Show 11 1 A J d Now for the S S S The Cleveland club of ot the American league believes in asking for feu a whole lot lotin lotin in III the asking mood The Indians have written Walter alter McCredie for help and andall andall andall all they want from oft off the Salt Lake t team am is Earl Sheely Walter alter Leverenz Leverena Jean Dubuc and Jack Farmer Of Ot course they are going to get the desired help I NOT What Cleveland asks and what Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land will get of course are two essentially essentially essentially essen essen- different things Bill Lane sell the four men mentioned for the whole Cleveland street railway system I especially not during these strenuous war times and there isn't a chance that Walter Valler McCredie Is going to ask the for permission to dispose of them Lane and Jack Cook spent a whole I winter and spring also in collecting and ana finally signing up their present club and therefore they are far and away too smart to weaken their own chances by I doing Cleveland a good turn Any one ne neof of them may be on the market before the season closes and Cleveland will get first cra crack crak k at them Cleveland Is not the only big league club which has been dickering for the services of ot Jean Dubuc The Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia Nationals would take him in a minute at almost any figure Three clubs want Earl Sheely and two are bidding for Jack Farmer This however is 15 the first real offer for Walter Valter Leverenz al althou although although al- al thou though h there will he many more if Lefty continues to pitch ball jis as s he has and the army draft does not grab him Walter Valter believes Jean Dubuc Is ready for another whirl at the big tent and the tho big Canadian will probably probably probably ably get It Jean is due for a big year for more reasons than one lIe He was a much worried man last year Jean has placed all of ot his savings into Montreal real estate and during the years ears of 1916 and 1917 he be came near losing all of it through some technicality It preyed on his mind especially while ho he was away playing ball He was also on a friends friend's note for a considerable sum of money and stood a chance of losin losing that until untila a few months ago His business matters matters matters mat mat- have all been straightened out I however and he is a new man as a re re- re sult His Ills work and his personality shows It S S S The Seals have made the Boston Americans Americans Amer Amer- leans an offer for Outfielder Whitman I recommended to the club by Harry Hooper S S S SIf I If the the Indians had asked McCredie for the loan of ot his two eyes Walter Valter I might have considered It but letting four of his most valuable men go at this time is a horse of ot another color I S S S Those who know say that it was ly through r celebrated e gr a peeve de Georgia o on at the tomato gl part ro of Tyrus y the justly justly Raymond Raymond just just- Ray Ray- I Imond mond Cobb that Jean Dubuc I Is out ot oX the majors According to this yarn Cobb I practically IW forced Navin h to si let Dubuc I slide It a appear t that the season o Tria Tris Speaker wrested the batting championship championship champion champion- chamPion I ship from r Cobb o Dubuc and d other players organized i a barnstorming r I t tour of Canada Can Can- I ada ado They had never visited Canada and it looked like a splendid spot to light I 1 Cobb was to have been one of the In Invaders in- in But Ty asked the other fellows for Belgium or something like that and they reneged on the proposition When Cobb found out that ho lie couldn't be the Von Hindenburg of baseball be started to demolish Dubucs Dubuc's baseball career He squawked to Navin and Johnson and Johnson and Navin obeying that impulse Ty Cobb had Dubuc turned out And this too in view of the fact that Dubue Dubu and Cobb were roommates for more than six years and no other player was ever able to get along with the Georgia peach for more than a few weeks Dubuc if rumor Is correct is not the only player whom Cobbs Cobb's spleen sent to the minors I for it Is pretty well known that his dislike dis I like for caused the downfall or 01 that player and there are those who maintain that Sam Crawford was also I let out by Detroit because of a difference difference difference differ differ- ence with the peach Anyhow these are I the stories that go the rounds about the great Georgian If they're true they are I certainly no credit to Cobb the czar of baseball and not any credit to the great J American game of f baseball tried to block Koerner at the plate In the second and got sore when he was bumped Later he ran out of way trying to Interfere with Koerner Hoerner on a close play at first Mike Milte has has plenty 01 ot pep and fight that the fans like to see San San Francisco Chronicle |