The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-28

80 tunity is ripe There
/ SPECIAL will be a biare ot
RILE ron trnmpets and he
! cobhs will join the De-
rroit baseball club.
OF which he is so important part.
Sycophantic southern newspapers will
herald his advent ard The Peach and
his mates combined will receive about
equal creait for what success comes
20 the banner OF tie team, with the
flame for defeat--it is safe To predict
laid entirely AT the door OF the faith
fCl men who have needed the desires
OF the management and have toiied
lmanfully for weeks under the south
ern sun TO get into condition for an
ether championship campaign.
| In the meantime. however. Cobb is
doing grave injustice 10 his mates
and his employers by his failure 10
| Join the team. In fact. Il would be 81
no means an unpopular move were the
management OF The club TO meet the
Georgians disobedience 10 orders by
plastering a stable fine on the first IN
stallment OF that $4,000 salary, when
Il comes due later on.
Cobb is also taxing a grave per
sonal risk. While the circumstances
OF his residence Ia the south make IL
probable that he will report In excel
lent physical condition. there Is always
the chance that the season may see
radical slump in the grand baseball
which he is accustomed TO place on
display.
Should this happen TO be the case
this year, he will ind II hard 10 con-
vince the main body OF fandom that
the cause was not his failure to Join
Tic club when ordered.
II Ty plays me regulation Cobb
brand OF ball, the fans will speedily
forget his assumption OF special priv
sieges, but woe TO him II he starts
the year IN a batting slump.
With his mates. however, Cobb has
Iunquestionably lost In popularity. The
writer has been a member of the De-
troia training crew all spring and has
heard more thar murmurs OF discon-
their duty there.
Blu. the most grave injustice is that
done the name ement of the club. The
training c>3 IL at big expense, the
only immediate returns from which is
the receipt from exhibition games.
These games arc played almost eli.
,irely in TIE south. where Cobb comes
near being the national hero. With
him present. the club would be q Ear
better attraction At these games than
is now the case. His absence is cost
ing his employers big sum Of money
All these symptoms OF dissatisfac-
ton will undoubtedly disappear On
Ty's arrival. IL Cobb Is Cobb. But .
little adversely, such as happens 20
every ball player sooner or later In
his career. may very possibly teach
The Georgian most valuable lesson.
With interest we read In q New
York journal OF publicity the stirring
announcement that Hal Chase has
relis club.
The acquisition or two pacing teams
viii give, Mr.. Savage, Of Dan Patch
fame. an opportunity for an even
closer approach To the accurate imi-
tation OF chariot race.
so Walter Christie has retired from
racing, convinced that he can't beat
barney Oldfeld Then he must have
been really trying TO do II all these
years.
| With Ziegler, McAuliffe and other
derelicts Of pugilism threatening to
come back, 1t behcoves the loyal De-
troiter TO remark that the Michigan
metropolis contains the only one OF
the old-time lightweight brigade who
would be anything like himself. II
Kid Lavigne couldn't whip all those
lother oldtimers ais local friends would
go broke.
Still waiting for the annual an
lnouncement OF those Canadian racing
Classics. Somehow they are much de-
Lived this year.
Some people seem TO have forgotten
that Larry Laioic broke into baseball
as a first.sacker and won his big fame
at that position. They took him on
the sack because he was fast enough
to play elsewhere. The converse Il
he reason they're putting him back.
Call to Trumbulis.