Show Ball Fans to Watch Feats of Veterans I BY fly GEORGE CIL Special Correspondent ot or The mIner CopyrIght 1927 1921 By Dy The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association Il Da JEW YORK Feb The Th 5 Th De- De I 4 troit club wanted to loss lose Its manager and the tho Cleveland club didn't That Is the way some In the th American league Iralu are describing describing de- de scribing the situation that when Judge Juds Landl told Ty Co Cobb and Tri Tri-i Speaker that they as clean clenn in baseball II as a a ram raindrop drop In li tho the sky ky but that they Uley must t return to the clubs which had been their last paymasters paymaster Detroit got ot its wish and Clove Cleve Cleveland land got ot It In the tho neck But more moreli 11 i likely to come como out ot of that change In shaping hapin destiny In the American league tight light next sea sea- season season sea ion son than In all the trades trade that have ha been mado made by all the th other clubs put together these two old follows fellows Cobb an and Speaker happen to have fairly good years year with two other clubs in the league 7 What's likely to happen I Fn Both Doth o 0 them are top not top top hers In their way Speaker I is a better fielder than Cobb Tris is one ot of the th beet outfielders In tho game because Lecause his judgment of cf a fly hit Is almost unerring Cob Cobb Is likely to overplay or under underplay play the ball bali But Dut Cobb can con beat beata beata a tattoo with his hi bat on any bas sn I ball even at this period of ot his hla I career and ile he h Is as likely to bob op with Ith I a batting average of ot In 1927 as ns with any other If It some somo club gets that what will It do toward to winning IL a pennant hennant l for tor that club Cob Cobb mind you woul would be In A a n nV hew V city to which he ho would give five nil cli th there re Is in his Georgia soul to win because h he never saves caves him him- him himself self when he ho makes a 11 drive fo for success Cobb Is lost to Detroit which hM has aspirations some somo large pennant of Its It own Detroit s ha-s ha some om young oung ball players rs but there are two or three thre clubs In baseball that can use uso Cobb like wheat cakes cake's can cnn use us maple syrup JOINS SENATORS Speakers Speaker destiny takes him to the Wa Washington Senators Sup Sup- Suppose Suppose Sup Sup-poso pose that he ho can enn hit bett better than lie Us will field as well well- well as most of th the kids can field tiel no matter If It he ho Is a n little on In years Suppose that he ho can put pulu In that hit lilt which means mean eo so much to a team like ton an and h eh would have ha counted heavily In 1926 If It It had been forth forth- forthcoming forth coming The Th Washington out out- outfield out outfield field didn't hit em cm where they weren't In III that 1926 1 26 that Is d 1 not enough of them But I-but get ret Speaker SPeeker Judge Bluege Blue Goslin livers hers Ric an and 1 Harris goIng pretty well ell all of the time and any club that plays play Wash Wash- Washington Ington will wll know that It has met something than n a n Louil- Louil Loul ana l-ana ana na pollywog on a II hot night In Cleveland they Speak Speak- Sp Speaker ak- ak er en but In Detroit they were will will- Inc log to lose loso Cobb This II I not saying that the th Detroit club had exactly In mind the th to task k of tying a t tin can to Cobb Cobl bo- bo cause causo even cn a II cool prop proposition like Frank Navin the th clubs club's might wish to think twice over that Intention But Navin yin had como comb t to believe bellevo that Cobb could not win a 11 championship for tor him and hile none hone non disputed the greatness of Cobb a aa a ball play play- player player player er there them were lots of at fans tans crying loudly to ceo eo the Tigers Ticer play In Co c world world serIes Some Sonio ot of the th Cleveland tans fans thought Speaker had pulled bon bon- boners hon ers era when he brought up the tho rear attack on the Yankee last tall fall They rhey argued a II lot about In Cleve Cleveland land If It only Tris had pitched so and so 10 he tie might have havo beaten New York out of the tho pennant That second guessing doesn't get far In sport It Is amusIng for tor the fellow who guesses but Iut 1 lIt too his Itis guesses SIJ are based on what has hail ha and happened and I It if the tho manager only knew that much nuch In advance ho he never novel would have hav TO 10 g guess POOR Pools SEASON SO Speaker was not as Good good a player for tor Cleveland clan I in 1026 S I ashe naho he had been In previous years to some of ot the tho tans fans joints creaked a little ard he putted when ho he h exerted him him- himself him himself self elf up to top speed The fhe Th Cleve Cleve- Cleve- Cleve Cleveland Cleveland land man and nd many or of orthe tile the fans tans wanted Speaker to stay but there thero actually were a n few tew t who thought It would be bo better It If Tris did not play with Ith the tho In Indiana In- In Indians diana In 1927 They have hD their wish and Washington has lias new nw strength In It its outfield The 1927 1921 baseball season sea will tell the tho rust of the Ih tory ry I |