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Show I FIRST REAL BASEBALL GAME BETWEEN Big Crowd Watching Baseball Contest In London. A game of baseball recently played-nt played-nt Hyde" Park, London, wns the crowning crown-ing Instance of how tho "Invasion" of the Yanks Is forever cementing the entente en-tente cordlnle. For the ilrst tlmo In history two exclusively llrltlsh trams have met In u game of baseball, tho sccno being be-ing Hydo Turk, London. Tho contest con-test was tlie finale of an afternoon's entertainment staged by tho American Ameri-can Young Men's Christian Association. Associa-tion. Thcro hnvo been many games by Americans lu this country, but until September 21, 11118. epochal date, no two llrltlsh clubs had attempted at-tempted competition In America's national na-tional sport. Made Good Showlno. Coached or two weeks by athletic directors of tho Y. M. C. A., the two tennis mndo n good showing. They wero made up of llrltlsh soldiers of an outfit stationed nt Hyde I'ifrit barracks. bar-racks. They nppearcd on tho field ns Iho Iteds and the Illues, und their uniforms uni-forms were fairly representative or the real article. An American sailor took tho Job of umpiring, nnd two American negro soldiers, after the i gnmc hnd gone nn Inning or two wero enlisted to do thu work on the coaching coach-ing lines. 8corer Loit Count. After live Innings tho score stood 17 to 13. which n llrltlsh major said "mudo qulto n 'decent showing." The olllclnl scorer, n llrltlsh corporal, lost count of tho lilts. Several thousand people stood or sat On alt four sides of tho diamond and watched the game. Most of tho "rooting" was supplied by American nlllcers and soldiers, although hero and thero a British otllcer "Joined up" with nn occasional burst of modest applause. Whether good batting eyes or poor pitching enn ho held responsible respon-sible for the sliow.er of lilts would bo hard to say, but the crock of tho but was almost' continuous. One Donehead Play. 1 F.rrprs wero plentiful, but probnbly the biggest bonehead play was pulled when tho buses were full. One of tho Iteds stole third nnd nppenred amazed when he found that bag already occupied oc-cupied by n team ninte. He It said that this was beforo the American negroes ne-groes went to tho conch lines. |
