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TY COBB .
Rermaker of Base Ball
Cobb Mastered It
Tricks, Deception
Pionned Plays.
CHAPTER Xxx.

. fields. With Cobh or hase they
would become nervous. Thy could
never guess him. Cobb's miGd. riov.
i;2s two Or three plays ahead OF the
defense. was something they could
not cope with. They went into a
Cobbs teammates had taken adj
vantage of The situation he created,
SO while Cobb was never one Of the
whole, but rather one apart from the
whole. he was still the creates, aid
to the whole, because he provided the
opportunities by which the team
benefited. Most Of the rallies OF the
winning Detroit teams were started
by COBB.
The distance between bases, as
every one who IS interested IN base
ball knows, is 80 feet. That dis
tsnce Is the most imposing feature
OF the game. The success CT base
bail lies In that 90-foot stretch. One
foot more or one foot less would
make an unlimited difference in the
game.
That Perfect 90 Feet.
l. Father" Chadwick. the man
WHO invented base bali. had watch
ed TIE game 30 years; il he mad no
ticed 1000 major league players:
noted carefully the opportunities OF
batting against pitching and the
speed OF the runners; diagnosed
their chances to the minute frac-
ton. and then decided on an ideal
distance, he wouid.ha made it ex-
actly go feet. A player Must have
everything In his favor t. negotiate
the distance safely. Ninety feet ia
the secret OF the game. II is Just
far enough to make it possible, but
improbable, Just near enough TO
] pit the base runner.
obb's first task was to ove-coms
! 90 feet. And Cobb is the only
N in all base ball that eve- de-
he was on even terms With 80 feet.
Cobb on an attempted steal OF Sec
ond or third would often make the
play even II the catcher's throw was
perfect and II the inflelder handled
the ball perfectly. The late Tim
othy Hurst. a Famous umpire. often
said that any time Cobb made such
a play 1t was a toss-up whether he
was safe or out II the play was
made perfectly At both the fielding
ends.
But of sll the men that have rum
bases from coast to coast ana from
border to border. Cobb Is the only
man tina: sver got on even terms
with 30 feet.
Tomorrow. Chapter xxxI-Heads
Up Base Bail.
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Canada and Great Britain By North American
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''9O OFeef''
BY ri. Ii. SALSINGER.

# Y COGB was the first man TO
score from second base on all
iniieid out. He used various
tricks TO accomplish this. He was
not running and trusting to luck, for
his plays had been carefully planned
by him, with all details taken into
consideration. Some Of them. Of
course, came on the spur Of the mo-
1nent as the opportunity presented
itself, but most of them were the
result of deep study and intricate
planning.
Cobb often relates how, at the
start of his career and after he was
On his way to fame. ne would lie
in bed at night, awake, in the dark
ness, planning some new move. some
new spectacular turn.
His attack always was planned ac-
cording to the opposing team. Hts
success lay in outwitting the defense
OF the opposition. These defenses
differed and therefore Cobh'S httacS
differed. He played according 20 tic
individual ability OF the fieider3 op-
posing him. If the indled w@s SLOW.
then all he would have to depend
upon was his speed and a good lead.
He was able to get the lead because
he generally knew the pitchers
characteristics. He could tell when
the pitcher intended pitching TO the
batter and when he intended throw
ing to a bag. We do not remember
ever seeing Cobb have a long lead
when the pitcher threw to a base. He
was not. caught mapping dozen times
durtng his career. Any time he had
long lead the pitcher delivered TO
he batter. With his long lead, his
1uick start and his speed, he had an
advantage that no slow infelder
could discount.
Depending ON Inheld.
With a fast infield Cobb resorted TO
frickery and deception. 1t was then
hat he depended upon cunning and
Ingenuity. Cobb. advancing to sec
bnd or third on an out at frst, would
take lead toward the next base and
come to dead stop. The first base
man, assured that Cobb did not in
tend going any further, would
leisurely pull back his arm to toss
the ball to the pitcher. Cobb realized
that the first baseman could not very
we'll fail to go through with the
i.isurely toss after the arm motion
had started, or II he did he would
nave to pull DaCk MS ArtIl anu re-
set" for a fast throw. In either In
stance Cobb had the advantage, and
as the first baseman started to toss
Cobb broke for the next base. II the
first baseman went through with the
toss the pitcher would turn to take
the ball, turn and throw to the base
toward which Cobb was advancing.
This would take so much time that it
would be next to impossible to catch
Cobb on the relayed throw, especially
as the pitchers throw would be
hurried and probably wild. II the
rirst baseman, seeing Cobb start,
pulled, back his arm a second time
FOR a fast throw, he would over
hurry the throw and most always
make q wild peg.
The basic principle Of Cobb's base
running was to make fielders throw
the ball.
Sure of an Error.
start them throwing and keep
them throwing and one OF them Is
bound to .nuff the ball or throw
wild The more you hurry the.r
throwing the surer one OF them VIII
make an error that gives you your
chance"
He always tried to make them
throw And he succeeded.
Cobb's specially was upsstting In
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GETS BASE TOTAL OF 29O
WITH .288 BATTING MARK

