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Show I New York Gits and I IVY W1NGO. TiY HILLY MURPHY That the trip around the world ff the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giant? will hasten the time when baseball will be the real International sumo. Is the opinion of A. G. Spalding, a headllner since 1ST.. J "Baseball was new when we started for Australia twenty-fle years ago," says Mr Spalding, ' and e acted as explorers, hence Jimmy Jim-my Callahan and Johnny McGraW Will find the ground largely prepared. pre-pared. "'Of course, they will piny in n few cities we did not visit, but even . then they will find the majority of the white and brown population versed In our nal'onal game. "Qne of the greatest difficulties when wo started to organize the trip was to get players who had nerve enough to embark upon a journey of such length. "Some of the players who had "been Invited but did not go are kicking yet because they declined '-" "In this troupe with McGraw and , Callahan are some of the greatest mH baseball players In the game, but 1 they did not excel some of the ag- grpallon we took with us In tho t 3 olden days. "The trip that the Sox and , ,-' Giants are making should be the . f opportunity of a lifetime for play- ; B crs who were fortunate enough to it get nn Invitation. . 1 "Why, they will learn more on . J this trip than they would have ( J hoped to during the rest of their , ,j lives. This tour will without doubt be the greatest of its kind ever at- -i tempted. 1 GREAT DOOM IS OX; TEXER OX WORLD TRIP. a "That is why I am saying that .9T In twenty-five years baseball will ''ji be the International game. Every :S civilized countrty will know or ', 'M hear about the American ;?me to- I ' jfl fore tho Journey Is half over and jM as It already has had a splendid 5 start In Japan, the Philippines and 4H Australia, the sport Is certain to '.s get a big boom. "In this connection I might say 2l that the game in Franco has be- : come firmly rooted, Tho French- Sj men are natural ball players and jSl It will not be many years before I 3 the game in the sister republic will 3 be booming. 1 ;3 "It was In Paris that Ed Wil-llamson, Wil-llamson, the greatest shortstop 9 that ever lived, was hurt. We were M making our world's trip and let us I 9 hope none of the stars on tho pres- I !9 ent trip will draw up halt and I lame." I e Adrian C. Anson, that gentleman jB of exalted reserve, who was a slug- fl glng gourmet for base hits, was the .j9 head of the teams that made the - i trip around the world in the olden 9: days. 1 0 There never was a greater char-acter, char-acter, nor a fairer gentleman than H A. old "Pop" Anson. Never a man f 'IE who allowed himself to be a prey rM to fine frenzies, and naturally ro- presslve of exuberances, he always : I ,?S was as square as they made them. ' ', I aj A line man and the biggest kind ': 9 of a boost to hascball was old Ad- r'i'fB Han Anson. It was men like him '"'"4 9 mado baseball what it Is. 'f jB Anson took the Chicago White ' '.M Sox and a team called the All- I I -Ml Americans to the old countries. The '' All-Amerlcans were John M. Ward, "?IB former president of the Eoston '.I'aB' Nationals and present New York H 't tfl lawyer; "Long John" Hcaly and j&t 'm, Ned Crane, pitchers; "Globe Trot-ter" Trot-ter" Earl, catcher: Carroll, Jimmy fSM Manning and Wood on the sacks; Fogerty. Ned Hanlon and Tom jr ';: '4 Brown in the outfield. Sk! Ed Williamson, Tommy Burns. KhEB, Tommy Daly, Mark Baldwin, Jlm- graSH my Ryan. Fred Pfeffer, John Tener, gVyH Mark Sullivan and Bob Pcttlt made nra9 the trip with the great boss of the H&fl Chicago White Sox. SIB That Tener Is John Tener. Gov- HKB ornor of Pennsylvania who was re- HH cently elected president of the Na- flH tlonal League. HH RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT: HH THEX TOURED THE STATES. BBS! The irrepressible and only Mike H Kelly was to have made the trip: Hr In fact, it Is asserted he signed up HH for it, but at the last moment