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

SAN ANTONIO, Tex March -
which one of you gentlemen Is Mr
cobb?"
II there is one combination of wore
IN the English language that is haSLtd
On the members OF this baseball party
ofterer than any other 1t is the one
given above. In fact IL Is usually SAFE
10 infer that the first question ashcd
after an introduc ion given at a place
where the party 10 on view, wholly OF
In part. will provoke that very inquiry
If not, the opening conversation wedge
viii be:
where's CobD:"
It's as bad as Tara rara ooom-de
az" or After the tall
One OF the woId-painters VINO likes
so mingia with the natives or TIC
nlaces which he frequents from year
To year as a portion OF the Tiger en-
courage. insists that he has ordered
a bunch OF cards printed, "hleh VIII
carry the ,nscr,F uon:
cobb - net with ms now
No be Is not a holdnut
lie naS he down ia couple OK
Vie fe has signed a three-year COM
IL n is for an amount % between
$1,000 TO SO 600 per year
Yes. the Detroit papers a'i''"
the story about bis baby p"F'
he figures that this will save him
many moments OF repetition OF ere
facts embodied in the concise resume
quoted abcve-momcnts which he MAJ
employ i'm tickling the keys OF me AZ
tic mill which decorates the "'HuoN'
81 NJ his hOudOir
There's Tyrus Jr. This Year
Candidly, however. there Is some
Goubt as 10 Cobb's intentions regard
ing spring practice. lie mas written
nothing u Hughie Jennings nor To al!
of his team mates. OF late, and u 3
hard TO believe tha, he VIII repof-
with the rest of the veterans, paliI'"-
Larry in spring when so much III
ducement is presented 70 Keep MN ~
home unlil the very last puSsioie
moment.
AT last accounts Ty was in Augusta.
The Boston Nationals are supposed 10
he training there, anu ly ;
doubtless welcome at their camp.
He certainly should be, l2r
The Youngsters whom Fred Lake l.
training could probably learn more IN
an afternoon by watching Cobb prac-
tice than they could imbibe al the
feet of Lake in a whole season.
With the facilities thus afforded OF
getting into condition right al nome
IL is figured by those who know lyru5
hest that he will be on deck just about
I'm time 10 meet the club on us start
for the north, around March p. he
has been assigned 20 the DIVISION
which will come north by way OF New
Orleans and II would cause no great
surprise we're he 10 delay his joining
he 1club until that date. jumping right
into the game April 1, az Mobile
Cobb's popularity through the cen
fral south-old DiXieland-was really
the foundation OF the system employ
ed by Jennings in picking the players
for the two teams into which the
party will spin when the time comes
for the swing north. With CoOo VIII
naturally go the veteran outheid- ms
compels Manager JENNINGS 20 put me
veteran inheld with the team that
swings north through Oklahoma CITY,
as It is expressly decreed this year that
there shall be no first and no second
teams.
Overlooking No Bets
The battery forces will be split UP
as Jennings may see At 30 hard and
fast rule will be followed In the cases
of the young pitchers.
But Cobb will have chance 10 sta
in Dixie. and, quite incidentally. 10
attract as many loyal southerrers 10
the gates OF the Dixie ball parks, as
care 10 contribute 20 the success or
the Tiger caravan.