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TO TRADE
By Ty Cobh.
(Champion batsman of the major
leagues and outfielder of
Detroit Tigers.)
A UGUSTA, GA., April IT.—I heard
to-day for the first time that
Mr. Navin. president of the
Detroit Club, had stated he would
take no further inducements to get
me to Join the team, and 1 was con
siderably surprised.
1 have dealt fairly with the Detroit
Ball Club, and Mr. Navin has told
me that I am worth what I have
asked for.
Throughout the winter there has
been no effort made by the Detroit
Club to get me to sign a contract,
and the only two letters that l have
received from Mr. Navin did not
deal with figures. The Detroit peo
ple have not asked me to meet an
official of the club in any city to
talk the matter over regarding my
case, and that is why I am sur
prised that Mr. Navin ."ays he will
offer me no further inducements.
I have informed the Detroit Club
what my proposition is.
I have never received a proposi
tion from the club. 1 am ir, doubt
as to whether or not Mr. Navin
wifhes me to play with his Hub or
whether he issued his statement for
the purpose of trying to intimidate
me.
Club Inconsiderate.
I consider that I have made all
the proper efforts to "ign and have
received no consideration from the
club, and hence my action in re
maining in the South.
My idea in organizing a little club
to play exhibition games was solely
to get into condition to answer an
urgent call from the Detroit Club.
My schedule was so arranged that I
(ould terminate it at a moment’s
notice.
This is only an explanation of my
reasons and of the consideration
that I have had for the club.. There
are no petty desires on my part, as
T have been accused of having by a
Mr. Navin. I am only asking
for a sum of money for my
services, and that is the one and
only reason why I am in Augusta
to-day.
Of course, if Mr. Navin wants to
keep me out of baseball he can do
so. I have only asked for what I
believe I am worth, and it certainly
does seem that a man should be
ablt to do that without drawing
ggtffe a statement from the club
as Mr. Navin is reported
to have mad#.
Denies Published Reports.
He certainly doesn’t own me, body
and soul. None of the published re
ports in which 1 have been quoted
as criticising the Detroit Club came
from me. On the contrary, I have
been guarded in my talk and have
been careful not to say anything
that would offend Mr. Navin or any
one else. T have not boasted re
garding what I would or could do
if my demands are not complied
with.
I have very quietly gone about
mv own business and this spring
have got into condition to play this
summer.
I am willing to do anything hon
orable to bring about an adjust
ment. hut. of course. I can not be
expected to go to Detroit and play
for a sum much smaller than even
the president of the club says I am
"T^have about concluded
THAT IT WILL BE BEST FOR
ALL CONCERNED THAT I BE
TRADED TO SOME OTHER
CLUB. My future course will he
shaped largely by what Mr. Navin
says and does. It is his move.
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gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
ROCHESTER PRESIDENT
SUSPENDS FOUR PLAYERS
ROCHESTER. N. Y April 17.-
President Chapin, of the Rochestei
Club, of the International League,
announces that the following four
players have been suspended: Akers
Barrows, Clarke and Coleman. Grant.
Henley, Jones and Rapp were give*
unconditional releases.
ANDERSON TOlo EAST
FOR BOUTS WITH STARS
What’s the Use of Starting Something You Can’t Finish?
By “Bud” Fisher
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Ty Cobb May Play With Yankees j Sporting Food
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News of Big Deal Leaking Out
By W. S. Farnsworth.
T Y COBB is likely to be wearing New York American League
spangles within the next few days.
It leaked out to-day in New York that the American League
magnates, realizing that. Gay Gotham must be given a winner in their
organization, have been quietly working out a plan whereby T. Ray
mond. greatest of all performers, be shifted from his Detroit pasture
to Frank Farrell’s yard.
* , *
O N the face of matters, it doesn’t listen good, but about three
months ago Ban Johnson, high muck-a-muck of the American
League, dropped off in this burg for a couple of hours. B. B. J. came
down to this neck of the woods to look over an island off the Savannah
coast. He and C. Comiskev, White Sox franchise possessor, wanted
said isle to fish and hunt on.
Yours truly paid Mr. Johnson a call at the Piedmont Hotel. The
topic of interest in b b. circles at the time was the report that Francois
Chance was to affix his J. Hancock to a New York contract. I asked
Ban about it.
"Cinch the Y'ankees will get Chance. I tixed the thing all up
myself." So spoketh B. Byron. And his chest swelled a couple of
inches as he spoke the "I."
