The Detroit times., 1913-01-29
His Signature Has Arrived at
Baseball Ofiice-On
Receipt
JIM DELEHANTY GOING
TO QUIT SOUNDS FUNNY
Would Be a Cleveland Policeman,
Says a Forest City
Humorist
BY RALPH L. YoNKER.

Ty Cobb Is now considering hii
1913 contract.
mo, don't expect to get Cobb'i
contract right back smiled Frank
Navin. president OF the Tigers. this
morning. I'VE have the receipt fol
the registered letter II was mailed
with, SO II must be that Cobb or some
one has signed for the letter"
Navin doesn't expect to get Cobb's
contract right back for the simple
reason that 1t doesn't read the way Ty
has said that he would demand that
his Official paper read. Ty. according
10 more or less accurate reports, has
said that he wants $4,000 a year for
the next three years.
Frank Navin has said that he can
hot AFFORD to give Cobb that. The
Tigers president doesn't say just
what terms he made Cobb. Nobody
expects him to. But he does say that
the salary isn't $4,000 and the con-
tract isn't for three years.
Contracts are always sent players
ty registered mail and receipts de-
manded. II has been found con-
yenient for players TO lose contracts
sometimes II sent them In the or
d.nary way II they don't suit them.
Then, too. the players are very often
hunting or camping away from their
home when the contracts are sent
Them. To make sure that 1t arrives
where the player can get II and to
have q record that he has received II.
the registered mail 10 used.
Probably no salary demand has
ever excitsd more publicity, a deal
.ef it 'ffFenKfei. than did this Cobb
contract. II viii be o. boon to all
the employers OF major league base
ball stars II the contract comes
waltzing In quickly to sqtelch
further stories about Cobb rs effec-
lively az did the signing OF Mullin.
Bush, Willett and others, the stories
hat they were going TO hold out.
There are i've or six major league
bosses who might actually profit IL
they would get together and promise
cobb the. salary he wants whether
he gets II from Nayin or not. provid-
ing he would sign Immediately.
Cobb IL In q different position than
any of the other Tiger holdouts. He
has led the procession from the be-
ginning and he II In better nosition
to make demands than aiS other
man.
Comes a story from Cleveland that
Jim DelahantT is about to quilt base
ball
"I wouldn't be surprised II quit
the game" Jeems Is reported to nave
said, despite the fact that his base
ball torch, which fickered as II TO
90 ont IN the big league. blazed again
gioriously when he went to Minneapo-
lie. In the 27 games he played In the
American association he hit .44S.
no. I'm not a hold-out," continued
Jim. II can get as much money as
I'm worth to a major league club.
I'm Just getting tired Of baseball,
Then the story goes on TO say that
James may be Cleveland policeman.
~ he passed the police examination
there last summer.
This II amusing. OF course. because.
despite Jim's ennui. he'll nnd II more
satisfactory to bat 'em out OF the lot
with the hit-stick for Minneapolis for
a few thousand bones a season than
10 bat 'em over the head with the
night-stick for Cleveland for few
hundred bones a year.
Besides, Jim himself says that he
passed the examination az result OF
q bet that any blank fool could pass
that examination.v