re- H fused to make the long Journey. H Before departing the All-Amer- HB lean and Chicago teams called on STEVE EVANS. Grover Cleveland, who was president presi-dent of the I'niled States. Like the White Sox and the New York Giants of to-day tho While Sox and All-Amcrlcan teams of those days made B Jaunt of the ciunlry before departing. Games were played In Denver. St. Paul, Minneapolis. Chicago, Cedar Rapids and San Francisco. The tourists departed from Frisco for the Hawaiian Islands November Novem-ber 18. The eve before tho vessel Balled on the long 7,000-mile water trip the teams wcro banqueted. A glance at an old menu card of those days Is Interesting. Judge Hunt of the Superior Court responded to the toast: "Early California Cali-fornia Ball Players" Ex-Senator Grady of New York talked on ' Tho National League Champions, tho New York Easeball Club." W. N. Hart chatted of "The San Francisco Press " On the 1913-14 trip of the White Sox and New York Giants, there are many women in the party. Mrs, Jim Thorpe. Mrs. Hans Lohert. Mrs, Louis Comlskoy, Mrs Russell. Mrs. Iarry Doyle and Mrs. "Chief" Meyers Mey-ers are brides who are making the tour, Mrs. James Callahan and Mrs. John J MoGraw also are making the tour. Jimmy Callahan, the beloved be-loved leader of the White Sox, also has his little son and daughter with him. On the first trip Mrs. Anson and daughter accompanied the great leader of the Chicago team. Mrs. A. G. Spalding also made the long journey with her husband. In Honolulu King Kalakuau "Kink Calico." as we Yankees dubbed him greeted the baseball crusaders and entertained the party In regal fashion. Tn Sydney, Australia, tho tourists tour-ists were banqueted by the United States Consul. In Melbourne the Mayor and a crowd of several thousand thou-sand met tho players ami a public reception was tendered them, PAIR OF TRIPLES WIN FOR CHICAGO. Tho teams played their first game In MVlbourno before a tremendous crowd. Up to the seventh inning the score was a tie. as a result of a ringing triple by Burns, Baldwin s single and a terrific triple by Anson. An-son. The Chicago team then batted out a victory. . In Melbourne Nd Crane essayeel to break the Australian record of 126 yards 3 Inches for throwing a five and one-half ounce cricket ball. Ho succeeded, hurling tho sphere 128 yards 10 Inches. The teams from Melbourne went to Ceylon and then to Egypt and played a garce at the Pyramids. Here is a copy of a crude circular printed at that time to advertise the game EASEBALL AT THE PYRAMIDS. "The Chicago and All-Amcrlcan teams will please report In ihe hotel office In uniform promptly at 10 o'clock tomorrow tomor-row morning. We shall leave tho hotel at that hour, camels having been provided for the All-Amerlcans and donkeys for the Chicago Chi-cago players, wllh carriages for the balance of the party. ' The Pyramids will be Inspected, Inspect-ed, the Sphinx visited and a game I ! IN r CRICKET TO BRITONS' SURPRISE. Bfc -4 C rlcket was sandwiched in bo- (noon the baseball games and as : : nvo days were usually required to 1 finish a cricket match, the Anur- . ! pl.iv.-i.. spent a pleasant six . .', jraSSaffi: u.-.-ks a I -mad ar ine the monot ony by trips at sightseeing when not playing baseball and cricket. : At ,,ririrt. to the great surprise of the English and Irish people. JOHNNIE M'GRAW. played upon the desert near by, beginning at 2 o'clock." Tener and Baldwin twirled for Chicago and Hcaly and Crane for the All-Amerlcans. The latter team won, 10 to C, the first game of baseball base-ball ever played In the shadow of the Pyramids In Naples, Italy, the teams played a five-lnnlns game Tn Rome they played on the private grounds of Prince Borghese. Among the notables not-ables who watched the play were Kmc: Humbert of Italy, the Prln- e of Naples, Prince Borghese and family, fam-ily, Count Ferran, Princess Castel del Flno, Count Glonatl, Senora Crlspl, wife of tho famous Prime Minister, and her daughter. Crane and Earle and Tener and Daly were the batteries