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(iants, Cubs and Reds and Two
Sox Teams Should Fight It
Out, Says Corbett.
By James J. Corbett.
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N the eve of the baseball cam-
O paign of 1918 the experts have
made the White Sox and the
(ilants favorites to repeat. Both ag
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ke the ¢ e e
the class inj (TR
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Red Sox to show § # % m@ffl
the way to the et AR R R
worlki champions. |
The clansmen of McGraw go into
the fight this year' carrying practi
cally as much power as in 1917. But
the .opposition they will face in two
sections, at ieast, will be far stiffer
than any offered in 1917. And so the
Giants who were a 6 to & shot in the
vre-scason wagering of 1917 are only
quoted at 13 to 5 in betting circles
now,
The Cubs this year look better than
any since the haleyon days of Tinker
to-Evers-to-Chance. The addition of
Grover Alexander and Bill Killifer
has given to them a pennant look.
'The grcat right-handed hurler turned
i 36 victories, or better, for the 1915,
1916 and 1917 Phillies. Given even
fair support, he ought to repeat with
the Cubs of 1918. If that comeg to
pass and the associate hurlers do even
fair work, those Cubs must be re
warded as the most dangerous Giant
rivals,
The Reds loom up powerfully. Mat
ty has welded together a team that
looks really great. It has gneat hit
ting power, superb flelding, skill,
speed, fighting spirit—and youth! The
pitching department tutoréd by the
canny Mathewson may be expected to
do its share—and perhaps a little
more.
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The other .five clubs in. the Tener
circuit do not figure right now as
pennant contenders. Drafts, enlist
ments and retirements have shot most
of {hem to pieces. '"The Dodgers look
weak, and even their most optimistic
supporters do not predict better than
a 4 top section of second division for
them. The Phillies, without Alexan
der, Jook at least 3¢ per cent weaker
than in 1917. The Cardinals may land
in fourth place, but even such a high
ranking for them is doubtful. The
Braves appear mediocre. Second di
vision seems to be their certain lot.
George Stallings is building a new
machine and until it is completed it
can not travel at a pennant clip. The
Pirates have been improved and seem
sure to furnish a far stronger argu
ment than they have for several
years,
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The White Sox have been extreme-
Iy fortunate. They haven't lost a real
star through draft or enlistment and
the team that Clarence Rowland will
pilot in 1918 will be almost the same
that swept through to the crest of
the baseball world in 13917. It's a
great ball club—a marvelous one—
and any seam that heads it to the Oc
toi)er wire certainly must be wonder
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The entries for the American
League race show but one club that
can be considered as a really power
ful rival of Comiskey's juggernaut.
And that ig the Boston Red Sox. The
very fact that Ed Barrow is at the
helm of the Bostonian machine is a
menace in itself for every rival. Bar
row is one of the best versed men
identifled with the national game; a
great leader, a wonderful strategist—
a baseball genius.
The many gaps made in the Red
Sox ranks by war calls disheartened
the Boston rooters at first. Buteach
and every hole has bheen plugged in a
most satisfactory way. Bush prom
ises to fill- Ernie Shore’s choes, “Stuf
fy” Mclnnig is a far greater player
than was Dick Hoblitzel or Del van
or, and Wallie Schang and Amos
Strunk are sure to star in the other
vacancles. These players, together
with the veteran Red Sox, all directea
by the fichting Barrow—well, that's
a grand combination and one that
surely should be in the fight all the
way. .
The Yankees look good. The ac
quisition of Miller Huggins as man
ager was a master stroke. The sev
eral deals put through by ths new
leader have gtrengthened the team—
#nd it has some new-found and
much-needed “pep.” Offensively and
afield, the Yankees have power. If
their pitchers come through they may
spring a bulky surprise.
The Indians, which furnished such
a strong argument in 1917, have been
weakened by drafts and enlistments,
The 1917 team would have had a
chance in the battling this season.
But the new team looks weaker. The
Tigers, despite the presence of Ty
Cobb and Bobby Veach, look fair—
and no more. The trouble is the
same--weak pitching staff. If two or
three youngsters come through, why
—but the chances are that they won't.
The Browns have a second-division
appearance. So have the Senators
And the Athletics do not look any
wotter than in 1217, when they fin.
