Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-30 | Page 22 | Tiger Shakeup Expected to Develop

TIGER SHAKEUP I tXPECTED TO I HHP I Patience of Fans Exhausted; K Jennings Due for Bucket; K Coombs in Bad, Also H DETROIT. Mich., May 24. Unless ' tho Tlgors take a decided brace be- - j fore their return to their own lot " several changes aro likely to bo mado In the lineup. Indeed, ono or two aro . certain, and others may come. It la i even hinted In somo quarters that thn ! entire Tiger ball team must bo robullt H and will be rebuilt before many KH months havo passed. Substitutions kR will bo mado as soon as trades and HH sales can bo arranged, Ilkewlso pur- w9H chases. flBl Last week a Chicago sporting pub- KflH licatlon printed tho information that HHF1 Hugh Jonnlngs would bo succeeded by JBM! Tyrus Raymond Cobb as manager of - -B tho Detroit team and that Jennings M - H Bfl would becomo vice president of tho ' v Vj club. That story waa also sont over IL certain news wires some time since. II Q Frank J. Navln, principal ownor and II H president of tho club, refused to Issue lit Ja any statcmont. Ho denied that Cobb II- flj hnd boon given managerial authority, II M but would not say that he does not II H contemplate cortiin changes. B The Cobb report Is" said to havo H come from Cleveland, and thero Ja H I no doubt cortain statements woro I mado on which the rumor was based. .1 Cobb, becauso of Spcakor's elevation to managership and his consequent success, undoubtedly has had similar V'1 ambitions. He may reallzo these am- Kl bltlons, but at the present tlmo Mr. B-l Navln has taken no action, nor has B'l ho mado any statcmont which would IK I give a hint as to what course he In- WM I tonds to pursue. HJ Fans Dcmnnd New Deal. pi I Something must be dono unless the ItW I Tigers tako a sudden braco and spurt. ll When they lost nearly all their homo I games tho fans held off In criticising A the club, being good sportsmen and . giving the players every chanco to get Sftf started. They accepted tho various ijL excuses offered at face value and wero of -44 f W content to sit by in support of tho J .. fcn struggling hopes. But now that tho WIS season Is well on Its way and the team Is showing no signs of Improve- 1 mcnt, they aro up and at It. Thero Is plenty of criticism, somo of Ik J it just and somo of It unearned, as ' , II& to hurt tho team at tho gato as much , wm as It has hurt itself In tho leaguo , fP standing, and tho head of tho club i IK has decided that tho team has had all l opportunity In tho world to rectify yl Itself. Tho team failed. Maybo somo K I" new blood will holp. W- K Tho Tigers are not hitting; thoy ( are not fielding; thoy aro not running ';ftl bases; their pitchers aro not delivering ! , K.l and the team Is a "dumb" outfit. The l'tl only thing worse than what thoy havo ' Vm I dono remaining for tho Tigers to do Ejt I Is to set a record for conscoutlvo KifP defeats that will nover bo equaled. p 1l Thoy look llko tho worst ball club M f a big leaguo has harbored In years and it thoy play llko It. Thero Is no life, p M or ambition, or energy. Somotlmos it r, seems as if tho plnyers aro oven ne- l V glesting their Individual bnttlng aVor- ages in tho general apathy that has K&f seized tho club. - 4J Tho pitching problom has gotton out of control. Jack Coombs, who looked like a Modern Mosos at tho , M start, is getting his bumps. The i ' Mil layers aro off John JA'csloy Coombe. b " I Ho did the unpardonablo thingover- v ', I reached himself. Coombs was en- . ' gagod to tutor tho pltchors; Coombs . has trlod to tutor somo of tho regulars. regu-lars. He succeeded In making himself 1 extremely unpopular by this offering of advico nnd also by his nttltudo to- ! i w t ward the players. According to their . W story tho only time tho battory coach j r Is over seen Is when ho happens to spend a few minutes at "skull" prao- i tlco in tho morning and when he la in uniform on tho ball field. At .ill othor occasions Coombs Is iii n v.i.i 1. 1 1 Belf aloof from tho ballplayers and H erect a social barrier. That got un- dor their skin, as they sny In South l Chicago. IH Thon tho pitchers aro getting Into l-H tough breaks. It Is doubtful it Dutch H Loonnrd. wJth a faltorlng club behind him. In going as strongly as ho could go. Howard Ehmko is no moro cf- flclont than ho was a few weeks ago l when wo thoroughly discussed his H case. Howard Ioavos a lot to bo do- H fl!w?d a?,d, !,c " a lonK wa3 'rm Poh- sibl0 efficiency. The plnycra nay LH 4Whs Is ruining Oldham by his H method of handling him. Oldham 3 JM they say, ! told to warm up dally and used In nearly very gamc, Som; tlmos. according to tho pinyoCT' com- H Plaints. Coombs sends Oldham into H the box whi a game i hopelowly lot. Bcrney Boland may not pltoh ball again this season; his" arm too far gono. H