Joe Hauser, husky hrst-sacker
Of the Athletics, was outbatted by
many others I'm the American
League this year, but At that was
one Of the most consistent slug
gers in the circuit. He slammed
the ball for but q .2SS average, yet
had a base total of 100 with 1872
hits. Hauser was the only player
I'm the league to hit for total.base
figures greater than his clubbing
average.
OF his 162 hits. % were homcrs,
placing him second in circuit
knocking to Babe Ruth onlyI 4
were triples and 81 were doubles.
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TWO FIGHTS ARRANGED.

NEW YORK, December Johnny
Wilson, former world middleweight
champion, will meet Tiger Flowers.
Atlanta negro, and Luis Vicentini,
hard hitting Chilean lightweight, will
oppose Tommy O'Brien of Milwaukee
in two 10-round bouts preliminary to
the light heavyweight battle between
Tommy Gibbons and Kid Norfolk at
the Christmas fund benefit show in
Madison Square Garden December 3.
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GRiFF SEEKING TALENT
At MINORS MEETING

President Grimth. Manager Har-
ris and Scout EnGie comprise the
delegation representing the Wash
inGton club at the annual meeting
OF the minor lea3uers which is
scheduled to open at Hartford.
Conn, tomorrow and continue for
three days.
The executive and his advisers
have a couple of deals under con-
sideratiOn which IL ~ hoped can
he consumm mated during tho sex-
slons OF the little leaguers, but
no fnkffnE as to the identity of
the players sought has been given.
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Joe Seweil. who registered 40 GouSies
each
First impression gained from Amer
ican League batting statistics for the
season OF 1924 is that there Is con-
tinuation in the decline from the
peak which was reached in 1921.
when hitting was SO heavy that the
period was referred to as an orgy
OF sluggtns.'' This continued de-
cline is indicated both in team bat
ting and in individual percentages.
The next impression IS that just as
the American League had more
evenly balanced racein 1924. so was
there Il closing of the spread be-
tween the high and the low in bat
ting. In team batting in 1924 only
81 points separated the leading De-
troit Tigers from the Boston Red
SoX, last In the list or eight clubs
The year before so points marked the
spread between top and bottom teams.
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ways and when this Is so, they point
out these waterways as assets to the
business they are trying to entice.
But when they are polluted, 4
source Of disease and sickness, are
they inducements? Henry Ford thinks
not. And Henry Ford is one of the
really big business men of America.
1t might pay the commercial clubs
Of ambitious cities to be sure that
they are not inviting big business to
locate on the banks of a dirty sewer,
q menace to the health of their en-
ployes and the families of their en-
ployes.
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NATIONAL PASTIME OWES
MUCH TO ITS PIONEERS
Game Has Survived Many Setbacks Since Organiza.
lion of National League, Which Will Celebrate
''Colden Anniversary Next Year.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

HE hfef anniversary of the National
| 1925 The league February
, 1870 and since that has been foremost influence
especially in base ball throughout the United
had
League but had not been largely because the play
had conduct the
and pools
The touch the speuor still felt the first Of National
by the
nsher than the crooks. base ball
rnaon with gambling From that period
scale Of social recognition.
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COSLN LEADS In TRIPLES:
HARRIS In SACRIFICE HITS

