Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-10
SOX-CIANT TOUR
IS EDUCATIONAL
Comiskey Presents Younger
Generation With Baseball
Outfits in Melbourne.

That the present tour of the world
! by Americas representative baseball
stars is an educational venture with
the main idea of making baseball the
| international sport, was aptly shown
in Melbourne when Charles Comiskey
presented two complete outfits to boys
teams of Victoria The youngsters
have followed the Sox and Giants about
Melbourne for two days, and when
Comfskey heard that they were play
ing baseball in the crude old ''five-cent
ball one old cat style, he grasped the
opportunity to boost the game as well
as giving the kids" chance to bow
and grin, a pleasure that was touching.
IF We get the boys interested in
baseball, they will have the men root
ing in no time, and then will follow
an adoption of the really red-blooded
sport for spectator and player" was
the way the old Roman passed off the
thanks showered upon him for the
baseball outfits. Those of lis who
have been living in the land of base
ball and freedom are not a bit selfish,
and if we can help the rest of the world
to little pleasure you can always call
upon u.s.
Yesterday proved another great day
for the tourists, greater in fact than
any that has passed since the teams
left Seattle. From early morning until
game time in the afternoon every mem
Der of the party was. on the go. Dodg-
ing invitations to banquets is getting
to be an accomplishment with them,
and the women of the party are in
most cases made to suffer. for the men
explain duties owed to Friend Wife"
and ask to be excused.
Mike Donlin was the only tourist who
did not see some more of the beauties
of Melbourne and the suburbs, and
Mike was forced to remain at the hotel
because of his ankle. The injured
had swollen to almost twice
its normal size today, and a hurry call
was sent for pair of crutches. Mike
that seeing the sights on two
sticks had many drawbacks.
Another double-header ''for one price
Of admission" was staged yesterday
before a crowd estimated at 10000.
The Victoria team, whose members
have been playing for less than year.
lined up against the Sox in the first
and, although the Mel
bourne men showed flashes of brilliant
play, they were decisively beaten by
score of 10 to 8.
The second game between the two
touring teams was hummer and went !
70 New York, 4 to 3, in II innings. |
The difference between the game of !
ard the day before was so
rast that it easily made apparent the /
of baseball and brought to /
he surface more plainly the amount of
thrills in the sport.
For 10 innings the two teams battled +
IN even terms, playing a machine-like
ielding game that displayed almost
very possible stunt executed by such
lemons as Buck Weaver and Larry
Doyle. While the pitching of Hearne
md Scott was not just what it should
,e, the men in the field more than
made up for this discrepancy. II was
uch a game that will live for long
ime in the minds of those who saw
t and will go long way in adyertis-
ng the national rastime.
The games were the final for Mel
ourne and probably the last to be
layed in Australia. The tourists sailed
oday for Adelaide. and as they are a
oupIe of days behind schedule time,
hey may not find time to show at all
here. but will hurry along to Free
Mantle.