The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-07-20
IF PROVIDENCE CAN SHOW
ANYTHING, NOW Is TIME
Tigers Are Crippled Badly and
Need Help From the Grays
Temporarily
DETROIT HAS HAD But
LITTLE HELP so FAR
Eastern Club, Called Detroit
Farm" Fails to Develop
ANY Prospects
80 RALPH -L.-YONKER

IF THAT Providence club has any
players who can be OF use 90 the
u Detroit Tigers, now is the time 90
show them. The Tigers, with an over
worked pitching staff and an !nheid
with three cripples and an outhela
with one, are banged up SO badly that
they need temporary assistance, ana
need it urgently.
The fact that nothing is being done
10 aid Detroit In patching its team
with material from Providence, from
which club players can be obtained
for the Tigers by the mere nod OF
President Navin head. makes il look
dark for Detroit's 1915 prospects from
the Grays. IL looks AS Ii there isn't
a man on the club who Is worthy oil a
serious trial with the Detroit club
With the Tigers seriously in need
OF q first baseman in particular AT
the present time IL may be that they
will borrow Ed Onslow, former Tiger
for a few games until George burns
broken finger gets well again, CleVe'
land, lacking first sacker a short
time ago when the Maps were in De
troit, borrowed Jay kirke, also a for
mer Tiger, from its Cleveland Amerl-
can association club.
II looks as If there can't be any.
thing very promising at Providence,
however, or IL would have received
some attention from the Detroit man
agement before this. II there Is
pitcher with the Grays who stands a
chance of becoming a regular along
with CovelesSie, DaUss and Duhuc, be
would undoubtedly have been given a
chance here. .:.'.
When Messrs. Navin, Yawkey and
others took over the Providence club
and made Bill Donovan its manager,
IL was hailed as a swell farm for De-
troit Tin Detroit) and bewailed as
something TO be bled by Detroit Tin
Proyidence). But as a matter OF fact
the acquiring Of Providence has all
been 10 the betterment OF Providence.
That club has received a score Of men
from Detroit who couldn't quite make
the grade required for the American
league, while the Tigers have taken
only one man from the Grays who has
proved OF any value whatever
The only man taken over by De
troit was acquired 10 I'LL in hole In
the infeld at the close of last season.
That was Paddy Bauman, who played
at second base during the closing
months of the 1913 schedule Bau-
man lasted only until this spring,
when Marty Kavanagh replaced him,
and he was returned TO the Proyi'
dence club from which he came.
On the other hand the Grays have
had many men and still have lot
OF them who were once Tigers. Don
ovan, their manager, is one. Ed and
Jack Onslow, first sacker and catcher
are two more. There are TutWeiler
Bauman, Powell Comstock and
Schultz. Matty Mcintyre was secured
by Navin for Providence mainly be
cause OF Matty's old friendship for
Frank, formed when he was Tiger.
Fabriuue and Platte, former Michigan
players, We're secured through the
agencies OF the Detroit club.
Bill Donovan is getting a lot out OF
the material he, has. He has the
Providence club up in the first d.
vision. But he apparently hasn't any
player OF major league ability. Sew
eral OF his men, however, are hitting
in the 300 class in the international
league. and two might develop in time
into big tenters. Platte. Onslow and
Shean are all 300 hitters Platte and
Onslow are the only ones who could
be considered as available for the
Detroit club Onslow could not be
expected to crowd Burns off first the
way George has been going, however,
right now. and Platte would have to
be very good TO get even a substi-
tute's Job in the outfield.
Among the pitchers Oldham seems
10 be about the best looking man the
Grays have, and he Is said 10 be an
in-and-outer. He is a southpaw He
beat Jersey City yesterday shutting
them out with seven hits. He struck
out six and passed three.
Right now the Tigers have Cobb
Moriarty, Witt and Burns out, all with
broken hands or fingers. Burns Ia
the latest to succumb TO the Tiger
ink. He suffered a broken finger
sometime during Fridays game Just
when he doesn't know. Heilman. who
used TO play first base in the minors
tonlr his nIapp