Show Owner of Detroit Team i iDies Dies of Heart Attack Tiger Town in Mourning DETROIT Nov 13 AP Frank AP-Frank Frank J. J Navin 64 owner of base base- balls ball's world champions the champions the Detroit Tigers Tigers and and vice president of the American league died in a hospital Wednesday an hour after I he fell from his horse stricken horse stricken by a heart attack t Mrs Navin riding back of oC the widely known sportsman on the bridle path saw his gentle Irish jumper galloping toward her rider- rider less ess She followed the horse to the stable With L. L W. W Droeger manager manager man man- ager of at the Detroit Riding and Hunt lunt club and Mrs Droeger Mrs Navin made a frantic search of at the riding grounds for 15 minutes beCore before be- be fore Core ore discovering her husband in a clump of tall grass The baseball owner was unconscious unconscious one arm thrown across his chest He was removed to a hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital where he died In a few tew min mm- utes Find No Bruises Dr J J. J P. P Leonard said there were no bruises on the body and said a aheart aheart aheart heart attack caused his death Attendants Attendants At At- at the club said there was no evidence he had been thrown from the horse Navin is survived by his widow and a nephew Charles F. F Navin secretary of ot the club who now is In a sanitarium at Battle BaltIe Creek Mich Navin's death ended a year 30 career Career career ca ca- reer in big time baseball which sporting luck happily crowned with witha a worlds world's championship early in October October his his only one in three dec dec- decades decades ades of competition Around him through the years ears Navin gathered some of the brightest stars of the diamond diamond diamond dia dia- dia- dia mond from the days of Ty Cobb down to Mickey Cochrane News of his death hit like a bombshell bombshell bomb bomb- bombi i shell in the city where he had made baseball a big business from April Apr to October The fans tans In Tigertown who knew all aJl the details of Navin's baseball story from the turn lurn of ot the century had hailed him with louder cheers since the day he bought Mickey Cochrane for or from Connie Mack of Philadelphia and installed the peppery catcher as manager o othe of the Tiger club That was the dawn of ot a new championship era for lor Detroit baseball baseball baseball base base- ball brought on two league pen pen- 1 nants and one worlds world's championship championship championship champion champion- ship and shifted the seat of ot Amer i ican can league baseball supremacy westward from tram New York First Studied Law LawOne LawOne One million home town fans banged the turnstiles into Navin field in th the 1035 joaS season the richest in Navin's years of ot baseball owner owner- ship Navin was born April 18 1871 in Adrian Mich one of nine children of Thomas and Eliza Crotty Grotty Navin natives of ol Ireland He studied law but persuaded Thomas H H. Yawkey multimillionaire multimillion aire lumberman to join with him in the purchase of oC the Detroit Baseball Base Base- ball company in 1902 |