"Farrell is going to have a winner, too,” added the $26,000 per
president. ”1 believe he will have the greatest player in the world
with him if a deal that is pending goes through."
I was inquisitive, but Ban would go no further. And trying to get
a bit of news out of him when he doesn’t care' to give it is like trying
to tear your teeth through an Athens steak.
I never dreamed that He meant Cobb. But right now everything
points Cobb's way.
« * *
T HE American League simply has got to get a team in New York
that can compete with the Giants. Gotham is the National League
stronghold. Ban Johnson is a wise gazink. He never overlooks a bet.
With Cobh and Chance both in New York, McGraw and his bunch would
have to divide prestige with the American League team.
Cobb has not signed his Detroit contract. He wants $15,000 a year.
Detroit cannot afford to pay him that much money. New York can.
Now isn't it likely that there is a perfect understanding between
the player, the Detroit owner, Frank Farrell and Ban Johnson? Isn't
it likely Cobb is laying low so that the trade of him to New York can
go through as quietly as possible?
Navin can partly square himself with Detroit fandom by claiming
that Cobb doesn't want to play in Detroit. And Tyrus really doesn't
want to play there. In response to a telegram sent him yesterday, came
the following answer this morning from Augusta:
"PLAYERS ARE RARELY CONSULTED ON TRADES. REPORT
OF MY BEING TRADED TO NEW YORK NEWS TO ME. SUCH WON
DERFUL LUCK UNBELIEVABLE. I WOULD BE GLAD IF SUCH A
TRADE WAS MADE.”
That shows Cobb doesn't waq| to go back to Detroit and that he
does want to go to New’ York.
There is no doubt about il—Ty Cobh is slated now and has been
slated for some three months to go to New York. The only chance
of him not going to the metropolis is that the "under cover” deal Is
beginning lo leak out and Detroit fans may make such a howl that 'even
the daring Ban Johnson may for once quit on an undertaking.
FODDER FOR FANS
' By GEORGE E. PHAIR r
RESPITE.
Upon the sward the athletes hike about
And smite the pill with many a lusty
clout;
The turnstiles click, the magnate cops
the kale,
And in the stand the peanut peddlers
shout.
A flock of hits athwart the grassy lea.
A horsehide pellet flying far and free:
It is a greut and noble sport, and yet
'Tis not the game itself that gladdens
me.
'Tis not the game itself that makes me
thrill,
Nor yet the shouts that waft from hill
10 hill:
It is the thought that when the game
is on
The magnate’s type machine is Cold and
still.
One is surprised to learn that Joe
Cantillon has sinned Fred Hunter. Mr.
Hunter is several years shy of fifty.
There are worse things than acquiring
chilblains in a bull yard. F'or instance,
there is the Alaskan gent who is driving
412 miles behind a flock team of wolves
in a blizzard
Speaking of the Alaskan Derby, there
are always wolves to the found in the vi
cinity of a race track.
SPRING IDYL.
Maud Muller on an April day
Went out to see the athletes play
She never yelled a single yell.
But sat there till the evening fell
‘Night fell upon the April scene.
And still she sat there all serene
All night she lingered in the lot,
For she was frozen to the spot.
It is hard for a holdout to get his name
into print after the schedule has been
burst open. Hence, Tyrus Cobb will re
turn.
Up to date those Red Sox have given
an exhibition of how not to play world's
championship ball.
SUNSHINE.
A little sunshine now and then,
And magnates gather lots of yen.
There are various examples of wasted
energy In our midst, one of which Is
spring training for the Federal League.
Indianapolis, 21: St. Paul, 13. Must be
one of those pitchers' battles we hear
so much about.
VOICE FROM THE BOX OFFICE.
“Play on! Play on!" the magnate cried,
“Play on although the heavens fall!
'Tis better to have played and lost than
never to have played at all."
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
TOMMIE M'MILLAN SIGNS
TO PLAY WITH ROCHESTER
Tommie McMillan, the little Atlan
ta boy, and the Rochester club have
come to terms and the former Yel
low Jacket was in the opening line
up yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, April 17.—“Bud”
Anderson, the Pacific Coast light
weight tr-dav decided to go East to
conclusions with top notchers there
following his knockout victory in the
fifteen-round bout over "Knockout
Brown, of New York. Anderson
tnxious to get on with Freddie Welsh.
