New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-27
TO GREET GIANTS
With MUCH 0RATORY
Edward E. Mccall To Be
TOastmaster of Dinner
at the BiltmOre.
GOVERNOR GLYNN IS
TOO BUSY TO ATTEND
Players to Vie with Public Speak
ers in Doing HonOrs at
Feast of Welcome.

Edward Everett Mccall. who ran Tor
Mayor Of New York last year. but took
only reserve honors. az they say at the
dog show. will be toastmaster at the
dinner for the world touring White Sox
and Giants in the Biltmore Hotel on
March T.
Mr. Mccall is a former stakeholder OF
the Giants. and has never lost the habit
Of roofing for the home team.
Governor Glynn. although he processes
himself a regular Woodrow Wilson Of
baseball "rooter." will not be able to at
tend the dinner, what with roads and po-
lice bills and one thing and another
which will never find their way into any
box scores The Empire state VIII not
be without n representative, however for
Lieutenant Governor Wagner will do his
best to convince the globe girdlers that
they are welcome back In the land where
baseball is spoken.
one of the first men the POSTMASTER
will call upon is Jimmy Callahan, man
ager OF the White Sox. Jimmy made such
a good speech in London the other day
that he got into the cable messages, and
he talks almost as well as he bats.
For a time Callahan was on the vaude-
Vile stage and was paid for everything
he said. Since then he has done all his
talking on the ball field, and there have
been times when he was forced to pay
for the privilege.
Job Hedges, who is so used to public
dinners that he can DO an extemporaneous
speech without making notes on the table
cloth. will be another whose remarks VIII
be greeted with daughter and applause).
Without doubt Irwin Cobb will tell his
"nigger" story, not the one about the man
who was going to get hung, but the other.
John J. McGraw. who speaks with equal
ease to vaudeville audiences and UNI
hires, is down for speech, and so is GOV
ernor Tener. known as the silent man OF
baseball" though he possess perfect
Niagara of voice.
Ban Johnson is going to come ana II
would seem a perfectly safe bet to make
that he will deliver at least one speech.
August Hermann and Comiskey are also
on the programme. as well as NUMBER
of the players
The evening would hardly be complete
II Mike Donln did not have chance 10
compare Gothic architecture with that OF
the Renaissance.
Judge Adelor ]. Petit and Robert NJ
swe,tzer will speak on behalf Of the dele
cation from Chicago.
one man who has promised to attend
the dinner and who will make snort
speech il possible is A G. Mills FORMER
nresident of the National League, VINO Is
nracticallv the father OF organized base
hall according TO John b. Foster. rive
hundred and sixty-iye guests are ex-
pected.
Arthur Erwin and three OF the Yankees
left here Yesterday for the training camp
IN Houston. Fritz Masel. Jimmy Eschen
ard Owen Quinn were the men who gath-
cred at the American League office. Inc
marty will reach the training camp III
Texas on Sunday.
John B. Foster, secretary of the Giants
said Yesterday that Mathewson was iiot d
fraa agent as he had accepted terms by
acknowledging the receipt of the contract
sent 70 him by the New York CLUB.
rha work Of clearing the snow from
yyasbInpton Park, the home OF the ZIP
TOPS. was begun yesterday oy largo
force OF workmen. Walter Ward secre-
tarv of the club, said that the name
washington Park would be retained. lie
also declared that the holiday maKihs
proclvities of Charles II. Ebbets wou,i
he initiated, and that the Tip Tops wouii
have several special days of ceiepratloh
NOT known in any other city of the circuit
Mr.. Ward said that the contraC'9 io'
building the stands would Dc let Dei0'e
A. and Of the week.