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ADRIAN C. ANSON.

CHAPTER XVI.

I Sell the Ten Thousand Dollar Beauty. I suppose that if I should neglect to Bay something about the two series of fames, one in 1885 and the other in

X886, that we played with the St. Louls Browns some fellow from way back would rise up to remark that I bave a mighty poor memory when it comes to disagreeable things. Well, maybe I have, but I'm going to say a little something about those games all the same. To start with, I want to observe that the St. Louis team was a strong organization and could have held its own against any other team in the league. In the first series we broke even, each winning three games, the odd one being a tie. Next year we were beaten, fairly beaten, but I niust say that in my opinion there •was a very good reason for our defeat. The games were playod both seasons after the Chicago players had passed out of my control and the relaxation in the regular discipline made the boys careless. If they had taken as good care of themselves Just before playing these games as they were obliged to when the regular season •was on there would have been a diflerent story to tell.

The big baseball sensation of 1887 was the sale by the Chicago management of Mike Kelly to the Boston club. The eum of 10,000 noble plunks went into the Chicago club's treasury as the result of this transaction, the largest amount that had ever been paid for a ball player. If you think that_Mike didn't hare a better opinion

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The Boston folks were tickled to death to get Mike even at the price. They were so hungry for the championship that they were willing to go down into their pockets to almost any depth, and they thought, now that Mike was their very own, that they had only to reach out their hands and the emblem was theirs. They found out to their cost that it needed more than oue "Ten Thousand Dollar Beauty" to do the trick. The very best the beaneaters could do was to finish in fifth place.

The Chicago team for that season of 1887 was made up of Mark Bald-

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win, Clarkson and Van llaltren, pitchers Anson, Pfeffer, Burns and Tebeau, basemen Sullivan, Ityan, Pettit, Van Haltren and Darling, fielders. It was a mighty hefty bunch, even if it was minus Mike Kelly. That season, too, was the most successful in the history of the league up to that time, financially and from the viewpoint of

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The campaign opened the last o£ April and at the end of the first month Detroit was in the lead, with BolUui a good second. My team didn't yet beyond fifth place until June. At the close of that month we had stepped up one place, Detroit, Boston and New York still in advance. Our boys were playing a mighty good gar.i at that time and our chances for i'::e championship were not so very siim. During nil the month of July we climbed steadi'.y up the ladder, and September 1 found us in second iilaeo, within striking distance of Detroit. By the last week of August Chicago and Detroit were tied in the matter of runes won. At that time it was anybody's race as far as the two leaders were concerned.

The middle of September told a different tale. Detroit secured a winning lead and alter that all the interest centered in the scramble for second place, between Chicago. PhiiiKieiphia and New York. By the end of that month New York was out of the fight and we were left to wrestle with the Quaker City team. When it came to a fall the latter was on top.

Then the victorious Detroits sailed in and didn what we failed to accomplish the previous season—they beat the St. Louis Browns by one game in the series for the world's championship that was played after the close of the regular league season. Maybe you think that was an easy pill for us to swallow!

The attendance everywhere that season was enormous, the capacity of the biggest grounds all over the country being taxed to the utmost. All the clubs made money, even those that didn't make much of a show. All the clubs woke up to the fact that baseball had become oije of the important Industries of the country, and from that time to this day the business features of the game have played a major role.

Early in the spring of 1888 the managers of the Chicago, club made another big s'ale and pocketed a check for 110,000 for the release of John Clarkson, a man who had more than once pitched the White Stockings to victory. Personally, it was like pulling teeth to see John go, for we had come to look on him as a necessity almost, and it seemed as if a hole had been made in the organization that would be mighty difficult to fill. But the Boston folks were determined to get that pennant if they had to spend all their earnings in the business. They realized that Mike Kelly alone couldn't do the trick, and they were willing to help him out.

Of course, this sale had the effect of knocking the bottom out of our reputation as topnotchers. Those who had been our antagonists in so many hard fights began the season with the notion that we would be dead easy now that two of our bright and shining lights were no longer with us, and there was more or less rejoicing throughout the league. It didn't take very long for us to demonstrate the fact that the spark of life was still flickering in our midst. We were in it, very much in it, from start to finish, and at the close of the season we had soared to second place, New York being at the top. Again Boston had failed to make good in spite of her big plunge for the championship. The best Mike and John could do for their new bosses was to put the club in fourth place.

