The evening world., 1913-10-18
BIZ NEWTON MACMILLAN
. twenty-five years ago fam


dom was quite as keen for
the Spalding round-the-world
tour OF the Chicago and "All-Ameri-
can" clubs as It Is now for the forth
coming tour Of the McGraw-Comis'
key aggregation.
The Spaldings sailed from San
Francisco Nov. 10, 1888, for Austria.
liza, by way Of Honolulu. Samoa and
Auckland. New Zealand; the Nc
Graw aggregation is scheduled to
start from Vancouver Nov. 10. AZ
the one headed up New York Bay on
the eve Of the baseball season Of
1889, SO the other may be looked for
next spring. to be greeted at Quaran.
tine BY Q fiotllla Of tugs and DE Wolf
Hopper and brass bands and all the
noisy observances due to returned
globe trotters.
The baseball world has grown some
what In twenty-five years. though II Is
stili the same old game. John McGraw
and his merry men expect to visit me
Philippines and compete with the native
players under the American nag. IN
1888, before tho Spanish war was ever
dreamed Of. most Americans. as Mr..
Dooiey has said. thought OF the fhil-
ippines. II at all. rs brand OF came !
goods. What the Fllipinos thought OF
US or baseball is beyond conjecture
McGraw will take his players to Japan
and there encounter a native league OK
respectable strength. In lsss-lsss Japan
was hardly on the map.
TUNE OF THE GRAND OLD RAG
STIRRED SAILORS sEcALMEo.
In their entire circuit Of the globe
the Spald!ngs saw the Stars and stripes
at . sea only twice-once on the Oh
Essex, In the harbor OF Colombo. Cey-
lon. flying the homeward-b ound PEN
nsnt after a two years cruise In China
ports; again at the truck OF q lumber
iugger from Brunswick. Me-. locked In
the doldrums In the middle OF the
Indian Sea. "as idle as painted snip
upon q painted ocean" Remark IN
passing something that came OH on
the occasion OF that encounter. wh'eN
most of those who were there Will re-
member until they die. On board the
baseball ship was Mrs. Leigh Lynch.
woman cornetist. born q member OF the
once celebrated Berger family. she stood
on the after deck and played Yankee
Doodle" The schooner lay close by AM
IA a.,
ling the distance to see those YANKEE
sailors swarm up the rigging and vel
their delight. after being beca!mei fo'
a full fortnight In an allen sea. to hea
the grand old ragtime.
The Alameda. which was the name o.
the ship in which the Spaldings crossed
the Pacific. carried to Honolulu thu
arst news OF President Harrison's cleo
ton. This was on Sunday. Nov. %. lsss
almost three weeks after the election
Hawaii was not at that time a Terri
tory Of the United States but kingdom
on it, own account. Kalakaua reigned
A fne, genial, kingly looking old kanaka
he was Q hot sport and dearly ionged ~
q ball game-and bet on the game. Bu
Il was Sunday and the missionaries wer'
In the saddle. Nothing doing. Kalakaua
Il 10 feared. went to his grave withou
ever having seen the national game.
There was no Saboatarianism in Aus
traiia and tho spaldings found thei
welcome ready-made for them. Leigl
Lynch had gone over the territory tn
previous winter In the capacity Of ad
vance agent and worked It up .rett!
thoroughly.
Besides. the Australians were foun,
to DO red-hot sports. Their proves
at cricket AMI football II we'll known
For racing land betting On the race
they were keen almost to madness.
Baseball they had never seen. but 70
that or for any other sporting novelt!
their minds were entirely open. More
over. they were a. hospitabis as sporty
In Australia the cricket grounds wer
beautiful beyond anything the Amsri
cans had ever seen at home. On thes
lovely great swards baseball was seei
at it, best II WAS an instantaneous hi
With the Australians. The fielding es
pecialiy was to their liking. They ha'
never seen anything like It and said o.
In thu v,armast terms The battinI