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Show iy gdbb is yyii i warn ii !!1 Writer Tells of Great Star's Life During Winter in Georgia. .; I "Whatever you undertake, do s' I with all your might. Work hard, .? j play hard. Do your very best, and ,v I if you are beaten, bo beaten game." : cobb's advice in talk to school ,;: 1 diildren. "What sort of a follow is Ty Cobb ! ' ,if the ball field.'" Hundreds have put the question just tlist way to persons who have met Cobb 1 .noisily. They havo formed an opinion Cobb, based on their observance of -J;? mitT) at work, and appear to be se.ek-:i se.ek-:i ,'iTrohoration of it by getting an '"Annate of the great star from one who ':' ;i; met him in private life, says ,T. C. "' i.) ' 1 oa r v in t'10 Boston Globe. Cobb plays hard, and he plays to vrin. ' !io is a reservoir filled to the limit with :i intolligrnee and enercry, and the combi-:- I nation, develops amazing power and ;; mikes him one of the greatest players - jiije game has ever seen. ' As to Cobb off the ball field, what follows is the estimate and opinion of . i(Jne who had to do with him socially for i'.he creater part of two weeks while : 'fresident Gaffnev and Manager Stall-;. Stall-;. fee of the world 'a champions were en-V en-V ,teflaiDiBg a huntiusr party in Georgia .recently. My opinion b that it would .,' lie difficult to find a more eompaniou-able, eompaniou-able, a more gentlemanly or a more in-:. in-:. ifrestiug character than this same Cobb. '; Model Family Man. j He hunts, he shoots, he plays poker : jsnd he reads, all very much after the -'. I style that he plays baseball. His wife i is" a Georgia girl and they have two . children, a boy and a girl, the eldest i 5 years old. They live in Augusta during dur-ing the winter. While i obb is a model family man, lie funis Iboe to do a lot of hunting in the :' oifscaMui. and so does not have to iread more than a week at spring : faiuing to get into condition for the -'.eball season. As a matter of fact, ::: te is in condition right now. He was in the Gaffuey-Stallings party lit Haddock, and never lost a minute of ' daylight in the hunt. One of the plan-: plan-: Itation hands, whom Mr. Stallings sent -;witb him as a guide, was walked off his :;iieet the first dayv and sidestepped the asigmnent thereafter. :: '"He is too hard a man to follow, M i: was his comment when they came in at ::- .dark, barely able to drag one foot after iihe other. Cobb rarely missed a bird, and gen-i'lerally gen-i'lerally brought home from twenty to ::thirty quail each day. He owns three i'si'lendid bird dogs, and thinks the world i oi them. The master and the dogs un-::rlerstaud un-::rlerstaud each other and work in perfect per-fect harmony. -. Has Self-control. f:i Ty must have been given quite a shock ono evening in connection with 'these dogs; but he showed his nerve ,. as usual and never batted an eyelash. They all had had . a hard dav's work. ". and before going to dinner called a pickaninny, who had the care of dogs aid puns, and said: '; '''ilose, I want yon to give my dogs " a nice supper tonight." ; I "I have, sir; I gave them all a fine ;". upper, " said Mose. . An hour or so later, when the crowd was sitting aronnd the fireplace talk- V ine baseball, Mose's voice was heard " ia the hall. ,1 "Mister Ty, your dog done choke." i Knowing how" much Cobb thought of "i bis dogs, every eye was cast in his j (direction, expecting to see him hit the ':7oof. He sat as rigid as a stone man f;t'or what seemed like ten seconds. Every " pae else present seemed speechless and ., (paralyzed, and Mose's eyes wore bulg-" bulg-" hng out of their sockets as he stood m the doorway. t Ty finallV broke the silence by in quiring in the most matter-ot-fact way, T -'Is he dead?" ; "Not .yet," came back Mose. .; In what seemed to be mighty deliberate delib-erate fashion, Cobb walked from the ;,room and almost before the others i: present had found their voices he walked back again and sat down as pool as ice. !'! "What was the matter with the .nop?" some one asked. "Had a bone in his throat. I pulled U out," said Cobb, and he then took up : he conversation where it had been in- errupted by the announcement of Mose. :. 'ares for Dogs First. Ty made it a point to see that his logs were washed and dried before he i' hanged his own clothes, on days' when :. hey came home wet and tired. It did not appear that he ever tired. ;. Just an incident to show the wonderful : Aysical condition of the man at the ' "resent time: One day the hunting .' "arty, which was going to some covers . u wagons, had a mishap. Going over I trail in the lowland, wnich for a considerable con-siderable distance was covered with yh-Kter knee-deep, the going was so - ough that the whiffletrees on one of ho wagons broke; the horse got clear 'Ed left the partv marooned, 'am Crane, who was one of those left : t the middle of the lake, already had pretty bad cold and did not care to :;)';M to his trouble by wetting his feet. ,'lam must weigh about 225 pounds, but ,.; obb took him on his back, at the same tine carrying his own gun and nmmuni-Jion, nmmuni-Jion, and packed the load a distance of r'eventv-fivc yards, with the water up i:ymmd his knees the greater part of , he distance, and landed Sam high and ,.. ry without turning a hair. :! v ?'as not long after this that one of ; "e dogs loaned by one of the towns- '' , "? . 'lushed a covey of quail on which I -""ij's docs had come to a point and ;. . working on. ( ' w;J5 the second or third time he had .. W the same thing that day, he evi-i evi-i JM.y being iealous of Tv's dogs and ,S! out to steal their points. 1 lutruns Fleeing Dog. "Mter. flushing the biids. the dog took 1 , j.1"' ,aslne them, and Tv wuk to chas-v chas-v . . we dog, being peeved n-r the way .i spoiling the chances of pet-i pet-i if St by being too ambitious. Ty ,j ' - yellms to him to stop, but the dog f ' t-onvind so did Ty. '; nil. o9" chase went on for half a we latter part of which the dog '' W2.?w heat to outrun Ty. know-;, know-;, n:J, T,'as ''ming to him; but Ty - g taught him. WfA ?as au interesting minute or " i'i f tin i mm-v- n4 he spent the rest :"1 (Mi,. y,ln tho ivagou. Cobb never. itZ nA the bases much faster than , V He 2 "" tYHt dX- 't iat iJS,w ndillS in the wagons, and I 1 'i-ins, ""s 35 frcsh as a daisv, sur- 8 "ryone with his knowledge of j I history, ancient and modern, which showed that he had done much carefui : reading-. Lately he has taken to playing billiards, bil-liards, and Stallings says Ty will never stop until he becomes expert at the game, as he is in every other one that he has ever tackled. Down in Brunswick, Ga., the party visited the high school and Cobb made a very nice speech to the bovs and girls there. To the boys he said: Whatever you undertake do with all .your might; work hard, pay hard. There is no discredit in being beaten by a stronger opponent, but you should see to it that there are none stronger than you, if that be possible." Ty Cobb is a fine fellow off tho ball field "-and on it, too. |