Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23
BIG -FOUR HOLDS OUT
Situation Serious for Cobb,
Crawford, Stanage and Dubuc
MAGNATE MAVlN 0BDURATE
Rebellious Players Notified Not to
Go to Training
Ground.
'ecial Dispatch TO The Star.


| DETROIT. February ~. = The Tigers
started for Gulfport. Miss. today. from
various parts of the country. Only Il
/ half dozen rendezvoused in Detroit. Jen-
nnSs. Mullin Lake and Rondeau from
Jersey City. Nla witter from the coast
and one Or two other bushers. A num-
Der were expected to join the squad a
Cincinnati, and the rest are COINS direct.
Among those notified not 10 be present
are Dubuc. Stanage, Cobb and CIaw Word
! The hold-out proposition with ai four
of them now looks serious. President
Navin is fully determined to gel alon:,
without them. for ne is building a new
team anyway. 1t is likely that any of
them. by coming TO the city for con-
ference before the training season open
ed. might have gained some concessions,
but under the existing circumstances
! they will have to take what has been Of
fcred or quit base ball.
The battery players are expected to
oak into camp within a few days and
sign their contracts. but both Cobb and
Crawford may actually be lost to the
team. Both are iii commercial business
and can make living away from the
diamond. if they are stubborn enough to
do so. They seem fully as determined as
the club owner, having simply ignored
their contracts altogether Neither has
even said a word for publication since
last fail.
This situation renders the Tigers pros
poets for the season more uncertain than
they have been since 1907. the year they
rose from sixth place to the top. No one
| is Wild enough to predict they will re-
Peat this performance. but some hopefuls
are predicting third place, on the
strength OF an idea that one OF the big
three of las. season vii! fall down. But
the preponde!atlns sentiment is pessi-
misin II is haid to figure out where
there viii be any added strength in the
seven regular positions. with the excep-
ton that Noach. who made fine debut
, Ia fail. probably will be an improve
ment over Davy Jones in left field But
ii either Cobb or Crawford stays aWas
/ the gardening will be weaker than ever
To take the places of these two. should
they. fail TO report. are Schall1r from
J Kansas City: High. who is a 81 Louis
boy and Powell. from the st. Joseph
| team. all good i'll the bushes, but Yet 10
show.
! For first base Jennings has Gainor who
perhaps has recovered form and perna ps
| not. ami Stanley. whom the Browns got
/ for a shortstop. but who proved too tall
! He is absolutely untried There also is a
school youth named Liggett. II both OF
these fail. Moriarty, of course, viii be
| sen; to the FIRST station
/ Loudeu and Witt are aVaila1 ole FOR sec
ond. Wit aud Bush for short ana Wit
Deal and Moriar5y for third. This loo
/ Ike Class IA strength. with the eXcep-
ton OF Bush
Assuming that Dubuc returns. there
will be one relia ole pitcher ASSUMING
! that Mulin remains strictly on the water
tank and works hard enough to keep hi
Wsiis band in there will be two. lie Is
! ten pounds lighter right now than lie gen.
* nrl- =,
| No one expects anything OF WilIett ol
Lake OF the cubs one Wheatley. showcc
enough last fall to engender high hopes
! He displayed it against teams Wh:c:
| needed the games, too. Chief of his adj
| mirabie attributes is control-seemingl
' perfect, and the nerve to back Il UP. I'll.
backstops said that BoeiiIer. who pitched
parts of two or three games. had NOR,
stuff than WEeatley. but lacked contrC
and experience. kiawittei'. from Frisco
comes from a region that has produced
many good beavers that the strong tout
ing he brings east LOOKS at IcaS; hopeful
; Dauss Clauss. Zamloch. House, Hall ant
Troy are more likely TO prove iiabiiitie:
than assets.
Rondeau. the jersey City catcher who
according to Bill Donovan was the elias,
of the International League backstoppin:
last year. will be Stanage's chief assist
ant and will be first catcher if Oscal
sticks to his hold-out. The other catche
| is a Central League youth named Mex
of whom little is known.
| The training trip schedule is calculate,
to bring out all there is i'm this bunch n
bushers right from the start No CIas,
G. or schoolboy mines have been book cd
They start in witt! Cincinnati at Mobile
but that will be largely Joke. becaus,
neither team will be ready to do any
thing March y ana .. The actual roat
work begins week later. The schcdt,j.
follows:
/ March 50 Cincinnati ~ NIol,i.r
March l6-2n-E New Orleans.
March Mobile.
March ~ 20 Mon; gomciy
March - -oS-Memphis
| March ::l-C'hattanoo:a
| April 1-4-Chattanoo.a.