The Chicago Chi-cago club uon, 3 to 2. In Florence, the All-Amerlcans won 7 to 4. In Paris the All-Amerlcans again won. It was hero that Williamson was hurt. Ho was the greatest Of the shortstops and perhaps there never has been a better since. Williamson, Wil-liamson, while sliding, tore his kneecap. knee-cap. It never recovered Its full strength IRELAND IS VISITED; LOXDOX GIVES WELCOME. England, Scotland and Ireland wi-re visited and great crowds continually con-tinually thronged tho streets and parks to sec the players. In London the committee appointed appoint-ed to receive the tourists consisted among others of the Duke of Beaufort, Beau-fort, Earl of Landborough, Earl of Coventry, Earl of Sheffield, Lord HERMAN SCHAEFER. rnbrldge. Lord Littleton, Lord Hawke, Sir Reginald Hanson and Sir W. T. Webster. On the Lord's cricket grounds where the teams played 7,000 spectators spec-tators watched tho game, which Ibe All-Amerlcans won, 7 to C. In Dublin the tourists received a nal welcome from the Lord Mayor. Here tho All-Amerlcans asaln won, 4 to 3, but In Glasaow, Scotland, tho Chicago Sox won, 7 to 6. Tho trip made by tho White Sox and All-Amerlcans in 1S8S-1SS9. although al-though the most noteworthy, was not the flrsl trip abroad of American Game. baseball clubs. In 1S74 the players of the Boston and Philadelphia clubs vljltod England and Ireland. The athletic contingent was mado up of thirty-eight persons, Including Includ-ing players MeBrlde. Clapp, Anson, McGeary, Sutton, Batten. Grdney, m i Mullen, Murnane, Fisicr and Sen -senderfer. Tlie Boston party Included George Wright. Harry Wright. Spalding, Barnes, Sehacfer, McVey, Leonard. o'Uourko Hall and Reals Jim White, the Bostons' regular catcher. de lined the trip, and his place was taken by Kent of the Harvard College Col-lege team Fourteen games wore played all of an exhibition character, in London, Lon-don, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield In England and In Dublin In Ireland. The Bostons won ei(?ht to tho Athletics' six. pnmes played with English and Irish elevens. Tho Americans on this trip met with some curious experiences In Chatsworth Palace, one of the show places of England. Spalding of tho Bostons, and Flsler of the Athletics were suddenly drenched on a clear day by standing under a weeping willow when some one in the secret se-cret touched a hidden spring. The next trip abroad taken by an American team was that In 1S79, when Frank C. Bancroft of usble jrt th JAMES J. CALLAHAN. Cincinnati look an aggregation or players to Cuba. Th team was made up of Foley and Nichols, pitchets; Bennet and Bushong. catchers; Sullivan. first base; A. Whitney, third base; A. Irwin, shortstop; Wood. Knight and one of the surplus catchers or pit) hers In the outfield. Since then trips to Cuba have boon made by man of tho greatest players. Cuba has developed and se-nt into tho big leagues several genuine stars. in 1908 and ion? Reach's aii-Amerkans aii-Amerkans visited Japan, China, the Philippines and the Hawaiian islands With a line-up comprising some of the biggest of the big leacue stars the Reach team played he-fore he-fore great crowds, introducing the Rime In some spots where It never had touched, revived It in others and gave the soldier boys In the far-off Philippine Islands a chance to sc'c a real American team In action. ac-tion. Tho trip began November 3. 1308. when the players sailed from San Francisco under tho management manage-ment of Mike Fisher. The following players made the trip: Jim Delahanty, Washington; Pat Flaherty. Boston Nationals; Jack Bliss. St. Louis Cardinals, Jack Graney, ci eland; rlelt mullcr, Philadelphia Americans; .Nick Williams. San Francisco; Devereaux, Oakland; Curtis and Harry McArdle San Francisco. The Americans played four games PROGRESS IS SWIFT IN SIAM E. To drop into Bangkok, the capital capi-tal of Slam, from th? Far East, especially es-pecially from China, Is to feel almost al-most at home again. You have to go up the river Me-nam Me-nam about