Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-06-05
BIG LEAGUE MILEAGE
Enormous Expense of Moving,
Ball Players Around Circuit.
TRANSPORTATION is COSTLY.
plttsburos VIII Travel Longest Dis
tanes, With Cleveland Next-Two
New York Clubs, Brooklyn and Ath-
letios Must Ride. the Least.

tanes, With Cleveland Next-Two
New York Clubs, Brooklyn and Ath-
lssios Must Ride the Least.
One Of the big items Of expenses In
the running of a major league base
ball club is the cost of carting it
around the circuit. 1t is seldom that
q team goes on the road with party
Of less than twenty. There may not
be this many players In the troupe, but
there will be a manager, a business
manager and q trainer, 'aition TO
Q host Of war CORE uents. There
are only two teams the big circuits
who do not have in their encourage
home scribes. These are the Brook
lyn and st. Louis clubs Of the National
league. which have been fighting so
strenuously for the cellar champion
ship for the last few years that their
doings on the road are not sufficiently
thrilling to send along a war corre-
spondent.
In making out the schedules for
1909 the date arrangers managed to
decrease the mileage a trifle. How
ever, the railroads, hotel keepers, Sleep
ing car companies and baggage haulers
are likely to draw just as much money
out of the baseball clubs treasures, as
It Is likely that the number of players
and camp followers who will car
ried on the various trips win be rger
than ever.
The American league teams, in, or
der to fill their championship dates
during 1909, Will have to do more trav-
cling than the National league clubs.
%no &v, Do To-
ization are down to travel 95,32S miles,
the clubs in the Fl. Clay Pulliam league
oO.856. The National leaguers' mile
age has been cut by 2,1O9 miles, the
American leaguers' by 444.
Champions In the mileage leagues
are the Pittsburg Nationals and Cleve-
land Americans. These teams are not
allowed to play ball at home on Sun
days and often have to beat it to
Chicago and st. Louis for single COM
bats. The Detroit Tigers also are pro-
hibited from indulging In the national
pAstime on their home loo on the sew
enth day, but generally are jumped to
Chicago, | the distance from De-
), tEoit to On ago is Just about half of
the gap bt ween Cleveland and ST.
Louis and PiItsburg and Chicago. The
Pirates are carded to make thirty five
= trips, covering 14673 miles; the Maps,
thirty-seven jaunts, aggregating 1904
y miles.
Both the New York teams were well
treated by the schedule makers, for
the Highlanders and Giants have the
smallest mileage in their respective
. organizations.
The worlds champion Cubs will be
}, busy individuals between 6:25 D. m.
ON Friday, Sept. 3, and $50 a. m on
Monday. Sept. 6. In this interval Of
time they will be on the road almost
. thirty hours. being jumped from
Brooklyn to Cincinnati, from Cincin-
J. natl to Chicago and from Chicago to
Pittsburg. these Journeys covering n
!. total distance of 1881 miles.
The longest jump on the major
league circuit is from ST. Louis to Bos-
, ton-a span Of 1929 miles This leap
with be taken this season by the Bos-
y ton and Brooklyn Nationals and st.
Louis Americans.
The cost Of moving a team around
the circuit during the championship
season, assuming that on the average
twenty persons are carried, amounts
!. to SLIT a mile. This is no wild eyed
guess. but figure taken from the
books OF major league club, which
last season Travelled 1O,524 miles and
paid out $12, 2,36OS1, divided as follows
> For hotels $5,672, for railroad fares
A,N7.76, for sleepers and Pullmans
$1,213 and for buses and baggage
wagons $6S5.O5. AS the big league
teams will travel during this seasons
championship campaign S5,684 miles,
y the bill for moving them around will
be just $217. .25O.28.
:. Tho number Of miles each major
league club win have to travel this
}, season in order to fill its championship
dates follows:
3. American league-Cleveland, 14,O94
. miles; st. Louis, 1897: hicago, 13,
$50; Detroit, 1905; Boston, 11,721
2. Washington, 10745; Philadelphia
0,Sos: New York, 9,64S; total, 95,329.
National league - Pittsburg, 14,76s
miles: Chicago, 12,491; st. Louis, Il,
- 129: Boston, 1926; Cincinnati. 1O,723
" Philadelphia, 1o,412; Brooklyn, e,953