For the first time in several years 1 led the league in the matter of batting aTerages, with .343 to my credit, a tingle point more than Beckley of Pittsburg. The preceding season I had stood second on the list with a percentage of .421.

Some time before this season was over I had become Interested financially and otherwise in a scheme to take the Chicago team and another picked nine from among the best league players on an exhibition tour to Australia and New Zealand. A. G. Spalding was first to suggest the matter to me, and from the start it appealed strongly to rny love of adventure. Mr. Spalding looked into the plan very critically from a business point of view, and the more he studied it the better it seemed to him. Finally we agreed to go into it, and after the matter was decided I could hardly wait for the time to come. The management of the trip-and all the details fell to Mr. Spalding and Leigh S. Lynch, who had been In Australia in connection with the theatrical business and had a wide acquaintance in the antipodes. In February Mr. Lynch went to Australia to make the necessary arrangements for our appearance in that country.

CHAPTER XVII.

I Am Introduced to President Cleveland. Long before the season of 1888 came to a close the fact that we were going abroad became known to every baseball fan in the country and made us the most talked-about team in the business. Posters of the attractive sort were struck off by the wagon load and the newspapers were full of It. Talk about publicity—the public eye certainly was chock full of us that summer.

When the subject was first discussed no one connected with the enterprise ever dreamed that it would expand into a tour around the world, but such it proved to be. We met with so much encouragement on every side, and Mr. Lynch came back from his advance trip to Australia with such glowing accounts of his success in interesting the folks over there in the project that the entire globe was wild to see us, and we made up our minds to give It a chance.

Now wouldn't you. have thought that

with such an opportunity to see something of the world every ball player in the couuiry would have been mighty keen to get a place on lhat picked team, which ii had been decided to call the Ail-Americans? Greatly to my astonishment, as well as that of Mr. Spalding and all the others connected with the scheme, there was no special rush to get. into the game, Ten players of the Chicago club s'gned to go wiiji much fuss, but: the making up of the All-American team as quite anotln matter. Some of the players who bad seemed eager to backed out at almost the last moment, among them Mike Kelly of the roslons titid Mike Tiernan of the New Yorks. Some cheerful idioi. ioM the latter that the New Zealand vannibals ate only one kind of meat, and that did the business for Mike.

After a lot of worry and trouble Mr. Spalding finally succeeded in getting together a very good team. John M. Ward, then at his best, was captain and shortstop, ard the other men li ". all made good in the Iotpo. All in all, It was a mighty effective selection, as we had occasion to discover more than once during our games on the tour. George Wright was engaged to accompany us as coach in several prospective cricket matches to be played in the countries in which that game Is the leading outdoor pastime.

The ten players of the Chicagos who signed to go on the tour were Ned Williamson, Tom Burns, Tom Daly, Mark Baldwin, Jimmy Ryan, Fred Pfeffer, John Tener, Mark Sullivan, Bob Pettit and myself, and I never heard a regret from one of them that he had gone into the ven-ture. Most of them have been mentioned so frequently by me that they are already familiar to you, but of two of the more recent additions tc the club I shall say considerable hereafter. These were Mark Baldwin and John Tener, both hailing from Pittsburg, the latter recently elected governor of Pennsylvania.

As a start-off, a good friend of mine and of the game, genial Congressman Frank Lawler of Chicago, provided a very enjoyable treat. This was no less than an audience with President Gro-

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ver Cleveland, tv^io sent us word that he hoped we would visit him at the White House before setting off on our long tour. Some way or other, I don't exactly know how, I had got it into my head that the president was a tough proposition to get enthusiastic over, but I never was more mistaken in my life. In all my career as a ball player, I have never met any one easier to talk to or more agreeable In his manner. When I was introduced to him as the captain and manager of the Chioago club he shook hands with me in the most cordial way. "I've been hearing so much of you for the past few years," he said, "that I've had a great curiosity to meet the man who has done such great work in the athletic field." "But you mustn't forget, Mr. President," I said as modestly as I knew how, "that I couldn't do much without the support of the other boys. Besides, the press has been pretty good to me. Sometimes when I read the papers I am astonished to find out what a big fellow I am." "Well," he laughed, "so long as the balance is in your favor you can't find any fault with the newspapers. I'm sure I never do."

