Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-12-31 | Page 8 | Ty Cobb's Trip Proves Success

IT COBB'S TftIP pfioraccEss More Than One Hundred Thou-sand Thou-sand Fans See Star Per form in Fifteen Games There is no fetfSSjtlQn that Ty Cobb is one of the most popular players i who ever ttf6 a diamond. He camp! I ti the west coust on contract for a se I ries of 15 games, each of which wat to net the Georgia peach $1000 That i tho undertaking was a success is best exemplified in the fact that in the IU games played Cobb was looked at b j considerably more than 100,000 peo-I peo-I pie, all anxious to see this wizard of the game. More than half of thh total was in the larger cities and covered cov-ered only six games. It made no difference if Cobb play- I ed at San Francisco I.os Angeles or : i San Diego, or if he was up in the I j 'bush" country and played the little ' ! towns, everyone for miles around i wanted to see him and made it their 1 business to be at the place designated for the game. A man must be pos-sessed pos-sessed of something to be such a mag-net. mag-net. True, every little boy knows! the name of T. Cobb and said boy's; father has known of Ty for a great j , many years, but while his ability as I plaei is a drawing magnet, his own i personality has made tho Georgia I peach an asset that any promoter has1 always been safe in taking a chance ' on. Cobb is never happier than when he can mix in with u bunch of school ; boy and sho Wthem something about ' i the game. In all his tour of the coast I I the great player endeared himself le i ' thousands of school boys and his talks with them wherever he went proved the happiest moments he spent, from ' his point of vivw on the Lour of tho I ! coast", w hich he Is junt closing. oo