Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1889 — BASE BALL. [ARTICLE]

BASE BALL.

The Chicagos and “All America” base ball clubs, which have been on a tour arpand the world, embarked at Queenstown, Ireland, on the 28th for America. The trip has been a remarkable one. The party consisted of the Chicago team, including Mr. Spalding and the wives of several of the players, John M. Ward and Crane, of the New Yorks, Brown'of Boston, Healey of Indianapolis, Carroll of Pittsburg, Fogerty and Wood of Philadelnhia, and others. They sailed from San Francisco and made their first stop at the Sandwich Islands, where they played before King Kalakua and a large congregation of natives, and in return were banqueted by the King. They plaved several games in Australia to very large crowds and here they were also banqueted by the dignitaries of the towns and colonies. They halted long enough at Colombo, Ceylon, to play a game before a motley crowd of Arabs. Thev next visited Cario and Alexandria, Egypt, and played a game in the shadow of the great pyramids and the Sphynx. They then visited Italy and played several games, going thence to Madrid, Monte Carlo ana Paris. They crossed the channel and played a number of games in England ana Scotland and closed the tour with two games in Ireland. The Prince of Wales was an interested spectator of the first game in London ana afterward gave the players a reception. In every land they visited the games were attended by the potentates and the aristocacy, as well as common people, who for the first time witnessed with great interest, and frequently with great enthusiasm, an exhibition of the great American sport. The games as a rule were well played, the majority of which were won by the All Americas. On their arrival in New York the clubs will be given a reception by admirers of the sport and the personal friends’pL the players. They will then makipCtouhof the States playing in all the lefidihg b&eball cities. ' y ' Manager Bancroft, of the Indianapolis club, is confident thfcclab will give the best of them a this He is giving the team five hours practice a day and hopes to bring the club up to a high degree of efficiency. The exhibition games Will begiq) next week and a large attendance is already assured. Captain 'Glasscock claims that if .Whitney is secured Indianapolis Will be as strong in the pitching department as any club in the League, and Paul Hines adds that the Hoosier team is a stronger club than the one that won the championship for Providence in 1884. Paul was a member of the famous Grays, and ought to know as to the respectative • merits of the two teams.