THRILL BRITISH Fans Slight Stars When Prince Arrives i NOBILITY MUST BE SALUTED j By HENRY United Press Sports Writer PRESTWICK Scotland May 23 23 The longer I visit in these isles the themore themore themore more I am impressed with the fuss makeover royalty Take rake this amateur championship I f for r example Let the word get out that Prince So-and-So So Is in the gallery and the fans farn almost forget about the golfers actually attract more attention at t a sports gathering gathering- or any pla place else than else than Babe Ruth Jack Jaek Dempsey or Bobby Jones in America i Which reminds me me of that pushbutton ton in London You w wouldn't call it a particularly distinguished looking pushbutton In Int t fact ct its it's not much different from theone the theone one cne you h have ve by your front door But iLs iL's probably the most potent I pushbutton in the city Its It's fastened to the outside of Claridge's hotel hote within w easy cuy reach of the head heed doorman and the second doorman and the third doorman doorman doorman door door- man and the do re me fa Ia so 00 la late te doormen door door- men men who guard the portals portals' of this swankiest of hotels The button b Li pushed only when royal are approaching It ItIs 11 Is the head doorman's doorman duty duty to to spot the royalty a block or so eo a away ay an and you can un see aee him bim 24 U day peering up ap and down Brook street after alter the manner of f a captain on the bridge bridle The second a kin kine or prince prime or queen Is spied pled he pushes the button and Inside the hotel a great creat clapper starts working on ona I Ia I Ia a treat great gong gang Seven fire engines with a hook and sad ladder wagon thrown In on the way to a seven seven- alarm fire never made more of a a. adin adin din than this con gong rone And Its effect on the hotel from manager manager man ager tl to apprentice sauce cook Is electrifying I was is in Claridge's the other after noon swiping a few sheets of writing paper r with which to impress my friends when this gong cut loose At that time I didn't know what it meant but bul right of off I sensed it was something tremendous You never saw such a getting about in fu your life The tail tall coated manager came caine whizzing out of his office on two wheels and behind almost running over him In their theli hurry were a dozen tall tail coated assistants The bellhops soon as they heard the gong dropped whatever they were doing doing doing do do- ing and raged toward the door They made quite a sight for lor they ore arc bellhops bell hops that are bellhops S what with their blue satin knee breeches gold stockIngs stock stock- Ings Ing shiny pumps gold tailcoats and powdered wigs As they ran they powdered powdered pow pow- dered their already snow white wigs and adjusted this and that At the same laMe time running as u It If their lives Uve depended on It came camean all an the other servants servant They popped out of elevators down downstairs stairs and aDd from around corners corner like rabbits In a forest fored fire For Forone Forone one ODe mad moment the lobby resembled re re- re- re a Mexican army In full rout Then TheD at the managers manager's sharp command they lined up ap on either aIde side of the thedoor door forming a a. splendiferous gauntlet that reached reach reach- reached ed way back Into the lobby As the big entrance door off olf the street swung open they snapped to rigid attention Then somebody sounded a 1 toot on on ona a bugle and in walked little King Icing ing of Slam Siam Not until the king had bad dap- dap into the elevator did the flunkies flun flun- kies kles break ranks and sc scatter to their I regular stations This performance which resembles resemble something out o o 0 fa Cecile de Mille Mule movie was Wa repeated every time the king came into the hotel No matter If he only went out for lor a package of ot he got this 21 gun 21 gun salute so to speak when he returned It Is Claridge's way of making royalty feel at home a home J 1