The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 62, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 17, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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The Royal Bedchamber, occupied by the Duke of Windsor when, as
Prince of Wales, he was a guest at the Greenbrier hotel in White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., where his grandfather, Edward VII, while he was
Prince of Wales, also visited in 1860.
years later, another Albert Ed-
ward visited it. This Prince of
Wales later reigned briefly as Ed-
ward VIII and then abdicated his
throne for the love of a beautiful
American and became the duke
of Windsor of today.
In 1919 this second Prince of
Wales crossed the Atlantic
and after a triumphal tour of
woodent of boys playing
narked by posts instead
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to you and to the United States
have been fully appreciated, and
that his demeanor and the feel-
ings evinced by him, have se-
cured to him your esteem and the
general goodwill bf your country-
men.
“I purposely delayed the an-
swer to your letter until I should
be able to couple with it the an-
nouncement of the Prince of
Wales* safe return to his home.
Contrary winds and stress of
weather have much retarded his
arrival, but we have been fully
compensated for the anxiety
which this long delay has natural-
ly caused us, by finding him in
such excellent health and spirits,
and so delighted with all he haa
seen and experienced in his
travels.
“He cannot sufficiently praise
the great cordiality with which
he has been everywhere greeted
in your country, and the friendly
manner in which you haye re-
ceived him; and whilst, as a
mother, I am grateful for the
kindness shown him, I feel im-
pelled to express, at the same
time, how deeply I have been
touched by the many demonstra-
tions of affection personally to-
ward myself which his presence
has called forth.
“I fully reciprocate toward
your nation the feelings thus
made apparent and look upon
them as forming an important
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miniatnre volume titled “A Little
Pretty Pocket-book.** It was print-
»rl in In 17R*7. and
Coming of British King and Queen
Recalls Visits to United States
i By European Royalty in the Past
The duke of Windsor, pboto-
Kraphed at the Spring House in
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
which ho visited in 1919, when he
was Prince of Wales.
Canada, went to Washington
to renew his friendship with
Woodrow Wilson. The President
was very ill at the time and con-
fined to the bed in the White
House which had been used by
Edward VII when he visited
President Buchanan there. How-
ever, he was received in the Pres-
idential bedchamber and an in-
teresting account of that visit is
recorded in .Mrs. Woodrow Wil-
son’s book. “My Memoir,” pub-
lished recently by the Bobbs-Mer-
rill company. Like his grand-
father, the Prince of Wales was
taken to Mount Vernon to visit
the tomb of Washington but, un-
like his grandfather, who went by
boat, he motored there, accom-
panied by Vice President Thom-
as R. Marshall and Secretary of
State Robert E. Lansing.
Princely Resemblances.
Just as there is an amazing sim-
ilarity between the two princes
of Wales (as a glance at the pic-
tures accompanying this article
will show) and a similarity in
their temperaments and tastes,
there is also an interesting simi-
larity in their visits to this coun-
try. Both were accorded tumul-
tuous welcomes wherever they
went and both won the hearts of
Americans with their simple,
democratic manners. And like
his grandfather, the later Prince
of Wales also escaped from the
round of gayety to rest at the
White Sulphur Springs resort
In the case of the younger man,
however, there was no official in-
cognito during his visit there. *Of-
ficials of the Greenbrier hotel,
where he spent a three-day week-
end, recall that he merely ex-
pressed the wish to be left alone,
to be permitted to come and go
as he chose and to have nothing
done in the way of official cele-
bration. The prince spent his time
in sport—golfing, swimming, rid-
ing and hiking.
Then the prince entered a boat
on the Canadian side of the river,
was rowed across, mounted tfee
wooden steps of the cliff and
stepped on the soil of the United
States as "Baron Renfrew." the
incognito which was preserved
while he was a guest of this coun-
try. New York city gave the
‘‘baron” a tumultuous reception
with a torchlight procession
through the principal streets of
the city, a visit to Barnum’s mu-
seum and a great ball at which _
the crowd was so great that the
floor-of the ballroom collapsed. A
crew of carpenters was called in
to repair the damage and in their
hurry entombed a fellow work-
er under the new flooring. He was
freed only after his frantic tap-
ping beneath the floor revealed
his plight and threatened to break
up the party.
The prince next went to Boston
where there was another round of
gay parties in his honor. There
he was introduced to Ralph Farn-
ham, 105 years old, a soldier who
had fought' at Bunker Hill. He
also visited Harvard a few days
later and met Longfellow, Holmes
and other American literary nota-
bles. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St.
Louis and Chicago were visited in
turn with stops at various places
en route.
The prince finally got to Wash-
ington and went to the White
House to call upon his friend,
President James Buchanan, a
man of marked democratic traits
which were most attractive to the
royal visitor. As a relief from
the interminable handshaking
which was his fate in the national
capital, the prince frequently
stole away from receptions fo
play ten-pins in a private bowl-
ing alley with Buchanan’s charm-
ing niece and White House host-
ess, Harriet Lane.
