The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-05
WHITE SOx LEAVE
FOR MEXICO TO
TRAIN
With Enthusiasm Crowds See
Their Departure Forty in
the Party.

Asseciated Press to The Evening Times.
Chicago, March 5.-With the cheers
Of enthusiastic thousands of Chicago
baseball fans ringing in their ears, the
worlds champion White Sox left this
morning for the City of Mexico, the
terminus of the most ambitious train
ing tour ever attempted by a baseball
team. The start was made from the
Illinois Central depot shortly after 10
o'clock. Two special Pullman cars
were occupied by the party, numbering
about forty persons, including several
Chicago newspaper men, who will ac-
company the Sox on all their travels.
These cars will carry the party all the
way to the capital of the land of the
Aztecs, despite numerous changes of
railroad lines.
The baseball special" will be rushed
through at the greatest possible speed,
as the Sox are scheduled to play an
exhibition game in the City of Mexico
Immediately after their arrival next
Saturday. The party will go direct to
New Orleans from this city, stopping
only twenty minutes there to allow the
cars to be switched to the tracks of
the Southern Pacific, which will carry
the party to San Antonio and Eagle
Pass. According to the schedule the
latter place will be reached at o'clock
on Thursday afternoon. Crossing the
Rio Grande into Mexico at Ciudad Por-
fro Diaz the cars of the Sox will be
taken in charge by the Mexican Inter-
national railway, which will take them
to Torreon. The Mexican Central will
take the party at Torreon at 9 o'clock
on Friday morning, and If the schedule
is adhered to the champions will be
landed in the City of Mexico, via Zaca-
tecas and Aguascalientes, about noon
on Saturday. 1t is expected that they
will be given an enthusiastic reception
by the American residents of the Mexi-
can capital.
The Sox will stop only for a light
luncheon of chilli con carne Y tortillas,
washed down with-liberal doses of Mil
waukee's best cerveza, before showing
the Mexicans just how the American
game of baseball should be played.
Reports from Ted Sullivan, who has
been in Mexico for some time as the
advance agent of the Sox, state that
the Mexicans are eager to see the
champions, and that the games will
probably attract great crowds. For
the first game the players will be d.
vided into whites and blues and the
contestants allowed to engage only in
moderate exercise.
Sullivan has engaged quarters at one
of the best hotels in the city for the
Sox. All of the sights of the first for
eign country to be visited by an Ameri-
can baseball team will be inspected by
the players, and It is stated that Presi-
dent Diaz is planning to hold a great
reception in their honor. The cham
pions will remain in the City of Mexi-
co nine days, during which time four
games will be played with the local
teams comprising the Mexica City
league, who play before big crowds on
Sundays and holidays after the bull
fights. The Sox will leave on the night
of March II, one section going to New
Orleans and another party stopping at
Monterey for game.
The complete ante-season schedule
of the White Sox is as follows:
March $40, first and second teams
at Mexico City. March Hip, White
Sox and Mexico City teams. March 10,
White Sox and Vera Cruz March A.
Is, White Sox and Mexico City teams.
March 1917, first and second teams at
Mexico City. March 10, White Sox and
Monterey, Mexico. March 81, %, %.
"a, White Sox and New Orleans. March
Is, first and second teams at Vicks-
burg, Miss. March 26, first and second
teams at Jackson. Miss. March q,
first and second teams at Greenville,
Miss. March 1929, first and second
teams at Memphis. March 30-31, first
team at Louisville. April 1, first team