The Detroit times., 1911-06-13
TWO COBBS
TWO GAMES

] niue fellows. botn
No played the games
OF their mates and
both were leaders. succeeding usually
in feats which none OF their little pals
were able to equal. Like all healthy
youngsters, as they approached their
teens, they played baseball Both were
remarkably precocious at II. When
they reached the age where strength
and skill began to combine. there was
probably little TO choose between
them. They bloomed into handsome.
outstanding young men.
Like all youths who take pleasure
In athletics, each dreamed some day
OF becoming a champion. Now, up to
this point their lives had led along al
most identical lines. Right here they
separated. The Cobb whose first name
was Tyrus wanted TO continue along
with his baseball and hoped to be,
some day. the greatest player In the
world The Cobb whose name was
Harry dreamed OF success In another
sphere OF athletic endeavor-the ring.
The Cobb whose name was Ty went
| through the necessary preliminaries
and got his chance with a big-league
club. Now his name is known wher-
ever deeds OF daring are talked. he
forms the highest ideal OF the world
biggest sport. He draws salary away
up in the thousands. He is happily
married, the head OF family, and Is
accommodating a competence,
| The Cobb whose name was Harry
| will be laid away today or tomorrow
In that restful bed which sooner or
later encloses all mankind. II is soon
err with Harry-far sooner than II
should have been. for he was cut on
| In the flower OF his prime. a victim TO
an acquired habit which practically re-
suited in suicide.
| The Cobb whose name was Harry
was really promising boxer In fact
| at the start, he gave full as much ex'
\ pectancy OF success in his ambition
| as Tyrus had I'm his But Ty grew
I'D among men who taught clean Nv
| ing as the first element OF success In
| their line of endeavor. Harrys com
patriots were OF a different type and
he was encouraged to dissipate De-
tween fights. His handsome face was
/ handicap rather than help TO him
Harry learned his lesson In Detroit
one night, at the hands OF the late
/ Mike Ward. But IL was too late FOR
him. Temptations that might once
have been resisted, could not be
| thrown of, after the added strength oil
| indulgence. Harry was gone as an
athlete.
1 For years Harry eked ont q livine
boxing third-raters and losing as OTTER
as he won His spare time has beer
Il uiH nf "A
| habits precluded his supporting his
family and the most sacred social re
lation became merely a harrassing en-
tanglement. His little son, VINO once
watched his father fight in the reek o.
the Windsor arena Is now fatherles'
because his father got drunk and wen
to sleep on a railroad track
Two Cobbs, two games. Is IL neces
sary to make the contrast and It's re
suit any palmer?
Bill Phelon, writing an expert dis
sertation on the Detroit baseball cluD
is refreshing when one recalls that NJ
has seen the Detroit club once tnl'
wear and In an exhibition game at that
What a certain afternoon sport page
In this town would 90 III the CleNelah'
Plain Dealer should happen TO be late
Is a catastrophe too sad to contemplate
in more than a passing way.
Now, apparently we will have TO e
through another attack OF that retire
ment fever, with Johnny King.
Who said that the Cass club was 81
busy on the field that 1t forgot III
social sessions in the evening? Th'
date is June 16 and the place, tn
EIks' temple. The good fellows? on
They'll all be there.
The belief gains ground that Man
aeer Hughie is only kidding with hi
+ pitching STAFF. Some day he'll star
working winners and the Amercal
league race will get lop-sided again.
The Michigan state tennis tourna
mont will be pulled on June ~ at IL
a O. under the Joint auspices OF tina
organization and the Detroit Tenni
club.