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Philadelphia, May 25, 1912 REVOLT it Pfayers> *n Fancied Loyalty to Cobb and With Trifling Grikvarce* ^ou ^e a Demand for Instant Redress With a Threat to ke and Rashly Carry Out, For a Brief Time, Their Plan. ., May 16. that he had suspended Cobb© as a matter EW YORK, N. I -Cobb, of the of league discipline and be also said that Tyrus Raymond s, hails from from what he heard of ©the assault and Detroit American nceded to be Georgia, and is c player of all causes leading up to it he could well un a new role derstand Cobb©s feelings and personally time, appeared ii iile the High- did not blame him a bit. on the Hilltop yesterday, w 1 game of the landers were losing the fina ;ore of 8 to 4. Tigers Threaten a Strifct series to the visitors by a s reparing to go Philadelphia, Pa., May 18. Just Just as the Detroits were p r Cobb leaped to bat in the fourth innin; hastised a fan fore the Athletic-Detroit game yesterda into the grand stand and c . Tyrus was afternoon it was announced that thl who had called him names )etroit squad, players of the Detroit Club had madd by the entire I il Cobb had themselves the defenders of Ty jOobb © one interfered un ing. Some of that they had sent a communication to handed the fan a good thras graycoats fi- President Ban Johnson, requesting him President Farrell©s private ^he beaten fan to withdraw Cobb©s indefinite suspension nally broke up the scrap. 7ce to arrest and threatening a strike if the demands requested the park politic! he was led were not complied with. This was found Cobb, but they refused, ai% Davis, secre- to be true. It was stated that yesterday out of the stand by Thomaj. When Cobb morning the Detroit players held a meet tary of the New York Club face was dis- ing at Shibe Park, where they drew up, returned to the bench his^g immediately signed and sent the following telegram torted with anger. He w^pjre O©Lough- to President Johnson: put out of the game by UrJugh Jennings, "B. B. Johnson, Fisher Building, Chteajw. T«A- lin. After the incident tit over to the Ing Mr. Cobb is being done an injustice 1>T yonr action in suspending him, we, the undersigned, re the Detroit manager, wei*\^ntthe fan fuse to play in another cane after today until such press stand and explained TTWmHj action in adjusted to our satisfaction. He was folly had called Ty Cobb "a half-nigger.© justified in his action, as no one could stand *uch nings said no Southerner would static personal abuse from any one. We want Mm rein such .an insult. "I heard the remark,© stated for tomorrow©s game, May 18, or there will be no game. If players cannot bars protect!** we most said Jennings, "but I knew it would be protect ourselves." useless to restrain Ty, as he would have got his tormenter sooner or later. When This telegram was signed by every Ty©s Southern blood is aroused he is a member of the Detroit team, except Cobb bad man to handle." According to the and Manager Jennings. Donovan and "American," the man whom Cobb as Gainor being at home, could not sign it. saulted, is Claude Lueker, secretary for Jennings was greatly disturbed over the Tom Fol©ey, formerly sheriff. He is a startling turn of affairs which threatens pressman by trade, but lost one hand and all sorts of grave complications. At the most of the other a little more than a Hotel Aldine last night he said: year ago while working on a morning "The suspension was not warranted. I an* hi the newspaper. Lueker iis quoted by the hands of my friends. If they refuse to play I will "American" as saying that he did not finish away down in the league race. I expert Mr. Johnson to reconsider the matter, fine Cobb, or an know why Cobb singled him out for at nounce definitely the length of Ms suspension. The tack, and that after Cobb knocked him players^of the Detroit team take the ground that the down he (Cobb) kicked Lueker and penalty^inflicted upon Cobb because he defended him self from an unwarranted attack by a rooter in spiked him in the side. New York was uncalled for and unjust. They con sidered at the worst Ty should have received only a fine. Under the rules of the Players© Protective- A^- As Cobb Explains It sociation all the players agree to stand together. This Philadelphia, Pa., May 17. When the is a case where the Detroit players consider that Tigers arrived in town yesterday morn they are called upon to stand up for the rights of a fellow member of the team. These facts are not ing, Ty Cobb was interviewed regarding R. COBB the fault of the players but of the spectators, who his trouble in New York on Wednesday. taunt them and really have a licking coming tx» Said he: The Detroitciub©s Star Outfielder them. The clubs now place police officers in the "The man who attacked me in New York is the j r* i_i_ t. i. .» n©sent the central figure in the sensational Incidents stands and bleachers to prevent gambling and to game one who has made it unpleasant for me on Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who is at p precedented reT()lt of the Detroit players, is by see that balls are returned and I don©t see why these which culminated on May 18 in tne u tlt>naj p!ayer of the age Cobb was ^m ati officers should not have the authority to lead a other trips to that city, and he has continually rowdy spectator from the grounds. If a man onca picked me out as a target for his abuse. Last Sum common consent regarded as tne mosT sr , 8gg H(j commenced plarii,g professionally in mer- i remonstrated with him and advised him to Royston, Banks County. Ga,. bepwmDer .