twenty miles to reach Bangkok and the approach to the city is one of the most picturesque in tho world. It was early one morning morn-ing when my little Chinese steamer from Penang entered the rier and soon through the mists rising from the rler and the canals, the morning morn-ing sun began to strike the queer shaped spires and towers of the Innumerable In-numerable Buddhist temples, colored col-ored llko thei rainbow, that rose above the vapor. But modern hands have laid hold of Bangkok and ns we went ashore some of the electric lights were still burn inc. and as we made our way to the hotel electric cr.rs went whirling whir-ling by, clanging their gongs and, in the distance, mingling with the bum cf a city of nearly one million rouls waking from their rest, could be heard the shrill whistle of the modern American locomotive. All Oriental hotels have a strange sameness Always tho obsequ Ions. boWlng servants, Japanese, Siamese and Chinese; usually the same blue I rocked. Imperturbable Chinese clerk, who watches you while you register, and in perfect English asks you whether you have had a good voyage and if you propose to stay long And then almost inevitably if you be an Englishman or an American and alone, he will add. "I will have your luggage taken to your room and a bath made ready for you. Here, boy, show Ihe gentleman gen-tleman to the bar!" Human nature Is much the same whether in Bangkok, Slam or Bangor, Ban-gor, Me. But, I merely mention the bar to show how small you can find the world. Chilled with the mists of the river In tho early morning. I followed fol-lowed my companions Into tho bar. a largo room set about with tables which tired looklng Siamese were cleaning. Behind the bar was a white man clad In Immaculate white duck. On the wall opposite the bar some! rather curious pictures pic-tures were hung, and I turned to examine them. My companions had been served, and I was patiently waiting my turn when, to my surprise, sur-prise, tho bartender turned to me and said: And what do you wish. Mr. Fuller ?" My companions de voyage looked at me in astonishment. They bad the presence of major league crowds. When they met the Tokio University Club 6,000 Japanese fans turned out on a bitter cold day to cheer their favorites, who had beaten all-comers during the sea- f- ,ad t GREAT JAP CROWD oft FILLS THE TOKIO PARR. The crowds wore Jammed and It at was unfortunate that tho seating tfeed capacity was not larger. HpOf This resume of tours of the world 3t bj baseball i rusaders demonstrates table that the fame of the national McK game has sprend to a groat many a pal countries, thanks to those who K as passed along practically the same iinlej routs years before-, many of whom f tha have passed still farther along and , Bie are now members of the Silent m f( Army. c tnl rl To decrease the number of accl- fro dents a French city Is building a street with a separate roadway for each kind of trade, motor, horse and fooL ibe nr. A new silencer for motorboat on- m glnes works on the principle- of tak- mtr Ing the pressure out of the exhaust aj! gases by cooling them with a water Jai kc-t. i thai pe That the power of a magnet In- its creases as - its temperature de- atw creases seems to have been shown Isfi by recent tests. Ml i i not credited me with being known In Si. i m. 3 "Hulloa," I said, 'how do you ,n come to know my name;'.' Saw It , on my trunks, I suppose," j "VS hy, no. sir." replied the bar- 3 ,. h.-ndc-r I remember you very well. t I used to be a waiter in the Shore- ;roi ham Cafe In Washington when 'J ;n, were on a newspaper there." He had gone to the Far East as a tour- .',. 1st; had lest his money, and, was .', working in Slam frying 10 amass money enough to get him home rnj as.iln. n j, I didn't have the luck to sec any ,r "ha this piling teak," but I saw lots of R loading Inio ships for all ports of the world, and 1 sat nt the feet of many Buddhas and heard V "the temple hells a-calllng." though "j I was many miles away trom Man- dalay. , rt -4 |