A Flash of inspiration.

Otago Witness, Issue 2579, 19 August 1903, Page 77

A Flash of inspiration.

When tho representatives of. America] IMofe-ssional baseball made tho tour of the world a few years ago, they met various ki.ids of rcos-ptions, the interest in the- game being in most instances hardly what they expected. Europe and A"-ia are not yet thoroughly n!ive to the beauties of our national gnme. At one place in England, however, where they had been warmly welcomed, and their pld-ying witnessed by large crowds, a banquet wa« arranged for tho visitors, a young scion of nobility being master of cere-, monies.

At the close of the feast one of tho American players, a man high up in the ba.=obill world, wim called upon to say somothiMg. He w.-vs not accustomed to sptakiivg 'p.i public, but he 'O <?, rcd-fficod and embarrassed, to do hi<* be?t. "Well." be said, "all I've got to cay is

that we've been treated white— that's what. We've be*n' treated white. "-You-alr know i':a not a spooclimakei*, but T waiit to pro» pose throe cheers for — for — his " ■ Here ha paused. "' He could not think of the oonveoitional term or title for the nobleman who was presiding. A eudden iuepira« tion,_ however, oame to bis aid. " Three rousing cheers, Americans," h« said, "for his dukes! Hip I Hip! Hur>. rah.'." • ' The cheers were given w^th. a will, and "his dukes" made a graoious response.