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never had the trick developed as has
Cobb
AS was said before. other outfielders
are steadier in their play and know
their batters a little better. as Fielder
Jones did, but never in all base ball
was there ever more spectacular
player in the field than the Georgian.
Perhaps the greatest admirer Cobb
has as batter is poor old RUDE
Waddell. RUDE tells the story on him.
self with great Glee in recounting the
wonderful ability of the Georgian.
ct was in that seventeen-inning
game in Philadelphia that gave Jen-
nings his first American League PEN
nant." said RUDE. 4 was pitching.
you'll remember, when Cobb made that
home run of his which tied the score.
II put one inside with sharp break
to it, and Cobb never looked at it, His
face never changed expression. [
grinned all over. inside. because 1
thought he hadn't seen it. 1t got by
the corner, all right, because Silk
O'Loughlin called it d strike.
eth fool him, says l: I'll put an
other right in the same place.
Il realized my mistake before he hit
the ball, for | saw the look come into
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the stories that they are the brainest
plays ever made on the diamond
When Cobb's day is done the world Of
base ball will remember him as the man
who developed the habit OF scoring from
first. Sometimes it's single. sometimes
it's a bunt and at other times it's put
out which gives him his spectacular start
around the sacks. And Ty has been
known to go the whole distance in one
mad dash. without even the assistance
of the man at the plate. while the infield
kept the ball chasing after him around
the paths, just too late to catch him.
Hes az wild as a loon on the bases,
| they used to say. Throw to the plate
and wait for him there. you'll surely
catch him."
| But now these scoffers admit that in
his madness Cobb has splendid method.
I He has studied his speed, the distance
between sacks and the time 1t takes for
an infield to relay a throw. He has
evolved from this study an exact science
of base running.
| Make 'em throw the ball. was the
old Baltimore cry. Hanlon and his
| fighters had the right theory, for errors
are bound to happen IL the bali is thrown
| often enough.
| But it remained for Cobb. with his re-
markable daring. his splendid speed and
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to short. AS the shortstop shot the ball
to Hal Chase at first Ty was rounding
second. AS Chase touched the bag to
put out Crawford. Ty stood still. midway
between second and third. ready TO dash
either way and watching Chase like a
cat Across the diamond glazing at each
other, two OF the headiest men in base
ball had duel of wits Chase was Won
dering whether to throw to second or
third to get his man.
AS they stood there ii was only a
fraction of a second but it seemed much
longer. Cobb lunged toward second and
Hal snapped the ball In that direction,
but as his arm shot out he saw his mis-
take. Cobb had simply made fake
lunge toward second to draw the throw.
Then he turned and dashed Tor third
with the ball speeding for second.
The second sacker turned as he got
the ball and shot the sphere to third He
threw low purposely to put the ball on
the runner thinking quite naturally that
Ty would slide. But not Tyrus. lie had
II figured out that that was just what
would be done. so he never stopped. He
rounded third like runaway aeroplane
and dashed for home. The man at third
had to stoop far over TO take the throw,
straigthcn up again. turn and throw to
the catcher All that takes several sec
onds and Cobb seems to travel miles in
seconds. He hit the dirt and slid over the
pan two feet ahead Of the ball. safe.
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the past year I'm this country and Cam
ada. OF course. one swallow does not
make a summer. but it will be conceded
that from a field trial standpoint pointer
men are jubilant over the showing made
by their dogs in 1911, SO IL any one OBJ
jects to that year being taken as a cri-
terion ii would be the setter men.
And now the scientists have decided
that a boy in Perth Amboy N j. died
from hydrophobia a fter being bitten by a
dog that the board of health later ascer-
tanned never had rabies. II would We
presume. be the height of absurdity to
doubt the existence of rabies. but any one
who has taken notice of mad dog
scares must be convinced that MANY
crimes are committed under that name
Ii the term fits or 'spasms'' were sub
stituted for rabies. humanity would DO
little the worse of, and the life of many
pet spared.