(h Atlantic League, but owing to lack of experience ejected endeavors to repeat his rowdy tactics let him pass me up that I was only, human and trying Jo 1994 with the Augusta Club, of tie ^Vnniston< Ala _ aub> ot tne Tennessee-Alabama- be barred from the grounds for good. Such a course and extreme youth was farm.ea o .l l * ©-ecaUed by Augusta and finished the season with would soon put an end to the bully-ragging of thst earn my living out there and I could see no justice players. I wired President Johnson yesterday not in his attacking me. His remarks then were insult League. In that league he hit >;» "" in 19*5 he started the season with Augusta; .237. being ill with malaria most of the tiM outaeiderg and fo^meri of the South Atlantic to take my action in the case until he had heard ing, but not obscene. As soon as this man got into went to the front at once as one of «e s^a, bltsman of that j e In August he was the evidence which we will present, this evidence the park yesterday, be got after me. He did not League, and finished the season as the lead* fl Jn ge^ember flnl9hlng the season in including a large number of affidavits of persons wait for the game to begin, but he started as soon who saw the entire affair. The ultimatum of the a«i we began batting practice. In order to avoid purchased by the Detroit Club, whose team e 1906 t(,, m by hish.clils& batting and fleld . the American League_and earning a pia^e impn>Tem,,nt ln an departments that he became Detroit players was wired to President Johnson to him 1 walked to the other side of the field and day. We understand that he is now on his way to tried not, to hear him. Bush asked him to stop, Ing. During the 190, season he showed suu._ H(j j, d Uje Jeague jn ^ting that year but it did no good. Finally 1 went to him and asked one of the great staxs of the American Leag. of t,)p penna]]t by 1^^^. ^^ that da, Cincinnati, and a telegram was sent to him in that to lay off. and when 1 spoke to him he cut and was one of the chief factors inJ0;"-*! tegjn . the greatest of players in the American city." ,., with a flow of the worst talk you ever heard, to this he has been the mainstay of the Uetroi genenttion; the wondcr ^ing that ne sh(>W8 In Jennings© statement he made men ©hen 1 lost m.v temper, jumped into the stand and League; and the most sensational performer or ^ nQ Ms buit and eudurance. t him have it. I am sorry for the effect which greater excellence each year, there beaig apparel tion of a Players© Protective Association. ich an incident has on the game and because of It is not known whether that has been r family. A ball player, however, should not be cpected to take everything, as we have some self- organized or is merely in prospect. If it «pert and we cannot endure more than human does exist, it has been secretly organized ia.t,ure will stand for. If » man insults another on When the Detroit team reached here | susp^on pending investigation of the among the players. They have been talk :he street, he ought to resent it. and while I am ing* of such a thing for three : or four sorry for what occurred, if it happened again I do yesterday Cobb revived notification fro^ case.Before leaving Boston on Thursday Hot see how I could help doing as I did, regardless PresideBt Ban Johnson of his indefinite for tfcinnati, Present Johnson stated Continued on the fourth page. «f the consequences." SPORTII LIFE
was a pretty likely rumor going the rounds this week that there was a chance THIS COUPON to get Hub Perdue in some kind of a B ONLY GOOD deal. Perhaps, but nobody is hanging FOR 30 DAYS Philadelphia, May {25 |©12 any well developed hopes on the possibil FROM DATE. MEMORY OF THE OLD AND ity. "Say," said a Bug Clubber the other day, "O©Day has one cracker up his DEDICATION OF NEW sleeve. You just watch for the ©coming- ™SS ?,F?I/P?/I© out party© of Mr. Bagby!" Well, Red- Sent to SPORTING LIFE, CTS. land is content to watch and wait. The ©Ipihia, entitles Cincinnati Delighted With the arrival of Harry Jasper, an Oklahoma the Sender to One Series (12) recruit, was a surprise. Jasper is the Picture Cards Hard-ffitting Youngsters The tenth pitcher on the staff. He is a right- of Base Ball Players, as de hander and possessed a penchant in the $criQed below: Glorious Work of the New Blood Oklahoma League for making the other Send to.... fellows hit air. They say in the last Giants Last of Eastern Rivals game he pitched 17 batsmen Gus-Hilled Street Address.- themselves back to the bench. It was the finest exhibition of club-swinging Town...