The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
By KATHLEEN COURLANDER Copyright, 1923, By United News) (By Leased Wire To Age-HeraId)


 (Copyright, 1923, By United News) (By Leased Wire To Age-HeraId)
 NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-As soon as I landed in New York city from London and heard that the great baseball championship was in progress at the stadium I decided to go there without delay.
 Even the glamor of the shops along Fifth avenue and the interest of the skyscrapers failed to attract my at tention as much as the Giants" and the Yankees" words which were on everyones lips and in every news paper.
 So I went to see my first match Friday and I have not been dissap- pointed. Indeed, I hope to see the finish of the series.
 Baseball is not at all the kind of game that I had imagined 1t to be. My mental pictures concerning it were all wrong.
 When I arrived inside that stadium I saw. first of all, two men wrestling in the center. having a boxing match without a single referee.
 T never knew that baseball was like boxing" I remarked to an of- ficial.
 That's only Nick Altrock of Wash ington and Schact amusing the
 
 another direction.
 Sees 'sBnbyr Ruth.
 There I saw long lean man in a white flannel suit holding a singular looking stick. He reminded me inn mediately of the harlequinade that always concludes the Christmas pan tomimes in London.
 "So you've got 8 ha.rlequinade here" I remarked to the official. Where's Colum bine?"
 He undeceived me-
 That's Baby Ruth of the Yankees having little practice" he said. Good boy, isn't he? If you look over there you will see Frankie Frisch, the Fordham Flash
 Just as I was admiring the fan shaped white boundary line and won dering what 1t represented, the "Star-Spangled Banner" the first time that I had heard 1t since landed on American soil.
 As the mighty volume of people, numbering about 10000, rose from the seats, I noticed the absence of coloreo clothes among the tiers.
 Not many women here today" I said to a woman who sat on my left. Not half as many as we see at the football or cricket matches at home"
 She replied that the men were so keen on this particular series that the women allowed them to buy ell the tickets instead of purchasing them for themselves. She told me that she had come from Detroit espe- cially to see the game and, as she knew every movement and could translate every sound that the man with the megaphone made, we soon became "buddies," as you say over here.
 Graceful Pitcher Impressive.
 The game started. I was. for few moments, greatly impressed by the graceful antics of the pitcher. who made me think of Novikoff, the Russian ballet dancer. For a few more minutes I struggled to under stand what double play" left on ases" and "struck out" meant.
 Then, gradually the fascination of the game held me spellbound.
 No one retoiced more than I did when Stengel made the home run my first home run-for the Giants No one felt more concerned when Pipp, the Yankee, was carried off the ground.
 Before the seventh round I mo- ticed that everyone rose from his seat.
 This is the stretch time." my neighbor said.
 "A good idea" I replied. I'll stretch,", and so absorbed I became in studying the physiological aspect of the crowd below that she had to tug at my skirt to tell me to sit down again when play reopened.
 Then the end, and when the cheers and the boos rang together in a mighty roar that swelled through the stadium, I, too. cheered and booed
 Once outside my seat. lost in the masses that crossed the arena like a kaleidescopic figure, damned up the steps that led to the subway, played in our game of baseball. Several times l was struck out" of the trains and left on bases" from station to station. I experienced some "wild pitches" and when emerged at Twenty-eighth street made a "home