The Detroit times., 1912-07-25
ZONE JIM is A CUB STAR
:. ANOTHER JIM is fAIlUREI
s BOTH RELATED TO TIGERS
Jimmy Lavender, Who Cut Mar
p guards String, is First;
Maroney is Second
RIXEY ALSO A SENSATION
Big Collegian Says That Playing
Ball is as Honorable a Pro-
= fession as Medicine
RIxEY ALSO A SENSATION
Picking winning pitchers isn't art;

That would seem to be the conclu-
sion one would have to come TO in
rejecting upon the maneuvers OF
ECharles Murphy, OF the Cubs, with the
Tigers.
One pitcher whom the Tigers just
missed getting Is the main Chicago
Webster; another that he signed after
N the Tigers had turned him loose Is a
Tree agent agent.
m Jimmy Lavender is the first named :
1immy Maroney is the second.
Jimmy Lavender, the little chap
who upended RUDE Marquard and
atopped his winning streak at 10, on
the verge Of worlds record, is a
Cub because he was wished upon
Charlie Murphy by the national com
Emission.
Murphy tried to get rid OF Lavender
IN the early spring, but because he
sold him TO Montreal, after buying
him from Providence OF the same
league, the commission sent him back
to the Cubs.
Rather than let him go back to
providence, Murphy hung on to him.
Had he gone to Providence he would
have been a Tiger ere this.
II any man has right to run
around the rim OF a wheel and pat
himself on the back, Charlie Murphy
Is Il, for Lavender, who didn't look
good enough to keep, Is now the big
gest drawing card at the Cub park.
He is so popular that women fans are
wearing lavender and the haberdash-
feries report big sales on lavender
socks, neckties, shirts and handker-
ichiefs.
Denting Marquard's crown isn't Law
l., L. pnfn II.
ding on the left.hander he had travelled
some 80 innings without being scored
upon.
Also he had trimmed the $22,500
fbeaut, Marty O'Toole. SO when you
add Marquard, an $11, 200 proposition.
the gift-pitcher has served up S35,50O
worth of pitching hash for the Cub
supporters TO relish.
Not only did Lavender do this, but
Die came right back within a few days
when the Giants stopped of on their
way home from st. Louis, to play a
postponed game, and repeated the
Treatment
Lavender and Larry Cheney are the
Cubs only winning pitchers and will
DE the nucleus OF the 1913 pitching
stan which Manager Frank Chance
is now gathering.
bouthpaw who has been tried by
half dozen major league teams and
Always turned loose a free agent, be-
cause ne is a Yankee and has seen
DO It that the contracts he signs with
basebail clubs make him free agent
when ne Is through.
The news OF his release from the
Cubs was announced yesterday.
Though Jimmy Lavender il sen.
nation, there Is another National
Neaguer who has him beat to a spume
lust now.
81 Displacing six feet four OF atmos-
Ephere, Eppa Rixey (not 1t Is not a
new summer drink Is q National
Neague sensation.
This chap, whose name sounds like
IA class yell cut short by the police,
is member OF the Phillies and "Smil-
Hng Charlie" Doom, for once in his
Uinx-ridden career, seems to have
Rrabbed live one.
IA Eppa Rixey Is one OF the Rixeys
of Virginia, and can write F. F. V.
without making Harry Lee turn over
In his grave.
The decision of Eppa to take up
baseball was not reached without
many family councils under the Rixie
roof at Culpepper, Va. One OF Eppa's
Unncles Is Surgeon-General p. M.
IRixey, u. s. NJ, retired as rear-ad-,
E|niral, upon whose chest Alfonso XIII.
hung medal for services rendered
Nng an explosion Another was the
late John Franklin Rixey, congress
IMAM from the Old Dominion.
n Emma mad tn arpua hefora his faith.
er, an insurance man, gave his con-
Dent. Despite the shock to conserva-
Tive F. r. VS. young Rixey cannot I'M
Herstand how he Is violating the con-
tentlcns by playing ball.
II He believes that If he makes good
he will have done as much toward
npholdlng the proud name OF one OF
The Oldest families OF Virginia. as
have other Rixeys whose names are
chIseled in the marble walls OF the
hall OF fame.
Rixey is 81. He is a big, loose.jont-
ID boy, who pitched phenomenal ball
Tor tine University Of Virginia He
has wop three of the four games he
has pitched for Philadelphia and
against the Cubs looked a world.beat-
Or. He is one recruit pitcher who
pitches with his head.
IL Il nave taken up baseball because
believe can pitch" explains Rixey.
II intend to continue my school work
until take degree, either in chem
istry or medicine. Then ! will either
decide to continue playing ball or
take up one OF the other professions.
III ! make good with Philadelphia.
will continue to pitch. | know l
cant play bail all my life, and when
IA am through can fall back OF one
81 the other professions. cannot see
why baif-piaying should bring any
tiscredit to the family II is as hon.
cradle as any other profession could
choose. | think | did a good thing
when ! TUNED TO baseball"
Which seems TO prove that this
scion OF an ancient line carries a
sensible head on his broad shoulders.
Also IL Indicates pretty Clearly what
Iaecball has come 10 WhcN " CHTSS
attractions 70 yonngster OF the