Then I introduced the other boys, and for each of them the president had a hearly handshake and a pleasant word. I never saw anybody better equipped with the exact thing to say and such a telling way of saying it. He certainly made a big hit with the Chicago club, and when we left the White House he wished us a jolly trip and a successful one, and there wasn't a man of us that didn't take away with him the most agreeable impression of Grover Cleveland.

When we returned to America after our world-girdling tour. Benjamin Harrison had moved into the White House. Some one suggested that It 'would be the proper caper to pay him a visit, and after a good many hums and haws it was arranged that we should give the president a call. If we had expected a repetition of the hospitality that President Cleveland had shown us—we didn't get it. Benjamin was civil—barely so—hut you have it straight from me that the atmosphere at that reception would have made an icicle long for an overcoat. We were all mighty uncomfortable over the president's failure to appreciate the honor we were doing him, and the All-Americans were so upset over it that we wiped the ground with them that afternoon, the score standing 18 to 6.

After I had once settled beyond recalLthat I would make this round-the-

world junket I started in to make all my plans with direct reference to the enjoyment 1 intended to get out of the trip. As soon a? I found that there were to be ladies in the party—Mr. Spakl'i:? decidoJ to lake his mother and N Williamson's better half vowed he shouldn't stir a step without her—1 asked Mrs. Anson to accompany us. She didn't see how she could al ilr.-it., but finally she said "All right," and we were ready at the appointed time.

On October 20 the Chicago and A!'.American teams played a farewell game on the league grounds in Chicago. It was a pleasant afternoon and a big crowd assembled to give us a proper send-off. It was a hot game, one of the very liveliest I ever took a hand in. Of course we didn't want to be beaten by the All-Americas

our own grounds just as we were starting off to show the world what a wonderful bunch we were, bat it would have tickled the picked nine to death if they could have done the trick, and they tried it for all they were worth.

It didn't materialize. We won by a score of 11 to 6, and that very night we were off on the first trip around the world ever made by American ball players, a trip that was so full of advent tire and so .unique in its character that it will stand forever in the annals of the game as a thing to be remembered.

Nor did it interfere a little bit with my anticipation of a royal good time to have it suggested to me by some of my friends, and to realize it perfectly myself, that no matter how big a success it might turn out to be from a financial and professional standpoint it was going to be the most telling advertisement for a certain sporting goods business ever devised by human ingenuity.

The good-time feature of the scheme worked to a charm—and so did the advertising. As for the rest—well, my share of the losses incurred In working out that brilliant publicity dodge was $1,500. But, as I have already admitted, I had a tiptop time!

CHAPTER XVIII.

I Follow the Course of Empire. "Westward the course of empire takes It way," and so did we on that fine evening of October 20, 1888. If there was ever a jollier company 1 was not a part of it. Every man of the two teams was like a big kid going off on a picnic, and altogether we were about as fine a specimen of the happy family racket as could be got together. "Let's leave dull care behind!" sang out Tom Daly, our funny man, as our train pulled out of the Chicago Union depot, with the cheers and good wishes of the host of friends who had gathered to see us off still ringing in our ears. "I hope none of the club folks heard that," I said solemnly. ''Calling names is rather a dangerous business." "Not if one has the last, whack at it," Tom laughed.

It was impossible to be serious with Tom Daly, and I didn't try it. Instead, I headed the procession to the dining car provided especially for our party, and after that "dull care" had nothing to do with the case. We had a special sleeper for our use, but, as I remember It, there wasn't a great deal of sleeping done that first night out. The situation was too exciting and too new to admit of it. The ladies of the party may have made the attempt, but I don't see how they could have accomplished it. Early In the evening Mrs. Spalding, A. (J.'s mother, a stately, white-haired woman, who is still living at the age of ninety-three, In behalf of the ladies of the company, accorded us permission to smoke, and by the time they were ready to retire the asmosphere was so charged with cigar mist that slumber must have been difficult. However, I can't speak from experience, as I didn't try it. I knew better. The rolling of the chipB at the further end of the car would have made It impossible.

