The Detroit times., 1910-02-25
F. }. NAv|N W|Nh|hG
RECOGNITION
At LAST
Sporting News Proclaims Him the
Foxiest of Magnates When He
Foils Col. Hedges in At
tempted Deal
Baseball World Gradually Getting
Wise To the Fact That Detroiter
Has Been Putting Things Over
BY PAUL HALE eRuske.

4 certain Amefi aE league magnate,
noted for The -ua1s mlen which, as
everyone acQuain,es With baseball his
cory knows conceais capacity for
Wies SECOND to none In the diplomatic
councils %. baseball. tried TO put one
over on Frank Nayin OF Detroit Al
the tecen. league meeting
PIE c.dut do H. This fact is estab-
ushcd - his ovA admission
What it was that the rival magnate
attempted 10 hand the DeIroiter is not
stated fatty although the inference Is
hat Mr. Naym was offered some sort
oi lemon Ia exchange for Catcher
casey
The magnate prohering the deal was
81 Hedges. OF 81 Louis.
The American league is, in fact, just
getting wise 10 this man Nayin. IL :
beginning TO appreciate him as dip
lomat well worthy &C match wits With
any OF mis- riyalS-l man who has
done il. in fact. and has been beating
them Al IL for SOME years nov.
Mr.. Nsvin is Wise.
The Detroit executive Is we'll apprc-
Gated in his oHA town. whore IL IS
conceded 10y anyone who knows any
thing about the local clubs history
nat there are feW current items OF
baseball and business wisdom curreM
to which Mr.. Nayin j. not contiguous
t. fact The condition has severdi
times been commented on IN these
columns The most forciOe,.of these
comments was made something over
= wear ago when Mr. NaVin astonished
the baseball world by putting throusn
his deal for George Moriarty
In alluding 10 the trick which Mr.
Hedges attempted III vain 10 turn al
he expense OF his Detroit compatriot
the current number OF Sporting News
says
The plain. bald truth OF things
Is that Col Robert Hedges mis-
sion on the side at last weeks
meeting OF the American league
moguls came &C uought. He want
ed Clarke or Bemi5 and ne offered
all sorts OF inducements 10 the
Cleveland impresarios 20 part
with either man. but there was
strictly nothing uoing He took a
shy shot n tie Detroit maguate
FOR SOM Of the catching material
that might not be deemed eNclu-
sive enough 10 help land that
fourth pennant end met with
more frosty glare than from
Cleveland
President NaviE. by the ay.has
built uu quite a little reputation
for shrewdness III the compare
lively few moons he has been
connected with "the only game
The prevailing opinion was that
while other ueL could MONKEY
around the outskirts Of getting
wise and others might Just as Wen
make 40 pretens!Ons no matter
how long they own ball cluO'
Mr. Navin is one man who mas
Ont his wisdom teeth and cut them
In hurry. at that For an unso-
phjsticated person butting into
baseball. he has shown Tor some
time a wonderful grasp or the
menv iutricacies OF the business
and the man who puts one over
or him when he isn't looking must
icon hustIinc until long after
dsrk As there seemed TO be nc
particularly hopeful fields, Presi'
dent Heuges and Manager y Con
nor returned from Chicago saddei
men
maenate Only Blushed.
The attention OF the urbane local
Aving been called 10 tns
hove eulogy. he b!ushed becominsly
and refused to make comment. hiS
1ttitude of silence was also nam
tanned when he was asked the basis
~ The proposed negotiations forming
me foundation matter OF Editor Joe
Cumming story