Owner Will Take "T" %ed$ox Ty Cobb THWO of baseball's greatest idols of the past and present returned from France yesterday happy and full. to Says of smiles, Johnny Evers, famous second baseman of the Cubs, Braves and Red Sox, and Tyrus Raymond Cobb, perennial champion batsmen of the Evers is on Fight Czar^fBaseball He May Quit major leagues. shown the left; Cobb on the right ä of World's f-3SS7 /"( president Champs Comes Back With Greatest Game ni.. ( if V Broadside in Reply to Johnson and Intimates Star tU^ ^BY W.cJ.MACBETH a Lively Future for the Diamond Sport Tiger Outfielder and John Ever» Back From (Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.) By W. the War Zone Not Going Anywhere J. Macbeth Yesterday The outlook for Connie Mack seems dark. His team is not going IT. Frasee, president of the world's Iîarry champion "Boston Bed Sox, came inywhere in 1919.not even on the customary spring training ^'aunt. ¡sck vr4.^ a broadside at Ban Johnson, president of the American League, By W. J. Macbeth alleged declaration that CONSIGNM.ÇNT OF PEPPER ARRIVES for the latte-fa Fraxee would be driven from organized Captain Tyrus Raymond the of having Cobb, TYRUS RAYMOND COBB and Johnny Evers arrived yes¬ baseball because encouraged gambling at Fenway Park. greatest living ball player and prob¬ CAPTAIN with the returning troops from France. If they would only admitted that negotiations wore for ably the greatest ball terday Frazec ponding th« sale of his baseball player of all pvait over until January 16 the joint meeting of the major leagues might but emphatically denied that the proposed sale was in con¬ time, and John J. Evers, the brainiest prop«rty. any way second ^e spiced up a bit. with Johnson's feelings on the subject. He came back af* Johnson baseman of them all when ho nected starrod with the Would Avoid Temptation and pointedly on many matters of deep concern that had been Chicago Cubs under directly only the Peerless Leader, Frank Guess Heinie Zimmerman must be tired chasing runners over at vaguely in the meeting of the magnates, an ultimatum to Chance, of hinted including both returned in khaki from abroad the home plate. He has McGraw to switch him to first base. to have his clients buy the Red Sox within thirty days, or not at all. petitioned Johnson yesterday. Cobb, who was a captain n_» ?),/, Kin«t i-? "host told in Frazce's^-...-_ But More Honorable of the chemical warfare division, U. S. as contained in a statement Almost as safe a rabbit as a warring German. 0m words A., arrived on the giant being Pennsylvania owner, which reads as transport In the last three seven and a half million bunnies were in bv the Boston Leviathan; Evers, a years bagged verbatim: Denies secretary of the Ihe states. follows Ruppert Knights of Columbus, was on La Lor¬ Quaker "Well, gentlemen, in reading the raine. Mad Houses Are Crowded and Boston papers Release Why Xew York to-day, of Kelly It would be difficult to say which of Tommy former champion, is going to fight si» contain Mr. Johnson's uncalled The report that Scout Joe the Burns, heavyweight which Kelly, two diamond idols attracted the rounds with Mick King in Vancouver, B. C, on December 26. :or renewal of hostilities, to day that associated with the Yankees ever greater attention, for while Cobb had Or this a new wrinkle more domestic is it since that club was maybe kis of closely associating I am surprised putting very purchased by seen practically no action abroad he am Colonel and professional scraps.the celebration of the wooden wedding idea. It midly, a"d 1 wiring Mr. Johnson Jacob Ruppert and Lieuten¬ had a very announcement ant important to will have been ten years on that date since Burns lest his eroivn to th* accordingly to-night. It has seemed Colonel T. L. Huston, had been make; Evers, who sailed for France a war of extermination on released Jack Johnson. to me to ho by the New York Ameri¬ last April as secretary and physical negro, the part of Mr. Johnson, and has been cans appears to have been some¬ director of the Knights of Columbus, the Boston Ameri¬ what erroneous. Innis Brown ever since I bought The story was pub¬ had more than once smelled Capt. Reports The lished a gunpowder can Leagv.e Club. statements in local afternoon news¬ in the front line trenches had ÜRIENDS of Captain Innis Brown, former baseball writer of "The has and vrKfch Mr. Johnson made, that he paper yesterday. many anecdotes to ^ Sun," will be pleased to learn that a recent report to the effect drive