There always has and always will exist
rivalry between owners of pointers and
settlers as to the relative value OF the two
breeds as field dogs. This year in the
field trials, 1t has been more acute than
usual, some of the pointer owners even
going so far as to say that the short
haired ones got the worst of IL I'm the
judging. At the southern 6eld trials just
held at Letohatchie, Ala, the pointers
covered themselves with glory. In the
derby. with five pointers and fifteen ser
tiers running, the former won first and
second places, Blue Diamond winning
first. Success second. and two young set
tiers dividing third. In the all-age stake
there were six pointers and twenty-seyen
settlers The field was made up of the
greatest field trial dogs I'm the country.
among them being such dogs as Momoney
Mobile, Powhatan. Paul Verdayne RiII
Johnson. Uncle Dave, and other cracks
Commissioner. the good and consistent
son OF Count Whitestone, won first place.
but second and third fell to Fishers
Sport, Woolton and Comanche Frank
Every one of these winning pointers is !
son of Fishels Frank, by many regarded
as the greatest pointer sire that ever
lived.
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WOULD BE A SUCCESS AT
ANYTHING HE ATTEMPTED
Questionable If Famous Athlete Has Reached
His Best Days-Appears to
Be Improving.

business man IL lie had gone into art
he would have made a name for himself
He just naturally moves in big lines. no
matter what he does When IL comes TO
finances he is orc of the Shrewdcst
money men l have ever met
Much has been said about the chances
Cobb takes on the bases As a matter
of fact Tyrus has never been injured and
II Is not all luck. either. For five years
now he has been in the heat OF every
pennant battle. taking every possible
chance to win. He has been bruised from
his shoulders down by hitting the dirt
but he has never had TO Quit on account
of injuries When Cobb goes into sack
he goes. lie never hesitates. II there Is
a collision the other fellow is always hurt
because Ty is always carrying the play.
In base ball. as Ii is in foot ball, the
man who hesitates is hurt. Tvs muscles
are taut and ready for the impact. That
is at least the way in which expert train
ers account for his ability TO go throug h
the fray unsecured.
Cobb is married and has two children.
He has settled down as "a happy family
man. and. barring injuries, ought 10
maintain his wonderful pace for ten
years to come, as Jennings says.
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WHO'S TY COBB
AND WHY.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb is twenty
five years old.
He was born in RoystOn. Ga.
Detroit secured him from the
South Atlantic League for 500.
He was seventeen years of
age when he broke into the ma
jor league.
His first league game was
played In 1904 Mt Augusta, Ga.
His family opposed his play
ing ball, thinking his life would
be n failure.
He weighs I76 pounds and In
five feet eleven inches tall.
He bats Ieft-handcd. hut
throws with his right.
He's an nII-wool democrat and
can argue free trade all night.
He's a crack rife shot.
His big regret Is that he
never took up foot ball.
His father was principal Of
preparatory school.
He's got a temper like q stick
of dynamite, hut behind 1t there
IL a wealth of common sense.
HIS father WAS n rifle shot,
hOrseman and athlete.
His mother has said of him:
"When Ty WINS a child I used
to worry about him, because he
was so impulsive and strong
wilIed, hut his father whenever
spoke of 1t would always say:
Never mind that boy; he'll get
along all right. He's \ law unto
himself. and even though he 10
impulsive, he's got good common
sense to rally under the bumps
he's bound to get"
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ALERT MIND MAKES TY THE
WONDERFUL STAR HE IS
There Are Better Hitters and More
Speedy Players, But They Lack
Spirit Of Georgian.

| he is facing--faster than any man that
ever wore a spiked shoe.
Doc White once struck out the great
| Tyrus four times in one game. Cobb
| looked like the saddest boob that ever
| famed the air when he first broke in and
| had to face the Chicago southpaw. In
| fact. any southpaw gave him trouble.
But Ty figured il all out. He changed his
style of batting and fused and fumed
and worried until he got the knack. Now
! he can hit Doc White with about as much
| abandon as he can any other twirler.
That "Georgianna' Sprint"
And about that speed while batting
No man knows better than does Cobb
the fact that he throws an infield into
the air by using his speed, and he applies
all the tricks his mind centuries while at
bat to worry the inner defensive wall.
He chops and swings and hunts in endless
variety. They don't know how to play
him because they don't know what he Is
going to do. The only time he ever does
the same thing twice is when they don't
expect him to.
