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TV FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920. THE NEWS SCIMITAR. PAGE TWENTY-ONE, had and juldJ mx4 COBB SURE TO r. BE NAMED i: DETROIT ak mi "T rail- Soma Athletes Have It, and Some Have Not, Just Like Some Writers. Georgian Offered Position by President Navin-Magnates Gather for Big Powwows in New York. BY JACK VEIOCK, (International New Service Sport ing Editor.) NEW YORK, Pec. 10. Ty Cobb will bo the next manager of the De troit. Tisrers if President FranK J, Navin has hia way. This was the feature bit of robsId alomr Gotham's baseball Rlalto today as magnates large and small beean arriving for the blr session which Is slated to produce a brand new form of gov ernment fnr the eame. The TUer magnate, It Is reported, has offered Cobb the berth and Cobb Is expected to accept. Navln and Cobb mav confer here during the next few days. Garry Herrman, chairman of the National league's committee of m three, which will act as cart of the of-town majtnate to arrive at the Hbtel Commodore where tke commit tee will ko into session tomorrow mornlne. With Herrmann came Jack Hendricks, manager of the In dianapolis club, carrying a check book and looking for a shortstop. The former chairman of the na tlonal committee brought with him a draft of a new national agreement on which he has been working but did not expose it to view, explaining that It was only tentative and that the new agreement was something that would, naturally enough, have to be worked out by tho Joint com mittee In session. Herrmann said that he Is In favor of opening the new agreement to all leagues, meaning Independent leagues as well as those in organ ized ranks, except those which have encouraged 'Contract lumping. By this Herrmann no doubt meant such circuits as the Steel leagues or Ship yard loons. Herrmann explained that the minor league committeemen will have to take the new agreement back to their Various leagues for ratification but that In all probability the two nu Jors would ratify It at meetings here next weeK. tsan jonnson ana otner American leaguers were expected J among the incoming flock of owners n and managers today. . 32 The men who make ud the Joint U committee which Is to meet with 3 Judge K. M. Landig are: Garry Herrmann, Charles H. Eb betts and Barney Dreyfus, of the Na fj tional league; Frank J. Navln, James Dunn and Ben Shine, of the Amcrl- 2ff can league; President Mike Sexton U of the National Association of Pro- I' fessional Baseball clubs, and five mm members of the minor league com 3 mittee. O Tho minors have a committee of six, or equal strength in the Joint committee with the majors. The men who will act with Sexton are: (H Thomas J. Hickey, president of the , American association, representing class AA. fj John D. Martin, president of the Mki Southern association, representing v class A. (Jeorge H. Malnes, president of the i Michigan-Ontario league, represent- ing class B. s William Walsh, president of th ; South Atlantic league, .representing . , class J. J. Walter Morris, president of the West Texas league, who represents y class u leagues, "t These men, with six majors, will Jrmko baseball over and create a bit ; f baseball history In the process. I Judge Landis will give them all the : Ud he can and legal suggestions will ' j ftlso be offered by George Wharton ! I'pppcr, of Philadelphia, who con ... ducted organized baseball's fight gainst the Baltimore Federals, and ,f John Conway Toole, attorney for the INatlonal league. Eye" Is the secret of Babe Ruth's batting prowess. "Eye" is the secret of Jack Dempssy's hitting skill. "Eyo" is tne secret of nearly all athletic success, writes Damon Runyon. Not merely the sense of sight, but the sense of sight plus the gift of eye," which is a sort of second signt that enables the owner to see beyond the rang of ordinary mortals. "Eye" is something born In a man. It is an instinct. Hundreds of ball players have two eyes in their heads, and some of them may be able to distinguish objects at a distance not apparent to even Ruth, but they still lack his "eye" for hitting tne oan. Yet, oddly enough, Ruth doss not have the same "eye" for fielding a ball that other players possess. His fielding "eye" does not compare with that of George Burns, of the Giants, for instance, but Burns has no such batting "eye" as Ruth. ; The Yankees used to nave an out fielder named Elmer Miller, whose fielding "eye", was marvelously de veloped. They cauea mm a uu hawk." Yet Miller had little natural batting "eye." Hornsby, of the Si. IXJUis carainaiB, has a great batting "eye." His field ing "eye" is very ordinary. It might be claimed tnat nis ac m agility and his hands have some thing to do with his fielding short comings, but Hornsby does not get his "eye" on the ball like an Eddie Collins. Collins has both a reat neiaing eye" and a great batting "eye." The latter is not developed in couins, however, proportionately to the for mer. Trls Speaker probably has the greatest combination of batting and fielding "eye" or any man in m Bam- . . . .. . 