Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-27
CLAD RECEPTION
FOR TOUR|STSON
ARRIVAL IN n. I.
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
livious 10 all this baseball disturbance
that has been stirred up by the Fed
eral League, they will be brought
plumb up against 1t 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
circlers any reminders of their rough
trip on the peaceful Pacific from
Vancouver to Japan. Still, Comis-
key McGraw ct al. may be wildly
impressed by the inroads that have
been made on organized baseball by
the Fearsome 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 1t 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
y 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
he lust as historical.
The official committees Of the
American and Ne tional 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
(chairman), w. r. 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,
es well as Presidents Tenner and
Johnson. Local fans, as well as
those of Chicago, win 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 G. Spalding, returned
here in the spring of 1889 there was
no public banquet given, but the
players and members of the party
were taken in charge by their per
sonal friends, and the greetings while
more quiet, were not less cordial
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, ana II is thouSnt tHdl 4uA9
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
gtven-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
w. will cover everything necessary TO
express the heartfelt warmth OF the
greetings.