Lajoie hits the ball more often than
does Cobb and he hits it harder, but he
the "Georgianna sprint All pitchers
looked alike to the old school sluggers.
But not with Cobb. Each pitcher pre-
sents to him different study. He takes
the ora long SNlnS against one pitCneT
and uses the Baltimore chop against
the next. He has about as many differ
ent batting styles as he has methods of
sliding into the bags.
His Spectacular Fielding.
There are better outHelders in the
league than Cobb in the mechanical side
of the game. There are players who are
steadier and surer in going after the ball.
but here again Cobb's thinking makes
him stand out against the rest.
Fielder Jones, day after day, with pre-
cision that made the superstitious ball
player afraid of him. ate up flies in every
part of the diamond. With Hahn and
Dougherty to guard the chalk marks he
practically covered the whole outfield.
No matter where the ball was hit Fielder
seemed always to be under it. His in
tuition never failed him.
Cobb lacks this highly developed sense.
Frequently his speed in covering ground
saves him. But 1t is in places where
absolute, unauthorized daring is needed
that the light of Cobb shines. 1t is his
trickery. his resourcefulness, his individ-
ual thinking that make him stand out
as wonderful outfielder.
Some Famous Plays.
This article is written with the idea of
explaining TO the average follower of
base ball just where the greatness of
Cobb lies. To do this some of the plays
made by him are told and retold. Such
men as Cmpires Tommy Connolly, Jack
Egan, Billy Evans. Manager Jimmy Cal
lahan, Hal Chase. Herman Schaefer,
Charley Comiskey and other leaders in
base ball declare in telling or retelling
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triples. BY the same system of think
ing he cuts off other base runners who
are trying to stretch their hits when
he is fielding the ball.
This is best shown by play on old
John Anderson. who won everlasting
fame as the man who stole second
with the bases full.
John was playing right field for
Washington early in Cobb's career.
Ty hit a clean single to the big Swede.
and John. seeing that he was safe at
first. took his time handling the ball.
Cobb expected him to do this. He
waited until Anderson raised his arm
to rainbow the ball back to the in
field. then he shot for second. full speed
on. Poor John. He couldn't call back
the ball, and Ty was racing for sec
ond. BY the time the ball had trav-
eled 1azily through the air the Georgian
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ONLY FIVE IN 20 YEARS
HAVE PASSED HIS MARK

Cobb's feat OF batting 400 last
season stands ~ the greatest
batting for a season ever In the
history Of the game, considering
the fact that he accomplished IL
handicapped as he and all pres
ent-day batters are by the foul
strike rule.
In the past twenty years only
five men have made q higher
mark, and they made their rec
ords when fOuls did not coupt
~ strikes. They could foul
them OF ~ often ~ they syaut-
I'd to. The five men sre:
Duffy (BOston. IS9D .i3S
Turner philadelphia. IS04 1923
Burch (BrOokIyn. 1SO5p +. .423
Burkett (CIeveIand. 1885,. .f:,J
IAjoie philadelphia, 1901 ~:
All Of these Eve men were
known as siugGcrs. They were
Of the old school, with little of
CObb's knowledge Of the bases.
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cent settlers to IS per cent pointers. In
the fifty nine races there were 176 places
awarded. the settlers winning 49, of them
TO the pointers -. the ratio of wins
standing settlers 80 per cent to pointers
the pointers 10. or So per cent, and IL
per cent respectively. II will be seen
that i'm total places won the pointers had
a slight advantage in percentage to total
number competing, but as a whole tlfe re-
suits bear out the opinion held by the
writer that there is little to choose be-
tween first class pointers and first-class
settlers. But il demonstrates beyond a
doubt that there are far more good set
tiers than pointers.
With view to securing some data on
this point. the writer has gone over the
records of every field trial run during
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BY M. w. BINGAY.
Copyright. 1911. by Herbert Pointing.

copyright, 1911. by Herbert Pointing
The day when base ball students ar
gued the merits of Ty Cobb as bal
PLAYER has passed. He is acknowledged
now by most writer's as the greatest dia-
mond athlete of all time. the master eX-
ponent of individual effort in the national
pastime.
