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Show IW TYRUS COBB WiS DISCOVERED A man sat on the topmost tier of the grandstand at Columbia, S C The upper rows of the structure being vacant, ho perched there In strange Isolation, all unmindful or the clamorous clam-orous fans below him. At times he drew a gilt-leafed, memorandum book from hlr, pocket, made some notes, replaced It, and resumed his steady scrutiny of thu field There Atlanta and Columbia of the Southern league were playing. Tho score was close, It waB llvoly baseball; yet the man never became enthusiastic. Only when Atlanta's slender, blond-halrcd outfielder swaggered to bat, danced about tho baso lines or ewopt across lots, pulling down high-hit ballB, did the rann appoar interested. Then the little notebook would appear again and as quickly vanish Innings passed, pass-ed, and when the lithe young outfielder out-fielder had Btolen hlo fourth base a look of satisfaction came Into the man's faco. Later he left the grounds as quietly as he had come. That night a message went over the wires from Columbia to the headquarters head-quarters of the American league's baseball club In Detroit, Mich. The message road' "Transfer your option on Pitcher Clcotto of Augusta to Outfielder Out-fielder Cobb of the same club " And Detroit did, for the sendor of the message was the myBterlouB man of the grandstand a major league BCOUL That is how Tyrus Raymond Cobb, called "tho greatest player that the gamo has seen," was discovered Edward Lyell Fox in Harper's Weekly. |