The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-13

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about his baseball salaries until the
day he was called to the big league
he had plenty Of time to perfect him
works at the case after the ball season
Is closed. but 1t is only a form Of pas
time. "Typesetting," he explains, 'is
only q winters recreation"
Cobb also Is q Georgian, and his
struggles to reach the top e YER.
much like those Of Rucker. His ia
ther. who was q well-to-do editor and
course for Tyrus in the University of
Georgia. and it took all kinds Of argu-
ments and demonstrations to change
the mind OF the mar who was paying
the bills.
Tyrus, however, was so thoroughly
in love with baseball that his father
at last agreed to give him q chance.
$50 a month. He was released at the
end Of a week. He went from there
to Admission, Ala. but two weeks later,
when the Augusta manager was let
out. young Cobb returned and begged
the new commander for another trial.
Again he failed : : make good" in
the eyes Of the manaeer. and word
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South Atlantic league that Tyrus Cobb
and all his promise for the future
could be bought for $50. Cobb's
friends saved him from sale at such
q humiliating figure. One after an
other they called the manager by tele-
phone and asked all kinds Of ques-
tons intended to boost Cobb's stand.
Ing:
when Is Cobb going to play?" and
"is 1t true that you are going to sell
that speedy kid?" were among the
questions that set the manager to
thinking. Cobb stayed at Augusta and
the next year a new manager took
charge and began developing the
kid" who now has no superior dn
baseball.
Hughie Jennings. manager Of the
Detroit Tigers, was digging coal at
Moosic. a village six miles from
Scranton. Pa, when John c. Chapman.
owner of the Louisville club. passed
through there and saw him play a
holiday game with the Moosic team.
A few days later Jennings got a tele-
Louisville team for $175 a month. He
didn't debate the question at all. The
difference between the hard and dan
gerous work of mining at small wages
and playing his favorite game in the
open air at a salary that looked i'm
menSe. was so great that no argument
even suggested itself.
Jennings was sold by Louisville to
Baltimore. and helped win a pennant
for the Maryland metropolis. While
playing there he attended Bonaven-
tura college in New York. Later he
went to Cornell! university as baseball
coach. receiving tuition and living ex-,
penses while studying law After be-
ing graduated he returned to Balti-
more to practice and vas very sue
cessful. The lure Of the diamond
was too strong. however. and he join
ed the Detroit team as manager. At
torneys who make as much from their
practice in n year al Jennings does
from baseball as counted among the
successful. But Jennings works the
game both ways, and when he isn't
playing baseball he Is practicing law
n Scranton with his brother, W. A.
Jennings.
Won der Ahe's experience in failing
to speak quickly enough while Hans
Wagner was on the block recalls q
story OF joe Tinker, who became, un-
der h direction OF Frank Chance,
one OF the greatest shortstops in the
game. Hagen's 1'ailors OF Kansas City
in 1897 for 81 Two yea later he
was traded for two uniforms and q
bat. Even at hat inconsequental
figure he failed to do anything starti.
Ing. and 1t was o until he helped
Portland. Ore, win q pennant in the
Northwest league that eastern man
ayers awoke to the fact that he was
a star.
John Killing. who bought Tinker for
he uniforms and bat. went from the
schmeltzers Of Kansas City to the
Rockford. III. team in 1895 as a
catcher. He was released as q fail
in St. Joseph in 1900. with varied c1 =.
periences with teams in the southwest.
when a scout for the Cubs picked him
up. Under the Chance manaRement
he became the greatest catcher in the
Not all such purchases. however
are profitable to the big league man.
ayers. Because of accidents and the
failure OF some players to make good
in fast company. many Of these deals
come to be known finally as lemons"
O'Toole pitched only n few games after
Joining Pittsburg. Then an affliction
of his pitching arm retired him from
the game for an indefinite period. fIjs
loss was a severe blow to the Pirate
band.
That such enormous prices. a be
paid for men. solely on the hope that
they will develop into stars. Is evidence
Of the wonderful profits in baseball.
The purchase price of great PLAYERS
suggest investments In expensive and
delicate machines. which may be
wrecked by the slightest accident,
Hero are a few valuations in trades
made IN the major leagues. or from
Russell. $4,000: "Rube" Marquard.