Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-04-04
TRAVELS !. OF { # !. BIG
LEAGUE TEAMS
NATIONAL AND AMERICAN CLUBS
WILL PAY OVER $217,25o IN
FARES THIS YEAR.
AGGREGATE DISTANCE Is LONG

Cleveland Must Travel 14,o94 and
'Ptttsburs 1863 Miles and Head Re
spsetlvs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES New
York Teams Ar. Tail Enders In Re-
gard to Mileage.
In arranging the major leagues team
dates for this season the schedule
makers managed to decrease the mile
axe a trifle. Probably the railroads.
hotelkeepers and baggage haulers Will
draw Just as much money out OF the
baseball clubs treasures, as 1t 10
likely the number Of players and camp
followers that will be carried on the
various trips will be larger than ever
before.
The National league clubs in order
to fll their championship dates during
1909 will have to 60 over distance OF
9O,356 miles; the American league
teams. s5,s2S. The clubs of the elder
organization will travel 2,1O0 fewer
miles than they did last yetr, the ju-
nior leaguers' mileage having been de-
creased by IA.
II the National and American league
solons hung up prizes for the clubs
that travelled the greatest number OF
miles during the chase for the gon-
falons Cleveland and Pittsburg would
be the next entrants in the worlds
championship series. The Maps are
slated to make 81 trips, covering 4.O94
miles; the Pirates IS jaunts, covering
1853 miles.I The tail enders in the
mileage leagues would be the two New
York combinations. The Highlanders
are down to travel '9,64S miles, the
Giants 8,732.
The reason for the Maps and Pi-
rates having such large mileage 1s
that they cannot play Sunday games at
home, and often have to beat 1t to st.
Louis and Chicago.
OF the two Chicago clubs the White
Sox will have to do the most travel
ing. The South siders are down to
make 80 trips and to cover 13,O30
miles. The Cubs will go on 20 jour-
neys and pay tribute to the railroads
for 12,4S1 miles.
The worlds champion Cubs will be
busy individuals between 6:25 p. m.
on Friday, September 3, and $3.50 a. M,
on Monday, September 6. In this In
terval Of time they will be riding on
the rail for almost 80 hours, having to
jump from Brooklyn to Cincinnati,
from Cincinnati to Chicago, and from
Chicago to Pittsburg, total distance
of 1851 miles. The longest jump on
the major league circuits Ia from st.
Louis to Boston-1,229 miles. This
leap will be taken this season by the
Boston and Brooklyn National league
teams and by the st. Louis American
league club.
The Cubs greatest hop this season
will be from New York to st. Louis,
1 ,066 miles-and the hitless wonders,
from Chicago to Boston-1,038 miles.
The cost of moving team around
the circuit, assuming that on an aver
age of 20 persons are carried, amounts
to $1.17 a mile. This is no guess,
an American league. magnate, having
allowed access to his books so that
the exact cost could be determined.
This mogul's team Travelled 10,524
miles last year, and the expenses
amounted to just $12,360.S1, divided as
follows: For hotels, $5,672; for rail-
road fares, $4,757.76; for sleepers and
Pullmans, $1,273; for buses and bag
gage wagons, $6s5.05. AS the big
league teams will travel during this
seasons championship campaign
1864 miles, the bill for moving
them around will be just $217, 250.2s.
The number of miles each club will
have to travel and trips to be made
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