The question the casual follower OF the
game asks is. why is he so great? Is II
because of his hitting. his speed. his field
ing. or Is il a combination of all three?
1t is certainly not his hitting alone
There are many men in base ball who are
better hitters than Ty Cobb.
II is not his speed alone, for men like
Davy Jones his own teammate have
beaten him in the 1O0-yard dash
II is not his fielding for Milan of Wash
ington. for instance is a better fielder.
and Fielder Jones, late OF the White Sox,
towers above him in this department
The difference between Cobb and all
other stars of the game rests not in the
body, but in the head.
Ty Cobb has the greatest base ball
brain that ever outguessed a pitcher or
catcher His wonderful ability to think
20 conceive of a situation in the heat of
battle while other men are just awaken
ing 10 it, has made him the creator Of a
new school OF base ball.
Faster Men Fail at It.
Followers of the game say: Cobb
gets hits where other batters would be
thrown out because of his speed; he hur-
ries the play. makes the infield nervous
and therefore gets away with it,
And yet faster men. men like Bay.
once of Cleveland; Hoffman. Jones. Niles
and all the other speed kings, who have
won fame by their fast legs. did not do
as Cobb has done. Once they tried to
make Wefcrs, the greatest of sprinters.
ball player, figuring he would dazzle
en- on the bases, and he was a fiat fail
IRE. He could certainly run, but he didn't
know when or how to use his speed.
IT Cobb were hundred yard sh man,
trained 10 the stride, he would probably
be one OF the greatest of his kind.
Marty kittleman. once a marvel at it,
says so, anyway. But if he did. Ty
would be known as a man who beat the
gun. lie would have the getaway jump
ahead of his fellows because he would
think faster.
In his base running the Georgian's
brain work is as conspicuous his
him to or when they don't expect him
TO. and once he nears the coveted bag
he has already mapped out a plan of 'ac-
ton TO outguess the baseman who is try
ing TO tag him.
Hes got nine separate and distinct
methods of sliding into Il bag said Um-
pre Billy Evans. one day, and he has
about million variations OF each meth
oil. l think Id rather see Satan himself
sliding into a bag than Ty Cobb. because
YOU can never tell which way he is go
ing TO go or how he is going TO get
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not likely to suffer any dimunition in
the near future, for among great sires
the latest of them all. grand old Count
Whitestone. was direct descendant from
Count Noble.
Hats off TO Count Noble. The
Llewellin men should show their appre-
citation by erecting monument to his
memory. The writer believes that were
The American Field, The Sportsmen' S
Review and other leading sporting papers
to start the movement, spertsnsen from
every state of the Union who have en-
joyed the pleasure of shooting over de-
scendants of Count Noble would willing
~ contribute the amount necessary to
build il.
The photograph in today's issue of a
setter dog is that of Beau Danstone, the
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Would Be Star at Anything.

Cobb would be star at anything he
tackled declares Navin. He can think
and he has the individuality. He stands
squarely on both feet and knows no law
but his own. While impulsive. ne has
remarkable fund of good common sense
that never fails him. IF he Lad gone
into business he would have been a big
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was safe And later in the game Ty
pulled another one, much like 1T, while
fielding.
Big John ripped a high long fly to
right center field. Another Washing
ton player was on second. Cobb seemed
to deliberately loaf on the ball. John
stamping toward first. took one look
and rounded first. A triple sure.
thought John. for Cobb looked yards
kaway from the ball; yes, sir. he had
misjudged 1T. Now John did love his
base knocks. and with joy in his heart
he raced for second. Once away from
the first sack he was gone. For Ty
had been watching him out of the
corner Of his eye, at the same time
keeping tabs on that ball flying
through the air. AS soon as he saw
that John had bitten. his whole man
ner changed. with a fash of his
wonderful speed he shot through the
air with his long right arm out
| stretched. grabbed that ball in his fin
gers. He wheeled around and shot
it to second. John was~out on the fly
and the man at second was doubled.
How He Fooled Rube Waddell.
Cobb has worked this latter trick
with thousand variations. Tommy
| Mccarthy was the first OF the old out
) fielders to see it's possibilities. but he
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How He Hits Them.

