The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22
TOWN THAT MADE Y COBB FAMOUS Anniston Has Sent Forth Other
 Baseball Heroes FANS ALWAYS BUZZING Baseball Gossip Never Dies Out in An niston, Which Lids Fair to Be-
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FANS ALWAYS BUZZING
BY HARVEY NJ. AYERS

Anniston. January 21.-(Special) )-Base- ballically speaking, Annston is known in the sporting world as the town that made Ty Cobb famous or, as Tyrus Ray mond would likely prefer to have it put as the town made famous by Ty Cobb for 1t was here that the Detroit prodigy began to develop, a process rather un- necessary under the limitations of S125O per week salary, with very frequent docking for infractions of the rules of the association; and I have always be- lieved that it was this fact which started Tyrus to "cussing." Here 1t was also that Cobb earned the pseudonym of 'Scrappy.'' for the first Ss9 fstic encounters of his baseball career were pulled off on the Anniston diamond; and here it was that he acquired that penchant for stiff scratchy bath towels that has caused him to be condemned by his former land lady ever since he made his farewell swipe of a dozen of those valuable arti- cles of the avatory
 Tyrus Raymond, however, is not the only man made famous by Anniston for the fans here boosted Camnitz to Pittsburg, Blankenship to Washington Sparks to Philadelphia and Tommy Stouch to the management of Savannah "Toots' Douglass went from here to Annapolis Prof. Billy Sanford stops work down at the University of Georgia long enough every now and then to write a sonnet on When I Was a Busher at Anns- ton,' and Thweat Moore, the noted Geor- gia legislator, draws his most fowery illustrations from his experiences on the diamond in attractive Anniston Lesser luminaries are still refeoting the beauties of the Model City of the south in the Cotton States, the Southern, South At lantic and other leagues.
 Why GnnzeI likes Anniston All of these men did things while in Anniston, and Annistonians never get too busy to extend the glad hand to the fellow who has made good or who shows that he can arrive" Ganzel liked this spirit, but the thing which appealed to the manager of the Hustlers most was Annistons hotel advantages over all other competing cities. The Alabama hotel, where his men will bunk. was built under the direction of William H. Finn, the noted Anniston globe trotter. who incor- porated in it's construction the best fea-
 
 America. That's some pumpkins in It. self. but the pumpkin gets bigger when it is considered that the hotel is just two blocks from the gymnasium, where the men will train, and just exactly the same distance removed from the park where they will practice. and when Gan gel learned that Anniston Is a prohibition town he seemed furthersdelighted to know that he would not haze to circumnavi- gate the globe to contract for his water supply to relieve, the fdyrness, for the water companys office Is just a block away from the hotel. If by any remote peradventure any of his men should get in the jug. all that he would have to dc would be to stick his head out of d rear window and give the happy word to the warden or recorder that would se- cure his release
 Bug Buzzes Year Round
 Dr. Ozone is never ailing at Anniston,