Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-26
Magnates Refuse Fabulous
Offers for Diamond Stars

which finished seventh in the Ameri-
can league race.
This team, composed of six Wash
ington players, strengthened by a
couple of stars like Cobb Speaker, Sui
livan, White, Walsh and Stahl, won
four out of five games from the team
that afterward vanquished the Cubs
with ease.
WOULD HELP McALEER
Jimmy McAleer, the clever leader of
the Washington club, had charge of the
All-Star team. No doubt the series
proved to Jimmy what a couple of
stars would do for him. 1t goes with
out saying that the Washington club
would pay almost any figure to get
Cobb and Speaker to play the outtield
with Milan, and Ed Walsh to bolster
up its pitching staff. With three such
stars it is pretty nearly a cinch that
the Washington fans would have a
team that would set all the loyal
enthusiasts wild. 1t would not be very
far from a pennant-winning combina-
ton. No wonder a club owner re-
joices if he picks up one star among
his recruits. No wonder he raves il
he happens to pick up two or three.
Star players are usually aggressive
players, who play with their brains as
well as with their Drawn, and who are
always doing the unexpected. Such
players make winning ball
clubs in any league. A pennant-Win-
ming ball club is almost as good as a
we'll regulated mint equipped with all
the most modern money making de-
vices. Considering that, it is easy to
realize how dear to the club owners
hearts are these stars.
Without Ty Cobb the Detroit team is
a great ball club, but with Ty Cobb
it is "A much greater club. With Johnny
Evers the cubs infield is a well oiled
machine. Without Johnny Evers the
much-hcralded stoneWall defense Of the
Chicago clubs infield is not nearly so
formidable, With Eddie Collins absent
the Athletics have a great base ball
machine, but with Eddie Collins present
Connie Macks aggregation looms up
as Just about the one best bet in base
ball. Boston could perhaps worry
along without the great Iris Speaker,
but with the brilliant Texan in the
lineup the Rcd Sox are a much more
to be feared club.
COBB TAKES CHANCES
Ty Cobbs greatest asset is his dar-
ing. He has every confidence in his
own wonderful ability, and no chance
is too desperate for him to take One
dead lucky. If anybody else tried to
do that they would have been thrown
out a mile"
Granted that Cobb is often lucky,
but not that he is dead lucky. Few
men take the desperate chances he
takes and fortune is bound to smile
on him a greater part of the time, be-
cause he always has the opposition off
it's stride. Cobbs luck is due to his
willingness to take a chance. IT is
deserved luck. Often Cobb is made to
look foolish on the bases. but more
often the opposition wears the silly
look Every now and then Cobb tosses
ball game away through some fool
hardy stunt. If you should average
up the games won and lost by such
acts, however, you would find Cobb
with a percentage around the 800 mark
Cobb can hit Cobb can run, Cobb can
slide, Cobb can field, Cobb can do ev-
erything a great ball player should be
able TO do: Cobb has confidence in
himself. Players like Cobb win PEN
nants.
Johnny Evers is of the brainy class
He never passes up a point that will
work to the detriment Of the enemy.
When he discovered that Merkle failed
to touch second, he pulled off the most
valuable play ever made in base ball
for Chicago, and the most costly one
for New York. 1t enabled the Cubs