Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-06
TOURISTS GET
BIC WELCOME
ON ARRIVAL
Magnates, Players and Fans All
Join in Giving Globe Trotters
Hearty Reception.
By Frank G. Menke.

"A
a snowstorm that made navi-
cation hazardous the world
touring White Sox and Giants came
,nta New York Harbor to-day to the
Greatest welcome that has ever
marked the return of American ath-
letes from foreign shore. With their
arrival, the ball players ended jour
nov of 1000 miles, during which they
made about 100000 clear and above
expenses.
The Cunard liner Lusitania, on
which the baseball men, led by Man
ager John J. McGraw, of the Giants,
ana President Charles Comiskey and
Manager Callahan, of the Chicago
American League club, poked her
nose slowly through the snow and
fog of the lower bay. The vessel had
anchored off Sandy Hook late last
night with the intention of reaching
Quarantine about a. m. and dock2
ing at $50 o'clock. Weather condi-
tons upset this program, however,
and the liner did not reach Quaran-
tine until $40 a. m.
DESPITE the storm, the returning
- baseball players were given
welcome such as that accorded to
heroes returning from a war. Play
crs, magnates and fans all Joined
hands. The footing of whistles and
Io ~ Cttno nd q
came through the harbor made the
travellers realize that they were back
once more in the land of the free
and the home of the brave"
a local reception committee went
down the bay on the ferryboat Nj
agara and gave the homecomers a
welcome that will be remembered as
unique in the history of the national
game New York and Chicago united
I'm greeting the two teams and the
West We'd with the East in enthusi-
assn. The delegation of fans that
came here from Chicago to greet the
wanderers left their beds in the Hotel
Baltimore before daylight this morn
Ing and went to their duty happily.
T HE representatives of organized
/ baseball conferred with the ne
turning players on the way from
Quarantine to the Cunard dock and
en- the Lusitania arrival there, Speak !
er announced that he would turn
down the offer of the Federals and
sign another Boston contract,
Similar announcement of rejection
Of propositions from the Federals |
we're made by Mike Doolan, Of the
Thtlles, and Dick Eagan, of the
Ir...1y1sr,, etc that tnRV
would sign again with the teams on
which they played last year.
Representatives of organized base
ball stole a march of two hours upon |
the Federal Leaguers by going down |
the bay on a revenue cutter. Repre-
sentatives of the Federal League were |
caught unaWares and went to the |
Cunard pier at the foot of West Four /
'eenth street to meet the liner. ON |
board the revenue cutter, in add |
ton to a small army of reporters and |
photographers were: Ban Johnson |
president Of the American League; |
W F. Baker an official of the Phila-
delpha National League club; |
Charles I. Ebbets, president of the /
Brooklyn National League club; |
Frank Farrell president of the New |
York American League club, and j. /
Lanin, president of the Boston .
Americans.
As the revenue cutter approached /
The Iusitania Deputy Collector J. c. I
Williams assembled the baseball mag
Mates and made little speech to
them
"NOE gentlemen will understand .
that the passes enabling you to /
make this trip were granted out of
courtesy and you must not transact .
any business on the Lusitania," said /
the port official This opportunity
was given you for the sole purpose
OF greeting friends and your bust
ness must be deferred until you land"
The magnates assented gloomily to .
L1ls proposition. but no sooner were
i4eF mp the ladder of the big liner
man they began hunting up and maxi
.nS dickers.
Baker sought Mike Doolan, short
step Of the Philadelphia Nationals,
ana talked earnestly to him, finally
agreeing upon terms. Lannin sought
oai iris Speaker, an outfielder or
pc Boston Red SoX, and came to
,,eefms Ebbets buttonholed Dick !,
.7gan, second baseman of the Brook
q h Nationals, and secured a promise
mai Eagon would not listen to offers