The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-04-09
There's Your C0ntrzel
1t or Leave IT, He says
to Georgia Peach
THINKS CLUB UNFAuyEY5
TREATED BY NCnEA1 90
Refused to Lend Aid = DEawi
Crowds and HelplnG ~.
cruits This SDring

Cobb win not get what ~ =
manding." said Frank J. Neyln.
ident Of the Detroit baseball tlnI
morning, when he learned tSnf r. f.
mad failed 70 report Ct st. LoU11 s7 Ii3
Cobb Will not get 4lS.o0o = yt1
His demands are entirely unr x
able and II he refuses to sim " q
tract at what we CONSIDER t6lF =
IRE We will get along witho0t y
We have done It before and On ~
again. 81 W.
y intend TO run the Detroit boael
club for while yet. n Cobb buy0 r.
then NJ can run It to suit hjI6G
Dut az long - ! am supposed q III +
its head, ! shall manage Il - ! t1 =
lieve best S' IN
Il know that the club cannot S
ford to give Cobb what Ae o. g
and 20 believe that I an 1uaAn nn1 4 r. :
refusing to do 80. even thouoh lG G2
mean the loss OF some OF our pred
In the American league. IL. .. i
Cobb has not treated n fAir1y s
the spring games matter this yoar. V
stead Of lending his aid to us IN lfs3 A
ing crowds at the exhibdtioa sSr1
and In helping Manager JonniS 11
his work with the recruits. ~ = 7
been transforming With. - 6i n
through the south. gs's r. w
This and other thinrs hnv~s
the Detroit club feel mono too ffiS
towards Cobb and have not
him to get what he wants.
He was sent one contract
returned unsigned. He has n0f
sent another contract. but IT,
one to at my once awaiting ~
nature any time he4 e4cares q ~
on 1t.
II don't know where he y ro~r y
what he is doing. don't know Who11
er he viii report or not. Hut / Y
know that this ultimatum II lnal q Z
that he must eithers take what v&i
offered or leave It. We have reaIiSS11 n
his great value and have raised Eei]
salary over what he received lnnf.
year. but not 40 much a. he wishes, N
President Navin will not see th6l
opening game at st. Louis Thursdny.
He will 90 over to Cleveland "a 80
the Tigers meet the Maps there a.
the fourteenth. D
While Cobb's contract may be ~
the vaults at Navin's once. Cobb can
nevertheless play at st. Louis u hol
reports there and agrees to aim Nm
He can play nve games before foemsj..
ly putting his name to q CONTRACT. .-.;
Cobb 10 already subject TO r nne O.
800 for not reporting before the 49,
son began. Navin says that Re can.s
not tell whether the line wifi - r d.
posed because he doesn't Know whetk.
er Cobb Will report ur not.
In fact, Navin really doesn't expecfI
Iy TO show up. He says that ~
doesn't and says II in a way that cars
ries conviction. e
L am not worrying about Ty's NOD
reporting said .Nayin. 'If we vero
up there trying to win q pennant
might worry. bat a. Il is. since ~
nave TO develop new team anyway.
can't bother about Cobb. Of cournS,
am not so foolish rs to do Any1HInf
TO discourage his signing. -b0g ft W6irf'
break my heart II ne doesn't
story from Spartanburx, q. c..
says that Cobb engaged in : rougil
ana tumble fight fifth -RutledRe o.
borne. q member Of the Wo0ord col
lege baseball team, In q room In !
lotei there Tuesday night and that
news OF the affaff leaked out after
they had tried TO keep II secret.
There are two sides to the story.
Cobb's friends say that Osborne took
onense at a fancied insult from Cobb.
refused to accept an apology and was
beaten by Cobb In self-defense. Os-
borne's story Is that Cobb insulted
nj mduring last Saturdays game and
that there would have been q Hxht
then and there had not players inter,
Tered. Water. Osborne says, he was
entired into Cobb's room thinkinx
that he was to receive an apology, but
In reality was beaten.