The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-21
STRIKE WAS CRUclBlE
THAT MELTED TIGERS
INTO A FIRMER UNION
nv Cobb Is Now More One Oh
the Team Than He Has
Ever Been Before
NAvIN's SETTL E M Z N I
Letting Tigers and Johnson
Both Claim Victory, NaVih
Was Biggest Victor
NAv1Ns SETTLEMENT
nv RALPH L. YONKER.

4.
The baseball strike was the 80,
that the Detroit Baseball cup Iia
have needed more than anythihs o'
The baseball strike turnishe' IA "a
heat that welded together In soiI
snass a score of players, some Oh VIM
rad shown a tendency TO oriil a""
from united effort. a. ,r,ar
Tha baseball strike gave the tlser
angle common purpose that ue
y,,anded that they stick together O.
80 nothing else in the history OF Nn'
team. ana =,
nothar and one to the team, as
.,hola e infinitely more closely XIII
anw than II ever has been before.
sympathy has been created anIone
ther chat only the seyerest triai car
chiaf TO be affected by this new
Aand ~ Tyrus Cobb. The recent un
&,saaantness has brought toge.hel
ghting for him all the men OF tne
eam Had Cobb any reason 10 tnihs
hat his teammates wouldn't slaha oy
Lim n has been shattered. HAD ~
.emmates any reason TO think tnal
6obb is not appreciative OF .hen' =
Is shattered. or
There is nothing that brings meI
together in such a strong oond el .el
iowship as lighting Tor the san1
cause. Anything of common lnteres'
promotes friendship. A common oaa9e
10 struggle for strengthens every
bond -, -
maing between Cobb and his mates
they are strange men.
president Ban B. johnson has oeen
eredited. even by his enemies WIN
he doing away with rowdyism Oh the
baseball field.
,The events of the past few days
have nut sauarely up to him his mex.
40 proposition. Let that iron oeno
6f his crush rowdyism in the STANDS.
what il he says 1t Is up to the own
crz Of the parks to solve that prop
/sm! II might have been up te en'
0owncrs to solve the question OF TOW
1yism on the field II johnson nacn
taken a hand in 1t.
Here Is glorious field Tor ban
night fist OF mail. Let him crlsn
ne too strenuous fan as he has the
go strenuous baseball player
He has always used his mighty
Sower TO subdue the player Why not
nse 1t now to protect him. Tor
change?
But. perhaps, Ban won't have to use
his influence at all Perhaps, there
Efu be little undue rowdyism in the
stsnds In the future. Perhaps, the
pnblicity given the strike has done
more than Johnson or any other agent
could in checking the too enthusiastic
Ian.
Each side of the controversy claims
THAT the settlement Of the strike ycs'
{erday was a victory for 1t.
As was predicted, Ban Johnson sun
/etains his dignity in spite OF the
Light place in which he was squeezed
He was forced to the wall and made
10 fight In the only way he could. re
/sising and unable to give an inch.
W But while Johnson was backed IT
f8rainst the wall, he drew In froEt OF
him President Navin, OF the Tigers
WHO was forced to stand the blows
that were directed at him.
johnson has demonstrated again
that he is shrewd and crafty. He has
demonstrated that he cannot be
forced easily into submission.
81 II would have been interesting Il
zee how we'll ne would have stood
The gan today IL the strike had beer
but up to the magnates There II
more thar accessibility that the mag
mates would. have reversed some
his rulings and sat Mr. Ban johnson
Gown hard.
H johnson surely can claim tech
Nnical victory. He set out to force tn
Tigers to play without Cobb. Thi
he mas done. Furthermore he ha
given them no definite announcement
as to when Tyrus will be reinstated
Still furthermore, he has fined then
an and threatens to fine Navin if h
discovers MIN paying the assessment
OF any OF the players. AS Navin hai
publicly declared that that is what h,
is going to do, it's up TO Ban.
On the other hand, the Tigers hav,
gained everything there is to be gain
Aed. There were two principles TO-
(which they were Sighting as given IL
their Official statement, hereto APP
pended They have given most salts
FACTORY publicity TO their reasons fol
1Ipholding both of them. Nothinl
more could be desired at this stag,
|bf the game.
That better protection from FAM
will be provided and less needed goes
without saying. The injustice of tn,
baseball custom of suspending In
Bbhnitely a man who has not beef
round guilty has been brought forci
bly, TO the public.
Every baseball player In the coun
fry owes the Tigers a debt or graf
Iude for what they have done for hin
IL the promotion OF this publicity.
In any event the settlement was
victory for Frank Nayln. Arriving. 4
philadelphia, yesterday morning; N
had closed the last cever OF the bis
tsti baseball history OF the year be
lore evening NlJ ~
when be arrived the Tigers wer
arm In their refusal to play. johnson
1ns stubborn. The Tigers met IN on
hotel. Johnson was In another. Nayil
held confcrences with each party.
IA pleaded with The Tigers. show