-/shed last. i
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So, in the National, it looks like the
(3yiants, Cubs or Reds, while the
American battle promises to be be-‘
tween the White and Red Sox, with
the ,Yankees having an outside
chance—unlesg another baseball mir
acle Ils wrought, as was the case of
1914,
DISTANCE RUNNER INJURED.
NEW YORK, April 13,—1t has been
jearned that Julius Katz. the former
distance runner of the Pennant A. C.
had been wounded on tne firinf '‘ne.
Katz is attached to the headquar ~ = of
the 185th Inftntrr. He is the first one
of the local athletes in service to be
tnjured ~oing “over the top.”
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gins Is Peppery Leader.
HE custom of changing man-
I agers in the middle of the
winter, which was so much in
vogue a few years ago, is rapidly
‘disappearing. The wholesale changes
in managers, which used to feature
‘the doings of the Winter League, ap
pears to be following the playing
managers into the baseball discard.
- There are only three managerial
‘changes this winter, and all except
one’ were due to force of | circum-
Stances. Bill Donovan was the only
manager to be “fired” this winter. In
fact, only three men have been forced
‘to give up their commands since the
close of the 1916 season: Joe Tinker,
formerly of the Cubs, in the fall of
1916; Jimmy Callahan, of the Pi
rates, last fall. This is the low wa
'tqr record for firing managers in the
‘blg leagues.
.~ The new managers for the coming
Season are Miller Huggins, of the
Yankees; Ed Barrow, of the Boston
‘Red Sox, and Jack Hendricks, of the
' St. Louis Cardinals.
| As Jack Barry, manager of the
'Boston Red Sox last vear, has en
listed in the navy. President Fraze,
of the Boston club, offered the pgst
to Ed Barrow, for five years presi
dent of the International League and
a former manager of the Detroit Ti
gers. The appointment of Barrow
was the bigzest surprise of the Win
ter League. Though Barrow says
he has been engaged as the perma
nent manager of the Boston club, it
18 understood that with the return of
peace, Barry will be given his old
post and Barrow will be transferred
to the business end of the Boston club
and may be made president. |
Milier Huggins tackles a queer
problem in New York. He has inher
ited a team which finished sixth last
season, but on which thousands of
dollars have b spent since Rup
pert and Hustzzn acquired the club‘
in the winter of 1914-15. It 1s esti
mated that the Yankees spent close
to $150,000 in buying players to
strengthen the team, and at the
end of three years the Yankees finish
ed in the same position as the season
before Ruppert took over the club. |
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In many ways Huggins is better
fitted.to run the club than any other
available manager. His experience in
St. Louis has been most valuable, and
‘taught him to win with very little
financial aid from the business office.
in St. Louis Huggins did not win any
pennants, but he did something even
more wonderful, at least to St. Louis.
eyes, when he plloted the club to twa
third place berths. Before the Car
dinals finished third under Huggins
in 1914, no other St. Louis National
League team had finished that high
since 1876, thێ year the League was
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Huggins finished in last place in St.
Louis in 1913, but he was gradually
buidling up and by the following sea
son, thanks to a shrewd deal with
Pittsburg, he finished third after an
exciting race with Boston and the
Glants. The Federal League tore his |
club apart, and he was down on the
bottom again in 1916, but by 1917 he
was back in third with one of the
most formidable young clubs in either
league. ‘
In St. Louis Huggins had practi<
cally no financiall backing behind
him. The Brittons usually were lnl
the hole financially, and sold players
instead of buying them. Huggins
will now have the biggest bankroll in
the league behind him, and an owner |
who will not hesitate to take the rub
ber bands off it if it will help bring
a winner,
Huggins is well equipped mentally
to develop a winner. Always re
garded as one of the smartest men in
baseball, he has a shrewd insight
into all baseball affairs, is a thorough
thinker and has inside baseball on
the ends of his fingers. If an)"
manager should be able to succeed |
with the Yankees Huggins is the
man. |
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Ed Barrow should find little trouble
in winning with the Boston club.
which has been bequeathed to him. |
He has a readymade club, with the
best pitching staff in his league in
Ruth, Leonard, Mays, Bush and Fos- |
ter; the second best catcher in haso-“
ball in Wally Schang, a consistent‘
.300 slugger in Mclnnis, as good a |
fielding shortstop as is in baseball in
Scott, two star outflelders in Hooper
and Strunk and the services of John
ny Evers in an advisory capacity.
