The Detroit times., 1912-02-23
|IGER[IIES EXPECTED
TO ARRIVE HERE TODAY
TO BEGIN TRIP SOUTH
Five Battery Men Are Sure To
Be Here; Dubuc May
Not Come
MAURER'S FATE UNKNOWN
Whether Detroit Sandlotter
Goes or Stays Depends
On Jennings
BY RALPH L. YoNkER.

BY RALPH L. NONkER.
II the blizzard manufactures Will
kindly cease operations for a while
and not store up another one oil those
spring setbacks, il can be better real
lied that the baseball season has
passed from the hot.stove stage.
Friday and Saturday were set for
the days when the two coaches anu
FIVE Tigers who are sure 10 start from
Detroit for Monroe, should arrive
here. The original list of those vii
were To make their departure from
the Michigan Central station, Satur.
day night, has shrunk cons derabiy.
Coaches ,Sugden and Mcclure Will
head the bunch, and Kocher and On
slow. catchers, and Maroney, Rem
meas. and McCorey. pitchers, will be
| under their supervision. Four news
paper men will get through tickets to
Monroe also.
Dubuc may be able to get mere
from Montreal In time for the start
but he has business matters at his
home town that require attention, re
writes. and he may not be able TO be
here in time TO join the Bunch. LOU
den will meet the aggregation at Gin
| cinnati.
| After the vanguard joins the al
ready present forces, Trainer TutElI!
and Outfielder Perry, seven others
will filter in from their homes. Coz
ington will get TO Louisiana from
| Dennison. Texas. LATTE will arrive
from Atlanta. Pernoll goes directly
| from his home at Grants Pass, Ore
Remneas goes from Minneapolis, WIT
from San Francisco, Taylor from
Wamego, Kans. Westerzill will leave
from his home.
Baumann, whose home is at Indian
apolis, will not be able TO get south
as soon as the rest, but will be de-
| tanned at the Indiana capital for a
few days.
II has not yet been definitely deoit-
ell as to Mike Mauer's going. Whe'h-
er he will accompany the early Tigers
depends upon the decision of Mar
ager Jennings, who is expected tic ar
rive here with President Navin, Sat
urday.
AS soon as the majors are on their
way southwark, the minors will be-
| gin to pack up for their little south
| ern jaunts.
The changes made in the code that
governs organized baseball this past
code-changing season has made tie
year 1912 look bright to the small fly
in baseball.
The raises in the draft prices all
along the line from the lowest TO the
| highest class, the Tact That MAJOR
| league teams must try out all drafted
! players, the reduction in salaries paid
players. and the rule prohibiting
minor leaguers being tried out III
major company receiving more than
% per cent increase in salary until
| they make good, all are welcomed by
| the minor magnates.
The success of minor league base
ball depends TO a large extent upcn
the sale of successful players.
great many clubs plan to do no more
than split even with gate receipts sad
expenses Thus the profits OF the
game must come from the sale OF
players.
or course, minor leagues play 20
make money as we'll as the majors,
but OF a necessity. their incomes In
the way of paid admissions is lin
tied. While the majors have no regu'
lar market where they can dispose OF
the men who develop under their SUI
pervision. the minors have and they
make II a principal part of their bust
ness 10 produce for that market
The reduction OF salaries paid play
ers benefits the magnates, no doubt.
but Just where Il is of encouragement
TO the players. is hard to see, except
that II may tend to put the miners
In some cases on frmer business
basis.
The raise in the draft price brought
along with IL as a matter OF course
prospects OF better selling prices.
Where formerly a minor league mag
nate might dispose of good player
fairly cheaply for fear that he would
be drafted, now he will laugh at any
thing below the draft price. The.
rule that minor leaguers must be
given tryouts followed-t naturally the
raise in cost OF drafting. It will tend
to do away with the evil OF major
league teams drafting for the beneflt
OF their minor league friends.
Strange TO say, the rule making II
illegal 10 pay a recruit, being tried
cut in the majors. more than % per
cent greater salary than he had re-