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Show COBB SAYS TRAINING CAMPS ARE BUGABOO More Harmful Than Beneficial, Thinks Great Player. Enemies f Tloer Star Have Repeated-ly Repeated-ly Declared That Failure to Train Would Handicap Him Considerably. Con-siderably. Ty Cobb Answers tho critics of his training camp methods by the assertion asser-tion that the routine of ono month or six weeks Is entirely too long for tho ball player. Tor many seasons Cobb hns refused to report to the Tigers when they en-trained en-trained for IJIxlo land. Purely t is ho Jumped Into uniform enrllcr tl.mi a week or ten days he "ro tho opening of tho regular season. Cobb's enemies repeatedly re-peatedly declare that fnllnro to train would handicap Cobb considerably. Dut It has never dona so. Suvernl times tho "Southern Typhoon" has sturted slowly, but along ubout mid-Juno ho hns found his stride nnd breezed along to tho subllmo heights of the offcnslvo baseball world. "Four to six weeks training In tho South, with two sessions dally, hurts rather than helps a player," Cobb explains. ex-plains. "After two weeks In tho South tho player Is trained rather fine. After that strenuous training begins to sap his endurance. When tho season opens he looks good nnd ploys well. Ilut before be-fore mid-August you will notice thnt ho Is growing stale, that ho Isn't playing with all tho old dash and speed. "Early In my career I spent four to six weeks In trslnlng camps. Usually I reported for tio opening of the season sea-son In flno condition. Ilut nftcr nbout two months I would begin to get n lit-tlo lit-tlo stnlo. My work would lack r.lp. I decided finally that It was because I was overtrain fl. So ono season I did not report to tho camp for tho full training, but merely put In ubout ten days' work. "As n result I wns ablo to put Into tho regular playing season nil tho en-durnnco en-durnnco that was necessary and I carried car-ried It right along through to tho end of tho season. Intitead of finishing tho baseball year fagged and worn out and trained off, I was Just as good physically physi-cally as when tho season began. And over slnco then I'vo followed that system sys-tem of training, Just enough to get tho kinks out of my urms and legs without the Bacrlfico of stamina." |