The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1911, Page 7

4 5 = Wat Hl THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911, or naam recess, NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT OF MAJOR LEAGUES | ‘Ty” Cobb Tells Own Story of His Basebail Ups and Dowus; Augusta Wanted to Sell Him for $50, but Detroit Paid $75 Star of the Diamond Gave Up University Career to Become Professional Ba'lplayer and Now Is Independently Rich—Explains that He Isn't Swelled-Headed ) EDITED BY |. ROBERT EDGREN _ -—n Inside theRing — lh the ) Gredi Fighters Sherwood Magee Will Be Etigibie to Ptay Against Cardinals Next Wednesday. had previously ended for ® me between the Quakers and the is only on probation, for if he the most approved of fashion he ‘was imposed on him. It is a strange layer will be able to come back to the diamond on next and Never Spiked.a Player Intentionally. C Joy ea he ‘tae hin uncailes for atteah on the umpire FY BOZEMAN BULGER. ‘harley Wihilé. ae HE catcher of the “first nine’ tn Royston, Ga., was a Freemason, and ak jvorge Leidy, an old-time ballplayer, who came that way a few months later, knew how to fill a youngster full of ambition. To these two facts Tyrus Cobb, the baseball marvel of the decade, attributes his wonderful success, “I am atill Jenorant of the ineide stuff that enabled Bob McCreary, the Free. mason, to work such wonders with my father,” explains the Georma peach, “But you can bet your life that just ag soon as I was twenty-one years old I immedi- | ately made application to join the lodge and was accepted.” To this day Tyrus his first team to visit Slowtown, and om that occasion immeasurably strengthened with Magee back in the ort and Magee in the onter works they have a com- _ Murphy Loses His Title to last round. Then the yells and cheers and howls that arse from the ring side were too much for them. With @ yell, the @nusiclans abandoned thelr im [struments and tore toward the crowd | {hat pressed closely around the fighters, |The leider of the orchestra, entirely Johnny Griffin in First Real Fight Held Puialy at ieee cree tn Coney Island—Funny Scenes | ,,"%s sri6,thai ensues was one of te Marked Battle With List- never goes but without that mystic bute ton, and he firmly belleves that it ts re. sponsible for his leading the American League batters and hanging up the big- est base stealing record In the history MAJOR LEAGUE RECOKDS Compiled by Expert George L. Moreland. Si ats i de |™an and Murphy were tearing at each other like a couple of bulldogs, su COBB EXCELS National League Batting Average. | American League sat the game. ede rounded by a howling mob, O! 4 Records of all’ player Understand me" laughed Covp, “t AS BATTER AND] nan at Jersey Picnic Grounds,| sung men, married women and youre | who have played in ten or more| better, who have played im ten or more|gon't mean to say that Freemasonry 2 BASE-STEALER. girls, barefooted, barelegged boys and ; oo“ up to and including those played Lg DD y te ee those Diay@!| helped me hit the ball and run bases, ise girls in short dresses cheered on Wednesday, Aug. 9: on Inesday, Aug. 9: emselves hoarse an thelr re } eee oae” ty 4, ap. but it certainly helped me get the tn 1909 aor tet) Australian Billy Murphy. |*ainions tandea teling blow ee ‘ Bees outsvure®. 