Show Detroit I tating Celeb Cobbs Cobb's s 20 Years A Ager As Star On Tiger ger Team I Game Two Decades Ago Recalled When Tyas Ty as Busher Slammed Out Double With Two On Bases at His First Time at Bat as Big Jig Leaguer Mich AI A I A DETROIT D Aug A great city today tolla paid tribute te to a great ball player when Detroit officially extolled Haymond Cold Cobb At t Navin Na field this afternoon It was Cobb day with the year old year old I veteran of ot 30 0 American league sea sea- seasons seasons seasons sons standing at the plate and shaking hands ha ds with thou thou- thousands thousands sands sandI of ot fans rans who passed In lino by IJ ii him Tonight he lie will be honored at lit a great banquet and presented with a a. 1000 1600 gift girt paid for Cor by b the Iho city cit of Detroit by b vote vole of ot the council cou cli at atthe atthe the suggestion suS' suS of Mayor John W. W Smith BILLY J I. Speakers will Cornelius manager of or the n t l-t Athletics Jimmy Cal Cal- Callahan Callahan lahan one time director of ot the thc White hite Sox ox Billy llly Evans lans l- l ans veteran American league arbiter Bugs Dugs Baer spot sport humorist Frank Franie J. J Navin owner of or the Detroit club and Mayor Smith Cobb came to Detroit August 30 when the tho city was inhabited by only persons Less than 1100 1200 fans saw sl his debut Into Inlo a game against New York Dick Cooley Coole a regular outfield outfield- outfielder er rr was out of the lineup and Cobb for lor or want of ot anyone else took look his place batting baiting fifth nUh under Wahoo Sam Sani Crawford one otto of o the great great- greatest est st sluggers slug ers of o his day Big Jack Jacl Chesbro at the top of o his splendid career was pitching for New York Malt Mcintyre had doubled and d scored o on a sin sin- single singie ed Ot gle gie by b Lindsay I Lindsay I hail had been bS sacrificed to second bv hv Germany German Schaeffer r. r Crawford Craw ford o d lapped a weakly to lo Chesbro and anti was thrown out TY TV IS IN iy A man was on third and two Iwo out with Cobb at bat He lie lunged at atthe tho the first ball bali and missed lie He watched the second go So by b and heard hearil Silk Or call strike tuh tub Then Chesbro shot one waist high Cobb drove e the ball bail over o the center fielders fielder's head for tor a double Thus the Georgia Peach bloomed bloo ud on his American league debut I He TIc finished the 1905 season with witha a batting balling average a of ot It was the tho only season of his major league career caleer he hit under I Cobb came to Detroit for tor paid the Augusta club Vive hundred hun hun- hundred dred drel dollars was the tha purchase hun I price and was added for mid mid- season delivery of ot the Georgia mid mid-I boy be who had been hitting nt at a a clip In the south |