The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-20
Tv Cobb Gives
 Jennings Credit

Ffttsburg, Pa, Dec. 2O.-Tyrus Ray mOnd Cobb, generally regarded as tne world's greatest ba player, has been sojourning in Pittsburg for week, ap- bearing daily at one of the local thea ters, to which baseball fans have been f1ocking to see-not r. Raymond Cobb the actor, but plain Ty Cobb, the dia- mond star. Ty works hard on the stage, taking the business just as ser iously as he does his vocation in the summer time, but those who have seen him are of the unbiased opinion that the greatness of the Georgia Peach will ever be found in his ability with the swatstick, and not along the lines of thespian.
 Cobb wrote series of articles on baseball for one of the local papers during his stay in the city, and In one of them unbosomed himself of his personal opinion of Hughey Jennings, ly injured4 recently in an automobile accident near Scranton, Pa.
 'You have probably heard Jennings blamed for the poor showing made by the Tigers last season." said Ty, ut I want to set him right before the world. Jennings was not in the least to blame for the finish of the Detroit team. Davy Jones in sertes of ar tic,es given to an Eastern paper early in the fall said that Jennings had not worked his pitchers properly, and that he was wholly to blame for the failure of the Detroiters to win the American League pennant.
 ''Now it seems to me bad grace on the part of Jones to knock Hughey dn any way, for you can take from me that no member of the Detroit outfit was ever more royalty treated by the manager than was Jones. Why, to be candid, Jennings sent Matty Mcintyre to the White sox just so that Dayy could have a free rein.
 Jennings is one of the grandest hs- ures in the req m of baseball to-day, and no one who really knows him can truthfu.ly say one word against him Of course, I have never had many em- ployers in baseball, but never want to work for better. man than Hughey He knows exactly how to treat his men, and the tosser who really tries to do |lis work will never have any ground for complaint on the way he is handled by Jennings.
 ''For a team of the strength of the Tigers, we pulled some pretty raw stuff on occasions last season, yet there never was time when Jennings for got to be the gentleman with all of us. Every manager who is ambitious Hughey can see defeat staring him fn the face with much better grace than many of his colleagues.
 After a game that was lost, Jen- nings would come into the clubhouse, go up to the player who had thrown the contest away, slap him on the back and say Well they got that one, didn't they? But don't worry; we'll hand them a bitter dose tomorrow He never harbored anything against a man who treated him on the square, and always stood up for the men un- der him.
 'As a matter of fact, the Detroit team lost out last season beca use Gainor was hurt. We were going finely when he met with his serious accident. We had won 26 games and lost but six up to that time, and I actually believe but for that one thing the Athletics would never have figur- ed in the worlds championship series with the New York Giants.
 "Gainor was a veritable tower of strength at first base. When he was hurt, Hughey was compel ed to make a switch. Delahapty was sent to the initial sack, position with which he was not at all familiar. He did his hest. but the change knocked the con- fidence of many of the players tn the head, and our machine was badly crip- pied. Some of the boys played ahead as if nothing had ever happened, but others gave way in despair, and we