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Show TY RAYMOND COBB IS VERY HOPEFUL Manager Declares Young Pitchers Are Going to Cause Teams Trouble. Tyrus ltuymond Cobb, manager of the Ln-trt.it Tigers, refuses to go Into ecstusles over the chances of his team in the American league race this year, but docs remark thut he hopes to give the league considerable run for Us money. Cobb, who won no little renown as a man who would take almost any ; kind of a chance when he was playing baseball under another man, has developed de-veloped Into a cautious cuss when It comes to talking about pennants. "I won't predict that the Tigers will win a pennant," lie said, "but I will gay that I think the Tigers have a chance," and then added with some of his old-time speed, "that Is, if we don't run Into a lot of Injuries." Ty harked back through the agonies of the last three years, when Tiger teams, seemingly driving along under considerable momentum, paused with u loud thump because of Injuries here und there. "A teum may look mighty good when it Is going along, and it muy have a lot of good ball players," Cobb said, "but the fact of the mutter is that experience ex-perience as well us ability must he present when a team is going to win a pennant. Our team Is young. True, they are fighters und as game as they come. Just the same, 1 wouldn't predict pre-dict too much until they have been seasoned. We'll wait and see what they look like after they get Into some real bard action, and then It will be time to predict something. "We have very few new players. Those we have here will be given every ev-ery opportunity to make the grade. "Much attention Is to be given to these young pitchers who served us so well Inst year. Our pitching stutt is no longer to he looked upon witn scorn by other clubs." Cobb reveuled t lint he Is looking for someone to understudy his own aging legs. "I'll be out there pluylng when the bell rings," he said, "but I don't Intend to play through every game every day if I don't feel well up to It. I'm not us vonni; tin T liseil to he. roil know. If I feel myself getting tired I'll go on to the bench and let someone else have a crack at it." |