Joe Rivers or Leach Cross.
M’GOORTY DEFEATS HICKS
IN TEN-ROUND FIGHT
WINDSOR. ONT.. April 17.—Fred
die Hicks, of Detroit, was helpless be
fore Eddie McGoorty, of Oshkosh, in
an eight-round bout here last night.
The Wisconsin fighter had the ad
vantage in every round by a wide
margin.
O’KEEFE BEATS MANTELL.
LONDON, April 17—At Black
Friars last night the American flght-
ter Frank Mantell, of Pawtucket. K.
1., was beaten on points by Pat
O’Keefe, of London, in a twenty-
round contest.
BASEBALL
iTO-DAY
Birmingham vs. Atlanta
Ponce DeLeon Park 3:15
Well, anyhow, yesterday’s game was
the first of the year on local soil that
lasted under two hours.
This seems to prove that the Crack
ers lose faster than the Barons.
To-day's game tells a story and an
swers a big. dark question: CAN I HI*.
CRACKERS STAND THE CAFF? If
they come back big to-day, all Is well.
* * *
ff they don’t, all may still be moder
ately well, though nothing to speak of.
* * *
Buck Becker drew a horrible assign
ment when he succeeded Weaver. I he
game was all shot to shreds then.
* * *
Errors appear to be epidemic with the
Crackers. When Keating and Agler
broke '>ut with them in the first in
ning the entire team was exposed and
immediately went to pieces.
* * *
It was a moderately comfortable day
for a game, and the crowd was large.
• • *
If the schedule committee had given
the Crackers a few Saturdaj after
noons tit home, right tilting now it
would have been helpful. But instead
most of the Saturdays at home were
scheduled for August and early Sep
tember.
* * I*
At that, the association isn't losing a
lot of money on the crowds that are
turning out, even on bad days.
* * *
Tommy Long continues to play amaz
ing ball. He hit two two-baggers yes
terday and did some fancy fielding.
• * *
Once Long caught a liner from Mc
Bride’s hat and doubled Messenger at
first. And nobody blamed Messenger,
for the thing looked like a sure hit.
* * *
Caller King will open his baseball
matinee to-morrow afternoon at 9 Via
duct place. This emporium of diamond
Information will be the fans' stamping
ground while the team is on the road.
* * *
Welrhonce and Keating continue to
hit. With the former it is expected,
with the latter unexpected.
* * *
It would be odd, but decidedly pleas
ing. if Keating should prove a good
hitter this year.
» * *
This Keating lad pulled one grand
stop yesterday He sneaked way over
behind second for a hard-hit ball and
g"t bis man at first. Not a half-dozen
infielders in the league could have dupli
cated that play.
* * *
Big Bill McGilvray made three hits
out <>f four times up. walked once and
scored twice. Dangerous citizen, this
Bill He should not he allowed at large
while the Barons are in Atlanta.
There's no telling when he may break
up somebody's ball game.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
JOHNNY SUMMERS STOPS
GOODWIN IN NINE ROUNDS
SYDNEY, April 17. Johnny Sum
mers, lightweight, of England, defeat
ed Alf Goodwin here last night in
the ninth round of a scheduled twen
ty-round go. Goodwin was outclass
ed from start to finish. The match
was stopped because of the poor
showing Goodwin made.
MONTANA BOXING RULES.
HELENA. MONT. April 17. The
Montana State Athletic Commission,
appointed under the State boxing law,
organized here yesterday end adopted
rules for elimination of brutality, bet
ting at the ringside and the sale of
liquor, i The referee is required to
.stop a ‘bout when one boxer appar
ently is outclassed.
Luther McCarty Beats Jim Flynn
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‘Champion’ Puts Up Bad Fight
By J. \V. Mc<’onaughy.
P HILADELPHIA. PA.. April 17.—Not sine<? the day of Cox's Army
have so many tramps been gathered together tindet one roof as
appeared in this city last night disguised as fighters at the Olympic
Athletic Club.
It was a regular lemon weight tournament, comprising all the well-
known wearisome white Lopes now encumbering the F,astern States, and
from Luther McCarty, wh > puinmeled Jim Flynn for four rounds to A1
Benedict, the venerable sqt ish. who Waddled to a mushy knockout at
the hands of young A1 Kaufma ' in four rounds, there was not a hope that
a blind man could have tied to ith any real enthusiasm.
