The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-22
WHITE SOX
WILL HAVE
LONG TRIP
Chicago Americans Will
Travel to Coast, Playing
Great Spring Schedule.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 22.-Completed plans
for the Chicago Americans training trip,
announced by President Comiskey today
disclose the fact the 'Old Roman is out
to break all records in the matter of terri
tory covered and in style in which tho
travelling win be done.
With California as the destination. A
double header route has been worked ont
which will require two teams to execute
and which calls for playing seventy-hve
exhibition games and covering practically
all the available territory on the coast
and in the south and middle west.
The small army of players which will be
taken on this jaunt will travel as no train
ing squad ever travelled before. A special
train will be provided by the Rock Island
system to transport the party to the coast.
The equipment includes two Pullman Sleep
ers, a combination compartment, observa-
ton and buffet car, a dining ear and a
library and baggage car, all to be drawn
by q highly decorated special engine.
There will be over thirty players in the
party and many of them will be accompa-
MED by their wives.
Leaving Chicago on February %. the
entire aggregation will arrive at Los AM
geles on March 4. On March 5 the players
will be divided into two squads, to be des-
ignated as No. 1 and No. 2. Dates AVE
been arranged for both teams in San Fran
CISCO, Los AnSeieS ana the intervening ciL-
les along the coast.
Team No. 2 will be sent to San Franz
cisco first to play there on March 6. 2 and
s, with a morning game to be played in
Oakland, across the bay, on the morning
of March s. That will be starting double
headers early in the year. The following
is the complete schedule of games as ar
ranged by President Comiskey:
Team No. 1-March 6, Los Angeles;
NTaVaH y - Anr1Ioa. AIaraL o cd
Angeles; March II, San Francisco; March
10, San Francisco; March IA, San Fran
cisco; March Is Ga. M, Oakland and March
10 Up. M. San Francisco: March 16, on
the road; March II, on the road; March
10. on the road; March 10, resting up:
March 20. New Orleans; March q, New
Orleans; March, %, New Orleans; March
%, Montgomery; March "a, Birmingham;
March 26, Nashville; March q, Nashville:
March 2S, Evansville; March 20. Evans
Vile; March 80, Terre Haute; March 81.
Terre Haute; April /, Indianapolis; April
?. Indianapolis: April 8, open; April 4,
Cincinnati; April o. Cincinnati; April g.
South Bend; April Z, Champaign; April 5.
Champaign; April 8, Champaign; April 10,
Champaign; April II, Fort Wayne; April
u. Fort Wayne.
Team No. 2-March 6, San Francisco
March Z, San Francisco; March 5 "a. mr.,
Oakland; March 5 Up. m.), San francisco
March 70. Los Angeles; March 10. Los
Angeles: March IA, Los Angeles; March Is,
Los Angeles; March 16, on the road; March
II, Phenix; March Is, Tucson; March il,
Bisbee; March 20, Douglas; March q, Ell
Paso; March %, El Paso; March %, Albu-
querque; March "A, Oklahoma City; March
%, hutchinson; March &c, Wichita; March
81, Topeka; March rs, Kansas City; March
% Kansas City; March 80. Lincoln; Mared
81. Lincoln; April l, Sioux City; April 2.
Sioux City; April 9. Omaha; April 4,
Omaha; April s, Omaha; April &. Des
Moines; April Z. Burlington; April 8, Gales
burg; April 8. Peoria; April 10, Blooming
ton: April Il. Decatur; Aprl. 70, SPRING
field.
Both teams to unite in Chicago on April
10 for the opening OF the championship
season on April II.