The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-05-13
BIC LEAGUE MILEAGE
Enormous Expense of Moving
Ball Players Around Circuit.
TRANSPORTATION is COSTLY.

TttSpuT9s WIN iTdVci EoH9cst LIS
lance, With Cleveland Next-Tw,
New York Clubs, Brooklyn and Ath
letics Must Ride the Least.
One of the big items Of expenses II
the running of a major league base
ball club is the cost of carting |
around the circuit 1t is seldom tina
team goes ON the road with party
of less than twenty. There may no
be this many players in the troupe, bu
there will be manager, business
manager and a trainer. in addition t,
host Of war correspondents. There
are only two teams on the big circuits
who do not have In their encourage
home scribes. These are the Brook
Ign and st. Louis clubs of the National
league, which have been fighting SC
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 CORE
spondent.
In making out the schedules for
1909 the date arrangers managed to
decrease the mileage a trifie 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
1t is likely that the number of players
and camp followers who will be car
ried on the various trips will be larger
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
The teams in Ban Johnson's organ
ization are down to travel 95.32S miles.
the clubs in the H. Clay Puliam league
90,356. The National leaguers' mile
age has been cut by 2,l09 miles, the
American leaguers' by Az
Champions In the mileage leagues
are the Pittsburg Nationals ard Cleve-
land Americans. These teams are not
allowed to play ball at home on Sun
days and often have to beat 1t to
Chicago and st. Louis for single COM
bats. The Detroit Tigers also are pro-
hibited from INDUCING in the national
pastime on their home lot on the sew
enth day, but generally are jumped to
Chicago, and the distance from De
troit to Chicago is just about half of
the gap between Cleveland and st.
Louis and Pittsburg and Chicago. The
Pirates are carded to make thirty-fve
trips, covering 1868 miles; the Maps,
thirty-seven jaunts. aggregating 1904
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 p. m.
on Friday, Sept. 8, 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-
natl to Chicago and from Chicago to
Pittsburg, these journeys covering a
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
win be taken this season by the Bos-
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 mile. This IS no wild eyed
guess, but a figure taken .from the
books of a major league club. which
last season Travelled 10.524 miles and
paid out $12.360.S1, divided as follows:
For hotels S5,672, for railroad fares
s4,15776, for sleepers and Pullmans
S1,273 and for buses and baggage |
wagons $6S5.05. AS the big league |
teams will travel during this seasons |
campaign 1S5.6S4 miles,
the bill for moving them around will
be just $217,25O.2S.
The number Of miles each major |
league club will have to travel this
season In order to fill It's championship
1ates follows:
American league-Cleveland. 1904
niles; ST. Louis, 1887; Chicago. 49,
80; Detroit, 1905; Boston, 11,721;
1915; Philadelphia,
,,S0S; New York, 9,64s; total. 95,32S.
National league Pittsburg. 14,163
niles; Chicago. 12,4S1; st. Louis, 12,-
26; Boston, 1925; Cincinnati. 10,T23;
Philadelphia. 10,412; Brooklyn, 9,953;
Jew York. 1872; total, 9O,356.