The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
GEORGIA PEACH
 WILL MAKE GOOD
 BIG LEAGUE BOSS
Cobb Knows Game as Few Men Know It, Has Uncanny Dia- mond Instinct and Keen
 est of Brains
By JAMES J. CORBETT

Ty Cobb should make good as big league manager. The mighty Georgian nows baseball as few men know it. .e has uncanny diamond instinct He as, perhaps. the keenest brain that ever as transported to ball field. Up to low he has had no opportunity to i'm art his knowledge to others. But now Lat the chance is before him to infusc whole ball club with his own fighting Drit. he undoubtedly will demonstrate s ability to do so
 Ii is more or less of an injustice to .obb to claim that he is man who scented discipline il the past and, there orc. because he cannot control himself .e will find it difficul to control others. is true that Cobb passed up parts of he training camp routine but history hows that such action never handi- apped him nor hindered his team.
 KEPT TRAINING v
 Cobb. unlike other payers, never let's l.nself slip during the winter. He con- pued active and kept himself in physi- al shape all during the cold months. As a result, when spring came, there was 70 real necessity for his going south and oilng out for weeks Had he done so ae chances are that he would have gone ale. He knew himself physically better nan anyone else, and this fact was dem strated year after year.
 Stories were spread that Cobb was d rouble maker. Yet one has the word of iughie Jennings for it that Cobb made ess trouble for him than any other ball ayer under him. Cobb, irssead of at empting to disrupt the team, always ould fight for it's best interests. It nay be true that he did not mingle with any of the players after the days battle as over-but that should not be held against him.
 NAME "ROWDY' UNFAIR
 The conduct of Cob5 on the ball field cah be called exemplary. Throughout Slis entire career he has been chased from the pastine by un. pires less than any other man who has, participated in So many games. This statement seems like an eXaggeration, yet a perusal of the 'ecords would prove it to be true. And on can take the umpires word for il tong these lines:
 Cobb fights every inch of the way il' ,@ery bali game and at times temporarily oses control. of his temper. But Cob has never done anything to merit for him the term of "rowdy.n Through all he years Cobb has shown baseball con- duct that youngsters nieht well imitate.'
 HARD JOB
  Cobb assumes, mana gement of the Tiger crew at a time when the road ahead is extremely rocky. The team needs com plete reorganization. He falls heir to a tall club which, as a whole. is mediocre. The team needs at least three pitchers. it needs bolsterins back of the batting to replace the failing veterans it needs some new infeld material. It s up to Cobb to do this if he expects his club to land anywhere.
 The "southern typhoon' takes the helm of the Tiger craft full of optimisnl-out no over confidence.
 This manaeing job is a new one on me and I know it's q mighty hard thing to put oyer,' declared Cobb. .In the second place. my job is little more d'f- ficult. perha2s, than most fellows just beginning. because I have to rebuild the whole club. But I am hopeful as to the future, and think if I get complete O. operation and have q little luck I'll lla 2 the Tiger in',.ing ill some of the toughest fighting through 1921.
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