Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
CLAD RECEPTION
ORTOUR|STSON
ARRIVAL IN N. Y.
Big Leagues to Join Hands in
Welcoming GIobeTrotters
From Long Trip.
By Sam Crane.

NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-While the
y McGraw -Comiskey Callahan
tourists on their around the
world trip have been more or less OBJ
livous TO all this baseball disturbance
that has been stirred up by the Fed
plumb up against it ON their arrival
in New York, around about March 6.
We are not of the opinion that the
shock of contact will be startling
enough to bring back to the globe
C.rclers any reminders of their rough
"Trip on the peaceful Pacific from
Vancouver to Japan. Still, Comi--
key. MCGraw ct al. NAV be vividly
impressed by the inroads that halu
been made on organized baseball by
the tearsome Feds.
The reception to be given the re-
turning baseball boomers has not vet
fully taken shape, but those who have
the affair in charge will see to it that
no Australia or any other foreign
land can equal the tourists own
friends in the warmth or variety of
the proceedings that will surround
the greeting accorded the wanderers
on their return to their native shores
home
And that is the dear old word that
carries with it everything and more
than all the wealth of kindness and
hospitality that has been showered on
them abroad.
CHICAGO will join with New York
- in giving the home Corners a
welcome. over three hundred Windy
city friends of the popular Charley
Comiskey. the "Old Roman" and his
White Sox will be here to receive the
party, while possibly as many more
New Workers, pals of McGraw and
friends of the Giants, will help out to
make the reception one of the most
memorable in the history of the Ma
tional game.
The tourists have made baseball
history, and the home welcome will
be Just as historical
The official committees of the
American and National Leagues have
been appointed and were given out
yesterday by Secretary Heydler, of
the National League.
President Ban Johnson appointed
Frank Farrell (chairman), Joseph
Lannon and Ben Shibe to represent
the American League. and President
Tener has named Harry Hampstead
Cchairman), w. F. Baker and John
Heydler to represent the National
League.
THERE will be other committees
appointed to represent the cities
Of Chicago and New York, and doubt
less the National Commission will be
represented by Chairman Hermann
as and
Johnson. Local fans, as well as
those Of Chicago. will be on hand to
take part in the reception, and we
can rest assured that Harry Stevens,
Louis Mann, DeWolf Hopper and
others will be foremost in taking care
Of local fandom.
When the first baseball around
the world tourists, under the leader
ship of Albert c.. Spalding, returned
here in the spring of 1889 there was
no public banquet given, but the
players and members of the party
we're taken in charge by their per
sonal friends, and the greetings, While
more quiet, were not less cordia
than the ones to come.
The most notable form of this re-
ception will probably be mammoth
banquet, to be given the night of the
return and it is thought that fulIy
1000 persons will attend.
The managers and players of the
Giants and White Sox. who are now
on tour, will be obliged to hasten to
their respective training camps SO
soon that there will be no opportunity
giyen-as there was in 1SS9-for the
playing of any games; consequently
the banquet will be the one big fea-
ture of the reception-but that, sure
ly, will cover everything necessary TO
express the heartfelt warmth OF the
greetings