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Show I nrf of baseball would Cee? The Ty Cobb Babe Ruth pow-Kch pow-Kch makes the more L ball i 9 rst time ears the ,ay have , look at scoring, season with a ead of ucb 88 Lt sDe- ms-sU J'r.ted to Grantland Rice fey blast of the home Lb way to the widely-flfflk widely-flfflk of the single or I ,he odds now are that In, csa hammer out 20 Li, season will lead his Le rabbit meat is fed bal we may even get L when Home Run ti his title and led both ih the magnificent total irons. tobb Brand ihas told me more than ibis interest in baseball i Babe Ruth began tak-L-run swing. laid Ty, "meant the finish Ling, of scientific base-oo base-oo had to work for a run jto work our heads off to I A run was important. Irrival of Babe Ruth and I ball, not even five runs irtant in many of the ;e you back t'o Ty Cobb rpaign of 1911, to slip you i what Ty Cobb baseball I :obb made 248 base hits, runs and stole 83 bases. In the records of 3 those days his home a run mark, extreme-I extreme-I ly low, was not even I mentioned. It was a J matter of hits, runs J and stolen bases. I In 1915, Cobb I scored 144 runs and SI stole 98 bases. His combination of speed .. and smartness along the towpaths was , one of baseball's greatest features, e runs seldom figured in ie Ruth Brand b came along as a home n 1919. As a left-handed bad set a new winning , even above Johnson, and Alexander. Now he ! offensive side, s tremendous wake the ide of baseball gave way wer. Base-running and became unimportant facer fac-er was combined with a ' ball, a ball that piled (or pitchers and infield-records infield-records show all this, s on his way to over 700 s. "And the point is," ! me, "the Babe's great tept both leagues. They I all trying to be home-run hey were all, or nearly the big cut at every pitch late." ! be interesting to know 11 have happened to base-h base-h hadn't arrived just at !&ino undoubtedly changed 1 Hands that once choked ' the manner of Keeler 1 now moved back to the knob. r Defense of Cobb and Ruth were J-erent in many ways. The ' happened to polo and e power became more im-iao im-iao control. ;bb and Ruth have their '' The old-timers are alitor al-itor the Cobb game. The for Ruth. r1 Point is that after over " Power baseball, the f 'aee stronger defen- Ian Sing'e rUn mighl rD! a greater premium on P'ng and defensive play. sn't work out there is sure r change to the livelier onceagain the home run pt a, single, the sacrifice Is Length i'lf? What 8 majority r.Sthof the current fmPaign- f e balpiayers now left l or"? d6ferred 0n P8-U P8-U wu Wives and chil- E Kdren are a" young. between the ages ol l-onol ,uS been an"ncfd 1 WmillPS wiu be the 1 m by Labor day," |