Next day we were in St. Paul, and although it was early Sunday morning a big crowd was on hand to welcome us. In those days St. Paul wm a "wide-open" town, and Sunday was the one day of the week devoted especially to baseball. A game between our two teams had been scheduled for the afternoon, and although we would have preferred to pass the day quietly it would never have done to disappoint the 2,000 shivering fans that had assembled at the grounds to see us play. "The frost was on the pumpkin" for a dead fact. A fur-lined overcoat would have been a big improvement over a baseball uniform, but there was no help for it. It is probable that a good many In the audience were there to see Mike Kelly, who had promised sir. Spalding to join us at St. Paul and whose name was on the score card, but the "Ten Thousand Dollar Beauty" had backed out and Frank Flint— known as "Old Silver"—was sent in to catch for the All-Americas. Flint had been prevailed on to accompany us as far as Denver, for fear that Kelly would jump the track. The crowd soon tumbled to the fact that Mike and "Old Silver" were not identical, and the substitute was greeted with a round of left-handed compliments that had about as much effect on Flint as a mild shower bath on the back of a duck.

We had the game called at the end )f the sixth inning, the score standing :it 9 to 3 in favor of the Chicagos, so hat we might play a game with the ^t. Pauls, then under the management if John S. Barnes On account of its ical flavor th's game was far more 'lereetlnff f"n~ than the ot'" \'bion tl f" p. wrs rr.lt at t!

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close of the seventh Inning, on account of darkness, with the score at 8 to 5 in. St. Paul's favor, that crowd "went bug-house." Barnes was so elated over the good luck of his boys that he challenged me for another game with the Chicagos, to be played at Minneapolis the following day.

I accepted, and the next morning we were taken down In our special cars to the other Twin City, where we met with a reception that would have done honor to royalty. I don't remember the details, but I do recollect that we formed part of a parade through the §"1 principal streets and that we nearly -J-f? froze, in spite of the fact that we were seated in a dozen fine carriages, drawn by horses with nodding gilt plumee and yellow blankets, and headed by a brass band led by a drum-major decked out in scarlet and gold. Another big crowd had assembled at the ball grounds, and It tried to keep in good humor and from freezing while we played our game with the AllAmericas, but it was an uphill business. What that crowd wanted tosee was our game with the St. Pauls, and the fact that All-Americas beat as 6 to 3 didn't Interest those fans as much as it did us.

That game with the St. Paul's was one of the prettiest I ever had a hand in, I sent big Mar'- Baldwin in to pitch for us and he nu..le a fine showing. Neither side scored for four innings and I don't mind telling you that excitement was keyed up considerable higher than concert pitch. In the fifth Inning the St. Pauls were once more retired with a gooseegg and Pfeffer crossed the home plate with a winning run for the Chicagos. All considered, it was a great game for the St. Paul team, and Manager Barnes was so happy over the result that I couldn't do any better than jump right in and share it with him.

There wasn't much time for that, however, for that night we went on to Cedar Rapids, in my native state of Iowa, where we were scheduled to play an exhibition game. We got a great ovation there. Our cars, sidetracked near the Union depot, attracted as much attention as though they contained a circus. The attendance at the ball ground numbered 4,500, a crowd that deserved to see a good game, and that is what they got, if I do say it. The score was a tie la the fifth Inning u.id again in the eighth, it then standing five each. In the ninth inning Ryan crossed the plate with the winning run for the Chicagos, and the crowd was satisfied it had got Its money's worth.

Next morning we arrived at the state capital. All our traveling thus far had been done at night, and It has always been a wonder to me how we managed to play so much ball during the day and so much poker at night, with sleeping cutting a very small figure in the situation. At Des Moines we played a close and e*clt ing game, the score at the ninth Inning standing 3 to 2 in favor of the All-Americas. Thus far the picked nine had carried off the lion's share of the glory, but it was all In the family, and I consoled myself that cur turn would come next.

On the morning of tKe 25th we were In Omaha, and there we got another red-hot reception. The All-Americas won out again, getting wise to Ryan's slow, left-handed delivery after the fifth inning and pounding him all over the field. The heavy batting tickled the Omaha folks and they shouted themselves hoarse. We played a game at Hastings, Neb., next day after a lot jt excitement had been caused by the falling of a section of the grandstand loaded with people. Fortunately nobody was killed, but a good many were badly shaken up.

The Chicagos won that game hy a score of 8 to 4. Our mascot, Clarence Duval, had joined us at Omaha and things had taken a turn. Playing ball without a mascot—but thereby hangs a tale. (To be Continued.)

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