-. BY BEN MULFOBD, JB. seen in a coon©s a©ge.R State. Cincinnati, O., May 18. Editor THE BETUBN OF WABD. Send Series No.. "Sporting Life." Just ten years ago It was like old times when John Mont almost to the day the Palace of the gomery Ward came to town with the Fans was dedicated. That Bostons. Seems pretty hard to get all IRE $ CENTS EACH was in 1902. Redland the thrill of the game out of the blood! thought that old structure, Ward tried to. Went into retirement for »*++»•»»»»•«»»»•»»» put up through the initia years. Then came back as an aroused tive of John T. Brush and aspirant for presidential preference in N. Ashley Lloyd, was des the old National. Failed. Afterward Picture Cards of Base toail Players tined to be a lasting tri bobbed up at Boston and will be a splen bute, to the game. Mag did factor in the revival of interest at the ^S^^TTTUT upnn in seriess*»ri*>s (twelveffvwolvA cards totn a series)]RpH<*ntl * nificent indeed that old South End, where Soden, Conant and portrait (in colors) of a prominent base b& each card containing the stand was the forerunner Billings harvested a fortune. What a The coupon at the head of this column anc playConnie Mack, Manage!. Murphy, OutflelcJer. Fred Clarke, Marjf the Fittsburg Club. N. It. numbers. The yawpers for a later open- THE PBIZE COWABDS. Oldring, Outflelder. Mclnnes, Inflelder. Byftie, Inflelder. iager. Miller, Inflelder. of the season have been bottled up. Collins, Inflelder. Krause, Pitcher. Leach. Outfielder.* Adams, Pitcher. Of course, such spectacles as players in Baker, Inflelder. Bender, Pitcher. Hans Wagner. Inll Camnltz, Pitcher. hus far, May has been more disagree- uniform clambering into grand stands and Barry, Infleider. Planfc, Pitcher. Wilson. Outfleldei© Leifleld, Pitcher. ibly chill than April proved to be. taking wallops at loud-mouthed abusive Strunk. Outfields*. Coombs, Pitcher. Simon, Catcher. Phillippe. Pitcher, THE SWATTING YOUNGSTERS. Bugs are not edifying. Still there is a SERIES No. 52. Gibson, Catcher. No team ever won a pennant that was lot of sympathy for Ty Cobb and all Players of the Detroit, Club, A. L. Players c SERIES No. 72. not fortified against accident by stellar Hugh Jennings. Manager. Morlarty, Inflelder. Frank Chance, Mi f the Chicago Club, N. L. abuse. The fellow who sits in the open, D. Jones, Outflelder. O©Leary, Inflelder. Scheckard, Outflel Archer, Catcher. material. It looks as if the Reds had the out of reach of the players and uses his Bush, Inflelder. Stanage, Catcher. Schulte, Outflelde, der. Mclntire. Pitcher strongest array of substitutes in Red- Cobb, Outfielder. Ponovan, Pitcher. Hofman, Outfield* M. Brown, Pitcher. mouth for a mud battery is a coward Crawford, Outflelder. Mullin, Pitcher. Zim merman, Infle! Reulbach, Pitcher. land history. Tex McDonald is a hero pure and simple. What a silly thing it Delabanty, Inflelder. Summers, Pitcher, Tinker. Inflelder. .der. Needham, Catcher. in the eyes of the whole Bug contingent. Evers, Inflelder. The lad from the Lone©Star State has is for any fellow to imagine that the pay SERIES No. 54. ment of an admission fee to a ball park Players of tbe Boston Club, A. L. Players of ^SERIES No. 74. already won his spurs in battle. The is a license to roast the players. The Jits Stahl, Manager. Gardner, Inflelder. Chas. F. Dooin. M©;he Philadelphia Club, N. t. other day he led in an assault that turned abolition of Rooters© Row in Redland re Hooper, Outflelder. Ray Collins. Pitcher. Knabe, Inflelder. anager. Moore. Pitcher the tide of defeat and carried the team duced the number of Bugs of this stripe. Engle, Infielder. Wood, Pitcher. Paskert. Outflelde* Bransfleld. Inflelder. across the shoals of disaster into the har Speaker, Outflelder. Thoney, Outfielder. Lobert, Inflelder. ! . Titus, Outflelder. bor of conquest. All the honors of the Many a fan who delights to criticise play Wagner, Infielder. Hall. Pitcher. Walsh. Outflelder. Magee, Outflelder. ers would hit the ceiling at the first Carrigan, Catcher. Karger, Pitcher. Doolan, Inflelder. Moran. Catcher. Spring have not been won by the Old caustic criticism of his own work" by Beck. Outflelder. Guard. There have been occasions when SERIES No. 58. Captain Mitchell, Bobby Bescher, Dick those associated with him. Players of the Chicago Club, A. L. SERIES No. 76. MULFOBDISMS. Tannehill. Inflelder. Scott. Pitcher. ©layers of the New York Club, N. L. Hoblitzel and Johnny Bates have towered Sullivan, Catcher. Walsh, Pitcher. Tohn jftcGraw. Manager. Mathewson. Pitcher. like skyscrapers in a prairie town. Larry Zack Wheat made the greatest play of White. Pitcher. Blackburn, Inflelder. Devore, Outflelder. Fletcher,"© © Inflelder, McLean is proving that a S. O. T. is his life when he was doubled up in Red- Payne, Catcher. Harry Lord, Inflelder. L. Doyle, Inflelder. Myers. Catcher. ;worth a dozen backstops surcharged with land with Miss Daisy Kerr Foreman. I. Young, Pitcher. McConnell. Inflelder. Snodgrass, Outflelder. Crandall. Pitcher Dougherty. Outflelder. Alclntyre, Outfleid Murray. Outflelder. Ames. Pitcher. tonic for snake-bite. All these old boys Cupid was umpire and Zack©s friends all Merkle, Infielder. have "rose and strove." Dick Egan acts wish them joy. What truth there is in Wiltse. Pitcher. like one who has been born again. But the old saw, "All the world loves a lover." it is Art Phelan, Johnny Esmond and Eddie Grant gets a chance once in a the 1.1.1. League and has crun for Larry McLean. The big als and serai raising their voices in glad acclaim. It is fellow can beat a gravel train going up professionals. Some of impossible to give credit to one or two grade, but nobody would put him in the now in Padueab for the winning spurts of April and May. grayhound class. A FREAK PLAY These youngsters have been in the thick Modesty, thy other name is O©Day! AND ABE TI Nairn will reach h^.