me out of baseball, are interesting relate B-ould Colonel Ruppert denied emphati¬ of his personal encounter' with that he had been seriously wounded a shell splinter was entirely -.c«o ridiculous to dignify with an an¬ that pro- by cally the Yankees had severed fessional players, well known to the erroneous. I have received a letter from dated November 14, imer. relations just Innis, diplomatic with "KeF' and American public, on the other side. three after the armistice had been which follows: Not Forced to Sell Red Sox intimated strongly that he days signd, "At the request of Mr. Johnson, person¬ Cobb's announcement is startling, if "Novmber 16, 1918. ally, as boss of the team, had no in¬ through an associate of mine in Chi- true. He declares he is ready to pass "Dear Bill* Have been favored with two letters from you recent¬ as to whether I would consider; tention of doing so. up tho cago, Boston Red I great national game. and you can bet the album were selling the Sox, advised "At the present said ly, family they appreciated. him that he rouid buy same at a stipu- moment," Cobb, "Luck has been against me in the matter of locating Major which has "I am free and have no intention of lated price, incidentally been and our old Colonel T. L. offered me by another syndicate from that Mr. Johnson signing again with the Detroit (Bozeman) Bulger '.cappie" (Lieutenant had the to knows how I will get Tigers Grid Have for both at turn. See G. Boston, but I courtsey give] out of the American League and that .or any other club," he added. "Of Dempsey Topples ¡Robb, Star, Former French Huston). inquired every (Lieutenant to any purchaser which Mr. Johnson is when I the Rice now and but no news of other of the have, first get my price, and I do not course, fascination of the game Grantland) then, any boys. might the opportunity. care to hear any more statements may prove too strong to resist when Giant Morris Columbia "So far as forced to sell the by Quits "Sorry to hear the Old Sheriff (Captain W. O. McGeehan) never being Mr. Johnson or one of his the merry old rolls Boston club, this also is too absurd to! any agents springtime round," Makes over. He landed in a heluva to this in New York, who seem to have ad¬ he went on. Minute Champ got certainly tough place fight deny. vance information of his intentions of "I tried to quit once before, but the Within For Penn State war. And I know how anxious he was to get over. "If Mr. Johnson is quoted correctly, lure was of forcing me out." too strong. And so it may old I feel about like a Xmas by quoting a section the constitu- prove now. But I had always deter¬ Course in 76 "Well, top, just schoolboy during tion of the American League in refer- mined to out of the while NEW OPvLEANS, Dec. 16..Jack Can't from wondering when the show to in American get game at of Lieutenant Harry Robb, captain of holidays. keep subconsciously ence gambling League the height of my career, and while T Dempsey, Utah, claimant of thai a he has himself a the Columbia football team begins again. Just sitting up here, in big, heavy wood, marking ball parks, placed in Jack Coonibs Is had an excellent season last year I heavyweight championship, knocked out University very laughable position, as he has al- realize 1 am not I Carl ¡Morris, of Oklahoma', in the first in the season just closed, was honor¬ William Entwistle Runs time and waiting for the cat to hop. No firing, of course, of any kind. lowed the constitution of the American getting younger. round of their scheduled twenty-round to thatched my roof while the weather bout here ably discharged from the army yester- Around As Tad says, it is now that 'Every day in the army is like Sunday League to be absolutely disregarded Lead was fine and am independent of my to-night after one minute of Marine and Field and torn to pieces by the Cleveland Signed fighting. j day and leaves to-dav for his home in on the farm.' But guess we'll make some move soon. physical prowess as a player. his In addition to Green in baseball club in its refusal to play two "There is every good reason to ex¬ Against mammoth opponent Pittsburgh. being cap¬ Good Time "I talked to some doughboys yesterday, who were up on the line scheduled fames at St. Louis Labor Phillies in 1919 Dempsey used practically the same tac¬ tain of the pect a big boom in baseball in 1919," tics that eleven, Lieutenant Robb fighting like the devil, when 'the lid went on.' The were battling on Day last year, September 2, and the the continued.