The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-14
|MACNATES TABOO LETTER
WRITING In SIGNING MEN
Personal Conferences With the
Players Are in Style
This Season
NAVIN ALWAYS INSISTS
PLAYERS COME To Hlh
History Has Yet TO Sho" Man
Whom Frank Could Not Sal
isfy in the Long Kun
BY RALPH l.. YoNKER

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FpSONAT conferences between
owners OF big league ball cluoss
u or. their representatives an"
players about TO sign thelr coN n - ~
are the regular thing IN paseoan l".s
season. due largely TO me aellA--s -
the Federal league. uo
The Cincinnati club leads tle
league in that respect proDaoly ~
that II has sent emssaries 70 JAIN
over personally with recaIcl,tau'
PLAYERS the terms OF their documents.
This has never been done 50 openly
and avowedly before. MT
Frank Navin. president OF the Als-
ers. will undoubtedly contine MIS- cor
respondence this spring regarding
contracts to a very small limit. rms
T. not the first season that he mas
used these personal conferences as
the hest method OF settling even
minor differences between hlmseh
and his men.
Marin. however, has refused mus
far. even in the most stubborn cases
of holdortitis 10 send emissaries a.
other clubs are doing. Nayin always
insists that the players come 10 MN.
History has get 10 record pia5 CT
who had conferences with Frank VINO
went away refusing TO sign up. some
times Il takes more than one confer
ence II is true, but II always has the
same result, the signing or the man.
The first conference OF this season
was really closed II was between
Nayin and Cobb and resulted in a let
ter 10 Navin in which Tyrus declared
~. ali l.
er and stopped effectively any taies
that might be told about his gong 10
the Federals and similar actions.
The second conference OF import,
arce was that between Navln ana
DOME Bush only last week. AT thht
time the two men came TO an agree
ment as 70 the terms of the 1914 con
tract although Bush was unaole 20
sign because he had not been released
from his promise to refrain from DO
ing So until receiving permission from
Dave Fultz, president OF the Players
fraternity.
Another conference was that be.
tween Navin and his star recruit
George Dauss, which had the same re-
suit as that with Bush.
nth Cobb, Bush. Dauss, High
w and the youngster, George
w Boehler already signed up or
near enough TO being signed up sothat
President Navin has given out the
announcements that the men were
ready TO put their names to his con
tracts, II looks as II he already has
the greater part OF his team we'll on
the way towards contracts for 1914
Added to the men already mention
ed. is Jean Dubuc. another star pitch
err. Du5uc signed a two-years' con
tract last season, which. OF course.
holds him over for this year.
This contract, by the way. was the
result OF q conference that came after
Dubuc had threatened 10 hold out and
was making good on his threat The
team vas already in the south at Gulf
port when news that Dubuc had come
Into the fold was received.
Besides these, there is Edgar Will
lett. who is already at Gulfport. II
IL extremely doubtful that Willett
would go to the Tigers training camp
50 early IL he were not satisfied with
the terms that he knows he is going
70 get.
Then there is Stanage, catcher,
who Is giving every evidence that he