{ of many a winning rally. It is a mighty As Col. Pinch, Tex McDonald fills the a few days How a Detroit Catcher Scored a Home Rim comfortable feeling this knowledge that role like a gentleman and a scholar. Manager Neal, of| ^ndersoni has signed Manager O©Day has a crowd of young a full team, and ^ is now in HendersoU) on a Strike-Out. fellows on his staff who can swat the getting ready ^f or the openiDg game. His Detroit, Mich., May 15. Jack Onslow, ball. THE "KITTY" LEAGUE ?Ta^er,l aiie ©© Etchers, Melrose, Garvery one of the Detroit recruit catchers, THE CLASH OF STEEL. % Haidelback; jitchers> Mu«graves, Bailey, is the hero of one of the most peculiar This car of Juggernaut, with J. Mugg- Is Now ia. Shape to Start the 1912 Cam Beck, Oste^orf . first base> Brandt; sec plays ever recorded in base ball annals, sy McGraw in the front seat, has been paign With She Clubs on May 28 and to ond, fenycKj.. ghortstop, Enloe; third base, making a complete circuit of the bases on rolled over the Cardinals and Cubs, NeaJ; n^t field> £rice; ceDtre fieidr Ran to September 2. Foright; left field> Spain a strike-out without the aid of an error crushing them into unrecognizable pulp. by the opposing club. Onslow. was play In the face of the fight the Reds have Paducah, Ky., May 15. Evansville, MANiGER LEWIS, OF HOPKINSVILLE, gone on with but few wobbles. Tremen Ind., having finally been reconciled to ing with Dallas when he earned this dous interest centres in the forthcoming Kitty League base ball, a company of PreJaring the grounds there for the unique distinction. In a game at Fort series between the leaders. Can Cincin capitalists there has taken over the fran soi. Hopkinsville will have a park Worth one day in 1909, the pitcher had nati hold the Giants and win a majority chise and that city will be a member of ""Reason, and it will be one of the best him three and two in a close game. The of the five games to be played? It will the league this season, if not longer. The league. Mike Lyons, a hard-hitting deciding pitch was a curve ball, at which be a severe test of the stamina of the league this season will be composed of the ler, will be back with Hopkinsville. Jack swung wildly and missed. So team which has made the greatest show following cities: Evansville, Ind.; Pa e Kesltng, an outfielder, who broke sharply did the ball break that it struck ing of any Cincinnati aggregation in the ducah, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Ky.; ni leg last season, will also be with the one of the edges of the home plate and .memory of man. For a time it looked as Clarksville, Tenn.; Cairo, Ills. Fulton, pm, and Summers, who was one of the bounded into the grand stand, and ac if the race might be a two-team affair. Ky., was dropped frojn the circuit some Bst infielders in the league last season, cording to the rules then in force, the Only a few days ago six of the octet were time ago, being too small to be a paying nil be baek on third. Sibert, who is 6 batsman was entitled to trot around the below the .500 mark in games won, while investment for the league. All the man iet and 4 inches tall, and hails from circuit unmolested. The freak play was Cincinnati was at New York©s heels, just agers have been signed and they are now Michigan, is a prospect for the box. a lucky one for Dallas, as Onslow©s run AT OTHER POINTS. ~ won the game for that club, 3 to 2. Jack, half a game behind. It is idle to specu assembling their players. The league therefore, had the honor of scoring the late on the outcome of a series that will WELL BEGIN BUSINESS Manager Rainey, who piloted Fulton, be finished before this sees the light of Ky., to the pennant in the second half deciding tally after being -recorded illuminating print. Suffice it is to say May 28, and close Labor Day, Which wj© "truck out while the pitcher received make a short season, but it should proi last season, a former Southeastern Arkan redit for fanning him and was chargec all Redland recognizes the importance of sas League player,, will take his team to IM+II a ..r^i-i ~;<-~u «j- -ti--. - the forthcoming battles which mean so profitable to every team, as interest prmj Clarksvillem«-i -n- and---" it is a safe© - prediction with a wild pitch" at the same time. much to both the Giants and the Reds. ises to be intense., John Nairn, wjjO that he will be in the hunt for the bunt » piloted Vincennes, ; Ind., and HpMns- It is learned on good authority that the Chicago^ THE SEABCH FOB A STAR. ville, Ky., to. Kitty League penna}S) vvill ing. Manager Carl Pace "is having his Vhiteihit.n SnvSox ITJVOhave not signed catcher Sterrett, Just about half the yawn you hear in be at the head of the Paducah te.n© jje team report at Cairo, Ills., and iTke aJ? rinceton. Sterrett received a flattering offer from BalJdom you can safely copper. Tbere has signed the best players rele,.e©d tne other managers, he is claiming the Tad SuUi n. acting for Presidenrc^skeT^.IT1 Sag. H, h.Ja (rem . w«em ,,Ve! SSAfSt JS StX ^SsH LIFE It certainly looks now as if the Sox we along the returns have been far