Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-06
GIANT AND WHITE cox cLuDo
REACH NEW YORK AFTER auc.
cEssFuL EXHIBITION TOUR
PROFITS EsrlMArEp
AT NEARLY 100000
Federal Lsssv 3 .vsys Await Arrival
Of Stars. 5 dfselais Of Organised
sas.baIl isirst to Reach Players
Comic $ Apparently in Good
Health $ vers TO Share Profits.

No e,rk, March s.-The world
gtrdA> American baseball players
oame home today in snow storm.
While harbor craft footed and Federal
League snvoys Aguratiyely waved en-
ticing contracts, the Giants White Sox
aggregation drew into quarantine
shortly after s o'clock. The Federal
league representatives were unable to
obtain passes to the Lusitania to cs-
cort the travellers down tho bay. Or
ganized baseball was moro fortunate
In having obtained revenue cutter
passes and delegation boarded the
ship before she came to her pier.
The Giants-White Hox baseball
touring party gathered In Cincinnati
on Saturday. Oct. Is. where the first
game Of the long schedule was played.
From there the players travelled by
easy stages. by special train. to the
Pacific coast, playing frequent EameA
en- route. Doubts regarding the tnan-
cial success Of the trip were early re-
moved by tho unexpectedly largo at
tendance and when the squad sailed
from Seattle on Nov. 10, thirty two
games had been played in thirty three
days.
The party arrived at YokohamA on
Dec. 8. four days late. after rough
voyage. From Japan It's itinerary car
ried tho tourists to China, the Philip
pines. Australia. New zealand Hgypt.
continental Europe and England.
Last Game Brings Record Crowd.
During the foreign part Of the tour
the largest attendance was recorded In
Japan, Australia and England. The
biggest gate receipts were collected 1t
the game played in London. on Feb.
g. when 10000 spectators. including
King George. witnessed the defeat Of
the Giants by tho White Sox in N ox-
citing eleven inning game. The party
! sailed from Liverpool on Fob. -.
More than seventy games were
played during the trip and the list
| would have been larger but for rain At
Paris, Rome and several cities In China
and Japan. Notwithstanding the set
backs the financial returns were far in
excess OF expectations and the profits
are estimated at nearly 100000.
Manager McGraw. of the New York
Nationals, and Charles Comiskey.
president Of the Chicago American
League Club. who financed the expedi-
ton. ceased to worry about the success
OF the tour several months ago. A
generous dividend Is assured not only
for the promoters but for those players
who entered on the trip on a profit
sharing basis. Nearly every PLAYER
received some sort OF offer from tho
Federals by wireless. Dick Egan, Gin
cinnatl second baseman. recently sold
to Brooklyn. has signed up with Eb-
bets. Iris Speaker said he would sign
up with Boston and Doolan made the
same promise to Baker. OF Philadel-
phia.
Comiskey in Good Health.
Ban Johnson. of the American
League. was one of the first to greet
John McGraw and Charles Comiskey
on board the Lusitania. Mr. Comiskey
| was looking well considering the siege
! of illness he had abroad. He and Mr.,
McGraw were enthusiastic over the re-
ception accorded the team especially in
Japan and England. He. said they
regretted kcenly not having been able
to play in Paris.