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Show HUIl.QHllRJMI Is Detroit picking a bloomer bl naming Tv Cobbs manager of its ball i club? naming Ty Cobb manager of its bail Over wore the spiked shoes than th-Georgiii th-Georgiii Peach. He has been hard at times to Pianage and has often hadj rumpuses with fellow teammates and i the players on other clubs. But now that he is turning his hand and his brain to nlajiaging the club op whic h he has starred so long, his leni-, peranicntal qualities may be either an asset or a liability, depending upon himself. j In bis younger playing das Ty's temper kept him In trouble much of the lime, but he is cooler-headed now; land perhaps his old stubbornness will' ripen Into a firmness that will be an! lasset to him as n manager. Anvhow, it will be interesting to watch him He Is smart. He has courage. He , would have succeeded in sixty other i J line of business Ty Is shouliierinK a blg'load. le-iroit le-iroit lias failed to get good pitchers. lEvert when they won three pennants in a row it was the great hittuiK power of tho club not the pitchers 'thatthroiight the team under the wire. Cobb, like Trls Speaker of Hip In- Idians, will b? cast in the role of an outfield playing manager. Ii the Georgian's powers are in-creas-d b; the .iui.-j CJf a munagcr Speaker's have been, tho Tigers will ""j" m r'.'Kuiar ohm ciud again mat is, if he can get the missing cylinder jf the Detroit team namelv a pitching pitch-ing staff. tiiving the Bpltterfl a new lease on life reveals the human as well as the mercenary side of baseball. Owpers have turned the question over to the judge and his advisory board with the recommendation that the pitchers now certified as users ol (he most deliver) be perniified To COPlillUe it Hi" rest of their big league pitching days. All oi which 'means ihat when the flags gp up and the bands play next April some of the opening games will be presided over inol likely by spltpallers. Staple) CoveleSkte, Urban Shocker. Alien llussell, Burleigh Grimes, Dill Doak. Clarence Mitchell, Marvin Goodwin, liny Fisher, jack Quinn and Other star float heavears won't have , to read waul-ads looking for new ! jobs. The apitballert outlay of boih 'leagues i? estimated to be worth around b half million dollars. Owners would be chucKinr. so much , money in the fire if the rule made last year serving a one year notice ion this classification of pitchers, was ' not junked and a new one insr-rtcd Thai is the commercial angle of ! the proposition. But the men who deal in human I baseball chattels probably havn'i tho heart to put such stars at, are represented in this group out of btisl ness by depriving thorn of their pitch Ing cunning. This is ihe human and the better side. , II is Lap angle which appeals to the fan. win suport (lie game Wo don't know which motive was the stronger with the Cluh owners when they recommended that bona ride Bpitters be allowfd to carry on. Perhaps it was the money, bui it's kinds nice to imagine that human sentiment shared equally in it. |