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Show COPB, AS MANAGKU, TOOLS SKKPT1CS Fiery Geori-ian Gets Kesult in Spite of Experts Puts Fight in Toani. When Mr. Tyriin Kaymond Cobb was Hindi' manager of the 1 let mil Tigers Ti-gers there was considerable skepticism expressed by tho experts ns to what he could do with u ball club, (iiy W. O. McOcehiin In the New York Herald Tribune. 'I he (ieorglan alw ays wan ii tlery person and was the renter of many a tempest on the diamond. It was pointed out that no iiuin who could Hot manage himself would make inuch of a success ns u team manager. But nobody can go behind the results. re-sults. The Tigers, under the leadership leader-ship of Mr. Tyrus ltayinond Cobb, lire lighting the Yankee for llrst place. Tin- team has become a wonderful lighting unit. Ostensibly, at least, the Inner workings are .pilte harmnnlou and tho Tlgcis take all of their true ulence out on the teams they meet. All of the misgivings as to Cobb as a manager seem to Ik- without reason. As ii mutter of fact, Cobb actually has started to look forward to the time when he will he able to quit active playing and devote nil his tremendous tre-mendous energy to managing his team. The time was when the notion of Cobb as anything hut an iictlvo v-X. :-,-( l x, .. -- . ? rrf-Bii i i fii 1 1 1 1 "if- Mjnjocr Tv Cobb. player would have seemed Impossible. But today the prospect of Cobb becoming be-coming a bench manager does not sound so strim.:.'. In handling ii team Cobb has lost ll::!c of that aggressive spirit that always al-ways marked him as a player. (In the contrary, he not only has retained that, but seems to have Imbued hi players with the same sort of spirit. It Is only fair that I shall mention the fact that Tyrus Kaymond Cobb is a decided success as a manager, because I was one of the skeptics. |