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M I Local anti aud anI Telegraphic Reports of Field Track Tuck and Ring RAILROAD FARES FARESI I AREA AREANo ARE A 1116 IEM ITEM No Special Rates for Baseball r- r Teams Big Leagues I or Not Wot Not i NEARLY TO ROADS I Americans Must Hand Out OutMost Outi i Most Most Most Pittsburg Suffers Sufers we- we IJ Heaviest t St Strain rai I It t I In in n the of o expenses of the Jen league ue ha baseball ebal clubs there is ono Item Hem HJ that is sure to be consider consider- bly hi higher hel than it was In lii 1905 1906 That 1 len Is for railroad fares of the tho trunk Ine lines clustered around Pr President s Johnson and Pulliam at tile the recent league meetings In Nev York and ati tearfully told them that to 10 the rate rte regulations they Would ho in hereafter to grant 1 any I fl cheap f fares fare and that all nU 1 of ut hat baseball II mOn mn would be at the tariff tarn tar tar- tr- tr iff He of or J 2 cents mile n- n If a mie per capita t. t rot 2 fore a rate of 1 l f- f 2 1 cents a amile I tulle mile mie often olen has hns been secured and und as I. I the tho teams now travel 1 around lie tho cir cir- ci ull with wilh a a tart party of from 1 IG G to 20 20 I of or about I 1 G. G as ji in the old ole n days Iny the tw Increase is going to cat eat up quite mile Inie a afew ew few admissions ir r rS fC for Par Fares Vare According it to the schedules the American league leatie le clubs cubs will wi have ha to tl I travel tr st a el distance taIC of or OC miles mies in t order to fill their championship lutes dates 11 hlf p j while chlo the iho National J I le teams leams will wi r c rG rG mlles miles In pursuance f of rC the sine same object Assuming that each c carries 18 15 men mn on Oil a ft C trip rip and that average Is not high as ns the tho Highlanders Highland highland- or ers of often n went nt on a a tour with over 20 21 21 t 4 in the party last Jast sea season on the amount t r I to be lie patti paid to the railroad 10 a el for fOl fares farest 1 alone alono will wl foot Coot 11 GS 0 of ot which t the il 1 pay 3 i i and anel the will wi r I If I th the pennant races were to be he bade bade- de decided de- de by hy the number of or miles mies each club has to travel the next serIes for forthe fOt thc the championship be fought between Pittsburg CUl Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land lane while the tho would be Philadelphia in the National and atc New NewYork ew York York- in 11 th the tho American The Pirates will wH have to go o Oel over more than tUU miles of territory than the Phillies are arc scheduled to cover r. co one reason for I i being that hat the Smoky mok Ci City mt men n m ro ln homi to tl fill r Sunday en engagements In In- L Chicago O and amI St. St Loul Louis The same reason reason rea- rea a ago son nn i applies apples to Cleveland's CIe heavy hC 1 mIle mIle- l i ff I Pays a Most The X New Nw w York and Ol Brooklyn 1 teams I S In rf fl the Nati National will wm have hn c a great mOI money saving sving advantage ath-antage el in jumps Co for while Pittsburg is slated to move nove around thit thirty nine lne times the ito McGraw McGraw- I Ites s 's will wi take e only twenty live t lve trips and the only twenty seven Jom Journeys nes I The longest jump on either circuit Is rom Boston to SL St St Louis a gap ap of 1222 2 2 miles mies The St. St Louis Americans S will wi tal take e this hop hOI on once during durinG the thc year rear the Nationals twice and andI 5 S S I he ilie Iw St. St St Louis Nationals once The TheS number of mic miles each club will 1 have havo to travel trips to ho bo made and amount amountS S to fl he ho expended for fOl transportation fares re alone n are e as follows I I S American league uc Clubs Chubs TrIps Miles UIs Fares res j S Cleveland u H 11 r H st H SL Louis 31 a. a ItS O S Detroit 21 l 13 G Chicago o 2 i. i Oi S Boston 59 9 IilO Athletics 33 ioa Ol S Washington 27 3 3 SI S Now York 25 S O r- r Totals W. W S National Ta lc Pittsburg SO 9 1 O t 5 Chicago Io e 32 r 12 It 12 IM BORlon 28 St St. Joui Louis 20 3 lI J 3 Cin Cincinnati n nU 31 11 1 19 4 l 11 Brooklyn 27 2 JO lOii 1 SI w N.-w Nv York Yo-k 2 21 G n- n Philadelphia 28 S. S O i S. S Totals m 91 S. S i Pla eis ei's ers in Iii rc Railroad men like to lo have baseball clubs travel lavel on fl Il their trains not nol alone for tor tho the cash revenues re es derived hut but hult J. J 5 also because their presence Is considered consid consid- t S ered erel ii In the light of train insurance i ree Fe Pew Few hull ball teams have been In accidents S 1 on ou 01 tl a and nc these ha have haC C not bc been n A A. few years back a 1 train calI cat car I tho the St. St Louis Loul a and I 1 CI Cleveland American 1 rl I league clubs from the 10 est l city ellY lo to the Mound ci city II Ii-ft Ii r th the I track rack lack willIe while going at high speed peel but hul buti i none of f the to sers was particularly hurt and the game ame was wn played as scheduled Between Chicago and anel andi i Cleveland over o ten years car ago the Chicago Chi S cago leaguers were sere wIe In iii a hal had 5 According to Cleric Clerk Griffith Jimmy Ryan Hal was 1 in in the smoking ln com compartment compart part part- mont ment mcl of o life lre Pullman at the time Ume o of the accident and anel was wa projected thereS there there- S from to the top of a freight car where S h wa vat was found dazed daze but stilt still ti purn puffing 1 I his c r and wondering how he got there S |