Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-22
BASEBALL IS GREAT
ADVERTISING MEDIUM
SAYS TR| STATE HEAD
Chamber of Commerce Heartily
Endorses Work Of League
in This City

Baseball as q business stimulant
and publicity factor in any commun-
1ty received emphatic endorsement
from members of the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce and business
men at a noonday luncheon to-day.
The keynote of the baseball cam
paign which practically opened to-
day came from George NJ. Graham,
president of the Tri-State League.
President Graham was introduced py
George B. Tripp, president of the
chamber, as the man who has been
picked to rejuvenate the Tri-State.
Mr.. Graham called attention to the
wide publicity baseball has given
other cities. He said in part:
Undoubtedly the best advertised
city in the world is New York. A
large part of this advertising it gets
from it's baseball team. Men know the
Giants who could not name offhand
ten of the industries of the leading
city of the continent.
prior to the recent worlds series
between the Giants and the Athletics
of the American League, Mayor Kline
of New York, sent an invitation TO
Mayor B1ankenburg, of Philadelphia.
to see the games of the series. In
his invitation he said, We want you
to see the Giants wipe up the POLO
Grounds with your team
This was not boasting on the part
of the chief executive of the metrop-
oils. He merely voiced the confidence
of the city. He believed the Athletics
would be defeated, and that the
Giants would win. There was moth
ing in the records of the teams to
justify these predictions: The Giants
had twice been defeated in world
series, one of the times by the Attn
letics The baseball dope was all
against the prediction of any easy
victory for the Giants, but the con-
fidence of New York that everything
with the New York stamp must win
forced the expression of confidence
that was shared in by the Mayor and
by every fan from the foremost down
to the smallest.
Baseball has had lot to do with
this advertising of the metropolis
The fame of the Giants has ben her
aided all over the world.
mot a newspaper but has given
thousands of columns to this aggre-
cation, and the entire city has peer
the gamer.
What is true of New York is true
also of the smaller cities. You gen.
tlement would be surprised II yol
could know to what extent this is
true.
Back of Tri-Statc
1.-THE Tri- State has back of 1t
great prestige. 1t is no longer an eN
pertinent. 1t is an established instltu
ton. 1t became famous the country
over when it ran as an outlaw ant
dared to oppose the powers OF or
ganized baseball"
Governor John X. Tener was un
able to be present, having been callet
away to attend the funeral OF
friend at Charleroi. President Trlpl
heartily endorsed the movement ant
wanted to be counted as one OF th'
local boosters.
Another speaker was W. Harr!
Baker, president of the Pennsylvania
Exhibition Company, hackers OF th'
Harrisburg club. Mr.. Baker told nov
few men had stood by the game
and was pleased over the prospect
of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce. Short addresses were made
by DR.. Harvey A. Smith, Manage
George Cockill, William H. Bowman
Mercer B. Tate, A. E. Bachman ant
E. j. Stackpole.