Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1913 — WORLD CIRCLING TOUR [ARTICLE]

WORLD CIRCLING TOUR

Series Probably Be Inaugurated fn Chicago in October. Special Train to Coast to Be Deco* rated With Flags of All Nations to Be Visited —Japan First Foreign Country. The world circling series between the Chicago White Box and the New York Giants will be inaugurated with a contest at Cincinnati on October 18. After the game the tourists will board their train, which will be decorated with the flags of all the nations to be visited. A band of music will accompany the party as far as the Pacific coast to enliven the trip and furnish entertainment before the games to be played on the way west. An entire month will be spent in reaching Vancouver, from which place the party is booked to sail on November 10. On the way to the coast the teams will play games in the middle south and southwest, and will enter California by way of Los Angeles. Games are to be played in that city and in San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Vancouver before boarding the steamer for Japan. The first stopping place after quitting the United States will be Japan, where the native sons already have acquired a great liking considerable knowledge of the American pastime. The tourists will continue their trip to China, then to the Philippine islands, where they will be on United States soil again.

From Manila the athletes will travel to Australia, with games booked for the leading cities of that great sporting country. More long-distance traveling will be in order after quitting Australia. "India, possibly Calcutta, will draw a game, and then Cairo, Egypt, where a battle will be waged at the foot of the sphinx. If this doesn’t bring the sphinx back to life and make him talk, his case may be com sidered hopeless. Italian cities, Rome, Venice, Genoa and Florence, will next be visited. France, Germany and Austria will be visited before the Americans leave the continent for the British Isles. It is hardly likely that any games will be played in John Bull’s back yard. The weather at that time of the year is too inclement for pastiming. The big cities will be visited, however, with a grand finale at Dublin before departing by steamer from Queenstown. The teams will then hustle back to America to go into their respective training camps. The players who will be selected to make up the two teams will be picked as much their personalities as for their baseball skill. It is realized that the great American game will be on tjial in all of the countries visited, and it is the aim of the promoters to insure sportsmanlike conduet both on and off the field throughout the trip. Men who will realize and attempt to uphold the dignity of their nation’s game will be chosen, In so far as possible. The National commission will select an umpire to accompany the team and officiate as the representative of baseball’s “supreme court” during all the games. This will avoid the risk of giving the sport a black eye in foreign lands through disputes or controversies that would be almost certain to grow out of inexperienced umpiring.