The Detroit times., 1912-12-18
Should Get Together as They
Did on the Chance
Proposition
JENNINGS SCOUTS REASON
FOR CORRIDEN'S FAILURE
Doesn't Think That the Cobb
Lajoie-C -Corriden Incident
Worried Red
By RALPH L. yoNKER.

American league magnates GOT 10
-ether very effectively for the purpose
II getting Frank Chance away from
lie National league for New York.
They might we'll get together ana
persuade Ty Cobb TO keep still about
hat $4,000 year stun with con-
,Iact for three years which is suppos-
ed TO be his demands from the De
lroit club.
The American league magnates
night better see to IL that Ty gets
$4,000 or $4,000 year for three
Years, whether the Detroit club pays
lin that salary or the various clubs
set together and put up the ante. Ia
order to keep him quiet.
Tie publicity that has been given
this $4,000 proposition (Which IS
more or less OF suppositior anyway
IL very likely to make other star play
|ers become restless. Eddie Collins
won't be able to see why he should've
Get q big increase II Ty is going TO
ct $4,000 a year. Ed Walsh will
wonder II he isn't due for big boost.
And 80 on--with the result that tie
stars Of the clubs will be getting big
ger salaries than ever all over. sin!-
ply because Cobb gets more.
Cobb refused to say that $4,000 a
wear for three years Is his demand.
rhe baseball financiers who neither
give nor receive the clubs money
Lave figured that that is about what
| Ty would want and Ty has let them
20 at that basis, for that suits him as
we'll as any other that the story writ
ers care to hit upon.
FIsa ~ t<..N hnN f.ax.
stories have worried the other club
nagnates more than they have Nayit.
lie Is fairly sure Of himself. but the
5thers don't know how many of their
.tars less valuable than Ty are likely
10 kick In with demands for biz
-aises
In the meantime, II the Baseball
Players Fraternity wants to do some
Effective work, they might start n
rress bureau to boost reports that
rlayers are to receive big incI eases
In salaries.
Hughie jennings is sorry to see Red
|Corriden leave, the Tigers, despite the
act that he thinks the Chance Geal
nne one.
Jennings has always had a warm
lace I'm his heart for the little fellow
rom Logansport and II was with sor-
low that he had TO part with him.
.ast fall, when Red was getting pan
ed by the fans for being $l2,50o
Ilemon, Jennings insisted that Corri-
len would be a star IF the panners
would only lay off him."
Hughie thinks that the Cubs have
man In him Who will be very vala-
eble to them In future years. He
gives no reason besides that mention
I'd above for Corriden's not making
Eood here last fall.
There Is an idea prevalent that
yorriden never felt at ease hero be
ause of the Cobb-Lajoie incident OF
eyeral seasons back Ii will be re-
membered that at that time Cobb and
.ajoie were both trying to crank up
he automobile given to the leading
atsman. Cobb already had his hard
n the crank when Lajoie went down
O ST. Louis and corraled dozen hits
br so In about IL times at bat and
save Ty the scare of his life.
Now the cause OF these hits was
sscribed to the poor playing OF Corri.
lien who. being given a trial with tie
Isl. Louis Browns. failed to handle La
oie's bunts properly. letting them so
Is hits
II looked TO many as IL Corriden
|yere simply frightened chilly and that
he did the best he could, considering
is lack of confidence. But there were
hose who raised the cry that Corri
len was in league with Larry and
ried to help him turn 'er over"
Bringing this incident back to prom
nence, II hauls out OF the past the
dea that Corriden never felt that he
rould do his best on a team on which
,obb was playing.
Hughie thinks there Is nothing In IL.
Wild Bill Donovan Is not football
an. He was III al home as a guest
bf honor at the banquet given the
,ridders of the University OF Detroi.
by the alumni Monday and he admit.
ed Il.
He likes TO follow the game through
he papers, but he seldom gets out to
ee the games themselves.
Baseball fans cannot understand
Why men like Hughle Jennings who
ppear before thousands OF people
very year without the least embar.
BASEMENT show signs OF extreme nerv-
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