The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
IF 1T HAPPENS
IT'S HERE
WHITE SOX ON
WAY TO COAST
Thousands of Ogden Fans
Greet ComiSkey's Players
as They Pass Through.
BY w. o. RISHEL.

Ogden. Feb 2S-With the large Over
land Mogul decorated from stack to SIDE
rods and headlight to tender with Amer
lean flags, red, white and blue bunting,
the White SOx special steamed into Og-
den today amid the cheers of a couple Of
thousand Ogdenites- The train, made up
from baggage TO observation car with
diners ana Pullmans, contained seventy
passengers, and after a short stop de
parted for the coast Fully sixty Of the
passengers of the train are playing MEM
bers of the famous Chicago American
league white Sox) baseball team. On the
way to the coast, where they start spring
practice on Tuesday morning. It is the
largest train of bail tossers that ever
crossed the continent, and has been re-
ceived at the various stations along the
route with the enthusiasm that only q
baseball fan can give when he sees the
pick of the players IN the great Amer
lean game.
The party was headed by Charles Com
iskey. the owner Of the White Sox- Tip
O'Neill, president of the Western league,
was the information bureau of the party
and was not afraid to let the public know
that the train carried the greatest aggre-
CATION of ball tossers that was ever
brought together. On reaching Ogden the
entire party dismOunted; some quickly
hunted up friends and others took al
vantage of the opportunity to nlingle with
the crowd and stretch weary legs. There
was a crowd of ball players on hand to
see the team; They included Dad" Gin
lin. Dad" Clark, Maggie Murphy. Ben
Morrison. Mead. Taylor and E. o. Marx
Of Salt Lake. The last named Joined the
party and went on to Oakland, where he
plays this year.
Comiskey Sees Quigley.
The first words Comiskey said were:
Where is Charlie Quigley? He promised
O'NeiH brought Quigley through the
crowd, and from that time on, or until
the train pulled out, Comiskey and Quig-
ley forgot all about the White Sox and
nl1x f1E a nj han,
both were boys
Comiskey did have time to answer one
question, however, which, was put to
him. II was: How about Fielder
Jones?" Jones is the playing manager
of the White Sox, and so far this sea-
son all efforts TO get him back for the
coming year have proved d failure. He
IS now in Portland and only recently is
sued a statement that he would not be
on hand when the umpire calls play ball
this year.
Corniskey. however, is optimistic, and
said: 81 think he will be around all right
In fact, L expect to meet him in San
Francisco, and there viii be no trouble
about his playing this year. In fact, We
must have him. and will" The parry
contained a number Of Chicago sporting
writer's who are making the trip with the
team. They seem to think Jones will be
back all right. and one of them hit the
nail on the head when he said: How can
Jones turn down $4,000 for playing six
months baseball? That Is what his con-
tract calls for, and l guess he'll be on
hand
Gimlin Leads Party.
The officials of the Southern Pacific
railroad selected Dad" Gimlin as the
conductor to carry the party west, out Of
Ogden. Gmlin makes a good looking
conductor in his uniform; in fact. he is
more handsome thar when he wears the
baseball suit so familiar 10 salt IsakeTs.
But we here in Salt Lake are aware Gin
lin is a foxy old manager, and it looks
a s If the Southern Pacific officials had