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By Tv Cobb.
(Champion batsman of the major
leagues and outfielder of
Detroit Tigers.)
A UGUSTA, GA, April 17.—I heard
to-day for the first time that
Mr. Navin. president of the
Detroit Club, had slated he would
take no further inducements to get
me to join the team, and I was con
siderably surprised.
I 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 I 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 says he will
offer me no further inducements.
I have informed the Detroit Club
what my proposition ig.
I have never received a proposi
tion from the club. I am in doubt
as to whether or not Mr. Navin
wishes me to play with his club 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 w4s so arranged that I
could 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
I 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
t 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
ablf to do that without drawing
a statement from the club
as Mr. Navin is reported
to have mad®.
Denies Published Reports.
1 He certainly doesn’t own me, body
and soul. None of the published re
ports in which I have been quoted
as criticising the Detroit Club came
from me. On the contrary. I have
been guarded In my talk art*
been careful not to say anyi
that would offend Mr. Navin or any
one else. I have not boasted re
garding what I would or could do
If my demands are not complied
with.
I have very quietly gone about
my 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, but, of course, I can not be
expected to go to Detroit and play
for a sum much smaller tha*j even
the president of the club says I am
worth. _ _
I HAVE ABOUT CONCLUDED
THAT IT WILL BE BEST FOR
ALL CONCERNED THAT I BE
TRADED TO SOME OTHER
CLUB. My future course will be
shaped largely by what Mr. Navin
says and does. It is his move.
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
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,
1 Henley, Jones and Rapp were given
unconditional releases.
ANDERSON TO GO EAST
FOR BOUTS WITH STARS
LOS ANGELES, April 17.—“Bud”
LAnderson, the Pacific Coast light
weight tc-day decided to go East to
conclusions with top notrhers there
following his knockout victory in the
fifteen-round bout over “Knockout
Brown, of New York. Anderson is
anxious to get on with Freddie \\ elsh.
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. R.
I., was beaten on points by Pat
O'Keefe, of London, in a twenty-
round contest.
BASEBALL
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What’s the Use of Starting Something You Can’t Finish?
By ’‘Bud” Fisher
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eoow\ to finish the
Jok.6. THGYVe GOT
T'fpe IN THIS N6KT
HEN the Cubs were flood bound
in Louisville, on the spring
training trij and all wires were
down Charles Dryden, the Georgian’s
baseball humorist in Chicago, wroto
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.
Ty Cobb May Play With Yankees
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News of Big Deal Leaking Out
By W. S. Farnsworth.
T V 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 ai! 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 ail island off the Savannah
coast. He and C. Comiskey, 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 Yankees will get Chance. I fixed 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 $25,000 per
president. “I 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 hit 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 Cobb 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 Bar. 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 squaje 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 want to go back to Detroit and that he
does want to go to New York.
There is no doubt about it—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 to leak out and Detroit fans may make such a howl that even
the daring Ban Johnson may for once quit on an undertaking.
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 THE
CRACKERS STAND THE GAFF7 If
they come back big to-day, all is well.
* * *
If 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. The
game was all shot to shreds then.
* * *
Errors appear to be epidemic with the
Crackers. When Keating and Agler
broke out with them in the. first in
ning the entire team was exposed and
immediately went to pieces.
# * *
It was a moderately comfortable da*
for a game, and the crowd was large.
• • •
If the schedule committee had given
the Crackers a few Saturday after
noons at home, right along now it
would have been helpful. But instead
most of the Saturdays at home were
scheduled for August and early Sep
tember.
* * *
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 bat 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 •* ^ ia-
duct place. This emporium of diamond
information will be the fans’ stamping
ground while the team Is on the road.
* # *
Welchonce 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,
t * * *
This Keating lad pulled one grand
stop yesterday He sneaked way over
heldnd second for a hard-hit ball and
gut his man at first. Not a half-dozen
infielders In the league could have dupli
cated that play.
* * *
Big Bill McGilvray made three hits
out of four times up, walked once and
scored twice. Dangerous citizen, this
Bill He should not be allowed at large
while the Barons are in Atlanta.
There’s no telling when he may break
up somebody's ball game.
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By GEORGE E. PHAIR '
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 great and noble snort, 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
to 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
Cantlllon has signed Fred Hunter. Mr.
Hunter is several years shy of fifty.