Visits Washington’s Tomb.
While the prince was in Wash-
ington Buchanan accompanied
him down the Potomac to Mount
Vernon, the home of George
Washington. Because of the
prince’s fondness for ships, the
trip was made in a boat and en
route the royal visitor took the
tiller ropes and skillfully steered
the boat to its landing place. At
Mount Vernon the prince stood
bareheaded before the tomb of
George Washington, and later
planted a chestnut tree beside it
in tribute to the “greatest rebel
of all time.”
To rest up after the round of
social events which had been giv-
en in his honor everywhere,
“Baron Renfrew,” at the sugges-
tion of Buchanan, went to the fa-
vorite summer resort of Wash-
ington society — White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va. (then Virginia).
But, as it turned out, he didn’t
do much resting. For the entire
population of the resort turned
out to greet him and plans were
immediately made to hold a
grand ball at which the flower of
Southern society would be pre-
sented to the royal visitor. The
gay young prince did nothing to
discourage the party and while
arrangements were being hurri-
edly made, he amused himself
by riding about the countryside.
He attended the' county fair
which was then am important
event in Virginia. A great ad-
mirer of horseflesh and beautiful
ladies, it to little wonder that a
beautiful woman bareback rider
at the fair caught his attention.
His hurried courtship of this tal-
ented performer to one of White.
Sulphur’s many gay traditions,
and legend has ft that the bare-
back rider rose to the pinnacle
of her profession on the strength
of her harmless but enthusiastic
flirtation with His Royal High-
ness.
As for the ball, the records are
meager but it was apparently the
most brilliant in the early history
of this famous resort. Fifty-nine
KING GEORGE VI
During the visit of Edward VII
to Boston, he made such a favor-
able impression upon the people
of that city (the very city which
had once been the “hotbed of
treason” to his great-grandfather,
George III I) that the duke of
Newcastle, a member of his reti-
nue, wrote back to England, “If
the prince remains here much
longer, there is the danger of his
being nominated to the presiden-
cy and elected by unanimous con-
sent.”
Although that is something of
sn exaggeration, of course, the
favorable impression which the
royal visitor had made upon the
American people was confirmed
- by a letter which President Bu-
chanan wrote to Queen Victoria.
In reply, the queen, according to
Laura C. Holloway in her “The
Ladies of the White House,” ac-
knowledged “her sense of the cor-
diality of his reception by the
President in a letter in which the
dignity of an official communica-
tion is altogether lost in the per-
sonal language of a grateful
mother thanking a friend for
kindness done her first-born child
—it is the Queen’s English em-
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
• Western Newspaper Union.
’I ’I THEN King George VI.
\A/ and Queen Elizabeth
’ ’ of England cross the
Atlantic to visit the United
States and Canada, they will
not only be following a globe-
trotting tradition of British
royalty but they will also be
blazing a new trail for future
monarchs of England. Prin-
ces, who were later to be-
come kings, and lesser mem-
bers of the royal house have
come to these shores but
nevef before has a reigning
English sovereign paid a visit
to North America. So tbAe
is unusual interest attached
to their coming and with it
the inevitable comparison to
the American journeys of
twp other sons pf the House
of Windsor, both of whom
‘ came here as Prince of Wales
and later ascended the Eng-
lish throne.
The first of these journeys was
in 1866 when Queen Victoria, who
-was apparently the first British
monarch to appreciate the impor-
tance of building up a close con-
tact with America, sent her son
“Bertie,” as he was known in
family circles, to call upon her
loyal subjects in Canada and also
to shake hands with the sons and
grandsons of men who had re------
belled against her stubborn
grandfather, George III, 85 years
previously. Although “Bertie,”
otherwise Albert Edward, Prince
of Wales, was still in his teens at
the time, he was a gay young
ployed to express the sentiments
of the woman.” She wrote:
_______________* ‘Windsor Castle
"No/719th, 1860
“My Good Friend:
“Your letter of the 6th. ult. haa
afforded me the greatest pleas- i HI
ure, containing, as it does, such : ed in Massachusetts la 1787, and
kind expressions with regard to contained a i
my son, and assuring me that the on a field marked by posts .
character and object of his visit of bases, with this verse:
The Ball once itruck off.
Away fliei the Boy
To the next deatin’d port.
And then Homa and Joy.
The title of the verse and the
game is “Base-ball.”
