The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-10
CUBAN CHAMPS
TO APPEAR IN u. S.

New York, Jan. 1O--George Gore, the
old ball player. who was at one time
famous member Of the giants. has un-
der way project that viii give the
fans in the leading cities of the United
States a decided novelty in the way Of
ball games. Mr.. Gore and Morris Levy,
a friend, are in communication with
the leading baseball men Of Havana.
Cuba, in regard to a tour of the cham
pion Almendares club through Amer
lea during the coming spring
AS most of the big league teams
have already arranged their playing
dates for exhibition games, it will be
necessary TO have them change a few
dates so that the famous Cuban play
ers can get chance TO break in. Mr..
Gore is backed by Havana capitalists
and is amply supplied with funds TO
finance such a tour. If he Is success
ful it will be quite an innovation in
baseball.
cuhans Play Well.
They have some great ball players
in Cuba, and after their defeat of the
champion Athletics the people Of the
United states have been little curl
GUS 10 see how these fellows on the
far-away island play. There is no
doubling the fact that they would make
many Of our big league teams hustle.
During the series in Cuba four players
on the Almendares and Havana clubs
showed a better batting average than
did Ty Cobb, and the general average
OF the Sudan hiters was far above
that of the Americans.
Frank Bancroft of the Cincinnati
club has been contemplating for some
time trip by the Cuban champions In
the fall, but it is generally believed
that the interest in the sport will have
so Jagged by that time that the con-
tests would not draw large crowds. If
it could be arranged to bring the
Cubans here in the spring they would
be great attraction and would give
the local clubs quite lot Of practice
before launching into the regular sea-
son.
Mr.. Gore is of the opinion that the
Cubans have shown enough ability as
ball players now 10 be seriously reck-
oned with in deciding a worlds cham
pionship. He says that the day win
come when they win be pitted against
the winners in this country. There is
no question but that they should have
the baseball honors if they can win
them by superior playing.
Not Financial Venture.
The idea of bringing the Cubans to
America is not exactly a financial ven-
ture on the part of Mr.. Gore. He is
trying to arrange the trip on behalf of
several prominent sportsmen in Ha-
vana- They say down there that they
do not care so much about making
money as they do of establishing Cuba
as country for big league ball.
When we begin figuring on series
Of games with a team from a foreign
country it begins to look as If baseball
is spreading to all parts of the world.
The first thing We know a GLIB from
Japan will be coming over here to play
our college teams. Arthur Shafer, util-
ity shortstop for the giants, is now on
his way to Japan to coach a college
team there. In addition to that, Nc
Graw has been requested to recon
mend a good coach for the teams in
Panama. In England the game has not
taken as much of a foothold as was
| expected, but there are several anna =
teur teams playing there now. The
Englishman is very slow to change his
views about sports, and he still sticks
| to cricket as the one best bet, you
know.