EON GOSlN with topped all
champion Nationals the official
- League 1924 released for publication today
individuals circuit who
played 100 and Goose attained further OF
his total of II than number achieved by Harry
O
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THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS
BY WILL II. DIG,
President Isaek WaI.on League OF america

story appeared print before, and
find is known only few And since it
and since also the national prob
which spoke yesterday and Thursday must be
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OPPOSED TO EVERYTHING
SUGGESTED BY MAJORS
Little Leaguers in Session at Hartford, Object Par
ticularly to Giving Players 10 Per Cent
of Their Purchase Price.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

TARTFORD December 1-Sor and the the plat
which minor will adopt their annual meeting
here this
"We agin everything suggested By the major leagues
Of club will have much
fellows
public which
heard the major leagues likely
the Of all purchase
prices players cattle
happens $1,000 does appeal white the
Nor doesit much 10 he
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Pennsylvania and New Jersey are
the only States in which the use of
automatic shotguns for hunting wild
game Is prohibited
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Bobby collie owned by c. F. Frazier of
South branch Of the Shenandoah River
dogs. He travelled by automobile from his
home to northern Indiana where he became
lost. He started on the return trip and
travelled 1000 miles. His claws were worn
off and his feet in bad condition when he
arrived in Silverton. and he slept forty-eight
hours. builder gave him this elaborate
house, jeweler gave him silver collar and
the Oregon Humane Society gave him medal
~ ~. ~ L-r.
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The Philistine Discourseth

nations, into new theological pheno-
mena, into the historical process
which is sweeping over their heads.
Narrow-minded followers of routine,
empiricists wearing the blinkers of
bourgeois public opinion, they carry
themselves and their prejudices into
the whole world and are careful not
to notice anything around them but
only their own persons. Lenin had
lived in all the countries of Europe;
had made himself master of foreign
languages; had read, studied, and
listened; made himself familiar with
things, compared and generalized.
Standing at the head Of great revolu-
tionary country, he omitted no occa-
sion to learn conscientiously and care
fully, to ask for information and news.
He followed unweariedly the life of
the whole world. He both read and
spoke German, French and English
with ease and also read Italian. In
the last years of his life, when over
burdened with work, he surreptitious-
ly, during the sittings of the Political
Bureau, studied a Czechish grammar
in order to come into frst-hand con-
tact with the workers movement Of
Czecho Slovakia; we sometimes
Caught" him at this when he, not
without some slight embarrassment,
passed it off with a laugh and apollo
gized . And there on the other
hand we have Mr.. Wells, incarnating
that kind Of pseudo-educated, narrow
minded petty bourgeois, who look
around with the intention of seeing
nothing and who consider that they
have nothing to learn as they feel
quite assured with their inherited
stock of prejudices. And Mr.. Mac
Donald, who represents a more solid
and sober puritan variety of the same
type, pacifies bourgeois public opin-
ion: We have fought against Mos
COW and we have vanquished Mos
COW. They have vanquished Moscow?
These are indeed wretched little
men" no matter how tall physically
Today even after all that has trans
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the conversation Lenin had with
Wells.
1t was quite otherwise when he
spoke with English workers who came
to him. He fraternized with them in
the most hearty manner. He at once
learned and taught. But with Wells
the conversation, by reason of its very
nature, had half enforced diplomatic
character. "Our conversation ended
without definite result" concludes the
author. In other words the encoun-
ter between evolutionary Collectivism
and Marxism ended this time in moth
ing. Wells took his departure for
England and Lenin remained in the
Kremlin. Wells wrote a series of
choice articles for the consumption
of the bourgeois public and Lenin,
shaking his head, repeated: "There
goes a real petty bourgeois! Good
gracious, what Philistinei"
But, one may ask, why on earth
have l, almost four years afterwards,
reverted to such trifiing article by
W nc AdCL has
been reproduced in one of the books
devoted to the death of Lenin is no
sufficient justification. It is likewise
no sufficient justification that these
lines were written by me in Sukhum
while undergoing cure there. But
l have more serious reasons. In Eng
land at the present moment the party
of Mr.. Wells is in power, led by illus
trious representatives of evolutionary
Collectivism. And it seems to mel
think not without reason that the
lines written by Wells concerning Len
in reveal to us better than many other
things, the soul Of the leading strata
of the English Labor Party; taken as
a whole Wells is not the worst of the
bunch. How hopelessly behind the
times these people are, how burdened
with the heavy leaden weight of bour-
gois prejudices! Their arrogance
the belated reflex OF the great his
toricd role of the English bourgeoisie
prevents them from penetrating in
proper way into the life of other
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over the world
"At last the doctor replied:
There is only one way. And l do
not know if it would succeed, but we
can try. 1t is necessary tho, to find
someone who may be able to act as
much like rooster as he does
az don't see,' replied the father,
what good would come of that
81 told you that all we are able to
do is to experiment, responded the
doctor
"At last they found an acrobat who
consented to attempt the cure. He
scratched the sand with his foot per-
fectly; he found, or pretended to find
something to raise to his lips; he
leaped upon a chair, from there to a
table, waving his arms as if they were
wings, and -'Cock-a-doodle-
doo.' Makharof was astonished, and
-at ffrst-much pleased. There were
now two ROSTERS in the establishment
and as there were no hens there was
no reason for combat. He and his col
league observed the best of chicken
manners and sang triumphal songs.
In fact, they perfected themselves,
each attaining the ides of the species
rooster
However, by reason of seeing his
companion doing the same as he did,
and surprising him, Makharof became
a bit weary.
Listen he said to the acrobat,
suppose we no longer climb on the
table. We are roosters. Certainly, 1
believe that we are ROSTERS. l would
not concede the least doubt in that
matter But let US not climb on the
tablet
Some days later he burst out:
"'Why should we go looking for
worms? That is no goodl :. Between
ourselves, that is no good! Let us only
pretend it. Look! See how do it, See
how I raise my foot. How l open my
beak! Cock-a-doodle-dOol Cock-a-doo-
dle-doo! Raise your foot! We
do that only. Cock-a-doodle-doo!'
'Cock-a-doodle-doo responded the
acrobat.
Sometime afterward, Makharof
even proposed:
1--WE are ROSTERS; nothing is more
certain. If anyone tried to assert we
are not, l would bury my spurs in his
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The Man Who Believed Himself Rooster

