The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-02-06
LUTHER COOK, OF
NEW YORK YANKEES,
GIVES INTERVIEW
BELIEVES HE WILL HAVE BEST
SEASON OF HIS CAREER THIS
YEAR.
HAS REFUSED FEDERAL Offer
Thinks He viii Stick In Big Tent
With Frank chance-Led Texas
League in All Departments OF
Baseball.


Luther Cook, of Lynnville, was in !
Columbia Tuesday on business. Mr..
Cook is one of the most noted ball
players that this section of the state
has ever sent up to the big leagues.
He will be member of the New
York American team the coming sea-
sou under the tutelage and direction
of Frank Chance, the peerless lead
er, and probably the highest salaried
man in baseball. He is said to get
an annual pay check of $4,000 for
his services as director and manager
of the Yankees.
Mr.. Cook, in an interview with The
Herald reporter, stated that he ex-
pected the coming season to be the
best that he has ever had, and that
If his arm was right, he hoped to be
one of the regular gardeners of the
big league team. He led the Texas
league team in batting, fielding and
base running the past year. He was
so good that he was bought the lat
ter part of July at long price by
Frank Chance and taken to New
York where he made a spelendid re-
cord for the rest of the baseball sea-
son. About the only thing he needs
to make good in the big tent is a lit
tie more experience that is so neces-
sary in the big show.
Mr.. Cook was asked to play with
the local team last fall in the big
game with the Nashville Southern
league team, but was unable to come
on account of the sickness of his wife.
He was also afraid that he might be
fined by Ban johnson for participant
ing in game with another team
while he was under contract with the
New York nine. Frank Chance was
wired and his consent gotten, but Mr..
Cook feared that Ban Johnson, the
president of the American league,
night get wind of the game and as.
sess him big fine.
!, He stated in his remarks that there
was no ruth in the report that had
!, gone abroad that he had signed con.
, tract with the Federals. He admit.
ted that he had had offers from the
] Kansas City team of that league for
: his services at an advanced figure
: over that which he will receive with
the New Yorks, but thought it best
!, to stay in the bounds of organized
: baseball. He believes that he has q
great future before him in his profes
sion, and that he can best make pro
l gress in it under the leadership Of
} such a man as Frank Chance, whom
t he thinks the greatest of all manag
. ers. He is of the opinion that his
. team will be we'll up in the race this
r year, and that it is no more Of thu
: cellar for a team that the peerless
Q leader directs. He hardly though
e that they would win the pennant thu
coming esason, but would at least I'm
ish at the head of the second division
If not in the select division of tn
first four. He believes that Chanc
has the material to mould goo
team, but it will take two or tire
years to weld it into an effective ma
chine like the old Cub nine, the great
est of all times in the opinion O
many fans.
Mr.. Cook Is plain, unassumin
gentleman, whose head has not bee
turned by his meteoric career in tn
baseball world. He is quiet, leve
' headed and delights to talk abou
l. mules and farms quite as much a
% about baseball. He Is ambitious
= however, takes good care OF himself
- and his friends predict that he wi
make a success in the big league
Who knows but that he may make
future star of the Ty Cobb order?