THE PRINCE'S RUSE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9844, 24 October 1924, Page 4

THE PRINCE'S RUSE

SITTING- vVTIT-1 CHAFF KITES

TO DODGE CURIOUS CROWDS

NEW YORK, Sept, 5. The Prince of Wales twice yesterday tried to sit quietly with General Trotter, Major Metcalfe,- and Mr. (rallies. Each time crowds gath-eral around him so closely that he was ioiced to leave the game and escape in his motor car. The first instance was a scratch match between American intcruationalists on the estate of Mr. William R. Grace. Interest' in the match was hitr], when the Prince’s car drew up beside the fence at the corner of the field. The Prince lightly vaulted over the rails, walked to a corner of the field, and sat on the sideboards. PROCESSION ROUND FIELD

He had been enjoying the play lor several minutes before a woman with a pair of strong field glasses spied him from the other side of the field and said, 'There he is!’’ Immediately a process ion l started round the field Soon the crowd was pressing close to the Prince. He muttered a few words to his companions, rose, and went towards the fence. i When he was seen to be leaving i he field there was a. general rush towards the corner through wli.eh lie would pass. . In fairness to .Long ms land society it must be explained that the mob was composed mostly ol servants ironi neighbouring estates and people from neighbouring, towns. At the second match —that ol the British Internationalists, at Meadowbrook—the. Prince was more successlid in escaping detection. He sat m a ' corner of the field far from the stands, where chaft'eurs and grooms were watching the .game-, and was there longer before his presence "as discovered. As soon as the Prince noticed people walking in his direction he slipped away.