Show Speaker Saker Already Showing Effects f late Scandal Former Cleveland Manager Is a Broken Man According to Close Friends of T Tris ris Speaker DETROIT Jan 1 AP-A AP gray gray- haired ball player and a pink pink- skinned youngster met on a train Cleveland bound from Detroit One was T Tristram r 1st ram Speaker the dynamic dynamic dyna- dyna mic manager who i pull pulled e d Cleveland r into second place In the American league last season only to follow the feat by the sudden j. j announcement that he had played his SP AKER AgER last major league game The other was the new year hOlding the fate ot of Speaker of Ty TyCobb TyCobb Cobb ot of Smokey Joe Wood and some said baseball itself Speaker accused of having figured figured fig fig- in the throwing of a game so that a sure thing bet het might be i cashed by at least two other major league players of 1919 left his fight for exoneration In the hands ot his of-his his lawyer But win or lose In the ff ht for vindication Tris today Is a no American league fan today would know The wings ot of the gray grayeagle grayeagle eagle hive have been clipped Lines like those that mark the fouls in inthe inthe the diamond he graced for nearly a score of years mark his face Tris Is older Courage shines from the sharp I eyes that for years eats traced fly balls against the summer skies but the fires burned low But Speaker today Is not the Speaker who challenged umpires in decisions he thought were wrong who threw his every energy Into every minute of play who led a team that have a chance Into the runner up position In the 1926 American league race Some of his friends say with unconcealed unconcealed un- un concealed bitterness that the crookedness crook crook- crookedness edness charges of Dutch Leonard former teammate of Speaker In Boston and former pitcher 11 fop 1 the Detroit Tigers have broken the man generally regarded as as next to Cobb baseballs baseball's greatest ba ball player Speaker fights ts for his baseball honors for the first time by proxy The law pinch hits for Speaker S Speaker eaker who on th the diamond alwa always al- al wa ways s was sufficient unto himself to walk to the plate in the crisis and take his chance on hitting safely Out of oC the lineup Speaker sends sends- William H. H Boyd Cleveland attorney attorney ney to bat for him In the greatest pinch he ever ever has had to face But as Speakers Speaker's train pulled out the city council expressed Its utmost utmost ut- ut most confidence In the honesty and Integrity of Tyrus Cobb and Tris Speaker |