25: “30 * H ‘Tyrus Cobb ts now but twenty-four batters with an aver-| COTTE, 1910, by the Pre Pubinting Co referee awarded the Meetton a Leg mmdod, Cincianatl’s. 3y Py years old and he has been playing base- of .377. We also i Dea? ae a Wert Murphy! Man. Inatantly pan iemontum broke 4 Parke, Bites s ball just seven years, whioh includes lod the base-stealers O stepped into the tine after he 100% Among the Murphy adherents. i Rh ir ER 134 hiv experience in the minor leagues, In vith 78 steals, Suinmer Taso tO. nee rine Billy ran over to the referee begging 4 sau, Cucluualh # Dear that time he has flashed across the a 1910 Gobb led) White, the “Hoard of Trade Pet." of official consideret fees im. That | Pind ee i ehanty, Detroit: baseball sky like a meteor, and will the American League! Chicago. Tommy was a rattling good |then said, "Well, leve callie a dean ; peteg. Clacinnal) 2... § 3 re itis probably go down in history ae the vith @ batting Utdle Mghter and had tried conclusions | What had taken place before was not | d sbuite, New Nor Bis Ho At greatest piayer the diamond hes ever ize of 384. with nearly all the prominent feat.er.|® citcurstance to. what. tajowed, vl pee RY 120 rs, Athletion known. In those few years Cobb has Bo far thi eaeon Weighia in the Kast. The myn fought DOMAydrook Fair had nothing on that 4 able, atone. its pt eli become independently wealthy. He ts code ie lending all before the Pacitic A. GC. ot crowd, ‘Thinking their champton jebeai, Cinvinant 2: é Boston "sess now the owner of a flock of automobiles, t@ @ director in & the Batters with OR claco fora pane oe ioe San ran” ‘robbed, of the decialon, the ermal : . Me ae P iladtetp hla, es, cree bank, has made a smal! fortune in the cotton market and averaga of .130, 4 sparred for thirty-two round and Anat jand the Irteh tried to defend Rise ‘ana 7 Merzog. New York... Puase. ow, ror Lf has several more years on the diamond at a princely salary. {t looks ae if he will the disgusted referee cailed it “no peed jth way Dutch and Irish mixed It wp Ramee picceae Word, Chileno Pi Young Ty Cobb did not begin life as @ poor boy and he have a waltover for test.” Murphy atalied throughout thie ®®% & caution, For fifteen minutes Deion, ita Rehackere’ Wesbtsarots i 414 not have to face the usual vicissitudes that block the ee ehenpionmlp 0/8 Maigd jirouBnout thie ‘there wees raging, Mehting mob pushe ae fe iS cviiee pa puth of the youngster who starts out on tne town iots. But third tems. |with Johnnie Murphy, and White was (0%, 4nd circling around that ring. ivelt Wartinatot 4 there are worse obstacles than being poor, and It seems that Godd to Oly twee! witling, but unable to finish the AUB thine vant ures etine eat ete aay. ea 4 z every one of these were thrown In the way of young Cobb ty-four years olfand iraiian. The ciuy allowed. Tominy $200 as "’ missle. went eee (hreogh ae falishan, Cheng Hy during his struggles to get a start. nas been playing for training expenses, but refused wait. The poor little referee waa scared ake Pi ileal ea a ag " Ty Cobb ts the eon of the late Willlam H. Cobb, who wae profesaional ball #ev- give Murphy mnsuhing |atif, and it took all the special cops OT Bere ii. lew land”; iy at one time a professor in mathematics, later a State Sen- on years. Me is Around about this time, or, a ittle (8 the park to hurry him away to Ber, Culttey ors Reinga Fig ator in Georgia and also the editor of the Royston Record, witnont question the warlier, winiotie cues hogan tot aprae /Mfely and {0 break up the Flot Bet rok Hace, Fy a Democratic newspaper. There was no sporting page In star of the game up around New York and fights were| nua RiieS cae | se Riiiter,. Bitesbure Coomb a that paper and the baseball idea never made much of a hit right now and one of being held in public. The most promt-) UNN4y Stone Kenny tw Rounds, Devore, New York: er, is with the senior Cobb. nent of these clube was the Beaside| svi" A advantage of many pounds , Baris, ct > i, Athtetics 56 Asa little boy in Royston, Ga., young Cobb discovered the a&! Athletic Club at Coney Istand, of which 2° Uundy, the Brooklyn Aehter, de ene bani 3 that he was very fast on his feet, and tional pastime eFeF) Judse Newton was the macchmaker. | feud Young Kenny of Boston tn the Pithers, Boston s.2 0 In the town races he always won, He knew. Newton wanted to get Murphy to New! mich mond, 0f &, ten-round bout at the Goode, Chicago ..: was also a natural born ballplayer, and started playtog | York and ofered him a match. with vhton Feach A. C. stag. Lundy wad Bheckara “Cnlcags’ he attracted attention the minute that professionally With | Jonnie Griffin, the “Braintree Lad," | nea ney, wom, the start and soon Archer, Dnicago he began playing shortstop for the Augasta and was! whom Murphy had defeated several | cele Jove in rhe oe onditon trom hte jew. aber atigs!