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Show WHAT THEY SAY BABE ADAMS. Although P.abe Adams Is 38 vcars 1 old he Is still lasting in the big leagues. His chief pastlmo this season sea-son with the Pirates i? to give Hi.-: Giants regular setbacks He says "I cannot explain uiy lasting much' longer than mnny other pitchers on I any other theory that thl. I always take things easy and I never worry, ij discovered many years ago that when I exerted myself I wag not so effec-' five, for the mere effort of trying to! be uncommonly good clisi rm-i . my1 nunc! from the simple task of pitching Tl new cbanges in pitching ruleo j hae bothered many old veterans, but I do not mind them very much. My onlj kick is the rule which prevents; 0 pitcher rubbing the gloss off the ball j A new ball with gloss on it is a toiiTh j thing to handle. I nm confident that I 1 could pilch one or two more year, perhnps even longer, but I am not cer ! tain that I want to make the effort. I have traveled around the circuit so many times that I m tired of it all. And as much as I like baseball nothing would please me better than to retire 1 lo my Missouri larni and confine my connection With baseball henceiorth :o reading about big games In the .-purl sheets." TY COBB The injury sustained by Ty Cobh when he collided with Ira Flagstend while attempting to Held a fly ball has kept lie Georgia Peach from playing hlb normal high speed game this year Cobb says "I ha . m.ide a slow slprt this jvar. I nlwas co But 1 was hitting as well as I ev r eid In my life w hen th accl-dtnt accl-dtnt happened. Sisler. Jackson or Speaker, one, of them, will probably carry off the battirg championship 1 can hardly expect to get in concition to givt- tliem a real battle But I can assure all three 01 them that if my leg was in good shape and I haiift been out of the game so long I would like nothing belter ihau to give ther.i a 1 in I r iheir DQOOPy. And I aiu not willing to ; duilf that I am so muth of r. "has lien' but tint I could do ir. I have h'.d some grim old tussles of that kind before which made me exeu 1 iv self o the utmost ind that is v'ia. 1 like." |