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Show LOSS OF TY COBR WOULD HURT GAME Ty Cobb, thp sensational all-around star of the Detroit Tigeri, whose recent re-cent misfortune In sustaining I badly wrenched knop while sliding to a base, put hi mout of the g.uno temporarily and resulted in a report to the effect that the "greatest ball player that ever lived" would remain on tho sick list for the remainder of the season and possibly forever. The story, which was later denied by President Navln of the Detroit club, led many fans to speculate asj to what effect the loss of fohb would have on the national pastimfl whether he would bo missed, or whether Speaker. Jackson. Chase or Collins would make the fans forget that a man named Cobb ever played In the big leagues. It appears to be tho general opinion that the retirement of Cobb from the game would prove a hard blow O baseball, a serious setback for the American league and nothing short 01 a calamity as far as the Detroit team Is concerned. At the present tlm. Cobb Is considered the highest developed devel-oped piece of baseball machinery' 'n existence He Is looked upon as the greatest batter In the game and the man who makes the most out of fh slightest opportunity to gain an advantage. ad-vantage. He In the most dangerous, most daring and most sensational base runner In the history of the game This Is his ninth season in the big leagues He has never batted lower than the much coveted .300 mark ami one year whaled the ball for a grand total average of .420. No man has been looked upon as his equal on thel base paths since he broke Into the' TY COBB. I American organization Where another anoth-er player would stop at fir-i on an ordinary Texas leaguer, yes. even on an infield hit, Cobb will stand the players of the opposing teams on their respective heads by rounding first at full speed and dashing on 10 lecoad, w inding up his brilliant sprint by risk-ing risk-ing a leg with a spectacular slide In a groat cloud of dust. A talk with Cobb will bring his in-tervlewen in-tervlewen to the conclusion thai til phenomenal success as a ball player Is due to a generous store of pray matter located under his crop of fine light hair Cobb never allows himself to worry about his plavlng He leis tho opposite players do thai helps them along, in fact. Should he 1 ill Into batting slump they are very rare with Cobb he does not worry and fuss and lay awake nights like the average big leaguer. He takc: the slump as a matter of course, know ing that all players must have such a lapse In their batting from time to time. Where other players in a slump go to the plato each time vowing to kill the ball, worrying themselves into the pitcher's hands, Cobb sauntere to the plate in the same old way. Endeavoring En-deavoring to meet the ball In his old ! accustomed way, and he continues this ! course until ho soon slides back into' the old .400 habit The dust-raising slide 0f Cobb'c Is believed to be another product of his bralu tank. He has the rep of being . great base-stealer. Umpires know ihls. They know that he seldom falls on a pilfering attempt. Therefore, when the Qeorgla Whirlwind goes hurtling at the bag In a great swirl of dust on a close play at second iher. is a possibility that the official's eyes may not have caught the play, bul something compels him to declare tho runner safo. The basoman ma j shriek In protest to the sun on high. 1 i but that places him in danger of being be-ing chased to the clubhouse, and Cobb .f ; Is liable to steal another bag while he j 1 Is talking. 91 It Is Indeed hard to conceive of Cobb ( being compelled to quit the game while at the crest of his career Manager Man-ager Jennings would be a bad man with whom to dlscuBs such a possibility. possibil-ity. 1 |