from make a clean path through the ranks BROOKLYN BUDGET what would have been agreeable. CHICAGO CHAPS the Eastern clubs. With but one mo© THE BBOOKXTN CLUB game yet to play with Boston and notft- National League Race Not to Be a Walk- ing to stop them but \ has not made money enough to pay for Over Major League Base Ball Not a the new structure which is building in ARE GIVEN A SHAKE-UP BY THE LOWLY HIGHLANDERS, \ Gold Mine Brooklyn Fans Worried this city. The best that it has done has it looks as if the Sox would have but MANAGER CHANCE little trouble in completing the clean-up I About Rucfcer. been to get out of debt, yet the owners they have started so nicely. The Sox of the club feel assured that the future look to be, if anything, improving with BT JOHN B. FOSTER. of base ball is such that they can afford The Cub Team, as a Result of the every game. One thing.is certain, they Brooklyn, N. Y., May 20. Editor to go ahead and give Brooklyn as good are chock full of fight "and are helping "Sporting Life." See where William a base ball stand as is enjoyed by almost Defeats by the Giants, Is Rear out their good pitching and batting with Dahleu fears that the Giants may get all other of the cities in the major league nervy base running and plenty of fight such a lead in the race circuits. To build this stand the club ing spirit. for the National League must assume another large indebtedness. ranged as to the Infield With a championship by July 4, If base ball fails to amount to the expec that there will be no fun tations the owners must stand good for it. New Man Also in the Outfield* BARNARD©S METHODS in watching the games after that. I don©t believe IN THE LONG BUN, they hope that they will realize their am SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." that it will be quite that The Business Manager of the Cleveland bad. There has yet to be bitions in having a permanent property Chicago, Ills., May 18. The easy way Club, a Former Newspaper Man, an a National League race without encumbrance which shall be an in which the Giants showed up the Cubs Adept in Catering to the Press. which was hopelessly gone historic athletic field for Brooklyn for all in three games of the series which closed by July 4. On the other time, and everybody who is interested in last Sunday determined hand, there is no doubt PHILADELPHIA "TELEGRAPH." John B. Foster base ball hopes that the outcome shall be Manager Chance to give that Dahlen is one of the so successful as that. Yet there have his lineup an overhauling. The Cleveland Club is responsible for National League managers an innovation in base ball which will be been no profits in base ball in Brooklyn Eddie Lennox, whose hit who has been quickest to size up the vyhich have made possible the acquisi ting was the sensation of as welcome to the writers as it is to the improved New York team. He remarked fans. There was surprise tion of a surplus which would permit the the Cub machine for sev before the Brooklyns left for the West, Brooklyn Club to go ahead and advance eral weeks after the open in the Philadelphia news in fact before they had met the Giants in paper offices morning of this improvement with funds accumulated ing of the season, not only the second series of the year on the out of base ball. The failed to keep up while the May 7, when the ©phone Polo Ground, that the Giants were better Champions were sojourn rang and the party on the than they were in 1911, "and more than UNITED STATES LEAGUE PROMOTERS other end of the wire an got an idea in their heads that everything ing here, but was also nounced that he was the that," he continued, "they are a lot bet made to look like a snail "Secretary, W. R. Black- ter than most folks imagine." which was printed in reference to base Frank Chanoo in fielding and running wcood, of the Cleveland RTJCKER©S INEFFECTIVENESS. ball meant ready money. When one of bases in comparison with Club." Then the secretary Principal worry of the Brooklyn fans them learned that the expenses of the the visitors© brilliant work. Lennox has of the Naps proceeded to is the inability of Rueker to get going Cincinnati Club in 1911, a club which been indefinitely benched as a result, and give the batting order for right. They fret about it in every game did not finish in the first division, Chance will use Zimmermau at the third E. s. Barnard the day©s game, together in which he pitches. Once there was a amounted to over $200,000 he turned to corner. Zirnmerman has played third with thfe names of the time when all that Nap had to do was another of his associates and said : base before, having been called upon to pitcher and catcher who had been selected to step in the box to insure good base "What in h 1 have you got me into?" fill nearly every infield position during his by Manager Davis to form the battery. ball. Now he steps in, and in spite of The New York franchise of the U. S. is regime as utility man. Artie Hofman, In addition, the Naps© secretary was will- the fact that he seems to get better sup for sale thus early. It was expected that who had some experience at first base ling to impart any other news about the port, he can©t hold his close games. Some- it would be. These chaps who jumped last season, will be seen at