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Show Players Plan to Stop Gobi) j ?! Every ball team In tho America! . . league when about to play Dctroll ' a tries to figure out some plan by which "i 0W to stop Ty Cobb on the bases. Ho li Pffc the one player whom all the team3 trj , to lay a trap for, but It Is seldom - ' .. that the Georgian falls Into it Hi I "' had tho laugh on Payne and Zeider of j '?ei tho White Sox recently. Thoy tried tl 'est work a trick catch on Cobb, but II :j failed. In the recent game Cobb waf "i. on third base and Crawford on 6econd . . Payne twice made a bluff throw to- ' ?f ward second in an apparent effort U to catch Crawford napping. Each tlml j"j Cobb ran up tho line, obviously readj fj to break for tho plate as soon as Payni . should lot tho ball go. f6 On tho noxt play Payne did cul 1st looso. As he threw Zeider tore ovei p behind tho pitcher, grabbed the bail 1 jjj and was ready for a throw to the plate, v where they expected Cobb to bo run- :fr nlng, but Instead Cobb stood still a Ul few foot from third, giving the Chi- j,i cago playors the laugh. Had Cobb ' gone for the plate he would have been 1,, an easy out. but ho saw tho play In ad ( - vance, and tho trick failed. W |