The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-30
7yrus Cobb is World Beater
For Holding Diamond Record.
BY FRANK G. MENKE

Ball players come, and onward they
go, but there never was one, perhaps
never will be, like Tyrus Raymond
Cobb. He stands supreme and alone.
Through the years that have been
his, he has held more records than any
man that ever lived. Some have been
eclipsed by the newer generation
which has been blessed with lively
ball. But it seems that whenever one
medal for greatness is snatched from
Cobb, he promptly carves out another
for himself.
Once he topped the baseball world
in the matter of runs and hits made in
a single season. But the new brand
of BASEBALL, which gives the average
batter anywhere from two bases to a
double barreled home run on an ordin-
airy hunt, made it possible for others
younger and bit more agile than
Cobb to exceed his mark of 248 hits
and lat runs in one season of play.
And, likewise, the same rubber ball
made it possible for George Sisler to
whip Cobb's old mark of hitting safe
ly in 40 consecutive games.
Gets New Titles
But in the season of 1922, when he
was in his Both year of life, this wen
der man of the baseball world stepped
right out and annexed some new titles
to replace those which had been taken
from him by men of greater youth and
SPRINGER muscles. And there is more
lustre and glory to the new ones than
are entwined in the old.
In the baseball year just agone,
Cobb, by hitting for 400. made it three
times above that amazing mark-some-
thing that's a certain record for an
American League player and one
which, all things considered, is be
yond anything any athlete ever turn
ed in.
Not content with that, Cobb went
beyond 200 hits in 1922, making it his
eighth year above that well-nigh i'm
possible number And to top off the
year, he tied the once-time "unbeat-
able" record of Hans Wagner by hit
ting 800 or better for IL consecutive
years
If Cobb can turn in better than 300
In 1928 feat that seems almost a
certainty for him-he will displace the
Flying Dutchman" from the Hottest
peak that a baseball player can
achieve. For what achievement is
there in the game beyond that of hit.
ting above 800 for Is years in a row
Steals Most Bases.
Cob still holds the modern day rec.
ord in the matter Of base stealing. He
made it in 1915 when he pilfered eS
sacks-a showing so far beyond any.
thing that any other player has made
in the past 25 years that there is no
comparison.
When Cobb hangs up his spiked
shoes for the last time he perhaps will
leave behind him a grand batting av.
erage that never will be eclipsed For
the figures up to the present time
show that the mighty Georgian has hit
through the years for a mark of 1858
IA clip so terrific, so amazing as to
be almost unbelievable.
In his first year as a major, serving
largely in the role of substitute. and
with nervousness and stage fright han
dicapping him, he was able to amass
only .240 in the realm of swat The
next year he rambled along to 800
and since that time he never has gone
below it.
| The most astonishing thing about
the Cobbian batting mark is that dur
ing the last six years after he was sc
Years of age-his batting average has