the initial quickly without practical knowledge of sack hereafter, and Ward Miller, the out- the base ball business have wearied thus fielder obtained from the International early of paying hotel bills and seeing League, will take Hofrhan©s place in the nothing coming in. Yet they haven©t a middle patch. Miller has made a hit by fifth as much to lose as the company his work as a pinch hitter, and for this which is trying to support a major league reason will get plenty of opportunity to NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE MAY 18 INCLUSIVE. UNITED STATES LEAGUE MAT 18 INCLUSIVE. club with salaries 50 per cent, larger, show his worth. Catcher Orendorf has and expenses which would pay the sal been released to Sioux City, and pitcher W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Lawrence .... 11 6 .647 Lynn ...... 9 9 .500 Reading ...... 10 3 .769 Washington ... 6 6 .500 ary roll of two U. S. clubs. The Toney to Louisville. Brockton ..... 11 « .647 Haverhill ...... 9 12 .429 Pittsburgh .... 6 4 .600 Cleveland ..... 5 7 .477 REVOLT OF THE DETROIT PLATEES Lovrell ...... 9 8 .529 New Bedford .. 7 11 .389 Cincinnati .... 7 5 .583 Chicago ...... 4 6 .400 Worcester ... 10 9 .526 Fall Elver .... 712 .368 Richmond .... 8 7 .533 New York .... 2 10 .167 against the ruling of Ban Johnson was CHICAGO GLEANINGS unjustified. Personally, I think that CAROLINA ASSOCIATION MAT 18 INCLUSIVE. OKLAHOMA STATE LEAGUE MAT 16 INC. W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Cobb had been tantalized too long arid Windy City Hopes That the Cubs Are Charlotte .667 Greensboro 9 12 .429 W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. that in one way he had some right in the Anderson Greenville 1 12 .429 Okmulgee .....10 3 .?«<> Holdenyflle .... 5 6 .454 matter. Yet he did not start right. When Spartanburg.. 13 8 .619|Winston-Salem. 6 15 .286 Tulsi ...... 8 4 .667 Outhrie ...... 3 8 .273 About to Strike a Winning Gait The Oklahoma City. 6 5 .545 Muskogee ..... 3 8 .273 you bring a case into court the first thing Whole Town Enthused Over the White SOUTH CENTRAL LEAGUE MAT 16 INCLUSIVE. Anadirko ..... 6 6 .509 to do is to bring the action in the right W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet. way. If Cobb had gone to the umpire Sox Work in the East. Cleburne .... 15 7 .682 Paris ...... 811 .421 WISCONSIN-ILLINOIS LEAGUE MAT 17 INC. and had stated specifically that he wished Marshall .... 11 9 .550 Texarkana ..... 711 .389 W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet. BY H. G. TOBIN. Longrlew .... 11 9 .550|Tyler ...... 8 13 .381 Oshkosh ...... 9 4 .G92|Auror» ...... 5 7 .417 the spectator removed, he would have had Wausau ...... 8 5 .615|Rockford ..... 5 8 .385 a direct grievance against the New York Chicago, Ills., May 20. Editor "Sport MINK LEAGUE MAT 16 INCLUSIVE.© Appleton ..... 7 5 .583[Ricin« ...... 4 7 .364 Club and the American League if the ing Life." A timely home-run swat of W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Green Bay ... 7 5 .583|Madison ...... 5 9 .357 spectator was not removed. He Heinie Zimmerman turned the tide in Beatrice ...... 3 1 .750 Auburn ...... 2 2 .500 favor of the Cubs in their Nebraska City. 3 1 .750 Hiawatha ..... 1 3 .250 I. I. I. LEAGUE MAT 17 INCLUSIVE. DID NOTHING OF THE KIND. first game of the series Falls City ... 2 2 .500 Humboldt ..... 1 3 .250 W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet. He took action on his own initiative in Davenport . 8 5 .615|Qulncy . 8 7 .533 violation of the rules and the fact that with Brooklyn Sunday, ILLINOIS-MISSOURI LEAGUE MAT 17 INC Dubuque . . 9 6 .600 Decatur . 8 10 .471 won the game for the West W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet. Springfield . 7 6 !) .400 he was abused does not excuse him for Peldn ...... C 2 .7©50!Champaign .... 3 4 .423 . 7 6 .538 Bloomington . 5 10 .333 breaking the regulations of the organiza Siders and, it is to be Lincoln ...... 6 3 .667JStreator ...... 3 6 .333 Danville .. hoped, started Chance©s Canton ...... 4 4 .SOOJClinton ...... * 3 6 .333 tion. The same thing happened in men back on the way to CENTRAL ASSOCIATION MAT 17 INCLUSIVE. Brooklyn. Devlin, of the New York find the ball when hits are COTTON STATES LEAGUE MAT 18 INCLUSIVE. W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet. team, hit a spectator. The sympathy of W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet. Burlington .10 4 .714>Hannibal . .... 9 8 .529 scores of persons was with Devlin, for the needed. The recent series Vieksburg ... 18 13 .5Sl|Merldlan ..... 17 15 .531 Ottumwa . 9 7 .563|Monmouth .... 7 7 .500 with Philadelphia and New Tazoo City .. 18 14 .563|Hattlesburg .. 14 16 .467 Kewanee . . 8 6 .071|Museatine .... 6 10 .375 abuse had been plentiful from the stands, York were lost to the Cubs Jackson .....1814 .5631 Green wood ... 922 .290 Keokuk ... . 9 8 .529|Galesburg .... 