Barrow is a forcible character,
with a lot of punch in his actions as
well as in his talk. He is a nat
ural leader and a fighter. When he
managed ball clubs in the past he
was absolute boss, and it did not pay
to thwart him. It was nothing but
this man’s fighting spirit that pre
vented the International League from
going under three years ago.
The Fighting Edward also knows
a lot of baseball and should make a
big success of the Boston team.
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Jack Hendricks is a prominent
minor leaguer who deserved promo
tion to the big leagues more than
any other minor league manager with l
the exception of Derry Bill Clymer.‘
Hendricks, like the man he succeeds
in St. Louis, belongs to that shrewd,l
educated type of baseball men who |
make a study of basebail as though |
it were a science. Like Huggins, |
Hendricks is a college man and was‘
educated to be a lawyer. He makes |
a splendid running mate to Bganch
Rickey, also a baseball barrister. i
Hendricks is a graduate of North
western University and practiced law
three- years in Chicago before he de
cided to throw his entire energiea
into baseballl. He was a member of
the Giants in 1902 and was among
the bunch of misfits that McGraw re
leased shortly after he took hold of
the team.
Hepdricks, who was an outfielder,
later caught on with the Washington
club, but the Senators cast him adrift
in 1905. He began his managerial
career with the Springfield club of
the Central League in 1805, and since
1906 none of his teams ever finished
out of the first division, and in the
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l PARIS, April 13.—The American
lsoldiers' Baseball L.eague, which has
been organized, héld a meeting to ar
'range a schedule for the seagon's
[games. The league comprises clubs
made up of men of all the different
’categories of the service in the city,
‘the aviation section, the engineers,
‘the military police, the Soldiers' and
Sailors’ Club, the Red Cross, the Y.
‘M. C. A. and the quartermaster's de
partment.
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" _Dode Paskert, the former Cracker
outfielder, who is now a member of
‘the Chieago Cubs, recently asked
‘Manager Mitchell to let him bat in
the clean-up position. Dode hadn't
been hitting very hard, but the man
ager placed him fourth, and the first
day Paskert slammed out a double, a
single and drew a walk. Now Mitch
iis glad he put Dode in that pesition.
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Dodgers Release
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- NEW YORK, April 13.—Two of the
VDodgers' recruit pitchers have been
turned over to the Rochester club of
‘the new International lLeague.
- They are Norman Plitt, right-hand
er, and Richdrd K. Durning, left
‘hander, hoth of whom came to Brook
lyn from Portland, Maine.
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arsans is Irymg
Qut His Injured Leg
NEW YORK, April 13.-—Armando
Marsans, the Cuban, who is a mem
ber of the Yankees, has notified Man
ager Huggins that he is trying out his
injured leg in Havana and that if it
feels better he will report to the team
in a few days, according to informa
tion received here.
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Three Games Billed
Tuesday for Preps
The three games scheduled for Friday
will be staged Tuesday, Fulton plaving
at Tech High, G. M. A. at Boys' High
and Marist at Commercial High.
Fulton is the league leader, with two
victories and no defeats. for the sea
son.
Joe Birmingh
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Signed by Toledo
Joe Birmingham, former manager of
the Cleveland American League club,
has been signed by Roger Bresnahan,
president and mfnager of the Toledo
team, in the American Association.
Birmingham will play center field for
Toledo.
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Dillon and Walker
Fight in Memphis
MEMPHIS, April 13.—Jack Dillon, the
veteran Indlanapolis light heavywelight,
will battle Hugh Walker, of Kansas
City, at the Phoenix Athletic Club here
Monday night. ‘
twelve years only one fell as low as
fourth, |
He won one pennant with Spring
field, three with Denver in the West
ern League and one in the American
Association with his 1917 Indianapo
s club. It is not surprising that
MecGill, owner of the Indians, was not
particularly anxious to let Hendricks
go, as Jack worked for him both in|
Denver and Jlndianapolis, However,
Hendricks felt he had won the right
to promotion to the big leagues and
finally McGraw consented,
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Will Assist Val Behind Bat
~~NARL EUBANKS, an Atlanta boy,
/has been signed by Manager
{ Charley Frank, of the Crack
ers, to assist Valentine Picinich be
hind the bat during the rapidly ap
proashing campaign, it was -an
nounced today.
