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By Tv Col)b.
Champion batsman of the major
leagues and outfielder of
Detroit Tigers.)
UGITSTA, GA., April 17.—I heard
to-day for the first time that
Mr. Navin. president of the
Detroit Club, had seated he would
pke no further inducements to get
to join the team, and I was con-
|iderably surprised.
I have dealt fairly with the Detroit
tall Club, and Mr. Navin has told
ie that I am worth what I have
Risked for.
Throughout the winter there has
1 been no effort made by the Detroit
iClub to get me to sign a contract,
land the only two letters that I have
■received from Mr. Navin did not
I eal with figures. The Detroit peo-
le have not asked me to meet an
ffleial of the club in any city to
alk the matter over regarding my
ase, and that is why I am sur-
rised that Mr. Navin rays he will
ffer me no further inducements.
I have Informed the Detroit Club
• hat my proposition is.
I have never received a proposi-
lon from the club. T am in doubt
ks to whether or not Mr. Navin
fishes me to play with his club or
vhether he issued his statement for
Ihe purpose of trying to intimidate
|ne.
Club Inconsiderate.
I consider that I have made all
|he proper efforts to Hgn and have
|eceived no consideration from the
llub. and hence my action in re
paining in the South.
My idea in organizing a little club
Id play exhibition games was solely
Id get into condition to answer an
Irgent call from the Detroit Club,
fcy schedule was so arranged that I
lould terminate it at a moment’s
lotiee.
! This is only an explanation of my
Seasons and of the consideration
fcat I have had for the club. There
Ire no petty desire?* on my fcart, as
Thave been accused of having by a
Hr. Navin. I am only asking
fcr a sum of money for my
lervices, and that is the one and
Inly reason why I am in Augusta
Pvday.
1 Of course, if Mr. Navin wants to
leep me out of baseball he can do
In. 1 have only asked for what 1
felieve I am worth, and it certainly
oes seem that a man should be
Kbl* to do that without drawing
a statement from the club
as Mr. Navin is reported
fp have made.
Denies Published Reports.
He certainly doesn’t own me, body
Jnd soul. None of the published re
ports in which 1 have been quoted
criticising the Detroit Club came
tom me. On the contrary, I have
|een guarded in my talk and have
een careful not to say anything
Butt would offend Mr. Navin or any
In? else. I have not boasted re-
larding what I would or could do
my demands are not complied
iith.
F have very quietly gone about
Jiy own business and this spring
lav** got into condition to play this
pimmer.
am willing to do anything hon-
Irable to bring about an adjust
ment. but, of course, 1 can not be
Jxpected to go to Detroit and play
or a sum much smaller than even
»e president of the club says I am
Torth.
J I HAVE ABOUT CONCLUDED
|HAT IT WILL BE BEST FOR
ILL CONCERNED THAT I BE
fRADED TO SOME OTHER
JLUB. My future course will be
Shaped largely bv what Mr. Xaviri
lays and does. It is his move.
What’s ike Use of Starting Something You Can’t Finish?
By “Bud” Fisher
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Ty Cobb May Play With Yankees
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[OCHESTER PRESIDENT
SUSPENDS FOUR PLAYERS
I ROCHESTER. N. Y.. April 17 —
resident Chapin, of the Rochestei
Bub, of the International League.
Jinounces that the following four
layers have been suspended: Akers
Vrrows, Clarke and Coleman. Grant,
i in ley, Jones and Rapp were givei.
iconditional releases.
;
JDERSON TO GO EAST
FOR BOUTS WITH STARS
1 LOS ANGELES, April 17.—"Bud"
iderson, the Pacific Coast• light-
sdght tc-day decided to go East to
nclusions with top notchers there
ilowing his knockout victory in the
teen-round bout over “Knockout’
Town, of New York. Anderson i?
ixlous to get on with Freddie Welsh.
I* 1 Rivers or Leach Cross.
’GOORTY DEFEATS HICKS
IN TEN-ROUND FIGHT
(WINDSOR, ONT., April 17.—Fred -
Hicks, of Detroit, was helpless be-
k*e Eddie McGoorty, of Oshkosh, in
I eight-round bout here last night,
ke Wisconsin fighter had the ad-
Intage in every round by a wide
Vrgin.
O’KEEFE BEATS MANTELL.
LONDON, April 17.—At Black
pars last night the American flght-
T Frank Mantell, of Pawtucket, R
J was beaten on points by Pat
■Ceefe, of London, in a twenty-
mind contest.
BASEBALL
=T0-DAY=
Irmingham vs. Atlanta
bnce DeLeon Park 3:15
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 Prank 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. 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 o{ 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 “1."
“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 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.
1 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 Ban Johnson? Isn’t
it likely Cobh 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 Cobh doesn't want to go hack to Detroit and that he
does want to go to New York.
There is no doubt about it—Ty Cobb 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.
Well, anvhow, 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 THI'.
CRACKERS STAND THE CAM '.’ If
they come back big to-day, all is well.
* * ,
If thev don't, all may still he 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 them.
Errors appear to be epidemic witli 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 day
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 idt 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 looker] like a sure hit.
* * *
(Taller King will open his baseball
matinee to-morrow afternoon at !( Via
duct place. This emporium of diamond
information will be the fans’ stamping
ground while the team is on the road.
* * *
Welchon.ce 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
got his man at first. Not a half-dozen
infielders in the league could have dupli
cated that play.
* * *
Big Btll 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.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
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Sporting Food i
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 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
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
Cantillon 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
411! 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.
“Play on although the heavens fall!
’Tis better to have played and lost than
never to have played at all.”
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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.
Luther McCarty Beats Tim Flynn
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‘Champion’ Puts Up Bad Fight
By J. W. McConaughy.
P HILADELPHIA, PA., April 17.—Not since the day of Cox’s Army
have so many tramps been gathered together nndei one roof iib
appeared in this city last night disguised as fighters at the Olympic
Athletic Clnb.
It was a regular lemon weight tournament, comprising all the well-
known wearisome white hopes now encumbering the Eastern States, and
from Luther McCarty, who pummeled Jim Flynn for four rounds to A1
Benedict, the venerable squash, who waddled to a mushy knockout at
the hands of young A1 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 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 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 otij.qr 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 his right whenever he felt like it, but
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.
By Ed W. 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 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.
* * *
D 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 abDut
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 Lac 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 NDIANAPOLIS promoters are nl-
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 Crouse 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 where
glove fighting prevails. Ben Crouse,
one of the Indianapolis promoters,
was in the city yesterday and talk vl
fight with some of our leading mitt
slingers. He said nothing wou’d
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 were flood bound
in Louisville, on the spring
training trij and all wires wer©
down Charles 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.
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 “ 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 ail
right, but at the last minute Alfred
Henry Lewis, Robert \T. 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 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 was
in the course of reconstruction, and
he sometimes wheeled the garden
hose used for sprinkling the bast-
paths prior to the pastime. Most of
the magazine material collected by
Mr. Cahill has been forwarded to
Chicago by freight. He is now' ut
work on a detective story entitled,
“The Fork in the Beans; 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.
Aside from baseball, Mr. Cahill has
but two hobbies—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 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 sent
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, all 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 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.
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 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 w'hen one boxer appar
ently is outclassed.
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