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Show FAMOUS STAR S MADE WORLD TOUR IN W Only Four of Pioneer Travelers Trav-elers Are Connected With Baseball Today. STARTLED THE NATIVES Throwing and Hitting Proved Marvelous Feats to People of Antipodes. DETROIT. Mich., Nov. 1. John J. McGraw, whon the famous bunch of globe-trotters mado the tour of tho world a quarter of a contury ago, was at the age when the best seat or view of a ball game ho could afford whs through a knot holo in tho fence. Conditions Con-ditions have changed since "Johnny-" whs in his teens. He is tho big noiso of the great, trip now under way, tho man who will pilot tho two representative representa-tive teams of the national pntimo of the United Statos around tho world and show ihe natives of many countrios how tho groat canio of baseball is played, or shoula be played, in the domains do-mains of Uncle Snm. lust twenty-five years ago a gathering gather-ing oC baseball athletes met in Chicago, at the invitation of A. O. Spalding, to accompany him on a tour to Australia and around tho lobe. On October 20, 188S, after playing the opening game, also the farewell performance before starting on their trip of 28,000 miles, twenty-two sturdy ( aud well-dressed hall players-of national fame, under tho leadership of Oaptain Anson, began be-gan a tour which brought much glory and fame to all tho ball tossers, !Xfr. Spalding and the United States in general. gen-eral. Notables on Tour. The two teams wore representative of the two great organizations of that period, tho Chicago club practically going; go-ing; as they played througti that season, and many seasons for that matter, only a fow of thoir twirlcrs being loft behind. be-hind. The other team was launched out as an all-American team, and contained con-tained manv famous plavora. euch ns "TZA" Hanlon, John M. Ward, "Jimmy' "Jim-my' ' Fogerty. tho most famous and brilliant outfielder of tho period; "Ed" Crano, famed for his startling speed and a wondorful curve ball, also tho long-distance thrower of tho time. A moro handsome and woll-dressed bunch of ball tossers never boarded a Pullman coach. John K. Tener, a giant athletoj "Cap" Anson, another giant; "Long John" Healoy, a twirler of gront ronown uway back in tho 80 's, although al-though not broad of girth, reached hoavenward many inches moro than the ordinary mortul; "Big Ed" "Williamson, "William-son, with his 230 pounds of solid beef and muscles, Mark Baldwin, ono of tho great hurlcrB of his day, and. tho Boau Brununel of all ball tossers, was a man of huge proportions'. , Then "Ed" Crano, whom "Big .Toff" Teereau is an oxact counterpart of in build and Btvle. In fact, all save a couple "Billy" Earlo and Claronco Duval, tho mascot wore mon of goodly proportions propor-tions and withal a very impressive-looking lot of athlotes. The party set sail from San Francisco Fran-cisco November 17 on the steamer Alameda Ala-meda for the Hayaiiau Islands. Tho first eamo outside of the United Statos was to be played at Honolulu, but tho ship was delnyod one da-, so tho vast assemblage which had gathered to greet tho ball tossers were sorely disappointed. dis-appointed. First at Auckland. So tho first game was played on the other sido of tho globe, at Auckland, New Zealand. Tho natives of the Antipodes gazed in open-mouthed won-l won-l der at the wonderful batting, fielding I and throwing of tho Americans. At Sydney, New South Wales, the teams played beforo 6000 on the finest athletic park tho Americans had ever seen. After five innings of play the governor called time and requested tho toams to take twenty minutes recoss. Thoy were taken to the fine clubhouso and" thero dined, wined and speeches., made; also cheors and toasts for the governor, his lady, tho quoen. the president. presi-dent. Mr. Snnldintr. "Can" Anson, "Cap" Ward aud all tho players. Alter this whirl of high life tho game was resumed, and tho playora of both toams played the remaining innings in-nings with rare brilliancy and daBh, due, perhaps, to tho number of toaBts drunk. At Colombo, Island of Ceylon, the teams played beforo 5000 natives dressed in" almost as many difforont shades and BtyleH, perhaps the most picturesque and strangely attired assemblage as-semblage that ever saw a ball game. They gazed in wonder at the ball players play-ers catching the swiftl' thrown balls, and, their wondor grew into enthusiasm en-thusiasm when they saw the long' hilB, But when the battod balls began to fly all around in thoir midst they became be-came panic-strickon and flow in all directions, di-rections, tumbling over each other and chattering like a, lot of magpies. Round of Pleasure. The trip from start to finish was one continued and continual romp and round of pleasure, and some of tho capers and tricks devised to keep the fun going were unique, and at times outlandish. An admirer of "Ed" Crano presented him with a trained Japnneso monkey, "Ed" had no end of fun with his pot, and the other playurs wore kept in hot water whon anywhere near Crane and his animal. "Jimmy" Uynn, bound not to bo out done b' 'Big Ed" and his fun-producer. Jnado a deal whereby Clarenco Duval, tho little colorod mascot, who had traveled with the team from homo, was to act the part of a real live ape, so "Jimmy" dressed Claronco up in a red coat, black tights and a bright red skull cap, also rigged up an artificial tail of groat, length. When the party landed at Epypt, "Jlmmv" Ryan had tho natives frantic with fear. He had Clarence all ringed out and, to make him more hnpressivu, ho put a baseball mask on him and. with a stout rope around his waist, ho led this stnuipo-looklnR creature right Into the midst of a big crowd of natives. Clarence out loosu with a flue lot of monkey talk and made right at the Lotus Bators. With cries of terror they scattered scat-tered In all directions, yelllnsr and scroamlUK au though thoy had seen the dovll. And Ryan's monkey hud Crane's faded for fair. When tho real article would see tho make-bollovc fellow coming1. com-ing1. It would make for the nearest tree nnd was as badly scared na tho Egyptians, Egyp-tians, and was furiously Jealous of Clar-1 Clar-1 once. Without a Mishap. Although it was a very successful vonturn in many ways, yet Mr, Spalding, who backed tho project to tho extont of $55,001). was a Iohiu- several thousands when tho tcums were traveling foreign soil. But he probably made some of It H up In tho exhibition games from Chicago to tho coast on the outgoing and on the .IH return from New Tork to Chicago. 'H The parti" traveled soma 2o,000 miles IH without a mishap and very little sick- lH ncss. Some 30 games wero played on HH foreign soil, tho All -Americans, winning IH 16 and tho Chlcagos annexed 10. four being tied. . , l Here is the lineup. Fow of the num- H bor aro even Interested In baseball nowa- oavs. that le, as players, managers n- j magnates. John Ward. Ed." Hatiron, "BI11V Earle and "Jimmy' Ryan are tne iH few remaining names read occasionally in baseball news. "Cap" Anson is. in the limelight, but it is tho rott,.ca,t"n2n the stage: John K. Tener is l?overnor WM of Pennsylvania; A. G. Spalding, tho nro-moter nro-moter of the famous trip, is a resident ot California: Mark Baldwin, the star JM pitcher of the squad.. Is now n M. J. IH In or near Pittsburg. a-...,,. H j Chicago. A"R.mlcj0 A. C. Anson c Bm$ fr' '."Torn" Daly ,e........ Fred Cam FrMPfoffer. 8b', -. . "Jim" . Mamilng IH Thomas Burns,.. ..ab -f::inG' H E. AVIlllamH0U..-8-v'Jo"Mv Pnhart Pcttit......rf...... "Tom" Brown JH Marie tBaldwln....ip......-Ti:d-ard ? Crano H John K. Tener p........ John Hc;lc KM iiMH |