The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-04-26
TY COBB SIGNS
CONTRACT WITH
DETROIT TIGERS
Affixes Signature to Document
After Conference Here
with Navin
WILL NOT BE IN GAME
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
Commission Must Have Is Say
Before He Can Start
Playing Ball


beset the Detroit Tigers this season
Is overcome.
Ty Cobb has signed his contract
and will be In the Detroit lineup
within a week.
The contract calls for less tlan
$4,000 and Is for one yeaL II taxes
effect May !.
Cobb will not be in the game Until
the National commission reinsates
him and thus makes his contract
valid.
The announcement that Cobb had
penned his classic name TO an once
manuscript OF the Detroit Bseball
club came after secret conference
held IN the private Office OF FINK ).
Navin, president OF the club. riday
afternoon.
The conference lasted abOu two
hours. Cobb appeared at Headquarters
shortly before noon, greeting Frank
Navin and his other friends thTe
pleasantly. chatting few memens
and then vanishing into the corhr
ONCE with President Navin.
President Navip would not discioe
the amount for which the contrat
calls, but 1t IL known to be less tina
$4,000. The contract covers ON
one year.
That Ty would sign quickly wa
expected by mutual friends. Ever.
time the door Of Navin's office opene'
they were expecting the announce
ment that he had signed.
That Cobb would not get $l5 900
year was anticipated before he Ell
tered the conference. for he had a
mitted before that that he had new
expected that amount, but that
had named 1t simply as starter
negotiations with the Detroit cl'.
The Detroit club sent Cobb a CO
tract calling for the same sally
that he received last year, $50.
merely as Formally. Then ire
Twas a hitch in proceedings, with
are we'll known to the fans, for1e
Cobb matter has attracted moreS-
|tention than anything else In bs-
ball this year.
Only few days ago. Cobb Ay
he received real proposition ro'
Navin and decided to come norh I
confer with the latter about It, IL
came In response to telegram ser
him while he was in Augusta.
Navin wired Cobb to come alon
after Vaughan CHASER, the actor, ha
interceded with him and maze pos
sible the overtures that were made
Navin said when he sent the mes
sage to Cobb that he thought tina
he was treating Ty only faf In go
ing part way.
Cobb cannot get into the game
right away for he has not been In
uniform since April 8, at which time
he completed his tour through Geor-
gia with a picked-up club.
While the differences OF the pas
are all practically dead. there are g
few things that were cleared VI
whenaCobb came here which deserve
mention.
Navin's statement that Cobb fail
ed to treat the club fairly In not re
porting for the training trip in til.
south Is answered byfCobb who say
that he would have had to pay n
own expenses down there inasmue
as he had not signed.
Cobb doesn't appear to be peew
at anybody for what has been 81
and done during the time that Q
was holding out. file says that VIE
he used to be painfully senste
about everything said about HMM
the press. he has become somesat
used to overlooking many Tugs
now and holds no grudges beuse
some one happens to criticize hi
I The story from Cobb's own y OF
the battle with young dege
kchap down south shows that Tyave
the young man every chance. the
world to make due apologies In
suits and that Cobb protected mself
only when the other man ew a,
gun. Cobb Ii sorry that thQatter
came up and believes that thsimple
explanation will end discussi Of II. :
1t was interesting to seCobb's
eyes twinkle as he looked lusedly
straight at the questioner ven ask
, ed II he really. deep dow In his
heart. thought that the Debt club p
would start the season witut him.
Cobb replied that he most ertainly
thought that they wouldf Navin
decided to do so. but said at 1t was
absurd to think that the fair was
press agent stun. He So that IT
frst he, himself. thoughtthat per-
haps II was and so he gre out in
tterviews to help II along but when
he saw that no overture, were be-
ing made by President Navin, he
was convinced that IT was down.
right serious. N
Cobb said that the 5000 contract
sent him might have ben for mere
formality. but he laugfd as he said
that he didn't think ,at II wosM
have been returned TO I'm II he had
signed Il. -
Cobb has never selously consid-
cred the offer he receaed this morn
ing from the Clevslsd club In the
Federal league, an otlaw orsanisaY
ton, which sent. rem over from
Cleveland to offer Ty3is.ooo . pear
to captain the ciubth Cy Young
signed to manage esterday,
I'm no fool We his only coa-
rsnt IN accsutipO fhA OfYap