| Show I Is the New Nev Ty Cobb I I Baseball World Is Swinging S From Regime of Georgian Peach to New v Rule Iule of Peachy George Brown Bro Star Reaches I a Greatness p. p By Dean Snyder They've Theyo called T TV y C Cobb cobb hb the G Georgia orta Peach for tho the last fifteen yours nUs but Jut at this point In the drama enters P Peachy Ch George Georoe It now remains for tho the world to start calling the Brown star the star the great George Staler This Tha tribute Is la certainly duo duo- the tho sup superb rb St t Louis first t ba baseman man Pushed b by one of th the hardest hitting hitting hit hit- ting fields field In tho the history of or the tile game Staler r Is tf climbing higher Into the hell hall of oC baseball fame each week 1 Durin During tho the last lut four lour years of TyCobb's TyCobb's Ty Cobbs Cobb's reign In tho the Johnson family of B a waiters watters the Brown first baseman base base- man nian has been approaching great t nez ness This year rear with the Georgia Peach In tho the background due partly n to a n neta getaway eta slump and later to acci acel- dent ent has occupied the batting throne His Ills bat t has clicked through the I first I nt half halt of the 1820 American league season at nt a a. pace paco Each week he Is 15 being forced to extend his powers For looming back of ot him bim Is fa a wonderful trio of rivals rivals Joe Joo Jackson Speaker ker and the rampaging Babe Ruth f As Is the general rule rute with all an anI I ball b players player their fielding Improves along alon with their hitting A new confidence Is born In a n player when ho he Is connecting regularly re He lie takes take bigger ger chances Tho The crowd P psychology pay pay- Y- Y boosts him and the the- breaks go 0 with him F Foot Fleet oot Like Cobb Stales SillIer Is 15 a n fleet fooL I Ther arent aren't any I faster lIter runners In Inthe inthe I Ithe the big leagues than George The Tile slightest hesitation on the part of or a a. fielder In handling a n. ball hall ort oft SIs- SIs lers ler's bat and that ball goes for lor a a. abase a abse base se hit His Ills sensational fielding at first I has revived the same kind of or thrills that Hal Chase used to give t tl customers rs He lie works over head I with quite aa ai much grace Iraco as ns when I handling the low throws Is n a college product I filtered through the tho university halls balls at Ann Arbor Mich lIe He h Is Just Jut Inthe inthe In Inthe the prime primo of ot his career being 27 27 I years old I What Is Ahead Ahead Whether he ho can maintain the terrific ter ter- I batting pace paco ho he has set during durin I the first halt half of or the tho season seaton Is an open bit of s a peculation with the tho g odds 1 in his f favor I Cobb has turned In two to full Cull seasons seasons sea sea- I sons with averages of ot 20 and respectively y In 1911 and 11 1912 1512 It Is iz a high mark to shoot at At but nil the boys s are arc touching up the ball this season t With Cobb back In the game It will be bo Interesting to see leo If he h can overtake Staler and tho other three members of the select of swatters swatter Hell He'll have to travel some lome But Dut Tyrus Is Js that kind of n a peach r e v y I tf I 1 r- r rI I c J I |
