Show COBB SEEKS I YOUNG STAR Tiger Manager Offers for Pitcher of Baltimore Club I L LErrY H Ii Ml it 1 Service r rIce Ice BALTIMORE Md fd Ma Mav Ty 12 12 TyCobb Cobb manager of the Detroit club of the American an league is report report- reported reported ed ell to o ha offered for Pitcher Lefty Groves of report report-j the local International Legue Le club The figure that Cobb Is I reported to bp be bi 1 willing II ling to pay for tor Immediate is better than Mc- Mc McGraw Mc Graw paid for Jack Bentley I Cobb In figurIng his pennant chances chance realizes that everythinG hinges around the th pitching his club gets Groves Gro roses appears to O hao I the necessary stuff to step right Into the big show and anil make mako mak good It is hi claimed that Jack Dunn has no great desire desiro to sell Groves feeling that he must carry the th bur bur- burden burden bur burden den of Baltimore's pennant hopes How ver Dunn Is said to be will will- willIng willIng will willing ing ing- to part with I Groves If it some major league leogue club will rais the ant ante to flOO All the excitement over Grove I has hag been caused by the tho th remark remark- remarkable remarkable remarkable able strikeout record he has haj made madIn In hi his first four games this spring 59 an average of almost 15 per p game In his first tart start against the Syracuse club Groves Grove struck out 17 men a new International League record His second time timeout timeout out h he fanned tanned 15 and in his third start hp hI h struck out 14 His ills first test tut came cam In his fourth start of the season season against the ter club which had won 10 or of the first 11 games played G Groves roves struck out 13 Rochester batt batters ll'S yet h bp was waa beaten 11 to toi Ii 5 due to bunching of hits and lid a flock of misplays by the Oriole Dunn regards Groves as a a bet bet- better bet better ter pitcher than Jack Bentley Bently His addition to the T might mean the th pennant for Cobb |