The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-04
Detroit GIum,
y Is Silent,
All Fooled
Last Year

There never has been q winter
since the Detroit team first went
into the American League when
the rooters have been Supplied
with so little information bn the
Tigers as this year. When the
season wound up last fall baseball
was carefully laid away for six
months. Not peep, or q guess,
or 8 boost, or knock, appeared in
the chilly type. The Tigers are
soon to depart for Augusta, Ga,
and the rule among the scribes
seems to be to let the team de-
liver.
Detroit was SO disappointed in the
Tigers last season. Just before the
final games were played one scribe
expressed the opinion that too
much had been said of the team s
chances and favorable signs were
greatly exaggerated, No such COM
plant will be made next summer
Cobb has been silent, too, on
what he thinks of this years race
All his opinions have been about
races for the last 20 years. about
which he could not guess wrong.
& e s
There win be few changes I'm
the Tigers for next season. Sec
Ond base and third win see
new faces. The others win be
about the same Is last season.
Pitching, catching and 0utfieldlng
viii be about like 1925. Cobb,
Holman and WingO, with ocra.
sionally Mamush and WingO Tor
the outer garden. Lu Blue at
first and Rigney at short VIII be /
In actiOn again. The new talent
IN the infield will be Gehringer
at second and Mullen or Warner
at third. BarfOOt Is the only new
pitcher worth while grabbed By
the Tigers.
Gehringer Is counted on to win
the second base post from O'Rourke,
who Is getting too far along IN
wears to stand the strain OF the
long season. For Toronto, Geh.
ringer was q star. He played brit
Iiantly in the field and hit well.
To show how cagey the critics are
In their Recommendations, they point
out that. If GehTinger falls down
II or more shrewd scouts Will
have been disappointed.
Cobb gave Bobby Jones and
Dutch Leonard for Jack Warner
and is 20 supply three other play
ere besides putting up several thou
sands I'm cash. Warner viii have
as opposite for the third sack Bill
Muller, of Fort Worth. Mullen Is
player after Ty's own heart.
Mullen Is described as tough and
aggressive. II he makes the grade
he viii be greatly admired around
the circuit. He was hit nineteen
times with pitched balls last sea
sen in the Lone Star loop, and not
once did he even rub his arm.
Getting hit means nothing 10
Mullen.
To illustrate how hard = guy
Mullen Is they tell story o.
game last season when Fort
Worth was leading by thirteen
runs. A team mate failed to run
out q hit. Had he sprinted he
could have beaten the peg, and
when he returned to the bench
Mullen punched him In the Jaw.
The pitching staff will consist OF
owen Carroll, who ought to be ripe
to repeat some of hts great feats
Dauss. Jose Doyle, Kenneth Halo
way. LII Stoner, Ed Well, and Earl
WfiitehiII. New pitchers who will
be tried out are Barfoot, Gibson,
Carl Hubbell, A. r. Johns, and
George Smith.
The Tigers may fool some fans,
but the opinion as voiced in De-
troit is that the team will do well
to finish in the first division. In
previous years the team had power,
but could not get get concerted
action. There is no reason to be-
l:cve that the team will be any
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