New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-31
$4,000 BRINGS N
COBB TO THE YANKEES
Deal Goes Through Whereby
Georgia Peach viii Come
to New York in 1914.
JOHNSON SWINGS BARGAIN
Official Announcement Will
Probably Not Be Made Until
Winter of Latest Addition
to Chances Team.

Ty Cobb the great outfelder OF the De-
troit Tigers. will be member Of the New
York Yankees next season. The Georgia
Peach" has been sold by the Detroit club
to the New York club for the largest
amount ever paid FOR baseball player
800 The announcement Of the sale VIII
not be made officially Until after the pres
Ont season is over. but the news Of the
sale leaked out yesterday through a stock
holder % the Detroit club. The latter re-
fused 20 have his name used at this time.
Clark Griffith. manager OF the Senators.
got wind OF the negotiations between the
New York and Detroit clubs and offered
$40. 900 for the great player He was Will
ing "a bid higher, If ecessarv. but he was
too late. as the deal had been consum-
mated Griffith was politely ordered by
Ban johnson. president Of the American
League 10 say nothing about Cobb going
Ito New York. and as result little was
heard from the Washington manager
after he made his offer.
When President Navin OF the Detroit
club was informed that Griffith had been
tipped off that Cobb was 10 be sold, and
that the Senator'S manager had made a
bid. through the newspapers for the SER
wees of Cobb. he said:
The Washington club could not buy
| Cobb II I offered him for half that
amount. Griffith had better figure on pay
| ing for his ball park before he makes any
] such big offer as that When the Wash
ington club built its new park IT was
compelled TO issue bonds and place them
/ with the owners OF other clubs in the
| league in order TO finance the enterprise.
] think the club will be more likely 10 re-
deem the bonds than TO give Gritiith $780,
900 10 buy a star player
cobb has not been entirely satisfied with
his surroundings for some time. and early
last spring threatened TO quit Detroit TO
20 into the automobile business. After
! several conferences with President NaVih
he was persuaded 10 sign contract call
| ing for $3.50 season. He then joined
the team, which was the first part or May
Ty has often expressed a desire TO play
in New York. At one time II was re-
ported that Hal Chase was TO be traded
for Cobb. but the trade did not material
! lie.
The New York club has been weak
spot i'm the American League for long
time. and Ban johnson realizes better
than ANYBODY else that IL the Yankees had
winning team II would be big thing
for his circuit. and as a result Johnson
and Farrell have been working hard 10
strengthen the team II was johnson who
swung the deal that brought FRANK
Chance to New York.
Johnson recently said THE Yankees
next year will have one Of the best out
fields I'm either league" Putting two ana
two together IL can be readily seen now
what Ban had up his sleeve when he
made that remark
Cobb is by common consent regarded as
the most sensational player of the age.
He was born at Royston, Banks County
Ga. on September Il. 1856 He began
playing professionally in 1904, with the
Augusta club, OF the South Atlantic
League. but owing to lack of experience
and extreme youth was 'farmed' to the
Admission. Ala. club. Of the Tennessee
Alabama League. In that league he nit
go. was recalled by Augusta and nm
ished the season with .2S7, being III with
malaria most Of the time. In 1905 he be-
gan the season with Augusta, went TO the
front at once as one OF the star outfelders
and batsmen of the South Atlantic League
and finished the season as the leading
batsman OF that league.
In August. 1905. he was purchased by
the Detroit club which team he Joined in
September finishing the season in the
American League and earning place on
the 1906 team by high class batting and
fielding. During the 1907 season he
showed such Improvement in ell depart
ments that he became one OF the great
stars of the American League. He led
the league In batting that year. and was
one of the chief factors in the capture of
the pennant by Detroit. From that day
TO this he has been the mainstay OF the
Detroit team. the greatest OF players In
the American League and the most sensa-
tional performer OF this generation. the
wonder being that he shows greater ex-
cellence each year. there being apparently
no limit to his ability and endurance.