The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-29
COBB WILL ASK
 FOR ONE DOLLAR
 FOR EACH MINUTE
Says He Will Ask for $15,OOO to Play for the Tigers Next Year-Is the Most Advertised Player In the
 Game Today

This is 8 story of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, frequently billed as the greatest player baseball has ever produced and always referred to as the most adver- tised player in the business.
 Frank Navin, owner of the Detroit Tigers, the man who han become rich through this same advertising, ap- pears in a minor role.
 Cobb's three-year contract with the Detroit club expires at the end of this season. Strange as it may seem, Cobb has pretty good idea of his value to a ball club, of his work as player and his ability to make the turnstiles click faster than ever before.
 For the last three years Cobb has been playing for salary reliably re- ported to be 5000, probably the player. Cobb knows that at that price he is dirt cheap. Navin, of course, knows the same thing.
 Cobb hasn't said what his salary will be next year, but you can go broke that the figures in the contract will be very nearly what Cobb wants.
 He has asked few of his intimate friends if they thought that $15,O00 would be enough for one years sai- ary. That furnishes a pretty good line on what Cobb will ask for next year.
 And ne will get it, too. The Detroit team is now the best drawing card on the road that there is in baseball.
 Beg pardon. Cobb is the best draw ing card, for without the Georgian the Tigers would be only mediocre att traction.
 In every city in the American league thousands of fans go to see, not the Tigers play, but the Tiger play, that Tigers being one other than Cobb,
 10 fo fon hot Aff something startling in every game would be a trifle extravagant, but you can never tell when he will score from first on an inf1eld hit, steal sec ond, third and home in quick success sion. or pull off wonderful catch in the outfield.
 All of these things of course make Cobb drawing card. But they aren't the only things. On and off the ball field, Cobb's artistic temperament is always in evidence.
 Fans in every town want to see the player who became peeved because mere hotel clerk had the audacity to demanded a switch.
 They want to see the man who had the temerity to climb into the stands in New York and pumme1 rooter who was annoying him. They all want to see the man who SLdI LSu% lAS pdhSpdil SlI1h6, WHICH gave baseball moguls a lot to think about and eventually led to the for mation of the players union.
 None of these fans will overlook the opportunity of seeing the man who was stabbed by Detroit thugs, and then, so they say, made these same thugs get down on their knees when they discovered his identity.
 There is only one Cobb Probably there will never be another. He prob ably has more enemies than any other man in baseball.
 His teammates detest him; players on other teams hate him, but all are forced to admit that as a ballplayer he is a class by himself.
 In view of all these things, Mir. Cobb will, of course, tell MT. Navin what he expects in the way of salary. Mr. Navin will naturally demur, but in the end he will pay Cobb just what he asks.
 For the Detroit owner might just as well lock the gates of his ball park as to try to run team without Cobb.