their visit, beginning with guard |
mount in the morning in the quad
rangle of general headquarters at
Chaumont, which the rulers, attend
ed by Gen. Pershing and bodyguard |
of Polish staff officers, witnessed
from an especially built pavilion hav-
ing intertwined colors symbolic of the
friendship of France, Belgium and
America.
Band Leader Decorated.
King Albert expressed his intense
admiration for the snap and perfect
form with which the guard mount !
ceremonial was performed. The royal |
guests We're equally enthusiastic over
the famous general headquarters
band. King Albert promptly pinned
a decoration on the leader, while
Queen Elizabeth, with Gen PERISH
ings gallant assistance, INDUCED her
passion for amateur photography by
making numerous snapshots of a pla-
toon of general headquarters cavalry,
on the best horseflesh that general
headquarters could produce, which
next passed in review before The royal
pair
Gen. Pershing is credited with hav-
ing invited King Albert to take his
pick of the lot as a souvenir of his
visit and as a token of Gen. PERISH
ing's esteem. 1t is understood that
King Albert accepted the gift of the
horse in the spirit in which it was
proffered.
After guard mount the royal party,
with Gen. Pershing and encourage,
motored an hours run TO the chateau
of Gen. Hunter iLggett, commanding
the 1St Army, near Bar-suh Aube,
for luncheon, afterward motoring to
the football field on the outskirts of
the town for the thrilling champion
ship contest between two real Ameri-
can teams.
How Royalty Viewed the Game.
Grand stands had been raised on
the soil of France by the industrious
engineers and were occupied by the
cheering sections of the LIST and 2d
Army respectively. A small royal
grand stand had been constructed
with two red plush armchairs for the
king and queen and hard bottomed
seats for the generals party. The
sentries, presenting fixed bayonets,
lined q gray carpet laid across the
mud from the chaussee to the royal
box.
Five thousand doughboys and Off
GERS divided their cheeding attention
Between the king and queen and the
game King Albert appeared fully
familiar with American football but
the queen had to be instructed, and
Gen. Pershing devoted himself to ex-
planning the fine points to her.
The queen was particularly inter-
ested when she was told that two
real American Indians were in the
9TH Divisions lineup, one being the
famous Carlisle player. Big Chief
Bender. The king and queen wit
messed a clean. hard fought game, re-
plete with thrills and sensations, The
veteran seth, and 18th, which had
never made its battle debut, went at
EACH OliltI DIS IL tllt olltl ltdlfl lieit
been so many Germans trying to hold
the Hindenburg line, and determined
to bust through" regardless of cost.
Added pcturesqueness was due to
the fact that the game was played IN
the rain on one of Frances muddiest
fields.
Snapshotted by Royalty
In the last five minutes of play
under the continuous line-smashing
tactics by the 36th Division, the
morale of the 9TH Division team
broke, and the seth scored touch
down, kickink goal.
After the game, at the queens ex
press request, the victors and the
vanquished lined up in front of the
royal box, grotesque with mud, to be
snapshotted by the queen, after
which Gen. Pershing called for three
cheers for tn king and queen of the
Belgians, which was given with
American enthusiasm
The King and queen left general |
headquarteN, for Brussels early Sat-
urday morning, after having enjoyed |
every moment as the guests of the |
American army.