The Detroit times., 1912-05-16
.
is MACHS BIG MISTAKE,
LEFTY RUSSELL, TO Do A
MARQUARD FOR CONNIE?
Southpaw Who Has Proved an
Expensive Lemon May
Come To Life
1T WOULD PLEASE MACK
Then the Willy Athletic Leader
Would Have a Chance To
Laugh at Critics.
BY RALPH L. YONKER.


with lack Coombs and Chief Ben
der on the verge OF being out OF the
game. what will make Connie MACK
smile up his sleeve and grin out IN
front? What will make Connie MACK
wink at fandom as he smiles at the
Newspaper critics and murmurs, JUST
as ! thought" ~,
A marquard by Lefty Russei VIII
do that!
(Alarquard-noun, singular, mascu'
line, meaning a postponement III pa!
ment OF dividends by BAH player
On the same idea as delayed steal.
Derived from the latter part OF 'he
cognomen, Rube Marquard')
Connie Mack refers to Russell as MS
one extravaganza. Mack paid t-W-e-i-V-e
t-h-o-u-s-a-nd w-h-o-l-e good dol
lars 10 get the southpaw. He got
him from the Baltimore Orioles ana
very expensive bird he proved TO De.
II was three years ago that Cor
nelins let himself be caioled into part
ing with so much good money Tor SO
little pitching ability and he never mas
heard the last OF IT, =,
BEING n wise man In his baseDall
deals-being SO wise that he can al
ford To admit that he made this big
mistake--he has let IL be known that
he wasn't quite as shrewd as usual
when the left-hander was packed on
on him.
Connie has let all the knockers have
their fun at his expense. He has ad-
mitted his spendthrift nature IN ac-
curing Mr.. Russell but he has clung
To him like flea to the western por-
ton OF an east bound dog.
Now. some bugs are beginning 10
wonder If Russell Is going TO mar
auard (using IL this time as a verb,
n Won don't mind. The two years he
has been in the big show must have
taught him a whole lot about the foot
lights. The first year he got so much
newspaper panning that he was heart
broken. Being already, immune from
further fractures of the pumping sta
ton, the press-box can slap him TO a
puIp and he won't care. Last year ne
reported sick and stayed i'll most oil
the time.
This year no alibi has been set up
and his enemies are wondering II that
means that he is going TO join Chief
Bender and Eddie Plank.
The men whom the Tigers were
scheduled to begin their four-game
series with today are the champions OF
the world. Without an exception
the Philadelphia team is made up OF
those who won last years Big Pen
nant.
Lord, Oldring, Collins, Baker, Muir
ply, McInnes, Barry and Lapp or
Thomas is a duplicate OF the batting
order that went into the worlds series,
except that McInnes had TO remain
out on account OF an injury, so Harry
Datis, now Nap manager, took his
place. snai
Philadelphia is the only American
league team that has not made import
ant changes since last year. Witt and
Louden are the main additions TO the
Tigers. Weaver and Rath at short and
third, are new TO the White Sox. Pratt
at second and Stoyall at first are
strange faces In the Brown lineup.
Buddy Ryan in the outfield and Holm
horst at first, as well as Manager
Davis, are Cleveland strangers. A new
manager runs the Red Sox and plays
first base. Martin at short is I'M
familiar in New York, while Washing
ton has Foster at third as a new
conner