Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1913 — OBJECTIONS TO WORLD TRIP [ARTICLE]

OBJECTIONS TO WORLD TRIP

Several Players Hesitate Before Agreeing to Put Up Money to Pay Traveling Expenses. Plan* for a tour of the world by the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox, after the present baseball season have been perfected with the exception of one important item. The players of the teams, if they want to trot around the globe, each must put up $1,500 beforehand to guarantee expenses. Of course, If the promo* tens of the tour make money out of exhibition games on American and foreign self the players’ money will be returned to them when settling time comes, and there may be some* thing to boot. But just now many of the New York and Chicago' players do not see why they should be asked to put up so much as a silver dollar. In fact, some of them speak plainly. They will not pack their kits and travel- around the earth unless the promoters pay everything. Tradition shows that ball player*, as a rule, never have displayed eagerness to dig deeply Into their own pock* ets for trips of pleasure or barnstorm* Ing tours. When A. G. Spalding took the Chicagos and All-Americans around the world in 1888 he financed everything ahd probably lost some money. But the players had no cause for worry. .Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the White Sox; Jimmy Callahan, manager, and Ted Sullivan, chief booster, together with Leader McGraw of the Giants are aware of the unwillingness of some of the players to put up the„ necessary guarantee, but they are net talking for publication Just now. In fact, McGraw refuses to discuss the .trip until the Qlanta are sure of the pennant and a slice of the world’s series. Comiskey and Callahan, It is said, r have been sounding the players of other American league teams/ with the result that if all of the White Sox refuse to go under the conditions name# the vacant places may be filled by Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford of the Tigers, .Tris Speaker of the Boston Red Sox and other stars who are not afrAld to take a chance. Hal Chase has notified Callahan that he will make the trip, and so has Big Ed Walsh. Of the Giants, Christy Mathewson, it Is said, is a sure starter, but Chief Meyers Is among those who prefer to remain at home rather than pay their own expenses provisionally.