Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14
-FOUR T|GERSSAY
THEY WILL QUIT
Crawford, Cobb, Stanage and
Dubuc in Compact to
Hold Out.
WAHOO SAM TELLS
OF PLAYERS PLANS
King Offered Big Salary by
Tinker-Base Ball Flourish
! ing in Australia.
BY j. ED GRILLO.

Sam Crawford seems to be the leader of
the four players who are holding out ON
the Detroit team. Sam SAYS unless
he. Stanage. Dubuc and Cobb get the
salaries they demand that not one of
them will report for duty this spring.
Crawford is down in New Orleans on a
business trip He is interested in
weighing machine company, and he is es-
tabishing agencies through the south He
pretends To he determined never to don
the spangles again unless he gets the in
crease he is entitled to. and he insists
that Duhuc. Cobb and Stanage have all
agreed to stand out until all of them get
what they want.
II what Crawford says is true. the De.
troit club has conspiracy to deal with
Without these four players Jennings
team would not stand a chance of finish.
ing anywhere but last and yet President
Navin has declared that he VII not &C.
cede to the demands OF the players mem
toned
Crawford argues that if the theatrical
business can afford to pay enormous
sums to actors every week. and theaters
hold only a few hundred people, ball
clubs should DC. able to pay greater sal
aries Here is what he says:
When YOU come to think about the
atrical star getting S1,J0U. and 5000
week for appearing in a theater that
holds only few hundred people and
that we perform before thousands. 1t
looks like the base ball maSnates could
afford something.
Yes unless this hold-out is settled De-
troit will be sort of up against it. There's
Dubuc and Stanage and Cobb and myself
sticking out for more coin. and then Bush
wants to quit. of course. it will be easy
enough to get up team, but It may not
count for anything Maybe they won't
come across. But I shan't Worry.
\ year ago Roger Bresnahan and John
Ming. both great catchers. were man.
ayers of teams. Both have been the
source of much discussion during the
present winter. and both seem destined
10 have new jobs when the next season
rolls around, though they will be found
back in the ranks. Bresnahan has al
ready signed with the Cubs, for which
team ne will catch and now John Killing
has chance to accept splendid oner
from Cincinnati, where he Is to take the
place of Big Larry Mclean, released
Nor is Killing asked to work for nothing
Though he was relegated to the all-in
culm'' during the last campaign. Joe Tin
ker thinks we'll enough Of his ability as
catcher 10 offer him $1,000 for the COM
ing season, rather a healthy amount for
q player who is supposed to have seen
his best days. King has not vet accept
ed the proposition but there is no doubt
he will Tinker figures that King will do
much to make his team a pennant con-
tender.
Fielder Jones thinks Frank l.. Chance
will no, succeed as manager of the New
York Yanks. Jimmy Callahan is sure
Frank L. Chance will make a success of
il. Fielder Jones is a pessimiSt and CAL
Iahan is an optimist. However. there is
a heap Of truth in the reasoning of Jones
and batch of good fellowship and di-
plomacy in the comments of Callahan,
says the Detroit News.
When Frank L. Chance takes hold of
the New York club he will discover one
Or two fair pitchers. Ford is not one of
them. He ranked at the tail end of the
pitching list in III. and there was moth
ing in his work that predicted reversal
Of form this year Chance will find
good outficlder in Cree. and will have in
chase the best fielding first sacker in the
game if ne is inclined to hustle. Behind
the bat he will have corking good back
stop in Sweeney.
This layout is far different from the
Tub machine which Chance led to fame.
Stenfeldt and Tinker and Evers and
Chance on the infield; Brown. Overall
Reulbach and Pfeister pitching. King and
Archer catching. Holman. Schultz and
Sheckard in the outfield This is the out
III that landed pennants and world cham
pionshps for Chicago. You must go to
Philadelphia to find its equal in modern
base ball
In New York Chance will be asked
10 do the same thing that he did in Chi
ago. He cannot be expected to. not
with reasoning. but the average fan does
not stop to reason. He wants winner
and If the team he is helping support is
not a winner the manager is failure
Joe Tinker says Chance could take nine
schoolboys and make a showing in either
ma jor league. meaning that ii was Chance
and not the players that made the Chi
CdSo Cubs great team. But Tinker
worked under Chance and he is loyal and
modest. What he says sounds good
but
The assertion of Charles &. Sphinx. pub
Usher of the Sporting News. of ST. Louis
that Australians await only an invasion
from a big American base ball team TO
surrender all other sports, cricket in