El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-15

the second by succeeding in some pro-
! fession or any branch of manly sport
| or calling"
This is the philosophy of Mrs. W.
! H. Cobb, mother of Ty Cobb, the
/ worlds most famous baseball player.
/ The little southern woman's children
| seem to have taken naturally TO base
/ ball, for another son, Paul Cobb, is
! just now making good in the West
| ern league with the Lincoln team.
Il am not so proud of 'Ty' for the
name he has made for himself as I
/ am that he grew up, left nome and met
! hundreds of new friends and always
. remembered me-, said Mrs COBB. Ey-
cry opportunity that he gets he sends
| me some little greeting and he likes
to run home whenever he gets va
| cation
''Ty used to worry his father very
/ much in our old home down in At
lanta, Ga" Mrs. Cobb said, when
speaking of TVS boyhood days. Mr.
Cobb insisted that he should become
professional man, as he maintained
that We had the means to give him
the best possible education He was
the oldest child and he took up the
most OF our time.
He was always at play, and it was
most always baseball, provided he
could find any other boys of the
neighborhOOd to play with him. Mr..
Cobb scOlded him until he found that
it did not do any good, and then he
let him follow his own pleasures. 4
When everybody about home be-
as they called it 1 was unable to
follow his movements, as my husband
was i'll. He died soon after that.
But if Ty should keep going, and
he is only boy to me yet, he will
be one of the best sons any mother
ever had. I am proud of both my
boys"
The biggest bone play in the world
so the fans and critics all agree. is
stealing third or second with the bases
full" says John McGraw. That play,
OF course, Is the climax of absurdity
Yet there are times on the level when
1 wouldn't hesitate to order a man to
steal second with the bases full. IL
you had the bases packed with quick.
keen witted unners. two out and some
Fellow up who was a mark for the
pitcher then on watch, what would be
a better play than to send the man on
flrst right down to second? Start the
runner from third, of course, as soon
as they began throwing the ball
around, and keep all three of your run
ners moving There would be all sorts
OF chances for muff, a bad throw
or Clearly beating the ball home. and, I
once the run was in, they could have
the man who had run off first and I
welcome to him! I'll risk that kind of !
a bonehead anytime the opportunity
presents itself
!
Another big price has been agreed
upon for ball player. Negotiations
practically have been completed by !
PRESIDENT Navin of the Detroit base
ball club for the purchase of Johnny !
CRedO Corridor of the Kansas City
club. Detroit is to pay $4,000 for I
Corridor and he will join the Tigers at |
once Although playing shOrtstop for /
the Blues, he is naturally a third
baseman and is the position for which |
Detroit wants him.
Red" is the player who earned so
much notoriety in the last game of
the 1910 season when he was accused !
of deliberately lying down and let
ting Larry LaJoie beat out eight hunts
so that the big Frenchman could pass !
Cobb in the race for the Chalmers au-
tomobile- The player always has de
MED that he was a party to the con- |
splracy to hand Lajoie hits thet he
did not deserve, but makes the de-
fence that he had been warned to play,
deep, as the Frenchman was liable to
drive.
Corridor is one of the stars of the
association. In ia games this
season he has been at bat 395 times,
has scored 81 runs and made 125 hits
Tor an average Of -316. He has stolen :
% bases, sacrificed two dozen times
and numbers "A doubles, u thIee-ba !
gers and three home runs among his
cloutS- He ranks fourth among the
sluggers of his league, having to take
the dust of Rossman, Schauer and
He is an excellent fielder
IN addition to being able to hit the
ball
Practically every club in both major
leagues was after Corridor which
made him come high, but if plays the
sort Of ball in Detroit that he has
played with the Blues he will be cheap
at the figure given.
The new players union which IS be-
ing organized to take in all of the