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SOx Owner Says Cobb is the Greatest
Player Wagner Is, Asserts Clarke
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When Charley Comisky, owner Of
the Chicago White Sox declared in a
signed article in a Chicago news
paper that Ty Cobb is the greatest of
all baseball players, he revived a sub
ject that has been the cause of many
heated arguments among baseball
fans for years.
Other club owners and MANAGERS
with the exception of Fred Clarke of
the Pittsburg Pirates. have not dis
puted Comiskey's statement, buC
Clarke, though mentioning no names,
plainly means Hans Wagner when he
says, 81 think 1 am associoted with
the greatest of all baseball players"
Cobb is a modest young man and he
took the great compliment from the
owner of the Sox with good grace.
Incidentally he smashed out the hit
that won the game for his team the
next day.
While putting Cobb in first place,
Couiskey showed the true sportsman
ship for which he is noted, when he
placed Johnny Evers, second base
men for the Chicago Cubs in second
position. 1t made no difference with
the sold Roman" that Evers plays
for team that is the rival of the
Sox in Chicago.
Evers, however, didn't agree with
Comiskey concerning the greatest
al T.
he considered his own chief, Frank
Chance, the greatest baseball player.
"Look at Chances duties and the
way he does them," said the Trojan.
"He is a great manager and a great
player besides. Cobb is a wonder,
but 1 would rather have Chance on
my team.''
That's pretty compliment for one
to pay his boss, but it. is an indication
of what the Chicago players think of
the "Peerless Leader" Only a short
time ago Joe Tinker, the Cub short
stop, was quoted as saying that it
wasn't the absence of King that
kept the Cubs out of the champion
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prevented Chance playing in many
games was the real cause for the
Pirates beating Chicago.
There is no doubt that Chance has
a wonderful influence over his men.
Once in while he has to tack on
fine to bring some of them to terms,
as he did few days ago when he as
sessed Heine Zimmerman and Floyd
Kroh 800 each for not being in bed
at y o'clock. But the Cub crew as a
rule needs no such reminrers that
Chance is the boss.
Chance had some plain things to
say about Johnny King a few days
ago if reports from St. Louis are cor
rect. Here.is what be is supposed to
have said:
81 guess Killing is worrying more
about his case than the Chicago ball
club is. 1 am perfectly satisfied with
my catching staff as it stands now
aud / don't care whether King comes
back or not. Tom Needham has
shown up so well in the last two days
that it would be a shame to keep
him on the bench all season.
"Of course we will give King a
uniform and chance to play ball if
he does pay his fine and come back
to us, but it is a matter of indiffer-
ence to me. If he wants to stay in |
Kansas City it is his own lookout. !
You may be sure the Cubs will not
beg him to get back into the game. }
L am sick and tired of the whole |
King business, but tickled to death |
that we have enough catchers, and
good ones, too, to get along without
him." !
To which Killing is reported to have
replied:
''I don't think 1 ever will play with
Chicago now. am not interested in
any outlaw league, as reported from
Chicago, but I do not think I will
play with Chicago. 1 will decide
definitely in few days.
GAS far as Chance is concerned,
care nothing about what he says.
But L guess the Cubs can win the
pennaut without me, anyway"
There is something behind all this
Killing business that the fans cannot
understand. The truth is likely to
come out some of these days and
then there will be bigger sensation
than ever
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