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Show 111 'LIL' STONER'S AMBITION TO I PLAY WITH COBB REALIZED "Lil" Stonrr ns he looked playing SO mi-pro (left) and tin- "iifl" Stoner as a 'short-pants" shut-out king. I By N'EA Service. "VKM L'LG E B, Okla. "Lil" Stoner one boy whoso long cherlshc 1 mbitlon to play baseball with Ty Cobb has been realized At "lAVm" home here there Is stored 1 B.way In a trunk a scrap-book containing contain-ing pictures of famous ball players, but the pictures of Cobb lead all the "Baseball has run in his mind since: he was 10 years old," says Lil'i mother, who finds a great deal of sat-1 Isfaotlon these days in reading th newspaper accounts of her son's prowess, "and he has always hen ambitious to play for Ty Cobb. When he v. La little more than a boy. In his first pants, ho said to me ,'I'm golmr to play baseball with Cobb some dav," and now, sure enough, he has realized his ambition." "LH" Is named after Ulysses EL Grant and it Is from the Ulysses that his nickname "LH" comes. It's now nine years since the 22- year-old hurler. who hit hern helping help-ing Detroit hold Us place m the American league (his year first came Into the limelight as a pitcher. That was when he pitched for the South Side Baptist church team of Fort Worth In the Twilight league. Many of the players were full-grown mon ;ind SToung St oner was still In short pants. But he pitched a shutout game. Then the Stoners moved to Okmulgee. Okmul-gee. "LU" went to work for a lumber lum-ber company but found time to play semi-professional bull with the team of the Empire Refining company, which cleaned up everything that came Its way in .1919 and 19 and be-' came the champions of Oklahoma. One day a scout slipped In and got a contract from Btoner That fall he was sold to Manager Jack Holland of the Oklahoma City Western league team, and In 120 Stoner went Into professional baseball. base-ball. What he did In 1920 and 1921, Is told in the records |