Eubanks is well known in Atlanta,
for he pastimed for several years on
the local ball lots, playing in the City
League at one time. He is an excel
lent minor league receiver and is no
slouch with the stick.
\ The Atlantan was A free agent
when signed by Manager Frank. He
is already practicing with the home
boys out at Ponce Del.eon, and the
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| “SPRING TRAINING.”
ACH and every spring the
E» baseball managers lead their
athletes South for a process
that has come to He known as “spring
training."”
~ They go to carefully selected places
in carefully selected climes. Fine
weather is the first consideration, and
clubs frequently travel as far as the
Pacific Coast seeking the proper me
teorological ingredients.
A few days of rain or cold weather
often drives a manager out of a spot
that he has hit upon only after long
study and observation. Even when
the weather is all right, a bad hotel
has been known to chase big league
outfits to another port.
It costs from SB,OOO on up to $15,000
for a ball club to make a spring train
ing trip—this when times are normal,
too. The thoughtful manager seizes
upon every pleasant hour of the day to
work his pastimers toward the fa
miliar pink of condition that is con
sidered essential to the successful
baseball campaign.
The ambitious ball player leaves no
stone unturned to prepare himself,
And with good weather and a con
genial hotel the club usually winds up
a four or five weeks’ training spell
“r'arin'” to go.
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THE MAGNATE TAKES HOLD,
Manager and players have done
their duty toward getting ready. The
inevitable squad of baseball writers
which accompanies every club South
in the gentle spring has probably
labored prodigiously in the same di
rection, giving the athletes mlies of
publicity on the momentous master of
condition.
Then the business management
steps in and takes charge of affairs.
The carefully trained ball heavers,
are routed homeward to the opening
day in the big league from their care
fully selected places in carefully se
lected climes, through chill atmos
pheres which obliterates their pinky
condition in about 24 hours.
From their congenial hotel they
pass to Humpty Dumpty hostelries on
the one-night stands which produce
all the digestive ills to which the
stomach is heir. From the smooth
diamond of their training fleld they go
to the hard, uncurried grounds of the
deep sticks, where the possibility of a
broken leg lurks behind every clod.
For just enough of a gate to pay the
expenses to the next jump the thrifty
magnate loses the services of a $lO,-
000 ball player half a season.
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SOME GREAT ECONOMY.
Or maybe the club doesn’'t play at
all.
Maybe after weéks of continuous
work in the training camp it is rained
in two or three days bandrunning at
big manager thinks well of him.
Eubanks has been playing in the
South Atlantic League for several
years with Augusta, and last season
handled the managerial reins, Hisg
record as skipper for that team is
good. $ 00l by -
The new Cracker has had p{enty
expericence, and should make a valu
able assistant to Picinich. With these
two boys on the receiving end, the
fans shoudl not worry about this de
partment. A
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Manager ;Frank is hot ‘on the trail
of a new pitcher and expects to have
some good news for the fans in a day
or so.
i{he wide places in the road picked
out for the Northern Journey by the
business management,
In that case, the club loses only the
potential gate,. and the edge of the
physical condition for which the man
ager and men have worked so long.
A few sore arms aad colds and sore
throats may develop here and there
among the vastimers, but these only
lay them up a couple of weeks or so.
When the club finally arrives at
home, and appears before a crowd of
the fans who pay the freight all sea
son, it is generally pretty lucky if it
can present its regula: line-up intact.
Sometimes it is lucky if it can present
it within a month of the opening.
It's wonderful economy-—that way
of operating. Nowadays the big
league clubs travel in pairs in the
springtime, presenting a spectacle to
the inmates' of the small towns that
is denied the home fans—the freight
bearers mentioned above. As a spec
tacle that is no particular loss, how
aver.
In fact, the only loss in that re
spect is sustained by one or the other
club in the matter of prestige when it
gets badly shown up by its traveling
companion. A good sample is the
Boston outfit headed by G. Stallings,
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IS IT WORTH WHILE?
There has ilong been an argument
as to the value of spring training.
Certainly it can be of no value if,
after weeks of work, the edge of con
dition is blunted the moment a club
starts home,
Perhaps the hest end served by
spring training, anyway, is publicity.