* ‘second nines in his home town, He Yald 890 8 MOBED. | years before Ie Sea Prameniad several) atif Jade in the face and heavy blows Serna: ular place on the “first nine,” but whe as big tf not Mgger! men were ma ; ‘ ‘ | et Taian cet the two teams got together for prac: than that of any othe! 180, for a pur Hurd ae A Mesrlld ya hlate dows wit & volley of punches |B Wiantner New York, tice young Tyrus always made the er player tm the bust-/and $00 to the lonor. Thin was the silat as Landy had too mach’ welata i) Drake, Detroit vider boys hustle. One day there was ness, running high Dikgest pi ded as Lundy had too much welght ‘ that had yet been hun Fa ju. te Nerwelght Aght. "Phe: are| canis opponent. ticles specified that the match would b for the featherweight championship of the world at 122 pounds. A ¢ "Ty" coss GOING APTER A HIGH ONE 1 game to be played at Elberton, Ga., which is in the heart of the peach country from which come the famous up in the four ures. From his earl- fest days Cobb had a AMUSEMENTS. t ; Pisars| “plbertas.” The centre fielder on the , IN THE FIELD. penchant for steml- of interest was arouncd t deal) TaEW AMSTERDIM % A eae | “first nine” had to go out of town to ing basen and ex- Title Ch dH. 2 Clow & lrlenger's rates Gomsty Oe bee "4 re buy some cattle, and as his services that par- 71 ange lands, Wtf 5 rez heresy leit to the frat nine it eae ele at he vpn THE PINK LADY Strumk, Athletios 0002 bias ts “4 tioular of the It was to be Murphy's first appear- i PET Un Te Avotlns Bee ates so ss became necessary to take young Cobb along as a last resort, Senator Cobb pro- game almost from|ance in New York. Johnnie Grin was’ | CRITERION i283 cane te tested vigorously at the idea of his son going on a trip witn a nall club, but the first time he Well known In the East and had “best. aoe ANE ok aN pena Robert McCreary, manager of the first nine and catcher, went to the elder Cobb donned @ uniform, ed" the cleverest featherweights to be JARDIN de PARIS *",3,.°, bua" and persuaded him to let the youngster go “just this one time.” On the promise | found along the Atlantic seaboard, Grit- ‘ ori hes that McCreary, a brother Mason, would look after the welfare and conduct of “Ty COBS AT BAT. NOTICE LBL a a rtaehaaers over tn ZIEGFELD FO) | er eay ie Ol . , on the finishing touches | amoktni young Tyrus, the Senator finally gave his consent, That gave Cobb his first real down at Bro H t Amout start. In that game the silm-legged Tyrus proved a “bear of the first order. How HE GRIPS Tonoon. house in Coney" Tsiand. Murphy aia | FULIED; “Prom 6.80 oT He walloped out one single after another, and finally landed one that won the his trai ng at Nyack. Murphy wae | BERGERE |b wy ti et 2) game and made him boy hero of his 60 and to Bay Taue expenges back home| iney would be to a big league team my success came too quickly. % was Bheekea pit 8 the fourth round, after PUI A, i acaneret Shar in case you . ec z "] a vory hard battle, and lost his feather- wu t Concert, Club Flelding Records. home town. A Stes now atrad ut peopie would say TL was ‘ on . penn Goa pee reins Recordy. [onnd. let mo tell you something.”