The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-02
This City the Calm Spot in Vor.
tex of Baseball's Belllgerent
Storm
PLAYERS LOYAL AND NO
INVASION THREATENS
Just Routine DOings Found AT
Navin StrOnghold-News is
Very Meager
BY HAROLD Y. WILCOX.

The science sharps tell US that in
the midst OF every devastating tor
nado there Is a spot that is peaceful
Iand serene. All around old mother
earth may DO doing a deryish dance
TO the accompaniment OF bowling
winds. they tell US, but right in the
center is tiny area that is absolutely
calm.
,f4 We can well believe in this bit OF
natural phenomena. for with our own
eagle eyes We Detroiters are witness
ping that very sort OF thing. While
the peace and quiet OF baseball CEN
hIefs In every direction are being up
Erooted by the fury OF baseball war,
Everything In Detroit Is so matter-ot
tact and prosaic as TO almost arouse
apprehension. The suite Of Offices
that crown Nayin field is by no means
1.-THE dullest place In town, but 1t is the
Past place one would look for excite
hnent this winter.
There the old routine OF signing up
exhibition games for the spring trip
kand the chartering OF special cars for
noving days in the south, the fling
tpf contracts and the perusal of let
tiers from embryo ivory hunters" who
have uncovered phenoms at hitherto
unknown regions OF the bushes
these and the other very ordinary
duties OF the old-fashioned winter
Neague season are all that is doing on
the Navin corner. Michigan and Trum.
tbull-ayes.
Every morning Mr.. Nayin comes
down after the old-nme custom and
Hxeceives his callers with the old-time
courtesy and interesting Renaissance.
{But as for news-there isn't any.
Where are the hopes that the young
.spitchers will come through, that the
Mole at second base will be plugged.
that the old boys will have good
year and the new ones prove better
than "phenoms" generally do. 1t Is
admitted that world series with half
the games played in Detroit would
look good on the fall program next
year. and even an occasional predic-
ton that perhaps such may be the
case, but there the excitement ends.
: You would never guess that a base
ball war was silyering the locks OF
organized baseball by worry and APP
prehension, and that in other major
league cities in our fair land mag
mates were tearing their hair and
wailing because ballplayers are crea'
lures whom outlaws can tempt and
fans are tickle persons who occasion
ally visit Federal league parks or
sometimes satisfy their baseball In
stincts by watching downtown score
boards.
All Is very, very well on the Detroit
river. Tyrus Is signed. Sam is salts
fled with his contract. DOME Bush Is
sloyal, and so are all the rest OF the
Bengal tribe The Feds have had
their fling at attempting TO find ball
fpark In the City OF the Straits, and
were flung back to whence they came.
fNavin field Is the last place on the
I circuit this winter In which TO look
TOR war news from the front, and,
5strange To say, Detroit fans are just
as well pleased with things as II pip
,ing-hot stun, a la Murphy, Tener and
Ban Johnson, was being served up In
sJungletown.
Today Mr. and Mrs. Navin leave for
New York on a little vacation trip.
THAT the Tiger mogul will be In
Nqotham when the National league
Smeets TO solve its perpiexities is mere
Fy q coincidence. says Mr. Navin. II
us possible that he may be called into
Fconference, and that other American
tleague magnates may be found In New
York next week. but Il Is very unlike
'ly that such pow.wow VIII vitality
4nterest Detroit