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Show COBB, AS MANAGER, FOOLS SKEPTICS Fiery Georgian Gets Result in Spite of Experts Puts Fight in Team. When Mr. Tyrus Raymond Cobb was made manager of die Detroit Tigers Ti-gers there was considerable skepticism expressed by the experts as to what he could do with a ball club, says V. O. McCieeluin iu the New York Herald-Tribune. The Georgian always was a liery person and was the center of many a tempest on the diamond. It was pointed out that no man who could not manage himself would make much of a success as a team manager. But nobody can go behind the results. re-sults. The Tigers, under the leadership leader-ship of Mr. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, are fighting the Yankees for first place. The team has become a wonderful fighting unit. Ostensibly, at least, the inner workings are quite harmonious and the Tigers take all of their true-ulence true-ulence out on the teams they meet. All of the misgivings as to Cobb as a manager seem to be without reason. As a matter of fact, Cobb actually has started to look forward . to the time when he will be able to quit active playing and devote all his tremendous tre-mendous energy to managing his team. The time was when the notion of Cobb as anything but an active 1 j Manager Ty Cobb. player would have seemed impossible. But today the prospect of Cobb be- coming a bench manager does not sound so strange. In handling a team Cobb has lost little of that aggressive spirit that always al-ways marked him as a player. On the contrary, he not only has retained that, but seems to have imbued his players with the same sort of spirit. It is only fair that I shall mention the fact that Tyrus Raymond Cobb is a decided success as a manager, because I was one of the skeptics. |