Show Ty Cobb Cobh May Pass From Baseball Spot Spot- SpotLight Light VETERAN HA HAS MANY RECORDS ON oJ BAll FIELD Tiger Manager Has Played In Games In Major Leagues Il Hi 11 GeORGD CIL Cop 1324 1924 by The Tb Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated s Association JIW YORK I reb b 9 When When tho the big bis league le ue ball players player b ln tl Ir trek southward for tor sprIng training a few short weeks wees from Ino now they will find among them a oung fellow with quite quito a record I behind Mm him who 1 la It still Ma b the tho coming comine baseball b nea cea neaon ea eon on will witness his hl passing as os a ar I regular pIa plaiT er sifter 20 years of hud bard campaignIng tr under the tho big top but In pito of the th slowing UP UPI I iho he showed bowed In 1923 2123 he Ir bill billo so 50 o well that many a begin beginner ner wished himself two-thirds two as good Who else elsa could coula bo be but hut Ty Cobb Cobb began to play ball for or the lh Detroit Americans American In 1905 10 and anil Ito he heI h I thas ha been beer with the Ui team e cr e er Inco that time ho ha up 18 records for tor the th statistics on thIs mighty player when they come to 10 the fan from the th compiler of deeds will show how these exhibIts exhibit 1 Most games game played In th Ih league 20 O 41 2 3 Individual batting percentage tied with SIsI at al 3 HIghest HIghe t batting r In hIs hi lifetime aj as a major league I loae Nayer for all of 19 1 ye rs 1905 1905 1923 a mark maric of Hl 4 Mos ears ear a majol league In batting and nine of them themi The Th total etra sero ere 12 11 f I In the ear eara earil of 12 1911 1923 and ho he batted or better equal equalling the tho th record oC or Jesse JeMe Bur Bur- Burkett Burkett Bur kett kett which was made mad in the Na- Na NaI Na league before the tar of ot I Cobb had hod otI I 6 for Por two i ears car In succession batted more than and again I tied tie the tho record of Burkett I RE L CE c I 7 1 He H bas ha batted bated or beuer bettel betterin In 18 11 moro mor than an any other who ho has haa ha belonged to the theAr league leogue since sine Its Ita llon LIon 1 In 1900 8 t Not only did Cobb bat or better during this 18 IS year years but he made mad the til record ely and Eddie Colllns Collins are the tho onlY I anywhere near him perhaps neither oL of them v will silI Ul be beIn beIn bein In servIce long lont enough to catch 9 Cobb hits or more moreIn morein moreIn In eight years That take takes him hint up to 1111 1 Keler s record 10 Cobb host hast ben been at bat times in the American league 11 Cobb hold held the American league record for tor the most runs nith Ith a total of 1 I In 19 ears eard car Nearly 2 tImes time around the basea 12 In nIne eara ear Cobb has made madone I one hundred or more runs runa run That la lathe 1 Ith the American league leafu league record I 13 la In 19 1 elra i ears Cobb ha has made the most base bus hits hita in tb the American league The Th total Is 1 Can Babe do that Hardly a chance Babe can swat eat em m 10 so the they fly Cly but Babe Babo Isn ian t likely to 10 leGS leG'S lee that will carr carry him to 19 I year ears of ot such auth uch bat bat bat- clog as os Cobb has hILS done 14 In 19 ears cara of arduous labor Cobb baa haa b made mad 2 extra base hits for the tho th American league something lj that Bebe Bib la I not likely lIel to do ODD IU-COKU IU l 1 li In the th same It U scars ears cors Cobb made 1372 1 72 extra bases base H IS Again Arain in this ear 19 l ear period Cobb batted baited the highest total of b bases 4 27 17 Cobb holds hold the th record for making tho most moot three-base three hits In 19 cara car ars a total of ot That by the tho wa Was w Is I ono one on of the most moat records record that ho h holds hold because the three boo hit 1 F is be- be becoming becoming b coming a lost lout art It mean mans that n a avery tery ry fast runner has stretched an ordinary two two-bagger one ba base bue basemore more or that a iery Hory ery heavy helvy runner falls fails to get ft a run home because bythe his wind Ind ind and his legs leis gh gio e out by the time tim that ho has got rot to third Many baU player be helped If It there ther were only a train train- trainIng trainIng Ing school chool for or lef lega leg Spring practice Is only another name nam for tor getting rid of tat fat and spring Into the muscles What a I leally ally great ball bail player need needs most mott of all le Is I s a raIl pair of really groat lei leg lep Some Bome om hal hal- hallet bal ballet let dancers dance danco from 1 16 to 60 and ne or know they thy hav hae ba e legs until they have hav put on nd slippers but lL IL n ball bolI player after u Cu sears ears of service tarts tarts around tho bases ba a some torn day and anti suddenly comes omes up with a a hItch bitch and a n halt bait and maili mabe ma be crawls Into toto tho th next That bope baie That Is I the th end 00 00 |