Evening star., 1923-12-27

i can walk along the streets OF ~
talk-but I'll be everlasting doggon
can get darned man in base ball to
man for the Detroit club.
while 1 was in Chicago I rode up
and down seven miles OF elevator
climbed fifty-two flights of stairs,
b:..onholed ten dozen pairs OF ears,
kS,d ninety-seven and one-half pri-
vate conversations. heard 2,9l6 ex-
cuses and never got anything better
than the satisfaction of talking three
straight hours to Connie Mack, which
j hope will last him for the remainder
of his life
mo man ever poured broadcast
upon the community such a line OF
arguments as 1 poured forth TO oo.
tain a good second baseman, without
which the Detroit base ball club will
set forth upon the sea of champion
ship in 1924 with no better equip
ment than a sailboat going to Ber-
muda with shaky mast and SIX Splits
in the canvas. Not a man would give
the Detroit club the chance to buy
second baseman.
Money Is No Object.
Hear me right. Not give me a
second baseman, but the right to buy
a second baseman. Money is no OBJ
'ject. Time is no consideration. Just
a second baseman. Just an earful OF
second baseman. A teaspoopful OF
second baseman. Anything of second
baseman so that we may set forth
right in this championship fight to
come. The trouble is that II we get
a second baseman there are too many
who think that We may win pen
nant, and = 'thout second Dasernan
they think we can't May De tney
are right" said Ty. Probably that
it, Then he relapsed into gloom
again.
OF all the major league clubs there
appears to be none which may prop
erly be classified as lacking in one
player so conspicuously as Detroit Is
lacking in a second baseman. Per-
haps there is no club in either league
that would refuse assistance. but
here is a team of which everybody
says it would be {, powerful factor in
equipped at second base. AMI there is
no one who will hear its plain
That, at least, is tribute to the
strength of Detroit as it exists with
bitterness of desperation to Cobb
Since he has been manager OF De-
troit he has kept his team up in the
race and has threatened to win. His
ambition is to win championship
of which the book shall say: In
the year 50 and so the Detroit team
managed by Tyrus Raymond Cobb
won the championship of the AmeS.
lean League; and in earlier chap
ters the book win say what it al
ready says-that in the years 1907
1908 and 1909 the Detroit club won
the championship, with Cobb playing
the outfield.
Ambitious to Win Flag.
II was quoted somewhere as say
ing that l would retire at the end OF
year" said Ty. II don't know that
I will. l am anxious to win cham
pionship as manager of a major
league club. Perhaps 1t is not the
most wonderful feat in the world. but
finish everything UP nicely for me
I've played the game a long time
but can play it longer. I'm not SC
. fast as l was maybe, but 1 am not
so slow that / can't keep up witt:
two-thirds of the players who are In
the game today, and I guess I'll take
my chance with the other third. II
see how my legs feel next March.
But suppose that I do not play.
still manage and ! want a taste from
the cup from which these other fel.
lows have drunk. I'd like to fee
that l can play the game with my
and arms. Last year when we Were
ready to start the season l felt thai
we had some success coming to us
What happened? What didn't hap.
E had hospital in June. We LOOKED
good only long enough to make the
contrast of being bad doubly hard to
bear"
You did have bad luck"
BAD? Why, we didn't have any
We didn't get far enough along tc
be bad. And now I know what we
need for next year and I want tc
start the year right. Give me a Sec
ond baseman who can play, and II
cptxy fha mi Gorh thnH M
forget. That's all I want. A second
baseman. But they won't hear me
They won't give me a second base
man. They say they haven't any sec
ming over with second basemen
They're running over with something
like second basemen and they are
deaf to all that I say.
Rival Pilots Won't Listen.
I've found one thing since I've
been manager Other man
ayers can hear all that I've go'
They can hear whisper in a Chi.
nese monsoon. But when you get tc
be a manager they can't hear you II
you talk to them like a fog sirer
working with a full head of steam.
For two years I've been drinking
this cup of bitterness, but it's max.
ing me more and more adhesive te
myself and to base ball. I'm going
to find that second baseman. and In
going to win that championship, ant
if there are any of those fellows VI
around the north pole Who thinl
they are going to freeze me out o.
the big game because they keep De
troit from getting a second basemaI
they're playing the wrong card. TIL,
more ehink 1t over the uglier get
I'll stick in base ball until 1 wear ZEN
long and gray before quit trying tt
find that second baseman and I'll wiz
a pennant for Detroit. And that's Ty.'