1 Speaker's ability to pun aown a uy ball is almost uncanny. The Instant the ball Is hit his "eye" tells him where it is going, and he is generally waiting under It when It falls. The batting "eye" is tne very last thing that leaves a ball player. His legs may go bad on him and he may lose his fielding "eye," but the "eye" that enables him to see and hit a fast-pitched ball remains for years, A 1921 C M Now r Coca-Cola Calendars 1921 ready for free distribution at our factory at Fourth street and Washington avenue. Handsomest ever. Please call. adv, Manager Billy Smith, of Shrcve port team and Clark Griffith, of ! Washington, who golfed together for : a month after the close of the sea son, talked over a lot of player deals st the nineteenth hole, and as a re i suit Smith announces he will have ! six of Griffith's youngsters for trials I next spring. The new holders of the Okmulgee franchise in the Western assocla lion will have to assemhble a new team. Ten of the players of tho 192 team were claimed by the Tulsa club as its property and the national board upheld the claim. Spencer Ab bott and Dick Cooley, it seems, were still In partnership as late as last season. Eugene McCann has resigned hi position as scout for the Cincinnati club and it is understood returns to the Eastern league, where he will manage a club In which he will have liart ownership. Bridgeport is the club picked for him, and he hopes to do more with the Chain uan there than Ed Walsh did tho past season. Wonderful ' Values in Our Windows for $50 M. SCHONBERGER Master Clothes Builder M North Main Street FS GREAT TO HAVE EYE OF THIS KIND Landis Has Full Authority To Cleanse National Game CHICAGO, Dec 10. Judgs Kene saw Mountain Landis, supreme head of baseball, will have full authority to rid baseball of the gambling evil, according to statements made here following his conference with Ban Johnson, president of the American league. After a two-hour talk In tho judge's federal chamber, both men agreed the cases against athletes indicted by the Cook county grand jury a short time ago, should be pushed to the limit. President Johnson suggested to Judge Landis that the latter write Into the new agreement that is to be drawn up. all the powers he thinks he ought tq have for the good oi tne sport, and for his own protec tion. President Johnson -advised Judge Landis to take immediate possession of the baseball affair that he might assume responsibility in banishing all players from the sport who have the Inclination to be crooked. Attorneys representing the Na tional and American leagues will sur round Judge Landis with advice in the interest of baseball. President Johnson today an nounced the date of the annual American league meeting as Dec. 15, In New York, due to the Joint gathering of the drafting commit tees. The question of what may be aone with the spitball is scheduled for riiaiMiuInn at the rluh owners' meet ing, together with certain rules oi the game. Two teams made up of players of the Pittsburgh and St. Louis National eague teams have been playing a so ries up in Wisconsin, as part of a tour arranged by Milton Stock, of the Cardinals. Previous to taking th trln North the Cardinals played a tries in the Mound City with a ne gro team of St. Louis, known as the "Giants." Most nro teams are 'Giants." CAN PLOW ALL mm North Carolina Farmer Wasn't Able to Work at All Before He Got Tanlac-Gains Forty Pounds by Taking It. The Atlanta club of the Southern league makes announcement that it has made a deal with tne uurnam Piedmont league club by which At lanta gets Pitcher Nelson and Out fielder Shay for trials next spring. Charley Frank was induced to give them a chance on recommendation of Paul Danielly. Atlanta boy, who reports to the Boston Braves in the spring. Bead News Scimitar Wants. Frank Frisch, who has tried In his feeble way to fill the gap at third base when Jonn Mcuraw "wrecKeo." his team by letting Helnie Zimmer man out, has been engaged to as sist In coaching the football squad at Fordham college this fall. Frisco was a star of the gridiron at Ford- nam as well as a star in baseball. He has done wonderful work for the Giants this season on third, just as George Kelly has done so well on first proving the Giants weren't wrecked much when Chase and Zlm-, merman were told to beat It. Barney Cleveland, who played third base for the Tulsa team In the Western league last season, has been swapped to Enid of the W est ern association, where he will be the 1B21 manager, succeeding Ted War ing, who gets his release as a re sult of the row over the playing of the post-season series with Okmul gee. , It may sound unreasonable, and you may believe It or not, but after taking four bottles of Tanlac I gained1 forty pounds," recently said J. H. Reisch, a well-to-do and highly re spected farmer, whose address is Winston-Salem, N. C, R. f D. No 10. "I was pretty near knocked out last summer by an attack of ma laria, and even after I got out of bed I kept losing weight and strength. For two months I wasn't able to hit a lick of work on my place and I was beginning to think I was down and out for good. "I began to take Tanlac just in the nick of time, for I couldn't have held out much longer without help of some sort. I was down to 140 pounds, but this medicine, took hold of me In such a way that In forty days exactly I had gone up to ISO pounds, which Is Just my right weight, and I quit taking Tanlac be ceause It had done everything I needed. "I hadn't been taking the medicine a week before I was able to go to work, and now I can plow all day. I eat anything I want, sleep like a log and in the morning roll out of bed feeling as fit and fine as I ever did in my life. I don't need any medicine myself, but I came to Win ston Just t' get a bottle for my wife, who is complaining of being run down. 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