New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-17
Offer Great Hitter a rive
Year Contract at $4,000
Per Season. y
RAY HEATING SIGNS
WITH THE YANKEES
Drops In from Bridgeport and
Says His Arm Is Strong and
Ready for the Fray.


= dve-vcar contract al $1,000 year IN
telegram sent to him at Augusta va.
to-day by President Gilmore 81 inc GU
eral League.
Tho telegram was written and gwen u
Il messenger m the presence o. heNaPdpe,
mon after Gilmore had said That ne hap
learned that Cobb had not yet sisheu
with Detroit for the 1917 season.
Gilmorc's telegram offers TO pay Copp
his dr.t years salary in advance ana to
mt the remaining $50 coo in escrow.
Augusta Ga. Jan. l6.-Ty COBB left mere
Yesterday for his former home. Roystoh'
"a and could not be reached TO-DAY o
-Four kilograms for hir nave peen
ceivod here since his departure. Cobo
said nothing before leaving Of any oner
to play in tne Federal League.
WORD came from Detroit last night that
President Navin as not worrying. as ne
had every confidence in Cohb's word.
Pav Heating the big pitcher OF the
Ne,y York Yankees. walked into the
c,,,b.s offices. at No 800 Fifth avenue. yes
terdav morning and signed n contract Tor
,o,, 10 came down from his winter
home in Bridgeport, Conn, ana saiu ''a'
he felt we'll and expected to nave SUI
cessful season. =,
Eoatinc thinks that the Bermuda Gil
mate mad something 10 do with his lame
arm last year. He is only twenty years
old having been purchased from the Law
romeo club Of the New England league IN
1912 Last April he pitched the hanAee'
10 tbeir first victory when he smut OUT
tho Ped Sox in Boston. week later ne
vhitewashed the Athletics IN fhliaueT
phia. . .,ood
ON Heating Day the big pitcher taceu
Ed Walsh. Of the White Sox' ana d'u %
well that the Yankees won 'ne" III
,o,na of the season at the Polo GROUNDS
Heating all this time suffered from d
lamo arm which became worse IN ri'u-
summer and forced him to the bench
ue could do nothing in the box UNI.
late in September, when he was Pi''e'
against the Red Sox. and his great pl'c"-
inc defeated them for the first time IN TWO
years in this city.
Frank Chance now has tWeNe pay
under contract as follows aiu"o"'
Heating. Rose. Cooper, l., Brown hose'''
II Williams. Maisel, Boone GlihooieS'
Eschen and quinn.
Charles Ebbets, jr" announcer -
dav that the days mail had proush' III
the signed contracts of hve broohis i
nloyors Don Carlos Patrick Ragan' t"e
irish Mexican pitcher, headed the p'o-
oess,on with his autograph on parch-
mont binding him for three Seasons
Casey Stengel, the smuggling outne'ue,
signed for one year, as ala haie'e"
Aitchison. the star pitcher OF the We"
arl, International League champions last
summer oliver OMara, the shorts'op'
1roftod from the Fort Wayne CLUB ana
Joe Riggert. an outfielder dral'eu i''''
the St. Paul club.
As per agreement. Zach Wheat also
turned in his contract calling for services
D.. ,hrae wears at terms known only 10
Mr.. Ebbets and the party OIL TIE s''0"D
part. s
chief Johnson the Indian pitcher mas
signed his Cincinnati contract. Inc OUT
laws could not tempt him.
Jack Onslow. second string catcher OF
the. Detroit Tigers, could not be restrained
and jumped to the Feds of indianapolis.
Harry Salee, the pitcher OF some re-
nown. has sentenced himself to another
year i'm ST. Louis, hurting them up for the
Cardinals.
Feeling that he does not pass throusn
enough agony in the summer. hed
Held, an umpire, in the racine Coa''
League has turned boxing referee Tor the
winter The queerest part OF Heiu a0
ton is that he chose st. Louis as inc
scene of his activities. lie Is reiereeine
the bouts at the Columbia a. {. In me
Mound City.