That is attained during the stay in
the training camp, if at all. The fan,
if interested, is interested in the
youngsters, who are trying for the
team, and not in the veterans. He
knows about them already. His in
terest in them will awaken later on. |
The e is no particalar thrill to the
baseball follower in reading about the
springtime games between clubs mak
ing a joint tour, and these games give
no particular line on the strength of a
club. The Giants ¢ould only break
even with the Tigers in their tour last
spring, and the Tigers were minus
Cobb, but the Giants went on and won
the pennant in their league, while their
former partners were a complete bust
in the American,
This year the furious drubbing the
Yanks have given the Braves has
served to give the New Yorkers a lot
of good advance publicity, but the ef
fect on the Bostonians can be im
agined. And the triumph of the
Yanks has cost hem, so far, one of‘
their most valuable players. 1
Y. M. S. A. TEAM GETS GAME.
The Y. M. 8. A. team, a strong am
ateur nine, has booked a game with
the Orioles for next week. Some of
the stars of the Y. M. 8. A, aggrega
tion are Spielberger, Menos, Dorfner,
M. Markalees and (G. Markalees,
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1918.
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Athletic Contests
Won by Rome High
~ MARIETTA, Apil 13-—The athletic
contests in the annual meeting of the
Seventh Congressiona' District High
schools wer: won by Rome High School
here yesterday, with 22 points. Carters
villg won second place with 14 points,
with Calhoun following.
The resuits in the various events are
as follows:
100-Yard Dash—E. Pritchett, Calhoun,
first, 11% seconds; F. A. Corner, Mari
etta, second; Trammell, Dalton, third.
High Jump--Young, Cmersvl‘le, first,
5 feet 2% inches; P. Funderburk, Rome,
second; Schnedal, Garlington, third.
Half-Mile Relay Race-~Rome, first;
‘(’,‘ur(ex‘svllle, second; Calhoun, third.
Time, 1 minute 5114 seconds.
[ 12-Pound Shot Put—B. Funderburk,
Rome, first, 3% feet 21 iches;" Wood,
Dalton, second; Hyce, Calho: n. third.
Pole Vault—W, Battle, Jr., Carters
ville, 9 feet 3 inches, first; Wallace
Montgomery, Marietta, second; Waest,
Rome, third. Both Battle and Mont
gomery broke the former district record
in this event.
520-Yard Dash-—Martin, Adalrsville,
first, 26 3-5 seconds; Burkhalter, Rome,
second: Pritehett, Calhoun, third.
Broad Jump—Wood, Dalton, first, 18
faet 23 inches; Schnedel, Garlington,
second; Myce, Calhoun, third.
440-Yard Dash—Mnartin, Adairsville,
first, 59 1-5 seconds; Pritchett, Calhoun,
second; Gilreath, Cartersville, third.
120-Yard Hurdles—Culpepper, Rome,
first, 171-5 second; Schnedel, Garling
ton, second; Watts. Calhoun, third. |
Makes Bid for Bout
DENVER, April 13.--Local promoters
were interested today in the report from
Pueblo, Colo., that J, J, McQuinlan,
manager of an amusement park in the
Smelter City. had made an offer for the
Willard-Fulton heavyweight champion
ship bout. Mike Collins, Fulton's man
ager, who is in Pueblo with the title
challemger this week, announced that
he had wired Colonel Miller to comae to
Pueblo at once, as the offer ‘looked
mighty good.”
McQuillan controls an open air park
there with a large seating capacity. He
says he could easily accommodate 20,000
persons.
It is reported that Commissioner of
Public Safety Studinski, of Pueblo. is
on record as favoring the fight being
held there. |
Willard-Johnson (
Films Destroyed
UTICA, N. Y. April 13.———'[‘h!rty-4
seven reels of the Wiilard-Johnson
prizefigcht were burned here by United
States Marshal Smith in the furnace |
of the building wherein i 8 located
the Marshal's office. This is an end
of the films that stirred two coun
tries and caused great activity on lhe‘
part of the Government to prevent
their showing. '
The attempt to show them from the
St. Lawrence River upon a screen on
this side of the border caused their
seizure by United States officials.
