The Detroit times., 1915-01-07
Donnie Bush Would Like To BE
a Priest--Kavanagh Wants to
BE Actor
COVELESKIE WANTS ONE.
MORE CRACK AT GIANTS
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Cavet Has Literary Ideas--Hci!.
man Would BE Happy a.
Soldier
BY HAROLD Y. WILCOX

Inc amOltlonS OF DaH players :
surprising things Not that il is sur
prising for bali players 10 have amDs
tions, but We become SO used TO link
Ing them with the diamond that il A
something of a shock TO learn lha,
their ideas OF fine things TO do oiJel
lead far from the diamond.
There's DOME Bush. for instance
There is something a little tragi.
about Donie's pet ambition, for d,
probably will never be fulfilled. The
little shortstop would give up his
choicest possessions, including ms
career on the diamond. IL he could be
priest. His interest in social cen
ter work and the more humanitarian
side of religious activity is profound,
and numbered among his closest
friends are scores OF priests whose
lives are being devoted to that sort
or work
And then there is Marty Kavanagh,
Although he cant sing any better
than Harry Tuthill Martins cup OF
Joy would overflow If he could only
be an actor and singer of popular dit
ties from the spotlight area OF the
stage. Somewhat related is the pet
desire of George Moriarty, and his is
career i'm which he has already at
tanned no small fame. Mory' has
ground out some mighty good popular
songs. and he expects 10 write many
more before he leaves this world.
You get three guesses on Pug Ca
vet, and then a dum-dum shell viii
explode in your immediate vicinity.
"Pug" is savant. He is fond OF lit
erature. He is an inyeterate reader,
and very much of a student. II his
plans do not go awry, the grist from
his mill--scribe stun for typewriter
will soon be read with interest by the
literary world
Oscar Stanage's ambitions are on
their way to fulfillment. He is already
a prominent business man of Stock
ton, Cal, during the off season, and If
the coast folk recognize in him the
sturdy native SON that he is, politi-
cal preferment win greet his depar=
ture from baseball.
Harry Heilman would like TO be a
military man He has a college edu-
cation and had he had more political
friends he would now be at West
Point.
III George Burns has any particular
not an affair of common knowledge.
His whole winter is being spent in
the ACQUISITION of speed, and at pres
ent his young mind is full OF desires
to be a speed merchant a la Coob,
Maisel and the rest OF that fast crew.
Bob Veach is from the coal regions
of the middle west, and II is said that
he hopes to some day be something
SI,l tho ind fTN
Jean Dubuc has surprised us all.
Everybody knew that he hoped that
fate would permit him 10 be as ia
nous as hockey player as he is as
pitcher but no one suspected that he
would turn fight impressario. But he
has, and this winter he is fathering
one frankie Fleming, promising
featherweight who will probably be
seen at the Windsor arena before
long. Just now Jean has designs upon )
few fistic champions-by proxy, OF
course.
Then there is Del Baker. the
scrappy little Tiger catcher An apple |
orchard in Oregon will just suit him
when he finishes with baseball,
George Dauss has become convert |
ed to the southland, and II would not |
be surprising 10 see the Hoosier hurl- |
er and his bride raising pecans on
the Mississippi coast when his good /
right arm loses its cunning.
Harry Coveleskie has a billiard |
room at his home town near Scranton.
and doubtless plans eventually TO be
come a business man among his |
friends at home Just now. however
he has blistering. burning ambition
that will bring JOY TO the hearts OF
Tiger fandom. Nothing will do for
him except 10 help win a pennant for
Detroit in the same year that the |
Giants again cop the bunting in the |
National Then he wants to pitch
three games world series week against |
the McGrawites, and do exactly 10
them what he did in 1910. In that /
eventful year "Covey'' took the mound |
for Philadelphia thrice In a single J
week. and thrice walloped the pastim-l
ers from Gotham, beating McGraw
out of the National league pennant
The strain of the feat sent him back
TO the minors for three years. hut he !
is perfectly willing to risk that fate
again II the Giants should happen in |
the offlng while he was still available /
for mound duty
Ross Reynolds has a ranch in Okla I
homa. and II, together with the addi-
tions that are planned from year TO
year. will claim his attention after he |
is through with the national game
George Boehler and Oscar Witt are |
pair of youngsters whose ambitions !
have not gone far beyond baseball. !
Witt is bound and determined to be
come a Tiger regular. and Boehler Is
devoting his young life 20 getting |
some OF This remarkable stuff across |
the plate. George, however. is an |
accomplished tonsorial artist. and he |
has no reason 10 fear the wolf so long |
as whlskers continue 20 grow and are |
not too much In style.
The grand old veteran OF the Tiger |
squad. Sam Crawford, Is. not thinking |
OF leaving the game for a few years. |
and his ideas OF a future beyond the !
diamond are something OF a mystery /
He keeps In perfect condition md
continues TO swat and gather In the |