The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-25
TRIP Should NET
A NEAT FORTUNE
Round-the- World Jaunt Of
Sox and Giants Ought to
"; Help Financially.
by Tim A%1urnane.)

Boston. Feb. 25.-It is low, prac.
ideally a certainty that Charles Comis-
Key Of Chicago and John J. McGraw,
the little Napoleon of New York. will
mead TWO great ball teams on a trip
around the world next winter. The
New York manager has been anxious
to take the trip for the last two years,
and a year ago last fall was about to
close arrangements with the Chicago
Cubs for the trip. At the last moment
Charley Murphy refused to put up the
$4,000 forfeit.
It was then that McGraw began
looking arond for a live one" and it
Comiskey would make the long trip.
"commy" then put up the 5000
guarantee. McGraw's money was
ready. and this. with $4,000 from a
sporting goods concern. made SIS, 900
IN the pot. Before mex fall there will
be fourteen regular players picked
from each team.
The program will be arranged so
tnat those caring to go along can
make full arrangements before the
teams leave. The idea is to start Oc-
tobcr 20 and return February 20. The
party will leave San Francisco. stop
at Honolulu for a day or two and pro-
coed to Japan for a short stay. China
n Australia will also be visited.
Commission to Send Umpiree.
1t Is likely that the teams will play
several exhibition games on the way
west from Chicago, and as they return
by the way Of the Suez canal they do
not figure on playing n games after
they leave Australia. The rules and
regulations for the entire trip will be
furnished by the national commits
sion, under whose auspices the trip
will be made. The commission also
will furnish one or two umpires for
the trip, and the players will be sub
ject to the same strict discipline as in
playing regular championship games.
There is little doubt but that the
club will have a fat treasury when they
return and will make a nice profit
on the venture.
on the history Of baseball will be Sc
lected and sent ahead to make ar
rangements. as we'll as to act as press
agent. The fund Of material that he
will have on hand would make a the
atrtcal man green with envy. Think
Of the stories that he a tell about
the Old Roman. Jimmie Callahan. Big
ty Mathewson. And then imagine the
trail of Wit and wisdom in Comiskey's
wake as he goes through Japan. China
and the live towns Of Australia. Yes,
the C~omiskeys. the McGraws. the CAL
lahans. the Washes and the Doyles
will be welcome there. in that land,
and the Australians will have a chance
to see baseball played at its highest
angle.
I have very little doubt but the par
ty will number 100. and in Comiskey
with his Chicago cabinet and John
Mc6raw with his select following
from New York the good old U. S. A.
will have good reason to feel proud
Of the excursionists.
Minors Cut. Salaries.
That the minor leagues intend to
a a wholesale cut in players SAL
aries this season is very evident. The
Eastern league has started in by cut.
ting salaries about one-third. The
champion Toronto club has cut Jim
Jordan $500, and other players in like
proportion.
Jimmie Callahan. the clever mana.
ger Of the Chicago White Sox, met
with a fine reception during the week
Of the baseball meeting in New York.
He had Jack Doyle and Kid Gleason,
The old Baltimore warriors, as his
went to see a friend in "Broadway
Jones.v After the show Callahan ask
ed his friends to join him in a feed
at Shanley's. Here was where the
trouble started and Callahan had a
hard time convincing the head waiter
that Gleason and Doyle were not ''gun
men,"
To prove that they were veteran
players Callahan was forced to make
the boys show their twisted fingers
Gleason and Doyle had the times of
their lives. Both were at the banquet
given by John J.. McGraw. Others
present were Johnny Evers, Jimmie
Callahan. Joe Kelly. Frank Fogerty.
Jack Ryan. George .Stallings. William
Keller, Ed. Barrows, Harry Sparrow
and Hugh McBreen.
President McCafferty Of Toronto was
the last man called upon for a speech.
and he never finished. He started out
by saying that he was born in the
north Of Ireland. That was the cue
for the Mc0raws. the Doyles, the Glea-
sons. the Galatians. the Fogertys, the
Kellys and one Flanagan to Timber up
their throwing wings by sending dec
orations at the Canadians head. The
meeting closed with Frank Fogerty
singing ireland I Bid Thee Top o. the
Morning"
Shoes to At the fest are mostly old
Shoee. II We may Judge BY our own
llmit0d 0XnaPiAncA.