The Detroit times., 1910-03-07
CObb'S ABSENCE A
BITTER PILL FOR
S0UTHERNERS
People Keep Asking for the Georgia
Boy and Won't Be Appeased BY
Any Display of Colt Ma
terial Whatever
Doubtful If the Peach Reports Be
fore the Team Starts Playing It's
April Exhibition Games.
eY PAUL HALE sRUsKE.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. March go
(which one IF YOU gentlemen Is Mi
Cubb?"
II there is one combination of wor.5
( H. the English language that Is raSilra
ON the members OF this baseball pai
o!tener than an other, 10 Is the ono
given above In fact II II usually >t-r
&c infer that the flrSt question ashr'
after an introiuc ion given az "a pla''
where the patty IL oil view, wholly "i
iu part, will provoke that very inQmr',
II not. the opening conversation wease
viii be.
Where Cobu"
It's AS bad a. Tara rara -ooom-ce'
Ry" or After the all.
One OF the wold-painters who likes
So mingla with the natives OF tec
nlaces which he frtquents from year
10 year as a portion Of the Tiger en-
touraee insists that ne has ORDER
q bunch OF cards printed. which "t4
carry the inscription;
cobb Is rot with us now
No he's not "A holdoUi.
lie may be down in a couple ol
weeks or even less
IIe has signed q threc-year cons
tract.
II is for an amount "f between
s. goo TO $4,000 per scar
Yes the DttroU papers carried
the story about his baby boy.
He figures that this Will save him
many moments Of repetition OF ere
facts embodied in the concise resume
quoted aScve-Toments which he ma
employ in tickling the keys OF the At
I'D mill which deccrates the window
Ell OF his noudolr
There's Tyrus Jr. This Year
Candidly, however there is some
Coubt as 10 Cobbs intentions regard
ing spring practice He mas written
nothing TO Hughie Jennings nor TO any
Of his team mates. OF late, and 81
hard TO believe that he Will repoF'
with the rest OF the veterans. particles
larly in 81 spring when so mucn Va
ducement is presented. 10 keep him 81
lone until the very last possible
moment.
AT last accounts Ty was in Augusta.
The Boston Nationals are supposed 10
be training there, and j! >
doubtless welcome at their camp
He cer,ain'y should be- Tor
The youngsters whom Fred Lake Il
training could probably learn more IN
an Afternoon by watching Cobb prac-
rice than they could imbibe al the
feet OF Lake in a whole season.
With the facilities thus afforded OF
getting into condition right az nome
il is figured by those who know Iyrus
hest that he will be on deck just about
I'm time 10 meet the club on It's start
for the north, around March =. ne
has hen assigned to the division
which will come north by way OF re"
Orleans and IL would cause no great
surprise were he to delay his joining
the club until that date jumping rlgh1
into the game April j. AZ Monte
Cobb's popularity through the cen.
trail south--old Dixieland-was really
the foundation OF the system employ
ed by Jennings in picking the players
for ihe two teams into which the
marty will split when the time comes
for the swing north With Cobb VIII
naturally 60 the veteran Onttield. THIS
compels Manager Jennings 10 put the
veteran inield with the team that
swings north through Oklahoma CITY,
MS II is expressly decred this year tina
there shall be no first and no second
teams.
Overlooking No Bets.
ne OillEiA lDlAFS " 4A Nv 't'''N 'ft
as Jennings may sec At 80 hard and
fast rule viii be followed in the cases
OF the young pitchers
But COBB will have chance 70 sta
in Dixie. and, quite incidentally 20
attract AS many loval southerners 10
the gates OF the Dixie ball PARKS, as
care 10 contribute TO the success ~
the Tiger caravan.
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Three More Sclden Patent Licensees.
Seventy-fve makes OF American
and foreign cars now appear on he
official list Of Seldeu patent licensees.
New additions TO the list are TIE
Flandrau Motor Car Co, Of New York
CITY. licensed To import and sell IN
this country the Brasier car w. n
Mcintyre Co. OF Auburn Ind. making
the Mcintyre car. and Simplex Motor
Car Co. Of Mishawaka Ind. making
the Amplex car formerly known as
the American simplex