Allowing Tyrus to train with a National League ball club when he has the option to work with his own outfit is bound to meet with more or less criticism. Anyway, the cause of all the turmoil was finally removed this afternoon, as Cobb went on to join the Cincinnati Reds. Most of the Giants studiously avoid conversation with Tyrus, but they are not violently disposed toward him off the field. None of the Giants were present at the time, having gone on out to the baseball corral, but it is not likely the Georgia Prune would have encountered trouble even had they all been there. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who expected to leave the tourists at Wichita Falls, but who failed to make train connections, appeared in the lobby of the hotel where the Giants are stopping today, and made inquiry for mail. The New York and Detroit baseball writers do not fight each other, as they esteem fighting a low and ungentlemanly practice, and, besides this, the Detroit writers look like very tough guys. The athletes cannot get at each other across this Belgium of the baseball, because a poker game in the middle of it forms an impassable barrier. En route each club occupies two separate cars, and between these cars has been placed another car containing the club officials and the Detroit and New York baseball writers. It would involve a walk of at least a hundred yards did a Giant yearn to punch a Tiger in the puss, or vice versa, and it seems unlikely that a ball player would indulge in that much exercise just for a fight. The Giants are at the Lee Huckins Hotel, and the Tigers are around the corner at the Kinkade. It can still be done, of course, but the separation makes it more difficult.
It was feared that the practice of inviting one another to private rooms for private pugilistics might become a custom if the lads were permitted to remain in close contact. Up to this time the boys have inhaled their ham and beans at the same hostelries, but now they have been split out. Without a baseball ball players are practically helpless, so the game was abandoned, and the athletes returned to their prospective hotels.
It was clear enough over head, and the ball players went out in full regalia prepared to pastime, but it was soon discovered that the instrument of amusement could not be located when it was knocked into the air or along the ground, on account of the profusion of the wind-wafted sand.
A sandstorm spilled itself over the local baseball orchard with such violence that the game was called off before it started.Ī good crowd had collected in the ball yard, and the gate money was returned, which was a terrible heart wrench to Secretary John B. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 3.-Jim Thorpe’s adopted townspeople did not get a chance to see him commit right field in a big league uniform this afternoon, as was threatened by the exhibition schedule of the Giants and the Tigers.
Impassable Barrier Between Giant and Tiger Trains Bars Further Hostilities-Storm Halts Game