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Show FIE FICKLE, 1ST! COBB Georgia Peach Would Not Have His Sons Become Famous Players. Tyrus K. Cobb has two sons he doesn't want wither to become a ball player. He would not have either become a ball player if ho knew, in advance, that each would achieve lasting fame in the national game. "I have some very definite plans laid out for my youngs tors," says Cobb. "First of all, I want them to learn the value of a silver dolhir. 'When they complete. their grade snhunl work 1 want en eh to get into a factory wItmo hard work will be tho 1m w of employment. Aftnr laboring there for si' months, or a ypar (which should he sufficient time for them to become familiar fa-miliar wit.h the whims of monyl, I am , going to send thftn to a military school. , "1 real right now, that there is j danger of those boys of mine becoming ; snobbish. I U not want to appear ego- j tistirnl, but I luive succeeded n ball, player: I insist that my youngsters do ' not capitalize because of it. I "A fow years in a military school will i set them st raight in life and in health, i JL will remove all th'ms-h's of them 'be- I ing better than the other fellow' and they 1 will also acquire the qualities of leader-shin. leader-shin. "A fter military school tra ining I want them to go to Princeton, or some other big university. Completing their college courses they will be equipped to compete with the problems of life. "A ball player's fame is too fleeting. You are a star today and a has-been tomorrow. There is ho permanency. J do not regret having played, but, at the same time, I cannot help but wish that I had established myself along more permanent per-manent lines. There are very few ball players who get paid in excess of JTjOOO a season and that is not a remarkable , salary for a nTan in business. In fact, it is the .rule, If the man is worth anything any-thing to liimself or his employer. Again, a ball player's life is limited. At best he cannot last more than a few years in the big leagues, and. there is his single chance to earn real money. "When he. is through as a player he has to start all over again. He starts under un-der the handicap of age. It is harder for him to learn. He hasn't the foundation, and he has to draw on the money he has saved when a ball player to get along. Hy the time he is capable of earning a 1 decent wage his savings are exhausted : and he is then starting where the young fellow of 'i: years left off. "Ball playing is all right if you know-in know-in advance that you are going to be a star, but unless you do niv sons will do something else.'' |