There are worse things than acquiring
chilblains in a ball yard. For 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.
$UN$HINE.
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,
“Ploy 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.
TOMMIEM ’MILLAN SIGNS
TO PLAY WITH ROCHESTER
Tommie McMillan, the ljttle Atlan
ta boy, and the Rochester club have
come to terms and the former Yel
low Jacket was in the opening line
up yesterday.
Luther McCarty Beats Jim Flynn
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‘Champion’ Puts Up Bad Fight
By J. W. MeConaughy.
P HILADELPHIA, PA., April IT.—Not since the day of Cox'h Army
have so many tramps been gathered together undei one roof as
appeared in this city Iasi night disguised as fighters at the Olympic
Athletic Club.
It was a regular lemon weight tournament, comprising ail the well-
known wearisome white hopes now encumbering the Eastern States, and
from Luther McCarty, who pummeled Jim Flynn for four rounds to Al
Benedict, the venerable squash, who waddled to a mushy knockout at
the hands of young Al Kaufman in four rounds, there was not a hope that
a blind man could have tied to with any real enthusiasm.
But the crowd demonstrated the superiority of the white race by
booing and hissing at the only two fighting 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 a left
hook, so quick and deadly that not one man In ten saw the 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 Frank Moran, a recent
starter in the lemon weight division, hammered Sailor White to the point,
of surfeit, but couldn't upend him, though extremely wishful. Tim Lo
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 each other for three one-minute ounds 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 strained 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 and McCarty folded him 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 Ills right whenever he felt like it, hut
he might have spared himself the 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 of 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 at 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.
Bv Ed W. Smith.
C HICAGO, April 17.—More than
ever it begins to look ns if there
was everything in the method
of preparation for a ring battle. Es
pecially is this true in the case of
one Eddie McGoorty of Oshkosh, star
middleweight fighter and one of the
cleanest and best 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.
* * *
13 UDY shines as a handler of fight-
ers, which doesn’t mean that he
is by any means a shine of a handler.
Well fitted temperamentally for jolly
ing a companion and making him
forget fancied troubles, Rudy Is about
the best piece 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 Lap with Gus
Christie. Only a short time back it
was reported that Gus 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 NDIA NAPOLIS promoters are al-
* 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 Crouse in Pittsburg
the other night and must have won
by a safe margin to have the ne^vs
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 where
glove fighting prevails. Ben Crouse,
one of the Indianupolis promoters,
was in the city yesterday and talk ? ]
fight with some of our leading mat
sllngers. He said nothing would*
please him better than to hook up
McGoorty and Dillon for his town,
but that things haven’t recovered
from the ravages of the ffopd just
yet, so he is proceeding slowly.
By 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. He is none other
than Dan Cahill, the famous maga
zine writer and philanthropist of
Chicago. For years he has been an
ardent Cub rooter and his contribu
tions to baseball literature are well
known and widely read in the loop
district of his native city. Mr. Cahill
is the author of those popular works,
“Baseball Returns Received Inside”
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 sad 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 last, minute Alfred
Henry Lewis, Robert W. Chambers,
Richard Harding Davis and others
fell 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 hulk 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 was
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 freight. He is now at
work on a detective story entitled.
“The Fork in the Beams; or, Who
Queered the Free Lunch?"
In the 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 the horses, at Sarahs-
ville, O.. and is eminently fitted for
the work required of him.
Asid^ from baseball, Mr. Cahill has
but two hobbies—writing magazine
stories and chasing fire engines. He
kno\v^ 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 cit
ies visited by the Cubs, and speaks
well of the apparatus.
Likes Louisville Firemen.
Mr. Cahill is particularly pleased
with the Louisville department. When
the fire laddies make a hit with Mr.
Cahill he has th ir rubber boots sem
to Tiffany’s in New York, where the
great jeweler sets diamonds in the
heels of the said boots and ships
them hack to the firemen, all of
which is done at the expense of the
famous magazine writer.
Louisville firemen who wish tb
have diamonds set in the heels of
their rubber boots should call on
Mr. Cahill at the New Louisville Ho
tel. If he is not in, ask for Secre
tary T. Needham. The author may
be out chasing hose carts.
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 A If 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 and adopted
rules for elimination of brutality, bet
ting at the ringside and the sale of
liquor. The referee is required to
stop a bout when one boxer appar
ently is outclassed.
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