The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-06
Not Proper to Say Men and Wo-
men in These Blooming
Suffragcttc Days.
BALL PLAYER is REAL STAR
Georgia Peach Admits That
When 1t Comes to Acting
He Is Simply There.
T. II. Cobb. actor.


haps you'll know more about it. or
/ linn. ir 1t is written r. Raymond, or
Tyrus Raymond, or better. perhaps,
plain 'rv Cobb. The fnct Is that the
Georgia Peach is in Rchmond. hay
! ing arrived last night, along with ac-
tors ana actresses. of whom there are
| forty. chapcroned by Vaughan Chaser,
! the man who is responsible for the
| smuggling wonder being in the show
business.
Tonight at the Academy, Tyrus is
going to make the shade OF Joe Jefter-
son hide itsc III Stygian darkness
! through very shame. Indeed nc is
going TO cause II quick curtain TO de-
scend over all Charonvilic, where dwell
the used o-he stars who trod the roud
blazcd BY Thespis. Which is but an
/! other way of saying that Ty Cobb Will
| be Billy Bolton in the revival of
George Adcs great story OF college
life. The College Widow
Glnd 'ie's mn Actor.
Mr.. Cobb--thc mister was acquired
along with stardom-desires 1t to be
known for once and for all that he Is
now an actor. OF course. he has been
an actor before. as some of the slab
artistists of the American League can
! testify. but then he has never been
seen acting behind the footlights. He
of 1t. having started just one week
ago. but he likes 1t thus far. Talking
TO Cobb now isn't at all like talking
to him during the baseball season
, no. not at all.
Posing, either knowingly or not but
posing nevertheless, on the west arm
of one OF those sedatc morocco chairs
| in the lobby of the jefferson. up close
to the clerks desk. surrounded By a
nf ADJ ri nj ri lie vi,
on their faces which said only too
| plainly that my hand has shook the
hand Of the mighty Tyrus," T Cobb
last night looked about as much like
Z baseball player as Bill Skillet, of
sainted memory. looked like 5-cent
glass of beer And he didn't talk
baseball. either.
Feminine Friends. Sure.
One never interviews Cobb. one sim
ply talks tc him. Last night II was
impossible even to talk TO him. the
| nearest substitute being talking at
him. for explanation OF which state
ment read above reference TO hosts
of friends" each indiYidual OF whom
was firing fusillade OF platitudes
telling just how greatly they admired
| T. Cobbs ability as Il ball player. And
| by the way. do not think for Il mo-
mcnt that the admirers were confined
entirely to the trouaercd contingent
| There were buds and near buds, and
| then there were others who will never
bud again. But they We're all there
| to do homage TO the man who is billed
as the greatest ball player and the
greatest batsman in the world
The skirted ones first endured, then
pitied-causc for pity unexplainable at
this writing-and then embraced-the
embrace being purely metaphorlc-
| Tyrus Raymond. and upon last view
| ing that Individual he was seated in
| the midst of glowing bevy OF beauty.
| no doubt telling how he helped the
White Elephants TO trounce The Giants
in the recently completed worlds series
oil baseball games. And how he
smiled! No matinee idol could have
done 1t better. even with weeks OF
gian. therefore a southerner. and
well. but enough of this phase of tho
actor ball player.
Failed to Get His Hit.
| DisenEaging himself from the meta :
| phoric embraces for just a few min
utes, he managed to tell q few of his
| ideas OF stage life.
| I don't know much about it yet"
lie began, but I'm learning fast. So
far am about as enthusiastic as any
body could be. Things have gone
pretty good for us The people seem
|! to like our show. and they don't seem
TO dislike me as an actor"
Say" he began all over again,
what did YOU think Of 1t when you
| first heard it: No one was more sur
prised than / was, Its quite jump
from diamond to a star, but there's
one satisfaction-they say stars shine
like diamonds. and I'm some used to
| diamonds"
Ty waited for this to reach first
Wistsul Elances from across the aisle
followed Cobb. 1t was some time be-
fore he continued. and during the
wait. or rather to be proper. the inter
mission, UP walked Fred Westervelt
umpire in the Johnson league, but soon
to become an actor himself. The two
exchanged greetings. after which a
| general discussion of baseball ensued
Silent on ScaIpinE.
II Tyrus was very firmly of the opinion
that the American League had 1t on
the older organization in every de-
partment OF the game. The outcome
of the recent battle was what he hao
predicted. and he took some satisfac-
tion In that Regarding ticket specu-
lation he was a clam.
II don't know anythi. Is about it
and don't want to. It's been the ar
termanth of every world 9 series. and
suppose 1T will continue until som,
different plan OF distributing the tick
cts is devised" was his comment. pu
he didn't want to talk baseball, a
least not until next season. I'll he
there when the bell rings in tn,
spring. but this winter is my own
! he concluded.
i The call of the feminine being NOR,
potent than tho wiles of the interview
he departed
They 90 My that Cobb is some actor
His famous slide into public favor OF
the stage is likely to stand with hi
famous performance on the damon,
when he differed all three sacks. II
fact, If his critics, can be beloved h
scores in each act going around tn,
circuit unaided, even by u sacrifice
incidentally, it may be mentioned tina
he Is helped by tkirtY-nine other peo