South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-07
WORLD TOURISTS
GREETED BY MOB
IN GOTHAM PORT
Leaders of Organized Baseball
Hire Boat and Rush Out to
See Men-FederaIS Left in
LuTCh.
BY DAMON RrNYnN

NEW 1OfNks March Umpire
Klein. alert and assertive. was the
very first man TO gaIlop Gown thu
gang plank when the Lusitania crawl
| ed YEARLY into her berth in the bleak
North river Friday.
Behind him Bill heard a Wild clatter
of feet while a bleacher cheer swept
the pier where guards were holding "A
Dig crowd IN leash.
An instant before he was EMBODIED
by the throng Bill paused and auto
craticaIy dropped his hands palms
downward and fingers wide His lips
! moved. He half sqUatteG. 1T was
force OF habit.
"Safei" said Bill
The Giants and White Sox had
crossed the home plate.
Germany Schaefer. q trifie poTIly
from the profuse proyender OF the far
ports OF the world and a trifie balder
than common. was close behind the
famous umpire IN the dash down the
plank. but for once IN his life-and
only once-the Washington comedian
overlooked a chance TO protest a deci-
SION.
He Didn't Hesitate.
He did not even wait to have his
broad back hammered by the we'll
meaning lists OF few thousand base
ball fans; he did not stop 10 listen
to the opportunities of his cellmate,
Nick Altrock, who was sent posthaste
by Clarke Griffith to save Germany
from the clutches OF the Fede~aIs.
He tossed a few "hellos'' here and
there and then disappeared beyond
the hillOcks OF snow that lay outside
the Cunard piers.
He was a man OF single and sinEu-
lar purposes Friday, was Germany
- q
John j. McGraw, Charles Comislxey
and James J. Callahan and that pur-
pose, as he later explained when ne
was in calmer mood, was to HE
himself 10 the Broadway cafe where
the great worlds tour first started as
far as he was concerned, and 70 sit
in that Broadway cafe and think and
think and think OF the places he has
been and the sights he has seen.
He was 80 anxious to get ashore
that he sat up most OF the night when
the Lusitania was hunting for the
lady with the lamp down the bay and
he was the second obejct to he seen
on deck by the cargoes Of New York
ers and Chicagoans who ferried out 10
knots Of Atlantic ocean at the voy-
ayers. He was not the first object
because the first object was undoubt-
edly Ted Sullivan, patriarch Of our
national pastime.
Old Ted has been waiting mighty
patiently for this very event-this
homecoming of the Giants and Sox. So
when the ferry boat Niagara, listing
slightly under a load of shrieking fans
and breathing rag time music from
every port hole crept up out Of the
haze, its passage saw a short pudgy
old gentleman leaning far out over
the rail of the Lusitania one hand
clamping his derby hat to his brow
and the other swinging an American
flag.
Presented at Portland.
That flag was given to the Giants
and the Sox way up IN Portland.
ore, just before they left America last
December. and il has been Haunted
along three or four continents since
then. Mostly il has been Haunted by
Ted Sullivan. Ee was still Haunting a.
Friday after the crowd on the Nj
agara, which included a bunch OF boys
Of the interSchO elastic league. had
fractured their threats in yelling and
had given way 10 vocal reinforce
ment from the tug John A. BOuker.
bearing the official reception commit
tee and still another boat load OF
newspaper men
A green badged delegation or off,
cial greeters, including Harry Hemp
stead president of the Giants, Ban
Johnson, president Of the American
league. Charles Ebbets. president OF
the Brooklyn club, and Joseph I.annin.
head of the Boston Red SoX. rushed
aboard the LUsitania and sought ont
McGraW. Callahan and COmiskey anu
announced that all hands were glad
TO see them home.
Muffed in a new fur OverCOat. Nc
GraW. the stOcky boss OF the Giants.
stood in the center OF "A group OF news
paper men and answered a rataplan
Of question. while Jimmy Callahan.
bronzed and burly from his trip. was
rushed or in a corner by another
squad OF interV1eWers.
Plenty OF Noise.
Several hundred people came from
Chicago to greet the returned wan
derers, and considerable neighbOr-
hood news was wirelessed into the
Lusitania. during the stay at Quaran-
tine Most OF the party Of So that
made up the woodworking crowd out
side OF the ball players, are Chicago
ans.
Meantime the ball players them
selves were coming in for a lot OF ar
tentiOn from the reception committee.
Magnates who had an interest tn thu
men on the teams that composed the
Giants and SOX got busy right away
and saw 10 il that none OF the Fed
eral league people got 20 them first.
Pres Gilmore OF the Federals was
unable TO secure a pass 80 get aboard
the Lusitauia 50 he could not do any
missionary work n person. bat his
visit would probably have been fruit
less anyway. II is stated that Pres
Lannin of the Ped Sox handed IRIS
Speaker a blank contract and told
him 10 fiji in the figures himself.