Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
COBB VISITS RICHMOND
ALFALFA, NOT BASEBALL,
TALKED By GREAT HITTER
Premier BntsmRn of American Lcnguc
spends Day Here Sightseeing.
Tyrus Not Through Yet.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, premier base
ball player Of tho world. spent ycstcr-
day in Richmond. The famous center
fielder of the Detroit Tigers arrived
here from Washington. where he as
sisted In winning both ends OF
double header from the Nationals on
saturday. In spite of the fact that he
was the center of attraction, the Geor
Ria Peach: the idol of fandom. wore
his manifold honors easily, not to say
modcstly. and preferred talking alfalfa
to baseball.
cobb devoted the greater part of his
day in Richmond to II sightseeing tour.
iilotcd by James ]. Pollard and Hunter
Mcclure CardoZa, he visited all the
points of interest in and around Rich
mond. The champion batsman talked
baseball half OF the time with Pollard
and alfalfa the other half with Car
doza The latter is the travelling rep
rcsentative OF an East St Louis milling
concern. Cobb. who owns Il farm near
Augusta, Ga. evlnccd lively interest
In story Cardoza had to tell of the
discovery recently made by chemists
that alfalfa may be used as food for
man as we'll as for beast.
According to the reports of the
chemists, il has been demonstrated
that alfalfa may be converted into "A
nutritious -four for brcadmakinE. IT
has higher percentage of protein
than wheat and less fiber the drummer
Dion. n little less than 1000 pounds
of alfalfa produces 500 pounds OF tho
coarse Hour Cardoza told the cham
pion TINT tho latter was letting his
Georgia farm 20 to the dcmnition
bowwows if he was ncglccttng to put
a very large acreage OF il in alfalfa
because wheat and -four prices would
be soaring In the next year or so and
the demand for alfalfa flour from Eu-
rope would be something tremendous.
COBB said he would communicate
with the manager of his farm inme-
diately and inquire about that alfalfa
thing. IL there was any money in al
talfa -four he wanted to know It, and
he proposed to get in on the ground
uoor, or ground -four, business
Tigers Don't Conrcdc Finn
Cobb returned to Washington last
night ut $40 o'clock to rcjoin the
Tigers. While willing to talk alfalfa
he had little to say about baseball and
when it came to conceding the Red
SoN pennant. we'll
Cobb is leading the American League
In four departments OF the game-in
batting. base stealing. scoring and in
total base hitting.
Averages published show that the
detroit star has dethroned his team
mate sam Crawford for the leadership
IN the total base column, and is lead
ing with 26l. In base stealing cobb
has established record for tho league.
lie has stolen 50, one above the record
made by Milan. of Washington, in
lSs2. Cobb's batting average OF the
last wcek-.317-remains Unchanged
COBB has cinchcd the title as batting
champion of the American League
NO other batter is within thirty points
OF MN, ana Ty is so far to the good
now that he probably could hit less
Tor the rest Of the year-nnd stiIl win.
But it is unlikely that Ty will real
no his ambition this year-to finish
above 400 He's clouting for 377 nov
-aha out Of the slump that afflicted
him for several weeks.