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TELLS OF HIS TRIP TO IRELAND80reeorISDaUd Lee Recounts Some of the Thlncs He Saw In the Emerald IsleiEditors Hkka i i According to promise,! 1 take this opportunity of letting you know how I have got along so far during I my visit to the Kmerald Isle I left Chi*| cago on the 2d of June, went on board the Canard at New York on 4th of June, called at Liverpool and landed in Belfast on June 12 I had a good time on board coming across, as the weather was fine j and the company jolly.After \iewlng the different sights in Belfast a*party of us visited most of the beauty spots as well as the important titles and towus of this country We have left off our visit to Dublin and the exposition to the last. We intend going up there shortly, probably next week.I am stopping with my brother, George l^ee, iu my native county of Tyrone Durk 1 mg my stay with my brother I have been to Omagb Beragh. Fintona, Dungannon, i (‘logher, Augber Fivemiletown, Bally-' gawley, Aughnacloy. and Newtownsaville j These towns which I knew well before I left for my adopted country, seem to be , much changed for the better We also | spent a few pleasant excursions in “Carle-tou’s Land,* the uative home of the great Irish novelist Two of these places mentioned iu Carleton’s works we appreciated very much on account of the legends attached to the places One of these places was Knockmany Hill, where we were | shown the abode of Fin McCoul, the great jiIrish «giant, and his wife, Oonagh. and were also told many an old fairy tale that 1 had often heard in my youth The other place was Lumford s Glen, in which stands two immense rocks about four hundred feet high, separated by a narrow ravine We were told that iu the older times, long, long ago. these two rocks formed one big rock, which was rent asunder by a great giant called Culeulin, at tbe request of McCoul s wife, Oonagh, mentioned above Oonagh, it seems, wauted a pail of water badly during a very hot summer She had been told that there was a fine, cool spring of water in the center of this rock, so she asked Cueul-lin to split the rock so she could get at the wAter He cracked the middle finger of his left haud nine times and then catching hold of the rock in both hands he tore itComb’s, Alex Little’s, W. I Lee’s, N T.(nephew i. and most pleasant of all, were those spent up here at Knockmany with my brother, Geo Lee As I think I havegiven you all the news up to the preseut, I will now say good bye David Li- k f loneyblagh, Augber, Tyrone,Sept 2, 1 IK *7ECHOES OF THE DIAMONDItems Pertaining- to tJames and Event* Inthe Local FieldNext Sunday, Sept. 22, Chicago Northwestern Cubs vs. Harvard The Cubs are managed by Ted Ha^sett and have teen playing all the season They are composed of the best ball players on the railroad, some of them being leaguers. With Foley and Marouey for battery—one of the best iu the city —they will make the home team go some to win They are coming in a special car with a large band of rooters. The Harvard team is practicing bard for this game and will give a good account of themselvesThe Harvard “Pirates'’ weDt to Richmond last Sunday and trimmed up the “Cubs'* of that village in a 4 to 8 score. The Cubs came within a hair-breadth of being shut out In Richmond’s half of the ninth, with two men out, they bad failed to cross the home plate, when two errors by the Pirates let in their three runs. Paul Goddard, the Pirates’ pitt her, did some fine work, on two occasions, with the bases full and no outs, striking out the last two men up and blanking the Cubs Other features of the game were a star catch in center by Strain, Madden'B work at third, and the heavy hitting of bcott for the Cubs The Pirates’ liue-up was as follows Ed Strain cf. Joe O’Brien lb. Condon s*. Madden 8b. Ward c. lt;*od-dard p. Dean If, Conn rf. Boodle 2b. Will Andrews played last two innings in rightfield. •Next Sunday, Sept 22, the Harvard Pirates and the Genoa Junctions will play atDeignan s park at Genoa Junction The Pirates are putting up a fine game and the Genoas, who have been playing winning ball all summer, will find themself* up against a bard propositionThe biggest crowd of the season wa- at base ball park last Sunday to see the Chicago Bloomer Girls’ game with the home team The girls were strengthened in asunder, revealing a fine spring of water'their liue-up by a “mau battery and, vewhich may be seen tumbling over the rocks to this day Just this afternoon a party of us visited the garden*, demesne and grounds of SirFrances Peter Gervajs, where we had a lovely time, as the walks around here are something beautiful1 spent some grand evenings iu and around my old home, where many of my boyish escapades, along with youthful companions, come back to my memory I should also add that I speut some jolly evenings at the homes of my own relatives and those of my friends in Harvard, namely John I-zee’s ibrothen, Mrs. Mul-ligau’s (sister), Thos. Beik’s (brother of Alex Beck, tea-merchant, Harvard), Mrs Adam Beck's, Samuel Miller’s, John Me-sbort-stop The Harvard boys were perfectly lovely to the girls for six innings, the score then standing 5 to I in the girls’ favor Id the seventh the boys were just horrid and run in six scores. Miss Fogar-ity, at first base, was the star, handling her position just like a man, and Miss Brown, the third baseman, made a two-base hit to left field, right over Jimmy Vroman’s head Following is the scare11A K\ A HI)* KHrAEVroman, it13l(10Butts, cf01OI)1Connors, lb101000M Breen.2bn2Sr1Strain, c31X10Johnson, p111)0L Breen ss%t»231Brickley, rf11L00Hubbeil, 8b18123Totals1014SI100
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Harvard, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 19, 1907
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