But the crowd demonstrated the superiority of the white race, by
booing and hissing at the only two lighting men of the long and awful
evening, Joe Jeannette and George Cotton, both negroes. They failed
to awaken a throb in the bosom of the four thousand students of the
science until Jeannette expunged Cotton in the fourth round with u left,
hook, so quick and deadly that not one man in ten saw tlie punch. Jean
nette was apparently the only man in Philadelphia last night who stacked
up as an expunger of merit.
To complete the card of the entertainment Fra lk Moran, a recent
starter in the lemon weight division, hammered Sailor White to the point
of surfeit, but couldn't upend hint, though extremely wishful. Tim lx>-
gan and Jim Savage pawed the maul at each other for six rounds with
the former having a shade the best of it. The scientists were also En
tertained by a bout between two pathetic little nine-year-old children
who swung wildly at eaclt other for three one-minute ounda while their
crippled father clawed with a maimed hand at the silver voins which
were tossed into the ring.
McCarty and Flynn were carded as the main bout of the evening.
When they entered the ring it was observed that McCarty was several
inches taller than Flynn and Flynn several feet bigger in circumference.
His belt was strhined with the effort of holding up his paunch which
swayed and sagged in front when he walked. It was easy to cast his
horoscope.
When the bell rang he came hurling out of his corner as one who
is about to'deliver destruction and he bumped into a rigid left arm.
Thereafter he clinched and hooked with his left for the face. When they
squared off again he held both hands to his face in such a manner as to
leave his mouth and nose well exposed and McCarty began sticking his
left fist into the opening. He also occasionally sunk his right arm to the
midwrist of the mass of padding about Flynn's waist, he repeated this
peformance about eighteen times as Flynn kept moving in without mov
ing anything but his feet.
Suddenly the terrible fireman slapped the lemon weight champion
on the chin with a random right hook anti McCarty folded liiin to his
bosom with much earnestness. After they had been disentangled Flynn
again arranged his hands so that all the punches directed toward his
face would be guided into his mouth or nose and the jabbing began again.
When the bell rang he was bleeding slightly at the lips and one eye
was bunged up to a noticeable extent. McCarty jabbed the fireman
whenever he pleased and landed his right whenever he felt like it, but
he might have spared himself ihe trouble. He didn't have enough in
either to beat a fat man. Occasionally he annoyed Flynn to the point
that the man-eating fire-tender fought back with a peevish punch or two.
This always had the effect t>f encouraging McCarty to clinch with
great avidity. McCarty sticks to the idea that only one man should
fight, at a time. He wouldn't have anything to do with it when Flynn
felt called to battle a little.
At that there are the makings of a champion in McCarty. If the
rules can be amended so that nly one man is permitted to fight al one
time he will be the greatest champion since Bert Keyes went back to
driving trucks. But not if the other man fights when McCarty is trying
to fight. The moment he gets a slam on the jaw he refuses to play any
more for awhile.
By Ed \V. Smith.
C HICAGO, April 17.—More than
ever it begins to look as if there
was everything in the method
of preparation for a ring battle. Es
pecially Is this true in the ease of
one Eddie McGoorty of Oshkosh, star
middleweight fighter and one of the
cleanest and beat battlers In the ring
to-day. For several weeks Eddie suf
fered a severe slump—at least it
looked very much as if there might
be something seriously wrong with
him. But there wasn’t anything off
but the mental condition. Having
rid himself of the strain of having
a manager, Eddie seems to have
shaken himself together with a jerk.
Incidentally it may be mentioned
that instead of the luxury of a man
ager McGoorty has taken unto him
self a first-class trainer and handler-
in the person of little Rudy Unholz.
the Denver farmer-fighter.
* * *
IJ UDY shine# as a handler of fight-
lv ers. which doesn’t mean that he
is by any means a shine of a handler.
Well fitter] temperamentally for jolly
ing a companion and making him
forget fancied troubles, Rudy is about
the best piede of fighting material we
know to have around when a man like
McGoorty is preparing himself for
ring encounters. As proof of this,
note the strong improvement Mc
Goorty displayed in his contest the
other night in Fond du Lac with Qua
Christie. Only a short time back It
was reported that (Jus had held the
Oshkosh man even In ten rounds. Yet
when Eddie gingers up he all out
knocks Gus out and gives him a
heavy trouncing.
