The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-11
\ GHLANOERS ARE
VERY C0CkY IN
THEIR TALK
Expect To Shoot Detroit Tigers
Winning Streak All to Pieces
While in Our Beautiful
City.
Convalescents From Vast Category
Of Contagious Diseases Are
All Ready TO Play.
BY PAUL n. 6RUskE.

hopelessly eighth In a lis, OF eight
clubs and there were nona SO poor as
TO make II incumbent upon them 10 do
reverence. This time the same team
Is back. hot on the heels OF The Tigers.
who are still at their accustomed
place In the van. Second rosition ism :
good enough. however. They have az.
tual designs on the lead and all the
Talk goes 10 show that Slallings anu
his men have ample confidence In
themselves
When a worm turns in baseball. the
process is invariably more OF som
ersault than wriggle. The Highland
ers have accompanied .heir gyration
with all sorts OF enthusiasm
And New York is with them. The
Giants appear down and out. The
American league team had its opening.
rushed into IL and is now the large
hope OF the national metropolis. Jus.
as an evidence OF the popular esteem.
II might be mentioned that no less
than four New York papers are repre-
scented with the team, j. w. Neon
aughy, OF the Evening Journal; w. c.
Macbeth. or the American. Frank
Roth. OF the Globe. and Mr. Firstbrook,
OF the Mail. being all on deck. and
grinding out bulletins every few min
utes.
Stsllina's Is Proud.
George Stallings. the ore-time De
trolt magnate. admits with some par.
donable pride the attainment OF one
OF his lifes ambitions. In coming back
10 the old town at the head OF real
big-league ball club Mr.. Stallings
does not say he will beat the Tigers.
but there are eloquent hiatGSes in his
conversation.
From MIR. Stallings' report. one must
incline 10 the belief that the New
NCrk cllb has been up against some
propositions since he took hold. Fate
has Cut high jinks with her personnel.
Hal Chase, with the tell-tale blotches
OF the plague still on his cheeks. Is
a prominent exhibit. There are few
sore arms left yet as the result Of the
teens experience with smallpox As
| il that was not enough. down came
Hemphill on the opening day of the
season with an ailment thai sent him
\ to another contagious disease hospital
/ There was some delay in diagnosing
lit Then they said IL was diphtheria
/ 'rhe whole team came near being quar-
antined again, but managed 10 escape
Hemphll recovered In due time and
will be back in line in few days. In
the meantime the appearance at the
Cadillac OF any Notwithstanding gentle
man who looks around him sort or
} inquirlng eye is an Office .or all the
visiting athletics to scurry for shelter
Somebody told Stallings that humps
were prevalent In Detroit. He prompt
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Of lumpy jaw In'case any of the men
show signs OF coming down, they WI
be promptly isolated.
ElberfeId Unpublished.
Another arrival who Is always
promptly scanned is messenger boy
from any OF the telegraph Offices. Read
err of the current history u the sport
may recall an outbreak OF Kid Elbei-
field in New York recently when be
and Umpire Hurst came together IN
an argument which the umpire tried
10 win by sneaking one over on the
Kids jaw.
What will Ban do about IL? That
is the question that is agitating the
New York camp, and IL Is still in sus-
rense. The general impression pre-
walls that the league president. by his
silence. is tacitly complimenting Fiber
field on his failure to get IN and an
initiate Hurst. after that provocation.
The New York players have II that no
body but the umpire himself was
really TO blame for the occurrence.
The rivalry that is always in evi.
dence where two big-league teams
exist I'm the same city makes the
New York crew particularly interested
i'm any developments In the Nationai
league bribery scandal. one or inc
visiting newspaper men visited the
headnuarters Of the Detroit club dur
try the day and received great pleas
IRE iu an interview with President
( Eovtn. in which the local magnate
npined that either the matter should
have beer kept quiet ana invesii sa' eu
I without trumpets and loud threats. or
.isa IL should have been Thoroughly
gone Into with no attempt 10 make
anyone a scapegoat
Navin Interviewed.
place the blame where IL belongs
nd shield nobody" was the tone or his
Tenarks. which were meant for tie IN
terviewer whose paper has taken d
strong stand to similar , eh me, ;s,o,,,ng.
annears t. have the full sympathy or
/ tie members OF his club Even the vet
Grams are included IN TINS lIst. Ihey
say that there Is but one answer TO
lie Improvement over their position
OF last year, and that Is "Stallings.
. Jennings won a pennant with q
team that had finished sixth, didn't hey
7 Well hasn't Stallings got right 10
make az big al Improvement? such
I h tho line or argument
OF course. the fan who wants stu
20 be shown might call attention To
10 fact that New York. at this juno
ttre a wear ago. was leading the
( league which IS one point better than
n stands At present. but that would
-. q remark highly devoid OF tact. Also
~ seems highly possible that Mr. stall
ings' raw material IL not az promising
as that which Jennings had when ne
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