| | When Cobb arrived at Augusta he) Sy main trouble at the start. my4 Sweliva ‘upland tered to be 0 cood tele |NelkHt crown, The dotatia of the battle | LIBERTY "ie JUYOUS SUCCESS Beacher, Cincinnati Chicago’ a 14a) 6) | added Cobb as he went on with these D 90 a month. je manager, | Cobb, “was that I didn't take my Job low with the ot pla 8) as to] Th dh nnn 8 OnSeer. XI MOS. | CHRIoile MaeDON \LD \ aie mt ony i j s, released him at the | on : A eaeiouain Ce will a , of that @ ex-champion next fought with | AEA NuWw Devore,” New . 1% y days on the or the Augusta team sertousiy, TWIT chan air opinion, Instead of | i Detroit } fat | reminiscences of his early days om thei ond of the week, Sr ete poeta, cena sprtouety. y Siy cranme thelr oolnioge | 1c players | Jerry Rarnett, the amateur feather. [ON SALE \_ THE SPRI Chetan . i Dano e feels “ ‘y neve ‘orge @ n aving the desir rocks P| cl * i e 7 ee y Soa 10: H famond, “once an athlete tee! “voter? | ptt te, of sald that Con! tenobed. I used to Ike my peanut thowert | was froh,. If tad kept to|Welht champion of America, at Mad- | BACK AGAIN“. GAIETY .P ree i Pa || i a | pe thrill that goes with v Strouthers gave me my start,” explains | ity, and one day Twent out to centie tuyseit wt frat and had not tod to be | 40n Square Garden on April 2. He Pox. ggyprin ceeer TRICE eae Daria, Hew eres oe {er Ha oases 1M 1s 8:7 | and public praise, the fa cination holds Cobb, “but that 1s not true. Asa mat-/ ted chewing cn a big hunk of this 4 nixer I would have dot ter. [| W4s bested by Barnett in four rounds. are EXCUSE ME bert Pate aiva,. ort ‘M9 vim for life. He can never get away/ter of fact he held me back more than! candy, A fly ball was hit out to me, puma | got farilar too woon, Many a| le then fought four rounds, no de- f Sets Selling. = Neraey, Boat; Ten Lending Bane Stealers, from {t. On the way back home from li helped me. George Leldy ts the man put 1 forgot to throw away the candy, time have 1 walked out to tie outtield |cifion, with Johnnie Van Heest over in | Git"s... GLOBE.) Way Ae Ten Leading Ru okt sn. that game I made up my mind that Up ed pated started me on the right! and everything got so mixed up that ytoop-shouldered #0 as to keep the fans Pai aahe in ey, ie VALESKA SURATT ain Witee ba. allaha Bee f rine an eat bdallplayer | " I lost the ball and, Incidentally, the from thinking I was cocky or swelled |) Murphy's next fight was with Rddie _ - m Rose a Tiarer Gute. Callahan u | would try and be egret palplarsr As soon as Cobb got his notice of re-| gare, For that | was benched, and Lj qr. y dread being called swell-headed |Lstinan at a picnic park out between O#FUaiLe W. 10 AT) PERRY Haine, Sr : it and 1 worked at it by day an lease he was determined not to aut.| should have been. Worse tiurany other swe thing. Heatly, | Newark ang Rosedale on July 1%. The pant ee pe wi pene 33 of it by night.” and he called his father on the long-|° The career of Ty « after he Mtl tt hurts m oorasion was a benefit held by a labor . ‘Washington’ 10255 a Soon after the game at Plberton Cobb) distance phone, telling him of an offer] the big league ta pretty well known. phe reason I had so many fights at | Unis This union was out on atrike win Chrvctand ver ™ was made a regular centre flelder for! hy had to play on the team at Anniston, | He didn't get much of @ chance the ,,,2ne teen et id noteunder. {22d the picnic was to help replenish Bush, Detroit ees. a the first time, In the mean time his, Ala. His father advised him to ko| first season, but during the nexg spring We start was becwuwe 1 Mid fill DeNer | the depleted treasury, As an added . Ten Leading Run father had to attend the session of the /Aheed and snow shen that he could | Davy Jones was hurt and the Georgia eon it ay an insult until {learned pet. [ttraction, a number of Aghts were ni id hi mn r D| look It a carded, c ook oO a. Senate, and he brane to Hen op. | ian Up by. thie tne and, was heart Pann inaay an Ui gee dilerta toe he berate i