Show c fJ ADAil 4 tv t hU ii D t ILL vAl I 1 TEST GREATEST BASE BAST I RUNNING I EVER IVER SAW AW When It comet comes to remarkable bits bita bitso o 0 running you Just have ve b ivo to hand laurel wreath to Ty Ta Cobb I have seen Cobb pull ull oft oct so much ItIs ItI stuff stutt on the bases that It Is a rather rathel difficult matter to pick out his one best beat bet In the speed line During tho the first two or three years that Cobb was In the American league ho be pulled BO so many unusual stunts on the bases that other American eagie plaYers simply classed him as 03 a lucky stiff stift who ran wild That Impression however was short lived Cobb was really thinking justa just juat a a wee bit faster than the opposition and thereby creating many of ot the breaks of ot tho game which was waa always referred to as a mere mero luck When the Detroit club wont went to Cuba In 1911 I was waa with the tho team s a us urn urn- um umpire pire Cobbs Cobb's fame tamo had preceded him hInd hIndA A A story appeared In a n Havana paper saying the only sure way ay to stop Cobb was to throw the ball one base bade ahead I ot of the tho one to which he was waa going i It Jt was written in III a 0 eln sam but three or four tour times I saw W Cuban do that kery sery ery thing to head oft Cobb One of the best heat bits of ot base run run- running ning I h have hc c er e seen Cobb turn In was wat staged early In his career creer Do- Do De Detroit troll troit was as playing St LoUd Lou a at Detroit Cobb dropped dr a Texas leaguer laguer Into center field which was fielded l bY b Hemphill As Colb rounded at a II jog ho ha noticed lob the ball toward second lie He Immediately dashed for tor that base at full tull speed The ball Jall took a false hop an and got away from the th second baseman Seeing at a glance Cobb continued on to third The player backing up threw low 1 I II Iv I v Mi 5 I I Co 00 to third as os Cobb slid Into lato that base the ball getting away from the third sacker backer On his Ills feet feel In an Instant Cobb was oft off for the plate The Tho throw to the to pl had hao him beaten baten by a yard but by one ot of o his hisman man elous slides he be managed to avoid the tho th touch and ond was sate safe It n certainly was mart smart baseball On Ona Ona R a dinky little fly to short center Cobb completed the tho circuit Imply because ho he could grasp the possibilities lit at each base TOI TOMORROW ORR 0 The most nn unusual balt batting record I Fr c saw E W |