PRINCE IN AMERICA.
A DAY IN THE CITY.
RIDING FEAT PRAISED.
(Received 5.5 p.m.) Reuter. NEW YORK. Sept. 13. The Prince of Wales visited New York City yesterday. He left his motor-car and took his first ride on the subway. He also visited the Woolworth Building tower, 53 storeys high, from which a beautiful view of the city is obtained. The Prince then went shopping on Fifth Avenue. An erroneous report that the Prince was present at the Wills-Firpo fight was thought to have been due to the fact that a special box, suitably decorated, had been set aside for him by Mr. Tex Rickard at the ringside. However, His JJoyal Highness did not occupy the box, although. Lord Mountbatten and other members of the Royal party did. On the news of their arrival at the arena a mob of several thousand people, who had been waiting for hours hoping for a glimpse of tho Prince, broke through the police cordon. As the members of the party alighted from their motor-cars they found themselves tho centre of a struggling crowd. "There he goes," shouted one man, pointing to Lord Mountbatten, and the excitement grew intense as hundreds of throats "hurrahed" and cheered the party. For a few minutes it seemed as if they would bo swept off their feet, but reinforcements of mounted police rushed to the scene and broke up the crowd. — The Prince's performance at yesterday's hunt is featured in the papers this morning with much praise for the skill and daring he displayed. The Tribuno says: "Cynical and at times almost cruel comments regarding the Prince's qualities in the saddle were discredited yesterday by the young man's success over some of the stifiesfc hunting country he ever encountered. Already, because of his daring on the polo field, the impression that he was soft in the saddle had been largely dissipated, and yesterday morning's test proved the final "denial. The Prince was always in the first line of the hunt. Ho never flinched from a jump, and he cleared every barrier without difficulty."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18814, 15 September 1924, Page 7
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