4 12 .250 yet Devlin was suspended for ten days largely because of their and it was agreed that no other action inability to put over timely could have been taken, despite the fact R. G. Tobin hits. For instance, the rec Cleveland team that had cropped up dur times they are not so close and that that the punishment fitted the crime. ords show that in the three games played ing the night or morning. This is a step usually is due to the fact that he is with New York two of which the Giants in the right direction and if Harry Davis being batted hard. It wasn©t always this STATE ADVOCACY won and one resulting in a tie the Cubs is responsible he is open to congratula way with the big pitcher. Out in St. had 27 men left on bases. Had tions. A secretary of a ball club who. Louis the other afternoon they say that Of Base Ball as a. Tonic for the Average CHANCE©S MEN doesn©t wait to be interviewed, but goes Nap failed to back up third on a throw Spectator. been able to save some of these wasted to the trouble to see that the newspapers and it cost him the run that tied the get information, is a decided novelty. score. That the California State Board of bingles and deliver them when they had Health is an ardent advocate of the na men on bases they would have won Some ball clubs have secretaries who THESE LITTLE SLIPS wouldn©t know a piece of news if it was hurt like the mischief in these days when tional game of base ball is shown by the all three games. They would also have rammed down their throat. Their prin latest official bulletin of the Board, the won both games from the Phillies, instead the slightest chance may result in a run leading article of which stated : of dividing the pair of games. While cipal idea of their duties appears to be to which ties or wins, and woe betide the endeavor to cover up news that would "Within another month the street car service on the 5-to-4 victory over the Dodgers today player who forgets for a moment where the lines to the ball grounds will have to be in gives the Cubs a fresh start and indicates interest the fans. When a crowd of 25 or he should be to look after the ball. creased. This is as it should be. It is fortunate that the Easterners should be easy pick more persons in whom the public takes a Anyhow the chances are that the Brook and inevitable that the nation should go to the game. lively interest is traveling around the lyns will get going better when they are Consider the individual he has dropped for the mo ing for the balance of the series, it is not country something is always going on to ment his disappointments of the past and anxieties considered very much of an honor by home, for they will have some oppor for I he future; he is sitting on a bench in the Manager Chance. Husk was very much make good reading. Publicity of the right tunity to take a little rest. They have elastic air and cheering sunshine; he has a sense disturbed over the inability of his pitch sort helps the national game. The club been on the move almost from the begin of comradeship and equality with other hundreds; that knows how to get the information in ning of the season and there is hope that he reacts to the muscular activity of making noise ers to cope with New York and the in print should profit considerably. The with his feet and his lungs; the traffic in raygen ability of his players a little practice on their own diamond and food supply for which his blood exists is brisk. Cleveland Club, through Secretary Black- will get and he goes home with a good appetite and prepared TO HIT IN PINCHES. wood, has put into operation a scheme for refreshing sleep." He lectured his men on Sunday for half which deserves to be successful and to be TIIEJJ STRAIGHTENED OUT an hour on these subjects and the play copied by other clubs. for the games which are to be played A WORTHY SCION in the afternoon seemed to show ©results. against the Western clubs. Hhe pitchers are likely to get around better and that Sunday©s game was rather costly in that THE CURVE BALL Son of a Once-Famous Infielder Is Rising fn it resulted in the loss of catcher Jimmy will help a lot in some of the contests which will be closely fought. There is a the Game. Archer for at least ten days to two weeks. Is Now Unusually Designated as "the Fast A foul tip hit James on the end of tin: hope that these left-handers will be bet The veteran Sam Crane, in the New first finger of the right hand with such One With a Hop on It." ter ball players when they are on their York "Journal," tells the following of force that it looks as if the bone is If you ask a major league ball player own field, where they can get a good interest to old-time fans who still carry broken. Tom Needham will do the back- about the curves and benders thrown by work-out, in addition to a chance in a remembrance of the early days of organ stopping until Archer is able to get back the various pitchers, he won©t give forth game with a little moral support from the home crowd. To date the ized ball: in the game. n mine of information. In fact, h« is " ©Dasher© Troy, of the Old Mets, has a boy who THE WHITE SOX HEROES. likdy to tell you that they don©t really SEASON IN THE WEST is a. chip of the ©old block. John J. Troy. Jr., it recognize such things as curves any more. now playing shortstop with the Springfield. Ills.. Club, These are wildly exciting days for the has been about as bad as any that the of the I. I. I. League, a-iid has made the biggest kind fans who live on the South Side and fol Said Hans Lobert the other day : National League has had in a great many nf .a hit out there. Troy, Jr.. is a graduate of the low the destinies of the White Sox. The "Wo only figure on what we call a straight hall years. Bad weather accounts for some Manhatuns. the MeNultys, and other crack Harlenj anri a ball with a hop on it. All the so-ca!led of it and the slump at St. Louis is re semi-pro, clubs. He is a most worthy representative smashing victories over Washington and curves are included in the category of ©hall with a t>f ©]>a.sher,© the good old veteran, and J guess the the two out of three from Boston has .hop on them.