The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-08
WORLD TOURING PLAYERS GIVEN HOUSING RECEPTION ON AR.
 RIVAL AT NEW YORK.
NOTED MEN TO GREET THEM
High Compliment is Paid Them for Their Splendid GentlemanIy and Sportmanslke Conduct Durlnq the Worldwide Tour Just Closed.

New oYrk, March 7.-Men promi. nent in every line Of sport and from all parts of the country gathered to- night to attend the banquet given here in honor of the world touring baseball players who arrived here yesterday. Baseball magnates, of ficials and players naturally predomi- mated but all branches of sport were represented among the 700 persons 
 It was close to 10 o'clock before the coffee, cigars and speech-making session was reached and some of the principal figures in organized baseball addressed tGe assemblage With former Judge Edward E. Mccall act ing as toastmaster, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Robert Wagner extended a greeting to the returning players. President Ban Johnson, of the Ameri- can league, followed with an address on "circlng the globe by organized baseball"
 President Charles A. Cemisky was to have spoken on "The World Tour but the "old Roman" who was taken i'll abroad and is not yet himself, was indsposed tonight and toastmaster Mccall asked the audience to excuse him from making an address. Com my" was cheered for nearly five min
 utes as he rose ana bowed 10 de-
 mands from the banqueters.
 Another great outburst of applause came when Manager John J. McGraw stepped to the speakers platform and delivered his oration entitled, The Giants" He was followed by Presi- dent John K Tener of the National league who took as his subject Base. ball as a Profession"
 August Hermann, president of the Cincinnati club and chairman of the national commission talked on Base ball as a National Institution"
 There is a particular and special honor always attached to pathfinders,' said President Tener "Their names are immortal In this hall of baseball fame the names of Spaulding, Anson, Comiskey, McGraw, Callahan and every player who accompanied these are written in bold char acters that future generations may know that they constituted the tour ing parties that demonstrated to the civilized world the incomparable na- tional game of the United States.
 Honor to the world tourists of lS88-1SS9 and 1913-14. Only once prior to this time, was the world circling trip ever accomplished for the same purpose and then baseball had not attained the national promi- hence that it now enjoys. There is no doubt that this first world trip of baseball proselytes did much to in- troduce the game in foreign lands, but l am free to confess that I coH- slider the tour just completed did vast ly more to implant the principles of our national sport among foreign na- tions
 "The sun never ceases to shine on the English-speaking race. It ever has been my cherished dream and. on innumerable occasions. have pre- dicted that in the near future such a statement may be made of our great American outdoor sport. To consum- mate this, to make it a world fact, you, Messrs. Comiskey, McGraw and Callahan, and players of both teams, have done more than 1 have the time or the words to express.
 ''It is my wish to emphasize anothag phase of the world tour just endes- refer to the gentiemanly conduct and splendid department of every member of this party.
 Nothing could have been more fortunate for our game and it's expo sition than that every player who par ticipated in the tour should have been a gentleman in manner word and deed off and on the field.
 You proved to caste, class and royalty that a pastime peculiarly American, a sport that had been con- mercialized; that had it's professional exponents, was above criticism in every respect and that every Ameri- can baseball player could be pro fessional and a gentleman. This great American nation and republic is proud of you and will delight to honor you as the years roll on"
 It was close to midnight before the last speech and song was finish