The Detroit times., 1914-12-15
Leary, Loyal to Navin, Tells
Bengal Boss of New See
ond Sacker
sTANAGE AGAIN TO BE
FIRST-STRING CATCHER
Walt Johnson Will Be Tied Up
BY Courts, Believes Local
Magnate
BY HAROLD v, WILCOX.


baseball in almost every quarter, is
8 the harmony in the ranks OF the II
gers. One OF the chief reasons lor
this accord and loyalty, which TINS
year seems peculiar to Boston anu Dc
froit, is Frank j. Navin, president OIL
the club. He is fair, pays well, anu
handles his players with the diplom'
acy OF Gerard. Even when his play
ers are compelled to drop back TO the
minors, they carry with them the ola
/ loyalty for Mr.. Navin, and the Ilger
boss has this fact TO thank Tor the
recruit who promises to plug thar
hole at second base and give Detroi'
an old time infieid.
Pep" Young is the recruit referred
10, and Charley O'Leary, former II
ger, who has been playing recently IN
the Pacific Coast league. is the per
son who tipped the Detroit manage
ment OF to the capabilities OF the
peppery lad. O'Leary's report was Sc
glowing that scout was sent TO Sac
ramento to see Young in action, and
then Navin copied him on the spot
The price paid for Young has not
been made public, but 1t is admitted
At. Navin field that il was no small
figure. A mighty big price for him
IS the way Mr.. Navin puts 1t.
Young hit for $50 last year, stole
80 bases and felded like a demon
and he Is expected TO be the speediest
thing seen around the keystone sack
IN Jungletown for many a year,
Hughey Jennings says that all he
needs 70 make fight for the pennant
f. A. -. 20
Sacramento youth has great chance
ahead Of him.
Doubts as to who would catch for
Detroit next year have been put at
rest by Prexy Navin. Oscar Stanage,
!. the veteran native son." will again
do the bulk of the receiving for the
a Tigers, unless a big surprise turns
mp. A couple OF recruits and Baker
and Mckee will get a chance to fight
u ont for second and third-string
Jobs. but spin" will continue to do
the heavy work.
American league officials were In
clined TO smoker mp their sleeves
when q conference between Col. Jacob
Rupert and Prexy Gilmore, OF the
Feds. was mentioned. Col. Rupert
ls at present dickering for the New
York Yankees, and all Gotham Is back
OF his In his efforts to gain control
OF the Farrell and Devery interests,
with him Is Capt. Huston, another
popular New Yorker, whom scribe
dom, fandom and magnatedom Is
wishing well.
The deal is believed certain to go
s through, say American leaguers. ana
the delay In it's completion Is attrio-
uted only to the dickering which usu.
ally Is needed to put through a half
million dollar proposition.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Gilmore Is cred
tied with designs on Col. RUPERT
and. It is said, has been tempting the
Yankees prospective purchaser Win
opportunities to become an angel
2 10 the Kansas City outlaw club. But
both Col. Rupert and Huston are
pals OF "Muggsy" McGraw, the noted
Giant chieftain, and II Is asserted
that he has had something TO do with
the endorsement which organized
baseball has given the pair OF pros
pective newcomers TO the game. Only
last week, during the National league
pow-wow, Messrs. McGraw, Rupert
and Huston were the hosts at din
uer party In New York, and together
splendidly entertained leading lights
among the "orgs." Hence the Ameri-
can leaguers see a beautiful chance
Tor the Federals to wean Rupert and
Huston into outlaw circles Beauti-
fui chance, nit.
President Navin, Of the Tigers, Is
In accord with Clark Griffith, when
the manager OF the Senators asserts
that Walter Johnson has little chance
OF playing with the Federals next
summer. Mr.. Navin is very positive
IN his statements that Walter was SO
bound to organized baseball that
there is little doubt but that the
courts will block his efforts TO speed
'em across the pan TO outlaw slug
gers.
Johnson's baseball future Is an
other matter. The Washington fans
are "off" him for good. They have
held johnson day nearly every time
he has numbered for action In the
capitol city, and they have showered
him with money and valuable gifts.
They resent very much the statement
. oredited 70 him, that he was glad to
leave Washington, aud clear from the
nswsies who Clipped in pennies 10
buy him loving cups to the bankers
and Kovernment officials who went
otrong ON the presentations, they are
nj very, very peeved. II is believed
probable that II the big hurler Is
yanked back TO o. b. by the courts,
that he will be traded TO some other
team. where he can start with more
Or less OF q clean slate. That, Mt
least. is the opinion OF Mr.. Navin.
Emil Haisman IL still wrestling with
the diamond and training quarters
down at Gulfport, and AT last reports
had succeeded In plugging up the goat
tracks, the razor-back ''hawg' fur
rows and the wagon ruts that accumu-
lated on the preseason battlefield dur
inc tho summer. Emil and his CO
horts have a carpentering job ahead
Of them that will test the genial
Hroundkeeper's versatility, for during
NE early fall some OF the colored
xem'men on the coast raided the
hondbsll courts for fuel with which
~ brighten their family hearths. and
<he structures where Doc Keane,
Hufhev Jennings and the other star
1@ndballists are won't 20 ganboi. are
i >aid % he somewhat damaged.
Austin 70 plW Feds.
Jlmmy Anstin. third baseman OF
~ d. Louis Browns. has signed a
<~oyear contract with the Pittsburgh