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SPORTS. THE ETEXiyG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926. S PORTS. 13 Cobb and Speaker Fight for Exoneration : Basket Ball to Have Biggest Season DEPOSED LANDIS’ OPINION ASKED Believe It or Not. By RIPLEY PLAYERS ASKING ON COBB AND SPEAKER INTEREST IN COURT GAME lIBTROIT. IX«nll>»r !4 «•*).— CHANCE TO FACE ACCUSER Fans here wish Commissioner lan- NOW BALL dis to say whether he believes Ty RIVALS FOOT Cobb and Tris Speaker guilty. After an impromptu meeting of Leonard Leaves Matter to Base Ball Heads, friends of. Cobb last night a tele- Contests Draw Huge Especially in iWhile gram was dispatched to the com- Crowds, Midwest missioner by Joseph Benjamin, a Friends of Former Pilots Continue Attack merchant, criticising hla failure to and Rocky Mountain Sections—Pastime Also make known his views. \ Officials of The message concludes: Is Growing in Favor in South* Upon Big Leagues. "You rondurted this Investigation, and the public la entitled to know your opinion. If you have suffi- By the cient proof that Ty and BY LAWRENCE PERKY. and Michigan win ha strong, Minne- Pr**». dered Cobh in recognition of the part Cobb Tris sota la expected good he played In spreading the name of Speaker are guilt” of the rharges, YTSRY Indication prints to the to make a show- conclusion that basket ball is ing and Wisconsin. which has one of Are of base hall'* Christma* Detroit throughout the land. then please let the world know. If beet you are of the opinion that Leon- in for it* greatest seeawm. In- the ooachee In the country, will sea ndsh smoldered today. Raw The affair was sponsored hy Mayor be at leant fair. Chicago, to Smith, presented to ard. In a spirit of revenge, sold out terest in the game in several ball’* masters are content John \V. who also -tk* ijrty p&rrtfl J&S&BESBL EW E In the Ea*t Columbia, Cornell, his former leader by into section* will rival that en- lat It go out. Tha fire vic- Cohh as s gift from the city a $1,900 reading a [ry iKe Pennsylvania.and are likely tims—Ty and Tri* Sprtiker—- hall clock. letter Ideas that were not therein thusiasm which foot bell evokes and Prtoceton Cobb the to show prowess. Columbia, which also blaze extinguished, hut Navin, President Ban Johnson of contained, then In to the financial return# will make the want tha Justice some year* ago wee a leader In the only ex- 1/eagiie men who have given their all to sport increasingly significant in those complete exoneration is the the American and Connie sport, slumped for a time, but In U>2R tinguisher used. Mack, the base ball, please tell the base ball collegiate center* where adequate fa- they want manager of Philadelphia eeating entered the Mats with a championship Athletics, were high figures of the fans and the people of America. cilities for spectator* exist. Roth Cobb and Speaker, generally the game a combination, and moeh Is expected of game who attended, and It was at this Are these men guilty, or do you IndeedL has reached rated as the two greatest players of stage the attendance is limited the Morningside flee this season. event that Navin presented Cohh with believe them to he Innocent of the whpre modern base hall, continue their pleas only by {ho seating capacity. The Yale in recent yearn- seems to hare for a chance to face the man who a check for SIO,OOO, which he said was charges?” lost her tottch in the game, hut recognition Middle wlest snd Rocky Mountain cage starled the fire—H. B. (Dutch) in of Cobh's contribution Dartmouth now is in possession of to the success of the Detroit base sections ade far beyond the East in Leonard, former Tiger pitcher. this res peck Huge field house* with a system which produces worthy if hall club. WITH COLLINS BACK, not championship lives. Dartmouth I/eonard, the recipient of letters Cohh, now that his integrity has accommodations for spectator* rang- from Cobh and Joe Wood, once a ing detested the Army live Wednesday been questioned, has charged that the in numbers from five to ten thou- night. Cleveland pitcher, continues non- sand have been erected and more are link- SIO,OOO was not a gift, hut actually a MACK SEES PENNANT committal regarding tha charges part of his salary. projected. Popular In Dixie. ing: the names of Cobh and Speaker The financial success of the Detroit Gronffag In East. In tha South ths great event of with a Rama between Cleveland and during By 25, ball club has been marked the Associated Pres*. the basket ball season is a weak es Detroit, September 1919. which he regime president Economically! so far as the East is to Navln’a as and PHILADELPHIA, December 24. tournament play