The Detroit times., 1913-05-02
Comiskey Drafted Texas South
4 nav Merely Upon Friends
Recommendation
COBB AND BUSTERS ALL
LOOK ALIKE TO LEFTY
Further Rest Won't Help Tigers
n -CObb's Sentence Con-
sidered Light
BY RALPH l.. YONK Err.

BY RALPH l.. YONKER.
"Reb" Russell, the young White Sox
nouthpaw. who administered announcer
sbeating to the Tigers yesterday al
ternoon. Is living proof OF the mag
Mates statement which is getting 10
be recognized as an axiom namely
that baseball Is a huge gamble.
Big league clubs spend thousands
81 dollars each year combing inc
baseball world TO find baseball play
ers of major league or high class
minor league caliber. They spend
Thousands more for the acquiring oi
kthese players, once they are FOUND.
kThey add a few more thousands train
Hng these players, once acquired.
II q scout turns up one good player
1aurfnx the year on his own hook or
Enter looking over players who nave
kheen tipped of to him by the club Of
FACE. he Is considered wonder
II he gets big pitcher who can
win games, he is considered marvel.
Some White Sox fan wrote TO
Charles Comiskey, president of the
kChicago club. something like this, III
The manner of baseball bugs: This
euy Russell with the Fort Worth club
Vt q great southpaw but doesn't know
anything about pitching. Better grao
Thin on"
Thereupon. without sending scout
koown to examine hi mclosely, looking
Eonly 1t his record and his friends rec
Eommendation, Comiskey put in draft
Tor the big portsider. He got him.
"Reb" Russell is not noted for the
kbrilliance OF his intellect but he has
Etpeed and curves and control.
There are some things that he
doesn't know that are just as well Tor
khim. For instance, he doesn't know
that he must face Cobb and Crawford
with. fear and trembling. He doesn't
know that BODY Veach Is 800 left
Hand hitter who looks just as good
lhcing southpaws as right handlers.
HE u ignorant Of all this. so he mere
m pitches to Cobb and Crawford as
3f they were Stanage and Lake.
They say that he had Joe Jackson
lot the Maps standing on his head.
They sa ythat he had Larry Lajoie
NAMED.
We know that he was sent in in q
Epinch Tuesday with there men on.
none out and Cobb at bat. and that ne
made Cob broll to the pitchers box.
and Veach and Gamer hy out
We know that he held Cobb yester-
day to one legitimate hit and made
Ehim roll to the Infield three times. On !
the last occasion. Russell himself pre- |
Eeented Cobb with Cincinnati base
init when he threw to third too late
Ito get Witt.
~ We know that he held Crawford 10 |
Zone single. the onl ytime in four. that |
E9am got the ball out OF the inreld
We know that veach didn't get the |
hall out OF the infeld yesterday and |
What he let Russell curve the third |
etrike over on 80 count.
81 Russell SENS to have the knack Of |
4 making the best hitters took the
4 easiest. Which Is a valuable knack |
j IN these days.
Russelps home is In Texas, Bonham
Eclaiming him.
Mullin lost the first game that he
deserved to lose yesterday He was
outpitched In the first place and his
teammates made enough runs behind |
him so that II he had been right he
would have been able TO have landed |
Ea victory.
b The White Sox seem to have taken
the Tigers as their victims at the |
time when they began hitting where |
hits were needed instead OF where |
Fthey were wasted.
The three days rest that the Tigers !
Ewere forced to take on account OF
rain the latter part of last week and !
81 the first OF this has demeralized- the
/. pitching stan. The regular men must
get their work about every four days
IL they are TO be in good condition |
and retain their control
B Dubuc lost his game because OF lack
Of work and SO did Mullin
N And worse, the Tigers are due for
fanother rest. Monday and Tuesday !
&They go TO Chicago for one game !
Sunday and then rest Monday and |
*Tuesday. This gives them another |
&fest Just when they don't want H. Il |
[1Way be a couple OF weeks before the |
kaeain and by that time the eastern |
clubs will have cleaned up
h Tiger fans are scheduled 10 get
their first view OF Willett this season |
to-day. according TO the dope Big |
Nd was In shape when a bad cold got |
him and kept him out OF the game. |
Cobb's fine OF $50 and the warning |
<alven him by the national commission |
fln session at Chicago. yesterday, |
EeJoees the holdout episode.
Cobb's fine was lighter than ex-
pected. Walsh was fined 800 when
The held ont few years ago. and II |
was expected that Cobb's fine would
Ebe ut least that much.
In the statement prepared for the !
kDress BY the commission. the Detroit
*club II praised for it's method OF
k1nndling the iioldout and censured
tf0r being lax with Cobb In the past
vETCUT ONLY RJOCK IN