Re ages MurphysIdstmen” eae icin ta T N anuseHenl Srekeon, Clevetatid” wonderful feats of his son, Hoe "| and soul with his boy In his efforts to | haseball sensation. Gla: lise '@ 10k OF bad leamaee: is been the 125-pound champion of the Tt ELURING WAww Ge LAUGHTER ach faye ! ballplayer, | r) 00d. A ston Cob ve] fe [had not heard spoken in jest lore, a ne 4 7 : Wels arias) eal CN Ree WaT err but “after: two weeks there he heard |COBB HASN'T A SWELLED HEAD, Jang |! took mo a long time to under-| Amateur, Athletic Union and turned wre “Aborn Opera Co. in sage Cravtord, Tretrait as he had mapp | br ada INSTEAD HE 18 TIMID | stand tt that way. When a man called | Professto ; ar as 0 Pt ibe. Hemen caiversity of Georgia, When he|that Manager Stroutiers had been let . | ree an nut take time to] £ Know, this was the only fight held in HOlSP ‘TH! REL FEATHER | and Netntyre, Cites dae ey re oe Meenas tia tana out at Auguata and that Andy Roth] or several montis he had feat after | & foul nares sale: i nia Ame which wan contested on the MAUNEES WED 2. a! i Mor, atMetion ‘ : q had charge of the team and wanted | pght with the other players, and at one | consiver tha rsp turf in the night time, The ortginal ae he $ i FE Ing citizens, who were baseball CPtY. | nim back. He went back. time he was arrested for hitting a night | to faght right on the spot. plan had been to hold the fights on) | Winleh vahUed “sscuch iat Sek” Ms Club Batting Records, finally succeeded in getting the e} Cr Re chman in Detroit. ¢ » of that! ‘They have also sald that IT sptked|the dance floor, but there Way such a| rer pa Mel aera ) lucluding All bata Cobb to go out and see his son play in| MAN ANT .5 TO SELL} he beoame known to the fans as a basemen Intentionally, but that Is not] crowd and so many of the young people TMNNS voit Fea SS Tan Games Up to Aus. 9 nha Go atis nit Ja game against the team from Com~ HIM FOR $50. player with a sweiie* head. ‘Though a true, 1 never hurt a man purposely in} w'. wanted to dance that it was de- | WA) WEELLOTT’S Tyee aie. \ W. Lb. BAB, Hits. Av, | Detroit cece TO 00d, meree, Ga. For several days he had ij majority of fans to this vay think that my Mfe, Tere are ten men in the}cided to fight on the turf. A spot on | Mt-Tota2u0, Oth Ave, Evgs, * Be abot | At ea secs 1 teen making secret inquiries as to! “When I got back to Augusta," says| Cobb has the “big head. they cannot | American League who nave spiked more | the pebbled driveway lendinig trom the J Ulam iw’ CROYMaW 09 | Toston ‘ on had real abiiity, and| Cobb, “Manager Roth evidently did nat| help but admire his ability. players than I have and etill you never| gates of the park up to the dancing 7\ a 5 whether i s Md be thrown |Ratural speed, He was continually nag. | suffer from egotism. Ie ts a mild-man- Tho base runner ts entitled to the tine, Htrees and grass all around and numer- LEW FULDS tn tits fb ‘ S F 2 easier, nN pefied bale ba ging at mo for trying to steal haves, | nered youth and 19 rather timid in his and it the hasesran Bote ited he Jous tables. Ronos were stretched from | = . Records of Pitchers, Including All | !n contac! J He wouldn't allow me to take any | address. is bound to be pil occasior a tree to tree and colored lanterns hu pach, Chicag aaieslUe ik kan, aie OBB’S VERY BEST CATCH MADE! chances at all. T became discouraved| “The reason they thought I was swell wan ike Jack Knight will never bel att around. The eeeiera at thie untae | ||HAMMERSTEIN’S \.imit Piesinirg, H Ea x c jand only hit .238 in thirty-elgnt cames, | headed,” says Cobb, “was because I spiced, because he knows how to touch | were about equaly divided between the| k vftrage'te jn Theatre Bes New Yor ; Heche hla, .., % 1 YEARS AGO, Roth in the mean time was trying to|d&in't understand human nature and a runner.” Irish and the Germans. A Head with sMlathewon, 2 5 ‘\ ; a tous ee ~— . tie 4 He oO gn B2 The day of the game finally arrived, | sel! me for $60. My friends got on to Although coming trom Austraita and|(1RUTH ST. DENIS Harmon, St. Louis, ri nn WY 9 and Tyrus says that he made up hs|thia, however, and worked a trick on New Zealand, Billy Murphy was of ca st Adama, " Pittsburg. 