at Atlanta la which said was fixed for Detroit win. past concerned, the!game will show an do the Cobb* years as player. Navin in Edward Trowbridge Collins, star sec- all tha leading quints in Boutham “Let base hall authorities years has let it he understood that upward of the opening on Conference said, at his ranch, ond baseman in the American League participate. It is a veri- talking.” Leonard he attributed much of the popularity January 1 of tnp new milllon-doUar table carnival Fresno, Calif. "When the time for nearly two decades, has returned Indoor a|t Univereity of and tha interest and near of base hall In Detroit to Ty Cobb, stadium the enthusiasm it Comes, I'll issue a statement.” to the scene of his early triumphs—- Pennsylvania. Tjli* building, w'hieh which arouses are and that Cohh. therefore. could stay the Philadelphia Athletics. comparable to the annual foot ball Tiger pay long enjoys the name\Pale#tra, will seat League Officials Attacked. on the roll as as he Connie Mack, leader of six pen- furore. wished. ten thousand and Os the twenty eight nant winning and three world cham- The University of North Carolina Meanwhile, there are rumblings that rows of the sests \ nineteen are of for three Deposed Stars Indorsed. pionship teams, said he was glad successive years has cap- presage counter-charges from Cobb’s to 4'd hot concrete and therefore permanent. tured the conference championship. Cobb, Augusta, Or., Expressions of confidence in Cobh get Collins, and with another good Temove ft Ayor But in the West the game ia friends. home in This season the Tar Heels show saJd American League officials were and Speaker continued to come from outfielder he would be ready to cap- strongly established as a paying will was ture his seventh American League strength, but a mere even distribu- "equally guilty" with 1/eonard In this many sources. Among the lstest sport. A preliminary game at North- among a Philadelphia tion of this attribute sister "rotten business.” because "thev paid reaolution passed by the flag. western University the other day colleges of Dixie this winter keep story Sport Collins, deposed recently by the a indi- $20.000 to the details of his Writers' Association. drew six thousand spectators, defi- cates that North Carolina will not leaking Augusta, Ga. t citizens went Chicago Sox manager, will augury he from out." The reference is At White aa nite of what ,m*y ex- have easy going in her quest for a to the price reported to have been paid ahead with plans for a testimonial play second base, aa usual. pected later when the wegtem confer- fourth tltla. Leonard for letters written by Cobh banquet for their fellrtw townsman. ence Besson gets under iwray. In the Western Wood Joe Wood told hla yesterday in the Conference one and which form the basis of the atorv The quality of basket *ball never hears of ill feeling over the charges on which Cobh and Speaker to Rurnside Winslow, chsirman of the West Is certain to be high. All the ball as ere linked with the questioned game. has# hall committee of the Yale Ath- BREADON DEFENDS with the possi- basket schedule such follows Big Ten institution#, every annual feet ball meeting of Departure of Cobb from base hall letic Aasoclatlon, by whom Wood la ble exception of Chicago, will present Big Ten coaches anA athletlo direc- tinder a cloud after 22 years, during employed aa coach. But no atatement formidable outfits, of wrkich the university’# attitude made TRADE OF tors. This is because the round- which he established more records of the wws HORNSBY leader wrill probably be Indiana. system arranging than any other player, Wood told Wlnalow he had robin of contests has revealed known. has been in for years. the existence as long as a year ago of never bet on a "fixed” ball game In Indiana Fond of It. > force several By the Assorts ted Frees. It has proved extremely satisfactory a rupture between Cobh and Frank his life. ball Is moge than ST. IXHJIS, December 24,—Defend- Basket something for several reasons, an Important Navin. president of the Detroit Tigers. Ban Johnaon said he did not think s a game in the Hoosler Btate.. It Is point being that It produces Cobb, it now is revealed, was slated "this unfortunate affair" would have ing his trade of Manager Rogers jk a cham- Hornsby *io*£tom, a passion. They neglect foot hall at pion each year or, if not that, a for removal as manager of the Tigers any effect on the American league to the New York Giants, favor tho Sam Breadon, president the world the State University in erf group of teams Involved in a cham- at the end of the 1925 season.
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