IL isn't Cobb's speed alone. because other
men have that and do not shine-it's the
use he puts II to. guided by his genius
Crawford. Lajoie. Wagner and all the
other great sluggers OF the old school
were better hitters in the strict sense of
the word than Cobb
Cobb has wonderfully muscled pair
of young shoulders that give him terrific
hitting powers, but as a hard sure hitter
he Is not UP to the trinity mentioned
above. Neither is he a good waiter.
Willie keeler made himself famous bat
ter by his ability TO look them over and
pick out the ones To his liking Cobb has
the fault-f il is fault--of I.ajoie; he
whangs away al everything. But he
combines with his hitting ability his
powers to think faster than The pitcher
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The ball was perfectly handled at every
base.
Cobb scored because he knew his speed
and knew the time it would take to field
the ball.
His Speed Creates Situations.
Cobb has figured it out that while the
danger of being put out increases in pro-
portion to the. chances he takes, the dan
ger of the infield making an error also
increases. The faster he goes the faster
they have to handle the ball to get him.
All too frequently this results in wild
throw or q boot" and the Georgian is
! safe. trotting home at his leisure Some
times he is thrown out, but the per-
centage is far in his favor. He is lucky
because he creates his own luck.
Jack Egan tells Of another sample Of
the Cobb brain work
knight playing third for New
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his face. He stepped back as though
he had been waiting for just that
thing. Wow. How he did land on
that ball! That was five years ago.
but I'll bet that sphere is going yet
One day l asked Cobb IL he had
seen the first one. He explained that
he had. but figured IL he ignored IL
Id try another one in the same place
He had been reading my mind all the
time while ! was kidding myself with
the bunch that l was fooling him
He's Still Improving.
The most interesting phase of dis
cussion on Cobb lies in the future Has
he reached his best? They said he had
in 1907. when he by seasons play
made himself the most talked of ath-
lete in the world. Each year he has
improved and at the close OF each
season the dopesterS have said that he
would never have another like it.
Hugh Jennings. under whom the
Georgian developed. does not share
this view.
Cobb will go on improving for years
to come said Hughie. For ten years
he ought to retain that speed and
strength, for he is still very young to
he where he is in the game. And while
he will not go back physically his
headwork will improve
Cobb does not study base ball: he
simply. absorbs ii. ! am given credit for
developing him. / want to say l didn't.
| take credit for just one thing-that is.
/ left him alone. 7 am proud Of that
fact. | saw that he was law unto him
self and felt that any orders or instruc-
tons l might give would only hamper
him in the development of his own the
cries on how to play the game. lie has
advised with me and We talked much Of
base ball, but never did I have 10 tell
him what to do or how to do II. Cobb
in base ball has logic absolute No man
had to teach him base ball 1t was in
him before he ever played the game
Frank J. Navin. owner of the Tigers
and the man who paws the youth $4,000
a season, has an Interesting viewpoint en-
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there. 1t seems sometimes though he
Owed in one direction and then went the
other. He's the hardest man in base
bali to make a decision on because he
utakes every play close. When my old
side kick Silk OLoughlin said there
wasn't any such thing as a close play he
said il before Ty Cobb got into base ball
that's "A Cinch't
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his vivid ina gination. to see the exact
science Of it. Cobb does not depend on
the infielders making errors, although
they make them on him more often than
any other player in base ball because OF
the hurried play. Tyrus has scored from
first repeatedly on inf1eld outs with the
ball cleanly handled at every base.
Tommy Connolly's Story.
plays is one vouched for by Umpire
Tommy Connolly, who says 1t is the
brainiest play he ever saw executed in
all his long years on the diamond. The
Tigers We're playing New York at the
time.
Cobb was on first with Crawford at
bat. Ty dashed for second as CraW-
ford swung on the ball. Crawford hit
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During 1911 there We're held twenty-six
field trial meetings. in which pointers
and settlers were eligible to compete, and
did compete for supremacy. In the fif-
ty-nine stakes run some $50 dogs conn.,
peted, of which $50 were settlers and $50
pointers, the proportions being 81 per