The Pensacola journal., 1913-02-24
TEN PLAYERS
OF CLEVELAND
TEAM ARRIVE
Reach Here on Special
Met By a Large Crowd
at Station.
BERNARD, BIRMINGHAM AND
LAJofE AMONG ARRIVALS
OTHERS EXPECTED DAILY UP
TO NEXT MoNDAY-WILL HAVE
INTERESTING TIME IN PENsA-
coLA-NEWsPAPER MEN HERE.

Glad to get here, each man appar-
emily eager for the beginning OF spring
practice and looking almost clean
after the s2-hour trip from the city
they represent in the American league
ten members Of the Cleveland baseball
club arrived yesterday afternoon, at
$3.50 O'Clock, on a special train run
from Flomaton by courtesy of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad.
The players are accompanied by e
s. Bernard, vice-president and treas
urer Of the club, Manager Joe Biz
mingham and newspaper writer's rep
re senting four Cleveland newspapers
With Grover Land. the catcher, who
came here more than three weeks ago,
there are now eleven Of the team here
Gregg is expected today or tomorrow
and others during the week. The last
contingent Will reach here at 4:10
next Sunday.
LAJoIE ARRIVES.
Those who arrived yesterday, besides
those named, are:
Napoleon Lajoie. second basenan;
Fred Blanding, pitcher; George r.
Kahler, pitcher; William Mitchell.
pitcher; William Steen, pitcher; F. E
Wilson, pitcher; Charles Belts. catcher
and outfelder; John G. Graney, fielder,
and F. L. Shields. Several are accom-
panied by their wives, among them
Lajoie and George Kuhles, the latter
a trainer.
Abb Peddy, pitcher, Fred Carisch,
catcher, and Stephen O'NeiIl were
expected yesterday, but did not reach
here. Peddy is expected in few days.
O'Neiil is said to have decided not to
come unless he could get more money.
Carisch is on his way, with Mrs. Ca
risch. from Los Angeles, where they
have been spending the winter
With the party are a number. of
newspaper men, and photogra pliers.
and Harry L Davis, young
man who recently won a contest con-
Quoted by the Cleveland Press"
Robert Snajdr, writer. and Frank
Smith, photographer. are teamed by
the Cleveland Plain Dealer; Ralph
Sticl1le. writer, and Doc Rollins. pho
tographer. are teamed by the Cleveland
News; Tom Terrell is here for the
Cleveland Leader, and Norma Brown,
writer, and Bill Miller, photographer,
are teamed for the Cleveland Press.
GET RECEPTION.
1t may be that half as many people
1ILLSIl nave dSSciuDteu the SOOn-
lsmented depot of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad to see President
elect Wilson, or that a quarter the
number might have assembled to see
Pres. Taft, or that an eighth as many
might have gone there to see the next
to-last president Of the Republica de
Ia Mexico. Any other celebrity of the
hour might have commanded a tenth
af the Y1ITYohaYs ~ "a nnnf7Cin1
ton committee and have felt doubly
hcnored and much f1attered.
But the joint attraction of cherubic
Joe Birmingham, Nap Lajoie, several
times champion fy-swatter, nearly a
half score others prominent in the
Diamond Cutters union, a special
train which had run forty-four miles
IN an hour over the l. & n. and the
entire squad of Pensacola's progressive
phans-being short for fanatics, mean
ing daily followers of the national
game-this unduly due combination,
be it again said, of creatures. condi-
tions and circumstances was too top
heavy for the town. 1t turned out;
strong.
Nine automobiles were on hand to
receive the players and those with
them. All were driven by the busi-
ness or professional men of the city
who own them and they formed
pretty procession over Wright street
and down Palafox, from the depot to
the hotel, a few minutes after the
train got in.
The first to be placed on the register
was Napoleon Lajoie, who is accom-
panied by Mrs. Lajoie. He and Mrs.
Lajoie were in the first automobile
and were among the first to be as
signed rooms in the hotel.
The register had been fixed up be-
fcrehand and the visitors were dis
patched to their rooms with a quick
ness and smoothness which made an
excellent impression upon the bunch.
The visitors retired early last night
and got a good rest They will begin
light practice today at the Maxent
field and tomorrow night they will be
rendered a banquet at the San Carlos
hotel. The feed win be followed by
a reception at the Pastime Athletic
club, where boxing bouts, wrestling
and contests in bag-punching, rope
skipping and other features will en-
liven the evening.
naterH ELL AnHrn1e