they Endorsed them. But is all this
and a thousand other things-revo-
lutionary? For they still cling to that
sacred word. Tell me, are we still the
vanguard and not the camp followers,
of the American revolution? Is this
what Joe Hill and Frank Little died
for? Are we still the l. w. w?
"Of course" gravely replied B. 1--WE
are and eternally will be I. W. w.
Wobbly etiquette never comedies any
thing, l swear it to you, to the High
Priest Sandgren. You say you know
not what. But it is all very simple.
Listen! Once upon time, there lived
according to the story told me in my
infancy not far from my birthplace
In Russia, a youth by the name of
Atanasic Kyrilovitch Makharof. This
Makharof was of bad head, as happens
with the youth of all lands. He
launched himself into all the vices
with as great a zest as later he
plunged into remorse for them. In
time, he studied Kropotkin and spoke
of giving his life to his fellow-men.
"At the end he became completely
deranged, crazy. Crazy enough to lock
up. And he was locked up, really, in
a sanitarium at Simferopol. All he did
was-what do you think! He imagined
himself turned into a rooster! He ran
thru the garden Of the asylum looking
for worms, and when he found one he
seized it with his toes, that he be
heved to be claws, and carried it to
his mouth, which he believed was a
beak; and cried out with all his might
- 'Cock-a-doodle- doc, cock-a-doodle-
doo.' The insane have peculiar abil-
tiles; you or l would have great diff
ficulty in raising our toes to our
mouths; but he, this deranged chap,
did it easily from the first.
Poor Makharof was of a family
of 'tchinovniks -ofIicials-very rich.
and respected by all the district. He
was an only son, and his condition
saddened his father and mother. His
father went to visit the asylum for a
week and wept bitterly at always see
ing his son in the same state of mind.
He said to the doctor:
Doctor, is there no way of help
ing it? / would give anything l have
for his health, and it would be a cure
that would cause you to be honored all
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pired, they know nothing whatever
about their own tomorrow Liberal
and conservative business people with
out the least difficulty bait traps for
these evolutionary" socialist pc
dants who are now in office, com
promise them and Intentionally pre-
pare their downfall-not only as min
listers, but also as politicians. Stimuli
aneously-altho far less intentional
ly-they prepare for the coming to
power of the English Marxists. Yes,
indeed, of the Marxists, "of the weary
fanatics of the class struggle" For
the English social revolution will also
proceed in accordance with the laws
laid down by Marx.
Mr.. Wells, with his characteristic,
pudding-heavy wit, once threatened to
take pair of scissors and trim the
"doctrinaire" hair and beard of Marx
and to render him English and re-
pectable: to Fabianize him. But
nothing has come of this and nothing
ever will come of it. Marx will re-
main Marx just as Lenin has re-
NAMED Lenin after Wells had sub
jected him for an hour to the tor
menting effects of blunt razor. And
we venture to predict in the not dis
tant future, there will be erected in
London, in Trafalgar Square for ex-
ample, two statues standing side by
side: Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
The English proletarians win say to
their children: what a good job It
is that no little pygmies of the Labor
Party succeeded in trimming the hair
or shaving the beard Of these two
giantsl"
In anticipation Of these days, which
myself will endeavor to see, close
my eyes for a moment and distinctly
see before me the figure of Lenin in
his armchair, the same chair in which
Wells saw him, and hear-on the
day following or perhaps on the day
of the conversation with Wells-the
words, accompanied by heavy gasp:
ugh! What petty bourgeoisl
What a Philistine!"
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II WONDER" said Fellow-worker A to
Fellow-worker B, as they strolled
inside the Enclosure with that leisure
ly nowhere-to-go sort of gait prisoners
fall into, 81 wonder just what that lit
tie old button with three stars and the
three letters, /. w. W., stands for now
a-days."
IF you mean that for a question, 4"
replied B, I'll tell the world it stands
for good deal nowadays. That's
sufficiently ambiguous to merit me be-
ing crowned with the same laurel as
the present editor of Solidarity" he
added urbanely.
Well" rejoined A, there's some
doubt if it's laurel or poison oak he's
wearing. But, seriously, I'm hanged if
I'd know the l. w. w. now for the one
| joined and went to Jail for. These
three stars once stood for Education,
Organization and Emancipation And
the three letters meant the Industrial
Workers of the World And that
meant a lot of other things, good
things. Industrial unionism to start
with, but that was only a tool to work
with and not the end-not the whole
aim. 1t was only road to freedom
not freedom itself, tool of the COM
ing revolution, not the revolution it.
self and intoto. Now the chairman of
the G. E. B. says that all highbrow
books of MARKHAM ideas should be
burned-that's Education Then all
workers organizations who want to
organize with us are refused and in
suited, from the Canadian Lumber
Workers to the Red Labor Union In
ternational And that's our 'Organiza-
tion,' l suppose. And then there was
the third star that stool for Enamel.
patton Now the same bunch that
would give us Education without
Marks books-without any books in
fact-say, What we want is to settle
immediate problems Which really
means that they are afraid to discuss
even the revolutionary problems of
today in the spirit of the l. w. w.
They pretend to be theoretically op-
posed to the Soviets when really
they're only scared of going to Jail if
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CONTINUED from page p

