Show LITTLE HE HEADWORK AO I II I WOULD STOP COBB COBE Coming Comins over on the train from Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts Pitts- bur burg to Now ew York last slimmer s the matter er of new plays and improvements in the game gamo came camo up for discussion and naturally tho the base running of T Ty Cobb and its results entered into the conversation conver on I Its It s 's strange e said aid a veteran ball ballplayer ballplayer player that Cobb i is it allowed to get getaway getaway getaway away with that play pIny of going from first to third to an au infield out out- outI I Ive I've l co e watched I him closely closed for a year or more and I I. I find that on the hit and run ron with those I conditions existing and only ono one man out ho will wilt invariably make the try for foi third Now if the infielders J playing Il against Cobb were wise they the could ba bag him nine times out ont of ten tenon on on that play How lIow Simply by making a bluff to throw t to first base and then hol holding ding the ball bahl until Cobb was on his w way r to third Ho lIe could be cut down nearly every e time but the infielders infielders' dont don't think that far They have the tho idea a firmly in their minds that the first man manthey manthey they must get is the fellow who hits hilts tho tIm ball bali and sd fd Cobb pulls off ofT that firl first t to third stunt right Tight along along Another play that could be bo worked with some degree of rc regularity with ith wide wille awake infielders chimed in another an nn another other wise one I is is that of holding the theban ball ban on an i infield tap on which a man goes oes from second to third Invariably tho the runner will turn third and anel run fifteen or or twenty feet beyond beyond be be- yond ond the thc ba hag bag while the throw is is being made to first in th the hope of a n slight miscue at tho the initial sack allowing him to go home Now Nov what what's s 's to prevent the infielder makin making a bluff to throw and aud then shooting the ball to third just as tho the runner crosses the ba bag It could be done easil easily but since Tom Torn Corcoran worked it it with the Cincinnati Cin Cia Reds some soni ci eight ht or ton ten years ago I don dont don't t it has been tried in hi high 1 society C CLEVELAND Dec Dac Cleveland Cleveland is to let Jet Toledo have six players tho thomen thomen thomen men to be presented ted being Catcher Grover La Land Outfielder Miller Iiller nud and Pitchers Robinson Kent Otis and Baskette Bas Bas- kette |