America the Land of Contrasts a Britons View of His American Kin
America the Land of Contrasts a Britons View of His American Kin
James F James Fullarton Muirhead
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The football match between Yale and Princeton on Thanksgiving Day (last Thursday in November) may, perhaps, be said to hold the place in public estimation in America that the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race does in England. In spite of the inclement season, spectators of either sex turn out in their thousands ; and the scene, except that furs are substituted for summer frocks, easily stands comparison with the Eton and Harrow day at Lord s. The field is surrounded in the same way with carriages ...and drags, on which the colours of the i A match played in no less aristocratic a place than Newport on Sept. 2, 1897, between the local team and a club from Brockton, ended in a general scrim mage, in which even women joined in the cry of " Kill the umpire ! " Sports and Amusements 113 rival teams are profusely displayed ; and there are the same merry coach-top luncheons, the same serried files of noisy partisans, and the same general air of festivity, while the final touch is given by the fact that a brilliant sun is not rarer in America in November than it is in England in June.
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