talism has destroyed the English ma
tional docks, has made it impossible
to exploit the coal mines in a rational
manner, etc. Ilyitch was familiar
with the language of facts and figures.
Il confess" concludes Mr.. Wells un-
expectedly, lit was very difficult for
me to argue against him." What does
this mean? Is it the beginning of the
capitulation of evolutionary Collecti-
vism before the logic of Marxism ?
No, no, abandon all hope!" This
phrase, which at the first glance ap-
pears unexpected, does not occur by
mere chance; it forms part of the
system, it bears a strictly outspoken
Fabian, evolutionary, pedagogic char
acter 1t is expressed with an eye
to the English capitalists, bankers,
lords and their ministers. Wells SAYS
to them: "Just see, you behave so
badly, so destructively, so egotistical-
ly, that in my discussion with the
Kremlin Dreamer / found it difficult
to defend the principles of my evo-
lutionary Collectivism. Listen to rea-
son, take every week a Fabian bath,
become civilized, proceed along the
path of progress" Thus the devout
confession of Wells is not the. begin
ming Of self-criticism, but merely the
continuation of the educational work
on this same capitalist society which
has emerged from the imperialist war
and the peace Of Versailles-perfect-
ed, moralized and Fabianized.
1t is not without feeling of bene-
VIOLENT patronage that Wells remarks
concerning Lenin: His faith in his
cause is unbounded." There is no need
to dispute this. What is true is true.
This fund of faith gave him, among
other things, the patience to converse
during those depressing months of the
blockade with every foreigner who
might be able to serve even as an In
direct means of communication be-
tween Russia and the west. Such was