The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-19
THE GREEN DIAMOND.
WHAT is GOING on STnE BASEBALL
WORLD.
New York Has an Almost Sure Thing on the
League Pennant - The Proposed Aus
tralian Trip-what the Clubs Are Doing.
IcHICAGo CoRREsPoNDENcE.l

lcHIcAGo CORRESPONDENCE
The recent good work OF Captain Anson's
young men against the Boston team has
infused with new hope many admirers OF
the Chicago team who had long ago given
up all hope of the teams being able 10 pull
out Of the rut into which IL had apparently
fallen. Chicago has got good man in JohL
Tener, the new pitcher Arson isecured in
Pittsburgh. His skillfu. self confident
work in the box has seemed 10 put new life
into the boys. and the Chicago team has
now really walked up TO realization Of the
fact that if il plays its old-time game from
this date out, il may yet carry the pennant
10 Australia this fall.
Speaking OK Australia, arrangements for
the great trip Of the Chicago and All-Ameri-
can teams are now beginning 10 assume
definite and satisfactory shape. Mr.. Spalding
has chartered from the Pullman Palace Car
Company special sleeping car and the hotel
car international" both together contain
ing accomm odations for seventy-hVe peo-
pie. In this car the party VIII travel from
Chicago 20 san Francisco stopping az Kan
sas City, Omaha, Denver, -. Paul. salt
Lake City, and other points for games. The
party will use the car as its hotel in each city
IL visits, il being luXuriously appointed and
provided with every accommodation tray-
cling athlete or epicure could wish for. lt
will be appropriately lettered and decorated
for The trip.
Last Sunday Business Manager Leigh
Lynch departed for st. Paul. Minneapolis.
Des Mones. Davenport. Omaha, and other
cities with which negotiations have been
pending for games, to conclude arrange
ments az each point. Re will sail for Aus
tralia Sept. IL and will arrange for the re-
ception of the teams at Honolulu, Tutuila.
Auckland. Sydney and Melbourne.
The advertising matter being gotten olt
for the tour is Of a most elaborate character,
and the posters will exceed in richness. of
design and beauty OF coloring anythinGSof
the kind ever gotten out in connection With
the national game.
Arson has decided TO uniform his men In
the adopted black and gray OF the Chicago
team. Upon presi lent Spaidings sug res
ton and at his request. Mrs. John NJ. Ward
is designing a uniform for the players Of the
ALI American team.
The veteran Henry Chadwick in speaking
O! the expedition the other day. said: The
Australian tour Is going 10 be the grandest
affair Of the kind known in the history OF
the national game, and ! look for great re-
suits from the "trip in the extension Of the
popularity of the game. Truly he vii! be
fOrtu nGte player who forms one o. the two
cams selected for the tour. IL will be the
event OF every mans life who goes. just
think OF what advantageous circumstances
the trip wifi possess for seeing one OF the
great countries OF the world. There i IA
prestige and eclat about tour made under
like circumstances which even a wealthy
party of travellers cannot secure. II Will be
a representative gathering OF characteristic
American sport-loying travellers. A sort OF
grand and novel six months base bali pic
mic party. Mr.. Spalding is going through
With the venture with the same enterprising
and liberal spirit with which he conducts
all his business affairs. and my word for II,
IL will yield Kim the same creditable success
all his other business undertakings have.
This is not 10 lie "a trip engaged in like
that Of the Boston and Athletic Clubs visit
20 England. That was "a mere gate mOney.
speculative affair This is TO be an alto
gether different undertaking. The touring
party will be on completely independent
footing. the visiting party pay ing their own
expenses, regardless Of gate money returns
or not. II is 10 be sort or combination OF
business with pleasure. in which Mr..
Spalding pays all the bills and stands treat.
whether he gets dollar back in return or
not. l have not the slightest doubt that the
baseball bread he will cast upon Australian
waters will be returned TO him ten-fold in
due time.
Il read copy OF the contract each player
Of the party has to sign, and il is one very
literally as well as carefully worded. and so
rs 10 provide against all contingencies such
trips are liable 70 in the way of any failure
on the part of the players 10 carry ont the
letter OF their contracts, while at the same
time 1t fully insures the comfort and welfare
Of each individual player. Each man has
all his expenses paid, travelling OUTLAWS as
well as hotel bills, besides which he will be
entitled TO a specified sum at the close Of
the trip. which begins Oct. 10. 1883. and
ends six months afterward. on
April 10, 1889. In the interim
cricket, football. etc. to the best OF his
ability, 20 keep temperate in his habits.
avoid gambling or any other form Of dissi-
patton, and to subject himself TO such dis
cipltne as the exigencies of the game re-
quire just think OF travelling from Chicago
10 San Francisco i'll palace car. engaged
by the party only, and then going on board
"a specially chartered steamer for a Journey
TO the Antipodes. with the certainty Of a re-
ceptlon as representative party OF the
great Republics sport-loving citizens, such
as Jay Gould In his yacht could not begin
10 obtain. and then 10 visit the principal
cities OF the Australian continent, and be
entertained at public dinners. made much
OF by the Australian authorities. and enjoy
all the excitement OF "A series Of attractive
contests on the baseball and cricket fields. :
So soon as the pennant race is ended.
public interest will doubtless turn 10 the
Australian venture. and the movements Of
the teams will be daily recorded in the press
of the country from the time they leave
Chicago until they return here next March.
magnet around which public interest cen
tiers.
Verify. in nothing else arc the changes so
complete and unexpected as are those in "A
pennant race. At the time Boston WAS
tumbling fastest Chicago was still PLAYING
winning ball. and when Chicago seemed un-
able 30 shake off the cancerous growth oi
ill-luck that stuck like AN old man OF the
sea" 70 its back. Boston was approaching
the flank OF the leaders in the race with
strides that threatened 10 place il comfort
ably in seconc place, unless some unlocked
for event should interfere. Then Chi
cago takes squirt the very first
crack il gets at Boston, and now promises
TO not only leave Boston and Detroit in the
rear. but make things very interesting for
the Cunts themselves.
While IL would be possible for Chicago 10
overtake New York, however. il seems
scarcely probable at THE date. unless. o.
course, the Giants should become crippled
through the disabling OF one or two of their
best men.
AS 10 the other teams. Phtsburg. Wash
ington, and indianapolis will probably bring
up the end Of the procession this year as
they did last Such result must be very
discouraging 20 the Smoky City Club. They
have got good ball team in every sense oil
the word. but IL does not. for some reason
seem TO get there in its games. That team
should certainly zoe playing BAH with Boston
and Chicago day for second place, but in
stead 1t is hopelessly consigned TO sixth.
HARRY PALMER.