* * •
T NDIANAPOLIS promoters are al-
1 ter a match there within a short
time with Jack Dillon, the hardy
Hoosler scrapper, who is going at a
pretty stiff clip right now. Jack put
it over on Buck ('rouse in Pittsburg
the other night and must have won
by a safe margin to have the news
come out over the country that way,
because they like their own men in
Pittsburg, the same as they do in
every other city in the world whero
glove fighting prevails. Ben Grouse,
one of the Indianapolis promoters,
was in the city yesterday and talk »d
tight with some of our leading mitt
slingers. He said nothing won' I
please him better than to hook up
McGoorty and Dillon for his town,
but that things haven’t recovered
from the ravages of the ffood just
yet, so he is proceeding slowly.
W HEN the Cubs w«r« flood bound
in Louisville, on the spring
training trij and all wire# w«r«
down Charies Dryden, the Georgian's
baseball humorist In Chicago, wrote
for the Louisville Herald by request
the following story on Dan Cahill,
baseball “bug,” who is also some
“bug on firemen. It sure is a funny
yarn.
Bv Charles Dryden.
I N their present tour of the spring
training circuit the Cubs are at
tended by a gentleman of distin
guished mien and an author of in
ternational renown. H«* is none other
than Dan Cahill, the famous maga
zine writer and philanthropist (ff
Chicago. For years he has been an
ardent Cub rooter and his contribu
tions to baseball literature are w<8§
known and widely read In the loojp
district of his native city. Mr. Cahill
is the author of those popular worki?.
“Baseball Returns Received Ins ide”
and “Business Men’s Lunch To-Day
From 11 A. M. Till 2 P. M ’
How Mr. Cahill happened to be
come a member of the Cub publicity
staff is a sail story. Last winter
President Murphy went to Tampa,
Fla., and hypnotized the population
of that fair Southern city into pay
ing the hotel bills of the Cubs for a
month in return for the free adver
tising Tampa would, cop in the Chi
cago newspapers. The free boosting
stuff was to come from a horde of
highbrow baseball scribes and mag
azine writers accompanying the team.
The war scribes were on the job all
right, but at the lakt minute Alfred
Henry Lewis, Robert \Y. Chambers,
Richard Harding Davis and others
f^ll down. In this extremity Mr.
Murphy wired Dan Cahill. He drop
ped his literary labors in the loop
and hit the high spots for Tampa,
where he spent a month gathering
local color, atmosphere and material
for a series of magazine articles.
Gets Material in Wheelbarrow.
The bulk of this material Mr. Ca
hill collected in a wheelbarrow with
the aid of a pick and shovel. Dan
and the wheelbarrow were constant
companions while the diamond wa#
in the course of reconstruction, and
he sometimes wheeled the garden
hose used for sprinkling the base
paths prior to the pastime. Most of
the magazine material collected by
Mr. Cahill has been forwarded to
Chicago by fneight. He is now at
work on a detective *«tory entitled.
“The Fork in the Beans; or, Who
Qqeered the Free Lunch?”
In th«* composition of this story,
which Mr. Cahill considers his mas
terpiece, the author is being assisted
by Tom Needham, in the role of sec
retary and amanuensis. For several
years Mr Needham was shorthand
leporter In a livery stable, taking
down hay for th? horses, at Sarahs-
ville, O.. and is eminently fitted for
the work required of him.
Aside from baseball, Mr. Cahill has
but two hobbles—writing magazine
stories and chasing fire engines. He
knows the first names of 1,400 out
of 2,000 firemen in the City of Chi
cago. and they all address him as
Dan, just like that. When in need of
healthful exercise Mr. Cahill goes
forth and gallops along under the
rear axle of a hook and ladder truck,
either on the way to or returning
from a fire. He has inspected all
the departments In the Southern tit
les visited by the Cubs, and speaks
well of the apparatus.
Likes Louisville Firemen.
Mr. Cahill is particularly pleased
with the Louisville department. When
the tire laddies make a hit with Mr.
Cahill he has th ir rubber boots setif
to Tiffany’s in New York, where the
great jeweler sets diamonds in the
heels of the said boots and ships
them back to the firemen. «U of
which is done at: the expense of the
famous magazine writer.
Louisville firemen who wish to
have diamonds set in the heels of
their rubber bocts should call on
Mr. Cahill at the New Louisville Ho
tel. If h* If not in. ask for Secre
tary T. Need ha. The author may
be out i basing hose carts.
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