The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-13
TYRUS COBB IS
GREATEST PLAYER
So Says Writer in September Issue
Of Baseball Magazine Who Has
studied Career Of the
Georgia Peach.
IS A KEEN ANALYsIsT
Studies Other players All the Time
to Find Gu. Their Strength
and Weakness-And
Works Hard.
Is A KEEN ANALYsIsT

The September issue OF the Ameri.
can Boy has the following to say OF
Ty Cobb:
-Ty Cobb is called the greatest ball
PLAYER that ever lived He did not
earn that title easily. No man works
harder than does Cobb. and only a
part OF his efforts take place on the
ball field
Ty Cobb is perhaps the keenest
bas@5all analysist alive today. He
STUDIES baseball morning. noon and
night. He studies every team in the
country. studies their different styles
Of play. studies the temperament OF
the men who make up the different
clubs, studies the weaknesses and the
strong points Of practically every man
In the game. whether he is batter,
pitcher or fielder.
When Cobb makes some of his wild
dashes on the ball field and it looks
as though he were running amuck. he
isn't. When he accom- plishes what
seems to be the impossible, and the
people in the grand stands stay isn't
he the lucky boy" he isn't. He
achieves the seemingly impossible he
cause he has studied for days before
attempting what he starts out to do.
The business man who knows every
thing there Is to know about his busf-
ness. and who has the energy and ini-
tiative to use what he knows is call
ed lucky" by his rivals. They cam
not understand his success. Because
they have not studied as hard as he
has. and because they are net as
alert as he is they do not see the pos
sfbIlfties that he sees. So Il is with
Cobb on the ball field.
There are many men in baseball
who can hit the ball harder than Cobb
and there are men who hit * more
often than Cobb does. There are men
in baseball who can field all around
Cobb and there are men who can run
faster than Cobb. It's Cobb's wonder
full headwork that makes him what he
is And TO do what he does, Cobb
studies all the time. On the trains. IN
the hotels and at the ball parks he Is
always on the alert. studying every
player and getting Information wher-
ever he can. He knows almost as
much about a rival ball club as the
manager Of the club does.
Doc White: HIS Jins.
| When Cobb frat broke into baseball
! De COulG NOT MT DDC "hlte, lie Ola
! Chicago left-hander. White struck
him out four times in one day. Incl
dentally old Doc is the only man who
ever did It, and he never did It again.
Instead OF sitting back and feeling
sore that he could not lift White, Cobb
did the opposite. He studied Whfts
at every opportunity. He talked with
everybody that he could find who had
ever batted against White He chang
ed his style of batting and changed
1t and changed 1t against White, until
finally he won out. The first year
White had him at his mercy. the sec
ond year Cobb was hammering any
thing White delivered, with the same
ease that he was anv other pitcher.
And so he studies everything.
Against some infelds he chops at the
ball. sending 1t twisting and bound
ing over the grass: against others he
swings with all his strength. Against
some pitchers he takes a free. wide
shoulder swing; against others he
.'chokes" his bat and snaps at f..