Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-26
ROUSH SUSPENSION
PROOF OF D|SCORD
Cobb's Friends in Detroit
Also HoWIing for Scalp
of Pilot Moriarty.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

NEW YORK, June 26.-Trouble has
broken out again on the New York
Giants. insiders" in base ball were
aware of that fact even before Ed
Roush was suspended by the New York
management 1t is recurrence OF
trouble that logged the team in 1927.
The New York players are Of the
opinion that Manager John j. McGraw
no longer is the final source of author
ity. They began to feel that in 1927
and they have been more and more i'm
pressed by it since Rogers Hornsby and
Burle1gh Grimes were traded.
Some players who have been trans
ferred by the Giants to other teams
have openly declared that Manager Nc
GraW is not now the absolute monarch
that he once was. Ball players, of
course, in handing such yarns from one
to another can easily magnify them.
The latest outbreak is with Roush.
star center fielder. An odd chap in
some ways, loyal to his team and in his
time one of the greatest defensive play
ers the National League ever had in
the outfield. Roush has made up his
mind that watchers" have been on
him. If there is any one thing that
would make Roush furious, that is it.
Roush has heard stories that have
been in circulation about McGraw and.
touchy young man that he is, nothing
would make him pop off the handle
quicker than to think that he had been
suspended without McGraw being con-
suited.
Players who have left the New York
team now make no bones in asserting
that McGraw did not trade Hornsby
and Grimes. A great many people
thought that he did not trade these two
players. including Hornsby and Grimes
themselves.
There also are some Giant fans in
New York who are going about asking
that some one buy the team from the
present owners. Most of this element
is the old-tinle Giant roofing crowd
which stuck to the club through thick
and thin from the days when Mutrie
made the organization famous with his
celebrated I'VE are the people"
Ty Cobb's friends are howling some
what noisily for change in Detroit
They base their arguments on the fail
ure of Manager George Moriarty TO
lead the chaStened Tigers into the thick
of the first division fray.
Before Cobb left Detroit, after Mori-
arty was appointed to succeed him as
~7anager of the team. Ty gave some Of
lis friends to understand that certain
clements of strength could have been
obtained for Detroit II Frank j. Navin,
owner Of the club, had co-operated with
him.
Moriarty now is having hard luck.
and bunch of ii, and it is certain that
his team must be reorganized for the
season of 1929. There are players on
the team who have been too long with
Detroit. That's certain. They haven't
any Detroit enthusiasm left in them.
Naturally, Cobb'S friends in Detroit
have been aiming their shafts at Mo-
riarty. They insist that he has been
less a success than Cobb as Detroit
manager. On the face Of things he
has had less success, but IL was Mo-
riarty'S misfortune to fall into the Job
when some of the Detroit players were
going the other way and when a prom
ising group Of pitchers couldn't live
up TO a promise.
Gibson. Whitehill. Stoner and one or
two other pitchers have been fat fail
tlres for what they should be. Carroll
has improved logically. The others
either are not going TO be high-class
pitchers or they are through with De-
troit. It appears that they can't pitch
any better Row than they did two years
ago. and theT have fooled everybody.
Last year by the iSt Of July Mo-
riarty began to reconstruct his team
for 1923. lie might well get on the
lob right away and start to reconstruct
FOR 1929, because Detroit isn't there at
present. The team sim can take q
brace this season. but as it looks now
i needs box of braces direct from
he factory.