The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-27
THE AUSTRALIAN TOUR.
The Excitement Over the Event in
Chicago and Other Cities.

A private letter received in this city
says: 1.-THE Spaulding Combination
and their visit to Australia is among
the leading topics in sporting circles in
Chicago, and the advent of the players
in Salt Lake must arouse such an
enthusiasm as can be compared only to
the royal reception of the Mississippi j
Valley oarsmen few weeks ago. You
at home have but faint idea of how
much free advertising Salt Lake got
from the visit of the regatta teams, and
it is because of reports of the royal
treatment accorded to Mississippi
Valley people as much as anything
else that has influenced the combina-
ton to stop off at Salt Lake. As near
as 1 can now learn, the route
of the combination, and their stopping
off places are IS follows: st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids,
Omaha, Hastings, Denver, Colorado
Springs, Salt Lake. San Francisco.
They will remain in Denver two dave.
They play nine games including that at
Chicago, between here and the Pacific
Coast. Travelling will necessarily be
rapid as far as Denver, but at that pIace
and Salt Lake they will indulge in the
opportunity afforded them to stretch
their legs and see the towns"
A baseball tour to Australia has been
talked Of for years, says the Sporting
Life, but it needed man of large inan-
cial resources, indomitable pluck, and
keen business sagacity, like Mr.. A. G.
Spa ulding, to take hold of such OF
gantic scheme and carry it to a success
full conclusion. The magnitude of Mr..
Spaulding's enterprise and the great
possible good that may accrue to the
game through it, make it one OF the
great events of the times, and possibly
will mark an epoch in baseball history.
1t is believed that the game can be
popularized in Australia, the antipo-
deans being people akin 10 ours in
spirit and characteristics. Should such |
q result follow the present introduction |
of the game in that far-off country, it is
e. 81 enough to imagine what splendid |
new field would be opened to the game |
and to our professional players for win |
ter trips or permanent employment. |
With the game established in Australia |
its transmission to other English col
Onles would be but matter CT time,
and permanent introduction into
England itself would be among the pos
'lbllities. In time, visits from Aus
5ralian teams and great international
matches would also be sure to follow.
Aside from these possibilities, however,
he Australian trip will exert marked
beneficial influence on the game at
nome and abroad. This tour will
stamp it in the minds of ali foreigners
Is the national game of America, just
IS the visits Of English, Irish and
Australian cricket teams demonstrates
o US that cricket is really the
rational game of the country from
7hlch the tourists hail. An interna-l
icnal cricket match, for instance, in
his country, will draw enormous
rowds of people who know little o. and
are less for the game itself, but are
imply drawn by the inte: national char
cter OF the contest. This will be pre-
lsely the case with baseball in Ans
talid. A baseball tour Of such mag
itude and under such auspices as this
raat Spaulding enterprise must need
tract the undivided attention, COM
hand the respect and possibly the ad-
liratioH of all Australians, and if
aseball is to be, or rather can be, et
II introduced into the Antipodes, it
ill be wholly and sol ly by means of .,
mis- tour.