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Show NO RAISE IN SIGHT FOR TIGER STARS President Xavin said that ho would not grant Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford Craw-ford the advances in salary they demanded de-manded if they both quit baseball "For three or four years It has been said In certain quarters that Cobb and Crawford were all there was to the Detroit team," he said. -'That if they were taken out of the lineup the' Tigers would bo a chronic second sec-ond division team WeP, the;, were not taken out of the lineup last season, sea-son, and the Tigers were a chrome second division toam, finishing sixth, So t' at theory is disproved. And now thev are both asking for big hnises. When a ball player gets more than $5,000 ho has passed the limit of his worth as a ball player, and Is drawing the extra money for some quality which brings It back at the gate. "Cobb undoubtedly has a lot of Ihe spectacular stuff that draws the money. But ho didn't drow It at home last year. On our last home stand GOO was a fair crown, and 1,000 was a hummer So vou sec It isn't Cobb .ind Crawford alone who draw the money, but the fact that the Tigers win games. When they den't win, people stay away "Before n bst-ball club pays out big money in salaries, It -s necessary lo tako it in at the elite. Wo won't pa3' Cobb and Crawford what they ask, simply because wo can't. Baseball Is a busincap, and we must conduct It in a businesslike msnner." |