For Team Ca,ptains‘
NEW YORK, April 13.—Columbia has!
Inaugurated a new custom in the elec
tion of captains for its war-time ath
letic teams. Henceforth when an ath
lete is electeq, captain of a team and
belleves that iie will enlist or be called
for military service the team will elect
a vice captain.
The new plan was put into effect for
the first time In the elections of cap
tains of ‘s _wimming and water polo
teams. R. M. Rodgers. 'l9, who was
elected captain of the swimming team,
believes that he may be called in the |
next draft, and R. R. Mable, '2O, was
clected vice captain.
Kircher and Kraft
George Kircher, the baseball come-l
dian, formerly with Atlanta and Nash- !
ville, will this season pastime at sec
ond hase for Fort Worth, of the Texas
League.
Clarence Kraft will play first base for
that team, Stow, shortstop, and Bitting,
third base.
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Outranks the Valuable Honus
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Wagner and Eddie Co!lins,
Georgian Marvel of Game,
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By Frederick Lieb.
HAT player in all baseball his
tory has been the most val
uable to his team? Don't all
Speak at once. Even most old-timers
Will agree that Ty <Cobb has con
tributed more to his team's success
ttan any other ball player the game
has produced. Cobb is basebail's
great dynamo. It is true that in
twelve regular seasons in Detroit he
has helped the Tigers win only three
pennants, yet not one cagp deny that
without Cobb Detroit would never
:AVB wor a single American League
ag.
The Tiger pennants of 1907, 1908
and 1909 were won after fights that
lasted to the final week of the sea
‘aon. In fact, the 1908 race was not
‘decided until the last day of the sea-
Son, when Detroit won the pennant
by only two points. It is a mathe
‘matlcul certainty that without Cobb
Detroit could not have won in any
of these years.
‘ In recent years Cobb has kept the
‘Detrolt club in the first division. He
made the Tigers strong pennant con
‘tenders in 1916 and 1916 largely by
Lis own individual dash and play.
Cobb has been accused of being a
‘discordant element on the Detroit
team. He does pretty much’as he
pleases, stands for no discipline, and
therefore makes the other players
dissatisfled, yet it is futile to 80 be
yond the returns, |
Whether Cobb is amenable or not
to rules laid down for less illustrious
}pluyera. Cobb's actual work is for all
to see. By examining each campaign
of the Detroit club since 1907 one will
find that everything circles around
‘the magic word of Cobb. '
It us Cobb who scores runs and
drives them in, and it is Cobb who
ups :ts the opposing pitcher time after
time. His presence in a game acts
as an electrifier,
Cobb is the baseball superman.
Though just past 31, Cobb has led the
American League in ten out of the
last eleven seasons, a record never
approached in baseball. And during
that time all the really great hitters
of present-day baseball, with the one
excertion of Wagner, have been
Cobb’s opponents in the American
League—Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker,
Nap Lajoie, Eddle Colling, Sam Craw
ford, Stuffy Mcinnis. George Sisler
and Frank Baker.
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Next to Cobb, the man who meant
more to a ball club than any other
Player, past or present, was Hans
Wagner. There ure many who will
not even concede Cobb first place
and consider Wagner the greatest of
‘them all, especially since he was an
(infielder, where he could be of greater
help to his club defilensively than in
the outfleld, b
In twénty-one years in the National
League Wagner led the league in hit
ting eight times, while Cobb has led
‘the American League ten times in
thirteen tries and is thirteen years
Wagner's junior. During Wagner's
wonderful career he never reached
the .400 mark, his high mark being
-380. Only twice did Waguer go about |
.360. Cobb, on the other hand, has
reached as high as .420, and has ex
celled Wagner's high mark of ,380 on
five different occasions. |
~ Wagner was a wonderful base run-‘
ner in his prime, especially when one
considers his bulk. But even in this
aepartment Honus ranks second to
Cobb.
However, Wagner cut down much
of Cobb's superiority on the oflense‘
by his remarkable ability as an in
fielder. Wagner's work at short out
ranks that of any other player.
Those long, rangy hands reached all
over the infield, and. working like
magnets, seemed to draw everything
to them. To hit one through the
Dutchman was the nearest thing to
a baseball impossibility.
