Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16

as predicting Cavanagh as the next
champion, as | personally fancy
Goullet, but this big fellow Cavan-
agh has come to stay and Newark
| will be proud of him one of these
days.
Just received the following tele-
gram from Jimmy Moran:
DO I ride Philadelphia Thursday +?
Answer"
! I replied:
Three games for you here Thursday
two at the ball park and one at
Point Breeze"
p. S.-Moran hasn't missed a
double-header ball game in ten years
two games for one admission is
Jimmy's long suit. Yours,
MCFARLAND.
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Ty Cobb is in more trouble. but
this time it is of his own making. AS
a result of an argument with Umpire
| Hildebrand, Cobb has been set down
indefinitely. His pay goes on how
ever, but the Detroit club will lose the
services of the most valuable player
in baseball during the period of
Cobb's suspension. Nevertheless,
Cobb or no Cobb, baseball is too large
a proposition to monkey with. Better
lose Cobb for a while or for all time,
for that matter, than stand aside and
allow one star player to lord it over
an entire organization, as Cobb has
attempted to do on more than one
occasion
Ban Johnson in suspending Cobb
shows that all players look alike to
him. The American League president
has had trouble with the Georgia
Peach" before and Ban has yet to
record a defeat. Cobb stands up like
gamecock, though, be it said, and he
fights back on every occasion with
pronounced vigor; but it is only a mite
in a mammoth swirl.
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| AS things have been going at De-
troit. it looks as If Cobb might not
be overlooked with his job on the
| Tiger team. He has always felt, it is
claimed, that the little Michigan city
was too small for such a big fellow
| in baseball, and he has had longing
eyes on New York and Chicago for
/ tx.fo ho
when once upon a time, just as Hal
Chase was seeing his finish as man
ager of the Yankees and before Harry
| Wolverton had taken UP the cudgels
and Tyrus Raymond Cobb was secret
| ly spoken of as figure in a trade,
whereby Chase and a money consid-
GRAFTON would bring the Peach" to
New York, Mr.. Cobb was so delighted
that he let it be known that he would
put real soft pedal on the salary
question and would give his best serv-
| ices to the Yankees for something like
$4,000 q year. That was some give
| in" as far as Cobb was concerned
but the negotiations missed fire Cobb
remained in Detroit and, from all APP
pearances. he has been very I'M
happy man ever since. Immediately
he demanded big raise in salary
and he got it, and this season he
jumped his demands up to $4,000, and
he didn't get it. He did pretty WELL
though, thank you, as the Detroit
club came through, it is said with
s12, 500 for Tyrus.
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Big money and all though, Cobb is
not content. When he didn't get his
demand of $4,000 he felt hurt, of
course, and he has played some of the
time as if he didn't care whether
school kept or not. His batting, for
which he is noted, and of which he is
naturally very proud. was all that
could possibly be desired He led the
world in his early games, and even
now he Is batting 400. 1t cannot be
said with any fairness that Cobb is
laying down." but it is the almost
general opinion that he ISN'T entirely
satisfied" with his job. He would like
/ TO make cndnSe anu Detrolt, very
| likely. would be willing, only if Cobb
were to leave Tigertown the fans out
there would holler 'holy murder!"
and baseball would. for a time at
least, be given discolored optic.
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AS far as the suspension is con-
cerned, the Detroit club gets all the
worst of it. Cobbs salary goes on
just the same and the team is not
getting the benefit of his valua BILE
services. President Johnson knows
all this and understands 1t all, still
he also knows that he must enforce
the laws, stick for discipline, uphold
his umpires and let him who may