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Show jTY COBB IS i NOT SO GREAT Chicago, Oct. 13 Is Tyrus Raymond Cobb, peerless batter, runner and fielder, deserving of all the honors bestowed upon him by members of tho trophy commission, who Wednesday announced that the Tiger star had been awarded tho automobile for proving prov-ing himself to be the most valuable player In the American leaguo, and had been given a perfect percontago of J000? President B. R. Johnson of tho American league, thinks not. "Ty Cobb is a grand player," the American league executive said yes-j yes-j torday, "and deserves the rewards that the trophy commission voted him i But I question whether he Is entitled enti-tled to a percentage of 1000. Cobb has caused dissension In tho Detroit j team and has been reprimanded and i fined bv tho National commission this season." f I President Johnson left yesterday for Now York, confident that the Philndolphlas would repeat and win a second world championship. "The American league will keep the world's title," was his prophecy. |