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Show Ty Cobb Very Shrewd in lousiness Transactions "(lid Scout" says that the talk about Ty Cobb running " base hit Into a million Is not merely n tk'ure of speech, for those who have followed his business career say he has been as shrewd nn Investor as he was n runner on the paths to baseball fame. That the J7."i.lMUI Connie Mack Is paylt'i; Cobb Is not what lnlluenced him solely to Join the Quaker City mi lit. 11 Philadelphia veteran writer wlo Is conservative In his writings tells of a molor trip he had with Cobb sowral das nr.". .lust before the (loor-clan (loor-clan left for Atlanta. While money was not the subject of the com ei sa I ion diirinc. the ride, Cobb look out a broker's roivlpt he had for U'lin shares of Ceneral Motors stock whbh be Iiouidit back In l!'.':t for li'.",. I Ic still has the l.OHil shares. The slock that eosl Cobb $i:i,IKHI a tow veins n::o Is worth about Sl.V'.OOil to clay. i:: d It has paid about SS a slain-annually, slain-annually, which shows Cobb was In 011 a nice proposition Just when he was beriimln:: to j;o down bill In baseball, base-ball, I Mill r ln csl incut s ha vo been eell more plolil.lble. |