Historian Frank G. Menke, in his
“Encyclopedia of Sports” declares
that the present ruling powers in
the sport have been misled relative
to baseball’s origin and develop-
ment, and have seized upon the
wrong date, the wrong place and the
wrong man for bestowal of honors, i
Menke's Claims
Menke, perhaps the nation’s out-
standing authority, summons logic
to prove that (1) baseball was
evolved from the British game of
cricket and, in a crude way, was
played in this country before
Doubleday was born. (2) The game
was played in perhaps a score of
cities long before it was known to
Cooperstown. (3) In 1845 or 1846
Alexander Cartwright of New York
city drew up the “baseball square”
which is now the diamond. (4) Cart-
wright and members of the Knicker-
bocker Ball club of New York draft-
ed the first definite rules for base-
ball during the winter of 1845-1846.
The commonly accepted version i
dates from a report made ia 1907
by A. G. Mills, third president of die
National league. Mills beaded a
committee named to search out the
real facts concerning the origin and
development of the game.
A. G. Spalding, noted figure in the
game for more than half a century,
disagreed with the committees.
Games in 1820’s?
I
Spalding quoted from a booklet,
“Base Ball,” written by John Mont-
gomery Ward, an early day player,
and later an attorney:
“Col. James Lee, elected an hon-
orary player-of the Knickerbocker
Club in 1846, said that he had often
played the game when a boy, and
at that time he was a man of sixty
or more years.” .
i Spalding also quoted Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, who told a Boston
newspaper reporter that baseball
was one of the sports of his college
days at Harvard, and Dr. Holmes
j graduated in 1829.
Mills and Doubleday, according to
Menke, were members of the same
Grand Army post for 25 years. Yet
when Mills became chairman of the
investigating committee he conced-
ed that he did not know that Double-
day had anything to do with the
game until he learned about it
through circuitous channels.
Henry Chadwick, revisor of many
baseball ruler and originator of the
modern scoring system, was born in
1124. He was the historian of Ida
generation. An authority, bo wrote
millions of words about the game.
When he died—in 1908—he left his
papers to Spalding, who was unable
to uncover any mention of Double-
day in connection with baseball,
though be was of Doubleday's time.
Let argument rage. Even those
authorities who question the bestow-
al of honors are solidly behind
baseball’s centennial. From fans to
olayerft, the nation is doing its beet
to make 1939 baseball’s biggest
year
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Who Started
Nation’s Game?
(Debate Rages
By ROBERT McSHANE
^TRADITION has It that Abner
x Doubleday, a young engineering
student and later a Union soldier,
created modern baseball 100 years
ago in Cooperstown, N. Y.
*• With baseball celebrating its cen-
tennial, the best thing to do is to
string right along with tradition.
From the small town nine to the big
league club, baseball is co-operat-
ing in the nation-wide observance.
The National Baseball Centennial
commission, formed to celebrate the
game’s birthday, includes leaders
in every field of endeavor.
Evidence that a game called base-
ball was played more than half a
century before the Cooperstown
event has been found in the Con-
gressional Library. There, among
the library’s rare books. V. V. Par-
ma, curator, recently inspected a
Northwestern university players.
In 1937 De Correvont led Chicago’s
Austin high school to city champion-
ship. Ever since he decided to ma-
triculate at Northwestern, midwest
fans have been watching him as a;
possible threat in Western confer-
ence competition.
Though the publicity brought Bill
nationwide fame, it might have been
bettor all around if it had been
avoided. Bill didn’t ask to be glori-
fied as the high school football mar-
vel of 1937. He didn't ask to be es-
tablished as a great star before bo
has played one quarter la big-time
competition.
In his first varsity game he turned
in a better-than-average perform-
ance. Ho gained 110 yards in 19 at-
tempts, handicapped by three fum-
bles. He completed five at eight
passes for a total of 55 yards, had
oae intercepted and two incomplete.
He recovered eno fumble and the
opposing eleven grabbed the other
two.
He Is a fast runner, cuts sharply,
and can pick his spots. His kicking
has never been out of the ordinary,
and be Is only a fair passer.
Much of his future success and
fame depend on the Northwestern
line. Even though the fan gives all
the credit to the ball carrier, a hard
charging, tough blocking line with a
couple of fast backfield mates can
make a fair back into a great one.
Sport Shorts
\1 1SS PATTY BERG, United
States women’s golf champion,
will defend four championships that
she captured last year . . . Phila-
delphia is spending nearly 81,000,000
on golf courses this year, building
two new ones and renovating three
. .....others . . . Joe Di
Maggio will marry
Dorothy Arnold,
- > movie actress, some
MfeW"' tinie *n th® h»-
lure The bride will
/ Jti continue her fl,m ca-
reer . . . Steve Mbs-
BHMC' ner of the Cubs,
% modern Buck Weav-
BtaML er, thinks a clean
uniform is unlucky,
and manages to do
Joe DiMaggie »o»nething about it
after three or four
innings of play . . Eighty-seven
candidates turned out for spring
training at Indiana this spring . . .