8 Det } and Ty e ain, | th ager. They would all go to th Trish descet and 12 js never again, | the manager. They would all go to the scent and therefore recelved h oe H rake, ett i mind to shine that doy ve imnen inning, {Phone every once ina while ‘and ask | WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD }{iis,niemcss sitmort‘or al? ane “sina |fanpasten the Spittal Cole,’ Chicago. 8 Gregg, Cleveland e ¢ ome ‘ *\the manager, ‘When !s Cobb going to| of Erin p t, Eddie Listman was @ . week AL wucca & ote, fuigphiries, Cinch 2 Hender, Athletic, 4 when Commerce had three men on bases | ') that true that you are gol German, and the Dutch’ all lined = ge orleans a Mullin, Detroit 5 merod Nong drive was hit to; Play? Is thet true ti mu are going i a ned up Gibeionatl: ; Plank.” Athletic and two out. = to sell him?’ This worked so well that i : strongly for him, The referee was @ * Se fain it hid mi Pe oe OS i left centre and it looked lke ¢ muri moth, thinking the public was etrong| 1+ man' Ladera; it was ludlorous The second little fellow from Newark, whose name ifePLeCeH \Se Age, Clecinnat. Vora. New York... 7 two-bag aMehows “ “S| for me, decided to keep me.” ¢ i ies hind the | has been { do not recall. wer bite tuo Mea Crandall. New Yor 6 5 nS f left fielder was go! . ‘The Glante are only two full games behind the Bae En ae Coombs, AMM tienes Bt 10 1 felt that the left fleide 3 ‘The following epring George Leldy be- | Cubs now, foum the ory Voore, Philade iP} Krause, Athletion. 17 (7 it, and 1 ran behind him | De ' : Odd Surrourd ras. Fy ore, Uafitte, Detrott.ess 2 10 8 ‘ ¢/came manager of the team, and then ; Pater The {1Mtto f \ Bates, “eston 3 | Pane. Mog on bos jg | backed up on ie Mpa of hs | Cobb began to shine. He used to take| 7M, pirates made a grand rally fn the minth an Loa yy q Tho fight started about 10 o'clock in| NEW—Daily Mat Puss 6 Wiitge New York. 10° ‘pets Ff fia | fingers, T was running at full speed.) would picture to him the glories of the - idle Conta tad Gk eae pounds and Listman about 12. ‘The BuiCHi ON, Wate Piltge, New Por SP New nf $ty | and by a dive manage tos > ae | big league, ‘it Matty continues in, tie form, showed rextor-| nut ~out of the’ game int the ninth must have been about five thousand Brlelion wear ‘ily Law euce, "othe romme,(-incinnath, i Krani, Chevelaid oF foq | hall with one band when ie vmved the, He did it in uch a glorious w GN Gihte’tan alate oukt OS fires outtor Tout Rcond part of "the doubleheader against the | people at that plenic, The attraction of | (pa ¥ wal BL iionty woe 9 Da Llama nth 8 White, Chicago... 32 10 8 (oa a eee eyed vor {anys Cobb, “that T was crazy form , gaines in each verles, Hed Hox ot Philadel A & Koo! rig Meh, together with dane: | SAL” ana ae nea. "New: York 5 she Ghkeago 220 BT 1G 1a | game, and I can trutht. . chance. I told him that 1 ved 1 -— Fad doko. iat ing and all the bger and good esting SAS sabe al By Gia BE i é Onentead, Chicads.. 