Cobb and Wagner met during the
1909 world series, and it must be ad
mitted that Wagner put it all over
the flery Georgian, Ty never did come
up to his American League form in
any of the world series he took part
in. The great ambition of his life is
to get in another one, so that he will
not need to retire og the world series
showing of his earlier days in big
league haseball.
In recalling the 1909 world series
at Wagner's forty-fourth birthday |
celebration Hughie Jennings, one of
the speakers, spoke of how Wagner,
almost single-handed, beat the Tigers.
But Wagner, on the other hand, fell
down badly in the series of 1903, when I
his failure to hit resulted in the Bos
ton Amaericans winning the big title,
after Pittsburg had won three of the
first four games.
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The question as to who deserves
third rank is a difficult one. After
Wagner, there is a wide gap, but the
player who approaches this pair closer
than any other is IZddie Collins, and
Collins is given this high ranking
Jarvelv on his world series play. |
On the Athletics of four or five
vears back there were so many great
stars that Collins' work did not stand
out as prominently as it might have
with another club. For instance, whol
will question the fact that Collins wa.ll
the vital spark on the White Sox last
year despite the fact that he hit be
low .300 for the first time in nine
vears? But for all-round ability—
batting, flelding, base running, base
ball instinct and knowledge of inside
baseball—~Collins is the nearest rival
ta Cobh and Wagner the game ha»l
produced. 2w F
Though only 30 years of age, Collins
has hit over .300 eight times, stolen
as high as 81 bases a season, has|
hit over .400 in three world series undi
has won the honor of being the
greatest world series plaver devel
oped in the famous fall classics be
tween the champions of the National
and American leagues. His batting
average for flve world =eries is above
.350, and he has gone through three
straight series without an error.
Fourth wlace belongs to Charley
Radbourne, nitcher of the Providence
Natfonal League champions of 1879
and 1884, 'This does not necessarily
mean that Radbourne was the great
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By Guy Butler. .
ESS WILLARD had better look to
J his laurels, for there looms up é
on the heavyweight pugilistic
korizon today in Billy Miske a man
whose path appears to be leading to
the absolute crest in that division. §
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The geat who plastered the name
of Wildcat on B. Miske knew whereof
he spoke, for the flash from Minne
sota is truly a wild cat in every sense
of the word. He tears in all the time
ancd keeps on top of his foe through
out, never giving an inch, and giving
no one his attention but the man
who confronts him. He is cool, and
his every blow is well timed and to
the mark. ;
Scott, Former Vol,
Reports to Braves
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GREENSBORO, N. C., Aprfl 13.—Jack
Scott, the right-handed pitcher, who
last season twirled for Nashville, in 2
the Southern League, has reported to
the Boston Braves. !
Scott is suffering. from a broken
wrist, sustained in an automobile ae
cident some time ago, and must un
dergo special treatment for the next
few weeks,
Bunny Hearne, former Toronto flin
ger, has signed with the Braves.
Thrift Stamps on |
Sale at Ball Parks
CHICAGO, April 13.—“ Thrift stamps,
peanuts, popcorn,” will be the cry of
peanut boys in baseball parks through
out the country this séason if the club
owners of the various leagues act on
‘the suggestion of the National War Sav
ings committee, .
_ President Johnson, of the American
T.eague, said he had instructed the club
owners to Install booths for the nl‘nz
of war savings and thrift stamps )
that candy venders would carry the
(l:)(llmp&ign through the crowds if possi
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est pitcher of all time, though such
stabmen as could be placed on the
same pedestal with him may be
counted on one hand. “Old Hoss”
would go In every day for weeks at
2 time and pitech and never show
the effects of it. The entire Provi
dence club radiated around him, and
there is no question that Providence
would never have achieved the base
ball fame it did had Radbourne played
with another team.
Fifth place must be awarded to
Christy Mathewson, the old-time
Giant favorite and the dominating
factor in five of the six chlmglonlhlg
McGraw brought to New York. &
fact, it frequently had been predicted '
that with the passing of Mathewson,
McGraw would cease being a cham
pionship manager, though McGraw
showed otherwise when he won m i
sixth chamnionship last season, e
first yvear after Matty severed rela
tions with the club, k ,
Mathewson rose to his zenith in the
1905 world series, when three times in
the same week he shut out the Ath
letics, American League champions, a !
record which may never be tied in
world series, |
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