The largest number of entries for a
golf tournament was 50,000 from j
1,056 cluba who played in the London J
Post’s handicap event last year . . . J
A similar tournament for women &
drew 25,000 starters from 962 clubs.
a Westers Newspaper Unteo.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH
link to connect two nations of
kindred origin and character,
whose mutual esteem and friend-
ship must always have so ma-
terial an influence upon their re-
spective development and pros-
perity.
“The interesting and touching
scene at the grave of General
Washington to which you allude,
may be fitly taken as the type of
our present feeling, and, I trust,
of our future relations.
“The Prince Consort, whs
heartily joins in the expressions
contained in this letter, wishes ts
be kindly remembered to you.
as we both wish to be to Miss
Lane.
“Believe me always
“Your good friend,
“VICTORIA R.”
Edward VII, when be was
Prinee at Wales. From a photo-
graph takes by Mathew B. Brady
in Washington in 1860. (Courtesy
the L. C. Handy Studios).
blade who entered with the great-
est enthusiasm into the social
whirl with which he was wel-
comed on this side of the Atlan-
tic.
At balls and parties he was in- '
defatigable and he refused to
leave them until the band had
played its last note. When em-
barrassing situations arose, he
extricated himself from them
with an ease and savoir faire that
endeared him to his flustered
hosts and hostesses. In Quebec,
while dancing with a crinoline-
and-lace-gowned partner, his
spur caught in the damoiselle’s
train and both of them instantly
sprawled upon the floor. But his
princely dignity was not as much r
upset as were some of the offi-
cials there. Before they could
spring to his aid, he laughingly
helped his partner rise and they
calmly resumed their dance. At
the same affair, the waiters over-
celebrated the auspicious occa-
sion and the guests were forced
to serve their own food—an emer-
gency measure which seemed to
horrify everyone except “Bertie ”
“Baron Renfrew” Arrives.
Always ready for an adventure,
he shot the famous Rideau rapids
of Canada, to the amazement of a
vast crowd lining the banks of the
river. At Niagara falls he
watched the daredevil, Blondin,
walk a tightrope over the cata-
ract and when Blondin offered to
. carry the royal heir across in a
wheelbarrow, the prince accepted
the invitation. Whether he would
have gone through with it or not
is unknown, but fortunately per-
haps for him, Canadian officials
put a stop to the affair.
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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Why They Turn Pro
A SURVEY made late in April byi
the National Football league
revealed that of the 200 college sea-l
lore on the preferred negotiations!
list, 137 had already signed con-
tracts or given definite assurance
that they would play.
That figure is surprisingly high.
Especially ae ia view of the fari
that several National league elubsj
do not attempt to contact drafted1
players until after commencement.
There are several reasons why so
many have already signed up, chief
among them being the steady im-
provements in general conditions
pertaining to professional football.
Desirable salaries have been made
possible by increased attendance.
The status of the pro football player
has been raised far beyond the ex-
pectations of a few years ago, and
clubs have contacts which enable
them to place players in good posi-
tions during the off season.
It is obviously Impossible tor play-
ers of the calibre of Whlsser White,
Davey O’Brien, Ki Aldrich and oth-
er big-name players of the past cou-
ple of years to command the sal-
ary in any other lino that they will
be paid in their first season of pro-
fessional football. White, who
played one season before going to
school in England, received 815,009.
Exceedingly few college graduates
can find good paying jobs immedi-
ately after graduation. For exam-
ple, the average income of lawyers
in America last year was 8700. Phy-
sicians averaged 82,000.
National league teams no longer
resort to rosy promises in signing
college players. Experience has
proven that candor bring the best
results. A statement sent by the
Brooklyn Dodgers to all players
sought, tells them:
“We do not present professional
football as a major life pursuit, nor
do we offer it as the short bridge
to fortune. It does, however, amply
provide a young graduate with the
means to tide over that perilous po-
rted between graduation and the
time for deciding upon what shall
be his life work.” --------------
National league clubs seldom ac-
cept volunteers. Ordinarily the club
makes sure through scouts and col-
lege coaches that the player is a
likely candidate. The Green Bay
Packers withheld offers from sev-
eral men this year after selecting
them in the draft. Further invest^
gation proved to the club their abil-
ity had been overrhted or that they
would not fit into the Packers’ sys-
tem.
Among those who have signed pro
contracts this year are Larry Buh-
ler of Minnesota and Charles Brock
of Nebraska, who Were assigned to
Green Bay; Waddy Young of Okla-
homa, Brooklyn, and Mike Parry,
St. Mary’s, Cleveland Rams.
Publicized Prep
DILL DE CORREVONT,. most
u highly publicized prep football
star of last year, tasted his first de-
feat in the college game this spring
when his team loot 12-13 in a regu-
lation game between two squads of
Northwestern university players.
Chicago’s
ship. Ever since he decided to
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