The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-12
STAttlNess IS LIKELY
TO Be FOOLED If HE
EXPECTS TO GET lOUDEN
Payne vouches For Tiger Re-
cruit's Ability in Field
and at Bat
STALLINGS WANTS HIM
STALLINGS WANTS HIM
Would Like to Make Deal To
Get the Player if He Doesn t
Make Good Here
Nv RAIPH L. YoNKER.

BY RALPH L. YoNkER.
George Stallings is likely 10 be dis
appointed IL he Is figuring on getting
"Blll'. Louden from the Tigers after
the training trip, according TO Fred
Payne who played five games with
tho former Newark infielder towards
the last or the season of 1911.
'T.ouden was playing shortstop
when saw him." deposes Payne, and
he certainly showed some class both
as a fielder and in the hitting. lie
is one of the greatest hit.and.run bat
iers who played in the Eastern league
last year"
A Buffalo paper vouchsafes that 1T
Il an open secret that Stallings would
Ike IIouden TO round out his infeld
The story Ia that when Stallings
abroeated the Detroit-Buffalo agree
ment, thus making it possible for
President Navin to send his surplus
Tigers to Providence, Nayin promised
that he could have Louden, provided
he could make a deal with-Newark.
THE rule Is that before Louden
can be turned back TO any minor
league club, he must first be offered
10 Newark, the organization from
which he came When Stallings ap-
preached McGinnity and announced
his desire for Louden, the astute iron
man In said TO have replied, Yes,
III give him to you for McCabe.
'.As Louden Is the property OF the
Detroit club. and not the Newark
club. Stallings came back with this
counter proposition, You let me buy
Louden from Detroit, and then III
trade you McCabe for Kelly. No
trade has vet been pulled on between
the two clubs.
And II seems to be safe bet that
none OF that sort will be.
lust which one Of the Detroit pitch7
ing recruits will 1t be this year that
will make the Cleveland batters look
as II they did not know the purpose
for Which their bats were made, they
are wondering over in Cleveland, ac-
cording TO reports. from the above
league. History tells US that Jennings
generally has q recruit pitcher or so
who has the Maps number, even
though he il unable to turn the trick
AGAINST the other six clubs in tho
+ league. Back few years. there was
John Eubanks, who, did not have a
thing outside OF the ability to down
the Maps now and then. In fact, the
Maps kept Eubanks in the league for
several months. He was frost against
other clubs in the circuit but mys-
ferys to the Clevelanders, even shut
ting them out in one game.
Then came Browning, diminutiye
AuFlef from the coast Cleveland start
ed the season OF 1910 by taking the
first two games from the Tigers. Then,
in despair, Jennings sent Browning to
the mound, the Maps having treated
his veterans very harshly. Browning
was a puzzle and won his game with
case, repeating a week later In Cleye-
hand. Not long afterward, he blew
back to the Coast league, being unable
to deceive the batters OF other clubs
rs he had the Clevelanders.
Last spring. Cleveland was unfortu-
nate enough TO have TO play number
cf games with Detroit at the outset
of the season. Jennings had Coving-
ton, Lively and LATTE right on edge,
while the majority OF the Cleveland
pitchers we're either stale or the own
ers OF sore arms. As a result, Detroit
won nearly every game and those re-
cruits that Jennings sent against the
McGuire-Stovall brigade looked like
the best ever. A little later on, how
ever. they did not look so good and
you do not hear Detroiters Dragging
about the abiiity anyone of-the.
three, Lively has already been sent
back to the minors, while Covington
and LATTE are to receive a further
locking over.