Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-12
HUGHEY JENNINGS is
SOMEWHAT FOXY, YES?

Here is piece of news contained in
special correspondence from Detroit to
the Pittsburg Post that will no doubt be
read with interest by all base ball fans,
and which shows that, if the facts as
stated are correct, Hugh Jennings is quite
as good business man as he is base
ball manager. but that his shrewdness
in working a clever ruse last summer
aroused the ire of Garry Hermann and
came near resulting in the national COM
mission shelving him:
Slight surprise is expressed locally
about Hugh Jennings advocacy of a raise
In stipend for Ty Cobb the champion
biffer of the American League and the
man who. with Bill Donovan. helped the
Tigers TO annex the championship hon
Ors or the Johnson organizatio The
Wilkesbarre barrister has written Frank
Navin owner of the club. urging him not
TO be too stringent with Clouter Ty and
saying the southerner, by reason of his
great work, is entitled TO boost of sal
AIRY.
No More Ultimatums.
Jennings recommends that no more ulti-
matums be issued to the scrappy boy from
Augusta, saying that when he told the
Tigers how the old Orioles got going at
such a fast clip he also informed them
he had a good idea of his own Importance
and succeeded in making Ned Hanlon
meet his demands. Being an assimila-
tive person. Cobb has recalled what Jen-
nings said, and the demand for a salary
of 5000 a year is the result Jennings
cannot blame any Of the men who helped
the Tigers to win the flag for asking for
increased salaries, for Hughey did neat
hoId-up act himself and in the operation
managed to act in such a manner that
Garry Hermann. chairman of the ma
tional commission. was accused of crime
that would have put him in the down and
out class. Jennings. when he came here
last spring. was signed to two years
contract at 5000 a season. and in mid
summer. when the Tigers were going at
remarkable speed. Ben Yawkley. who then
owned the club. boosted the stipend $500
Learning the salaries Of other leaders.
Jennings started campaign to get
more money. and had circulated a tale
that q club Of the big leagues was after
him and was suggesting ways by which
his Detroit contract would become mop
eratiye. The II roit owners promptly got
scared and insisted on canceling Jen-
.nings' contract, and made a new agree
ment with him calling for 5000 a year.
Looking round for clubs that needed man.
ayers and would be likely to make play
for Hugh. the Detroit men could find no
othe-. person likely to be at fault than
Garry Hermann OF Cincinnati. and they
told Ban Johnson to go after his fellow
member of the national commission The
matter-wss alluded to at length at the
American League meeting in Chicago In
December. and President Johnson was in
structed to warn Garry not to tampe-
with managers of pernant winners and
to ask an explanation Of the chairman
of the national commission.
After Garry Hermann.
johnson kept the instructions to HIM
self and did not let any one. in. on the
secret until the commission assembled
for its annual meeting in Cincinnati las,
month. Then he told the complaint OF
Yawkey and Navin TO President Harry
PuIiiam OF the National League. and the
two mel went TO Garry and called him
hard. They had to apologize fo- the call.
COR Hermann knew absolutely nothing
about the matter and was so taken back
by the charge that he almost knocked