The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-18
SWatleSS Days Few For Cobb
Detroit Batting Artist Aver ages One No-Hit Game Out of Seven-Longest 1917 Period Without Con- necting Was Three Games During September.

When a ball player does as many re- markable things as Ty Cobb did in the last campaign there is never end-' ing dope in detail on his performances, and so the latest story from the files of the statistican is published without apologies. It deals with the continu- ance of Cobb's hitting and shows that the best that American league pitchers could do during the 1917 season was Ito hold him to an average of one hit less game a week.
 All told, Ty figured in but A gamesl in which he didn't exact the tribute off from one to five hits. And Cobb en- | gagged in 152 games, so it can be seen that his hitless days were compara-s lively infrequent.
 Cobb's longest swat1ess spasm lasted three games. On September 12 the Tigers played a doubIe-header against Cleveland and Ty went up and down nine times without starting a pitcher to the Showers. There was no game next day and on September If against l Cicotte of the White Sox two more un- profitable appearances at bat, totaling! | Il successive trials.
 l UT LL0 T01Ild1nu6T or the SSdSOnR didn't slump for more than a game at a time, except on three occasions. Memorial Days double-header against the Indians found him hitless. Dumont and Ayres of Washington on July 10; and Ruth of Boston on July il collab-, orated for two consecutive swatIess days, while on Aug. 31-Sept- 1 he went 1 through successive games again with-} out damaging either Bagby or CoEal~i eskie of Cleveland.
 l But Cobb certainly made up for his lean days. His run of 35 consecutive l games in which he made one or more hits still is remembered. This began May 31 and was terminated by Faber and Scott of Chicago on July. 6. But | if is not known that in 43 games he banged out two hits and in If pas times he levied on rival pitchers fer a trio of safeties.
 The Peach poled four hits in sev- eu games and on two occasions he trapped out five blows. In 61 games. he was content with one wallop. That was how his seasons total of 225 clouts in 152 games was compiled. :
 Tyrus sweetly warbled ttThe End of a Perfect Day. six times during the summer singing with the greatest amount of pep on the afternoon of June 5, when five times at bat netted. two doubles, two singles and a triple. He turned four hits in four times up three times, July 21, July 26 and | Sept 24 He also made three out of three Sept. 16 and two out of two on June 15. On 2his day he incidentally Icopped two bases and scored two runs, the twos having it.
 Cobb seemed to loaf or the jobzJuly 30, when he went up six times and only made four singles and a triple, but he sort of made amends for this by scoring five times.
 That was by far Cobb's best run-get- ting performance, for his next best work was to tally three runs in aI game He did this three times.
 A detailed study of Cobb's 1917 bat ting record -discloses this as Tvs mot to: "Get 8 hit nearly every day; if not one, then two or three or four or five" And a fellow has to follow that motto pretty closely to lead the Ameri- can league in batting ten years in Il.