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Show Ty Cobb Says Ce'ltlayQult -i.-. i -. e ; ! NI-:W YORK. rec. 17 "Ty" Cobb, 1 I letroifs great batter and outfielder. hopes to n,uit hisehail. He so stated 1 caierdiiy on hia return from France, 1 where he has served as a carta.in in the army. He had no Intention at present, he said, of signing up again, although he admitted that baseball mill hud for him "a terrible fascination fascina-tion " ' Tin going down to my home in Augusta. Au-gusta. -. and rest several months." -aid t'ohb. "I intend to breait away from baseball. I'm tired of it. I've had frfieen years of it and I want to flint while I'm atill good. Kasciuution of the game has Its hold on me, but I shall make every effort to tear away from It und not sisn with any club again. when 1 say thts 4 naturally- pre--sume that the release that the managers man-agers gave in last fall, with ttg ten days' notice, is binding, ard that they have no log al strings on me now. I hope so, at least. T't m.edc no plans whatever ahead of my rest. I hav en t a profession, because be-cause 1 left school at 17 to phiy ball.' .bl. declared that the war had rejuvenated re-juvenated basebAll and that "It's going to boom th.s season s It has never done lief or." He explained that when the armistice wns signed he had Just finished his training and expected to he assigned to a division which would soon -fp "some real action," declaring that th American army haa the fincNt iwrsonnel army on earth, .with everyone on h.a toes and wide awake everv minute" Cobb said that "a lot of that tan be credited to basebalt and its cheo association to the American boy." He added that "Ji'n 111 V youngsters grow up. all three of them ate going l'ltC,n!5lJn'i - and claimed he had been strucW a foul bio Aftt-r sn examination by the club dortor the refere ordered the flgut resumed re-sumed and tor the renin. ndar of the bout Ts ndler h.iioi.ed his opponent about as ha ! pit-used. i Til1-. Oi ls I'ec. 17.-Billy Misks of Jit i'aid hiiotkiMi out Jim Finn or I'uehio. Colo hi the second round of a ' . n-duied f if ten-i ound fiwht hera last imhi -lnn k:iockfd dosr n. lwire. hrlote tkiig the count, the ball saving h.m lit lb lirhi round. Milwaukee. Wis.. Dee. 17 The latest hg lit weight sensation. f'nikv Mitchell, bids for universal recognition. . Is a brother of Ritchie Miuheil, the famous Milwaukee lightweight, and won the t'a-t.aihan t'a-t.aihan title last April by allocking out Clonic Ta:t. le Its 1 ears old and has been bovlt g eer since ha was ard a to walk Recent victories over Al Thomas and IXto Wallace have aided materially jrt tiie finishing piocess by which his han-dis han-dis htvs ineda h.m an aspirant for the 1 tale. a a Nashville. Tenn . Iec K. Ksm Larg ford of htoMon vn Ihe decision over Jeff Clarke of Atlantic City. N. J . last night in an eight - round t out. da: k I ad the letter oi the contest only in the fuurtn round as Col ambus. Oh:o. Dec t7. Bian Downey of Ool-itnbtjS. weitarweifht, woe 1 n newspaper decis'on oer Johnny Tdl-i Tdl-i man of Minneapohs In a twelve -round , no-dec- on bout here 'ant n ght. The i majority of tha s;rt wriu-rs at tha ri'ig-, ri'ig-, jitif gava Downey seven rcunds i;t.s Wiihan.s. former featherweight boxer at tha Msnnwitsn club, writes that ! h expeeta to l on his way back from I ai-roi the . pond, where he hss been with ; tb One M-Jt wired korly-fifth C i'tah s ton"i. b in time hie letter arrived. 1 a:d im anxious to be be (.a In th lime-' lime-' I'gHt a: l.he H'p;siroioe. ? has sot ! wt-nl !o Mdnaaer !owiiuar to bav nil tt.e KM f--.tirrwtt.Rlifs prated ami iea; for : him m he -an tK ihm into camp t!:sniB b.ss taken the messure f ill , the fe.tti erws.ghta in the inm Hur.dred Fortj-f:fih since taa has been wua thtm. |
