Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1912 — NAVIN SPOILS TIGER TRADE [ARTICLE]

NAVIN SPOILS TIGER TRADE

Prevented Exchange of Wood and Cart rigan for Pitcher Eddie Summers and Catcher Schmidt. It’s cause for jubilation and thanksgiving to the other clubs of the American league that a little deal planned for at one time did not go through. John I. Taylor was sore on Bill Carrigan because the backstop wanted more money. So he planned to trade Joe Wood and Bill for Eddie Summers and Schmidt of the Tigers, and Jennings grabbed at the offer. The Tigers would have got all the better of the trade, and with Wood pitching in front of a team like the Tigers he would be unbeatable. Just as Jennings had everything arranged to give a useless catcher for one of the best backstops in the league, together with a half-rater in the pitching line for a swell twirler, President Navin stepped in and crabbed the deal. He heard stories about the physical condition of Wood that made the president feel he was not in good shape, and he swallowed them, l&it,'hook and anchor. - Otherwise the umps around the circuit would have the megaphone man bellowing: “Fbr Detroit, Wood and Carrigan.”