Show 5 I Ty Cobb on Record Breaking S Spree 1 S S I va S 'S I UT CARLSON HES HE'S only a bu her from torn out of the beks Yea j a small town recruit dW dWi i lies He merely a guy with a minor league eie ye SS Hell never fill a big nut He's Hes green and he's hes awkward morena kid Aw His chances are few that's a cinch Back there die e in the woods he may eem en like the gooI goods goo I But just wait wail til iii he gets m n a pinch pinch- V VOW that's what they said about tyrus R. R Cobb As he made his debut n a major league job j gUT tale of the guy from out othe sticks z Is known to the tiniest lad S He took the old od game changed it all but its iii tum S As he scampered and galloped like I S f f Sf S f In battin and fieldin and t I i He leaped into fame fanie with a bound 1 The Hie lung king of them all at playing baseball Youve You've heard it t what a r true sound fi NOW that's t what they say about Tyrus R. R Cobb S SS 5 e celebrates twenty long yean on the job S 4 5 S. S I S On August 30 1905 Ty Cobb an year old busher from the South made his major league debut In the intervening twenty years years hes he's leaped from the th-e rookie class to the rank of greatest player of all ll time Today he stands as the only one of the old guard in active participation ti tin tion n with countless rec records to his credit Veteran Detroit Star Shatters Flock of Baseball Baseball Baseball Base- Base ball Records Records' in One OIe Days Day's Playing CHICAGO April 28 M ly TV Cobb who over ovet at least least three baseball records every time he safely swings on he the stands a chance of setting new marks marls about a thousand times Umes this season ason If It he continues to ito play and holds the pace of his first st start rt In Inthe Inthe the he twenty second year of ot his career Career career ca ca- reer in n the majors The Veteran pilot of the Det Detroit olt Americans who holds more bas baseball ball records than anybody else in the game started his first 1926 game with the Tigers yesterday his previous pre pro appearances being as a pinch hitter and he clinched his teams team's victory over over Chicago by his willow work and incidentally chalked challed up a whole whole hatful of ot new records His single double and triple in four tour at bats brought In four ru ruris runs s and nd Cobb scored twice himself When Ty singled he bettered three batting marks he previously held himself those himself those of the most hits in any league the most singles ever made by one major I leaguer aguer and the most mot total bases foz tOI one major player play plAY- er er the latter latter- record previously standing at it t Then he doubled double passing his old record of 1036 extra long bingles his his' totals for tor hits and the most bases and i adding to another old Cobb record for the most extra bases on extended extend extend- ed hits His three-bagger three boosted five lve records rec rec- the the four tour Just reset b by- by his double and his old total for tor triples When he crossed the plate two times Umes he sh shattered tt red still another pushing up his total for most runs ev ever ever r scored by one one league player layer to 2040 The trick In it is that Cobb Is so sotar far tar out In front that he automatically automatically automatic automatic- ally boosts a series of f top lop marks every time he hits In addition there exists the possibility of f his besting his life Ute time batting percentage percentage percentage per per- and his numerous season I and consecutive records during the year |