| Show SUNDAY GREATER PLAYER THAN COBB SAYS VETERAN evangelist could run bases and ind field better than ty declares eagle eye jake beckley Beck lcy theres nt at atlease least one aall playing person who r refuses to in make it about ty cobb being tile the greatest 9 greatest bull ball player of all time and old eagleeye eagle hagle eye jake beckley who played the game nearly as long loag ns na nap cajole und mid Is now nil an umpire lim pire living in kim sas city A quarter century one ago go old eagleeye eagle eye E ye was in ills his prime one of the th hardest hitting first sackers the lie gume game ever chew k new you can call have your ty cobbs and your benny jake Bec beckley klei says lays ill take billy sunday for bull ball club right now and I 1 said the saine ranie tiling thing back in ninety lies fifty two years old today hut but years hes running baes and d sliding every day iri ili that pulpit just as lie did did buck back on A U Y A billy sunday in the old days if hed stayed in the game cobb never would hove have apen been famous he was greater than ty cobb ever dared to be in three departments oe oc the game I 1 I 1 everybody thinks cobb can runk bases id spot him a second against billy sunday and then watch bill BI 11 score 1 first they think cobb covers outfield ter they should have seen sunday in his prime and throw say he could throw strikes from center field just as easily as tris speaker I 1 i batting was where sunday wa weak but in another year or so he hea would have overcome that weakness ile he was just that kind ile he had more fight in his heart than any man I 1 ever saw |