© Most of the apparently wonderful sponsible for a great deal more. That, proud fathr-r is not pleased with his boy©s good show brought a return of the old 190G spirit. curves are just halls slanted at the plate from a dif of course, is offset in part by the good ing. The Sprineflelds have played several close garne» ferent angle. The fade-away is a slow ball that IT showing which has been made by the Cin In which Troy, Jr., has won by his own stick work Tickers, score-boards and all other places dropping of oor a-^£tJ^Ref the Chicago C, most promising base ball career aiLof him. 4 SPO/?TJ /G LIFE President Johnson©s Statement ealized that the Athletics had to play red-blooded American citizen will uphold Cincinnati, O., May 18. Presiden ny team presented by the Detroit Club Cobb and personally I think Ban John TIGERS REVOLT order to avoid a forfeiture and that son will change his mind." All the local Johnson, of the American League, ar imilarly the Detroit manager had to rived here today to attend the opening o newspapers use the subject for their lead . resent some kind of a team in order to ing editorials, and all are severe in their the new_ Cincinnati ball park and th< preserve the Detroit Club©s franchise and IN MISGUIDED SYMPATHY FOR Commercial Club dinner this evening /t< avoid a heavy fine. To the youngsters criticism of President Johnson, as being President Herrmann, of the Cincinnati pressed into service by Manager Jen too arbitrary. FELLOW PLAYER, COBB Club. President -Johnson was plainly nings the occasion was one of pleasure much disturbed over the striking of thi and profit, as each player received $50 Statement of Cobb©s Victim Detroit team and expressed himself as a just the amount each Detroit player will New York, May 20. The local man Who Was Properly Suspended By a loss to comprehend the temper and be fined for his afternoon©s lay-off. The who was assaulted last Wednesday by motive of the players in going to such Athletic management, however, felt any Cobb is Claude Lueker, a former press President Johnson, Pending In extremes to resent the necessary disci thing but cheerful over the situation, de man, who lost one hand and most of the plining of player Cobb. President John spite the fact that the World©s Cham other a little more than a year ago at vestigation of an Assault, in son issued the following official statemen pions improved their record by an addi his trade. Lueker says that a shout of shortly after noon: tional victory and at the same time fat derision went up on a poor play by Cobb New York, Upon a Spectator* "I am amazed at the attitude of player Cobb am tened their individual averages. Manager and that the Detroit player singled him his team-mates toward the American League, which© Mack voiced the club©s sentiments when out for attack. Counsel for Lueker in while insistent on good order on the field anc he said after the game: strict compliance with the rules of the game, ha vestigated the legal phase of the incident Continued from the first page- always extended consideration to and provided protec "It looks to me like a clear case of quitting Saturday, and a lawsuit against the De years ; but the public has never heard tion for its players. Player Cobb was indeflnitel the part of the Detroit players. You can bet that troit player for damages may be insti suspended on the report of the umpire in charge o they would never have thought of striking if they were tuted. An interview in the "Sun" with that it was actually formed. the game in which this unfortunate incident occured in the lead or any way near it. They are simply dis This did not and does not mean that the orde gusted because of the fact that they are out of the the assaulted person is given in that would remain in force longer than was absolutel race and are in a humor to do anything. They are paper as follows: From Players© Standpoint befouling their own nest when they try to run the necessary to make a thorough investigation of th "Mr. Lueker said yesterday that he and the Georgian affair. I did not fix a specified time for his in executive end of the game as well as the playing end. Philadelphia, Pa., May 18. The stand I am sorry that Philadelphians are the innocent suf were always on the best of terms and that it had eligibility for two reasons. First, I did not know often been his wont to kid the ball players from his of the Detroit players has put to rout all the exact time that would be required for the ex ferers of the ill-advised and outrageous strike of the Detroit team. If there is to be no vested authority accustomed seat in the ©paddock© in the left-field talk of dissension in the ranks of the amination; secondly, until the investigation was com bleachers. He said that Co