The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-25
Option Held by Buffalo on Which
Tigers Had Right EX-
pired Too Soon
. PROVIDENCE HAS NOT
BEEN VERY FRUITFUL
Returns Two Players to Tigers
W Sends Only One New
Man to Club
By RALPH L. YONKER.

/, Walker, leading slugger OF the
American association. by single day
several years before ne had joined
the Washington club, because OF
mistake in the office Of the Buffalo
baseball office.
This same player has just been
sold to the St Louis Browns by Kan
sas City for cash and players esti-
mated TO be worth $1,000 after De-
troit had put in bid for him.
The securing OF Walker by Presi-
/ dent Hedges is said to be the biggest
baseball deal that man has ever pull
/ ed of. George Tebe au visited in 81.
Louis while Charlie Carr was In 81
Louis. Deals were pending with both
! clubs. Detroit couldn't come through
| with the players Kansas City wanted
and St. Louis could, so the Browns
got Walker.
Three players, Pitcher Allison. and
! Outfielders Compton and Brief. go to
, Kansas City as part payment for the
star.
Walker is discard from the Wash
fngton club. Washington had him In
1911. The Senators got him simply
because the Buffalo club failed to be
on the job In notifying President
Navin of the Tigers. of the expira-
ton of an option on the player.
Walker was outfielding down In
one of the southern leagues when
the scouts began loking him over
carefully. The Buffalo club. of the
Eastern league had an option on him.
Detroit secured the option from Buff
falo and intended TO close the deal
for him. In the meantime waiting for
word from Buffalo as TO when the OPP
ton expired Word came from Buff
falo, but the date named was the
day after the option expired and not
the day on which Ii was no longer
of value
Just as the Detroit club was about
to step in and exercise its right TO the
player, the Washington club took
him. Years after, when Walker had
gone through the big league mill
and been returned TO the minors. the
Tigers again tried In vain to land
him.
Paddy Beauman, Eide Onslow and
AL Platte may be considered the crop
OF players furnished the Tigers by
the Providence club, a farm for
Detroit. The two latter have just
been turned over.
The harvest time is nearly gone.
Only the whisps that have been left
In the bushes by the demon CLEAN
ers with their gumshoes, sharp eyes
and bales OF greenbacks. Will be
blown into the majors by the draft,
the season for which starts today.
This cannot be called a wonderful
. crop, since two-thirds Of 1t was mere
Iy transplanted from the Detroit to
the Providence ga>-Sen for while
only to be called back Eddie On
slow. secured from the Lansing club,
7 was sent to Providence last year by1
7, the Tifers Paddy Bauman had pre-
ceded him by the same route.
AL Platte was secured from Cadil-
/: lac. in the Michigan State league. ''r
( the Providence club He is really
!. the only player secured and develop
{; cd by the Greys for the Tigers.
The failure OF Detroit to haul In
K inv more players makes II lok as
II II were a contest to let the rest
3 Of the men go 10 the draft.
The fact that there have been 20
more transfers from Providence TO
Detroit has given rse to reports n
the east that the owners OF the
Providence club were to sell out
This Is denied by President Van Du-
sen and Manager Donovan. however,
Providence and by Navin and Jen-
nings, part owners. In Detroit.
Eddie Oslow may get a chance 10
get In afew games for Detroit just
to see what he is capable Of Tut
weller, the Tigers regular first
sacker. now Is really an outfielder.
Henry Rondeau. catcher. whose
transfer TO the Minneapolis club In
the deal for Comstock. has zeen an.
nounced doesn't like the idea OF go
\ ing north into the land OF Yonson be.
\ cause the young woman he is to mar
ry, Marian Cote. of Woonsocket. r. l..
cannot speak word Of English and
not a syllable of Swedish
However. Rondeau will undoubtedly
report TO the Millers Immediately for
4 they need him In their race for the
pennant with Milwaukee.
Ralph Comstock. the spltball pitch
er from that club, who has reported
TO the Tigers. will probably get a
y chance to work today or tomorrow
II Ty Cobb had FIRST position i'm the
American league batting percentages
4 on3cially yesterday he held IL for only
~ hours, for ole Jackson. Nap ex.
A traordinary. made two hits in -four
times up yesterday against Ford OF
(, the Yankees, while Cobb went hitless
against Mosely OF the Red Sox.
According 10 the best figures OBJ
/. tainuble this gives dickson a lead oil
two points with an average OF 39l.
Detroit has purchased Pitcher Rem
fer. woh was with the club some time
|< 900 from, the Ottawa cIuh of tho Gan