38 8B 8 | made a better one in my life, When 1) could make good if they tome ft i ely that the Giants and the Prien! waa Leap ne wanted was very alluring, and the bo! oe eae P. mmjth, Civeln.. i Live 8 6 came in the spectators were crazy With | un bases to mult myeelt. He then told | fii) meet 1a a, douniedader Sonday, ae Uy field for the Ked Box a park was Jammed. The dancing floor 0) 8 $ i} nin HTH ars Hien nate i }eonard. ti Joy and they began tossing me money |me that the bridle was off ant that I ‘The Phillies are now five full games behind the| Ws Jammed until the fight started ‘ Huss soul fie wee b Mit hell ae. 4 tt |1 picked up $11 in quarters and half) cua steal a base any time tht I felt, Anything that looks itke the Gtants ts too much | Chicago in the Na League Pennant sirugyle | Then all the me in the place made a) .o————— - : ay Argo. 14 Talker, Walton, 8 § |dollara. My father was so carried away |iikg it, Leldy advised me to take a {ar the Dodgers. With Bridwell as shortstop break for the ringside, and most of the’ & y Meh ve Pare gihardt. Brook, 3} rion, New, Yors t 4 | with my performance that he mmedi- nce at all times, and he always ars ager, on the beuoh, all former New York players, | y,TRe Cantinale and the Cubs may play a double followed. There were slim little 1aa0 to 1h. Weater’ Morea. 30 4 Tange, Chi 7 8 ately became a fan. More than that, he) 44 that the secret of basebal: was in the Brookiyns could do notiing jose “againel game scheduled ‘pesturday being postponed by on and big, burly Irishmen, fat, werlile Acts, | 18 36, ms Vand gain rg, onas ay fit Fabien ot went back, to the ofiee, ang rete 8 full taking a chance on tho bases. He was the ustiers ka Gounds dumor itis, Dulhan And big, Drew | Hascall games resorted by inntigs at the, matinee ons % y . : hi 001 | —— | 7" rope - wnatioee Seaplon, Brooklyn. 17 3 dansran., sf 8 at =} a first baseball story that the | "Sh, too. As a proof of that tie took | ty Cobb, the greaten player the bas! Tre Rete outhit the Pirate, but the tatter/hung big bony Irish biddies and Dutch ’ ta est hemor Ave Comings: 18 3 Seldwall, New ait wa tee povston had ever read and i¢|the San Antonio team two years ago gor imarn, didn't get any bia yestenfay.” Tee rtnmched. their aiwten fn the Yam toning, whics | {ve ea that they spilled ever the [eid iH ie WibF HAP + 0. St. Louls oy! b n't play. ot b f 0 fat h tlh ver the ‘Miteliell Cleve HY | jand won the pennant with ease he | Tiers play. muabled them to wa fat ¢ . WErw Wi Wikirn Bown mage Cage i 4 |made a great hit, hag | day T waa allowed to cut 1006 T| ane waitore only Tadp tour, hts_off Pitcher ‘i rg edzes. Tables, chairs, beer kegs, boxes, (Uw A TH __— ie Rae ction: fl Yon A Yok 3 4 Bo you see,” laughed Tyrus, ‘that | Oat aD Te neve at Colume | wiht, Haitope only, mala four hia, off prtchep Spratee, we grat Bowon, Ametcan out. everything that could be made to worve CHNTURY 4 Perr ARL cy eames Mue: 32 i one catch made a baseball player out) iia g,c. After that It was easy.” Was almost as great @ puzzle ia the second game . ‘tlas @ vantage place from which to ROO Fy, i} } OFCBl.S vss Yirgne, lleva. 4 77 ot me and a baseball writer out of my) or" the ‘Test. of that. seasin Cobb | eee eet oN af > h the fight, was pressed into ger- Se. W yw? 10 Takes AEE toa: 18 ti aot Be | afar, the est of that season Cobb He eee caer en Ce AE. | Sehenek’sOrchentra,sooits, etn sha ns. eatal Geng ES tat At the ond of that seagon.” oont{nued |the league. In the mean time Leldy STANDING OW THE CLUBS branches of, the, trees, wate wires AC AMINA Mi...) 1, 200400 Phijion ee | 7 Cobb, "I began making my plats t0 | upped lim off to the fact that Detrolt NATIONAL URAGUM ) AMERICAN LRAGUE, Ifeor kee and gelled “iii the Duotone | tik DANCING § tath | hy vad Wet 3 join the South Atlantic League club at| jad an option on im for $7) and the W.b po) ¢ LW W. . ——_ — itd Augusta, Ga, It became necessary for! cid manager hogan to ger hin Ins ap Oy AY td! ay man," "Go on, soak the Trigher.” dnc Comanch ae 18 me to get my friend MoCreary, my'|ccn ina “bie ‘ineque, “It seem ° 2 Bb Ole Cnet ABB | Nets The fight lasted #ix rounds, It was al “Ay Colhan’s' io yar oat i! in Two Double 1 it for the big leagu t na tha 40. (Sin Meooklyn, KO | Boston heautiful sluggite maton, in whion’| cm 7 The Jer: , City tear: of the Eastern 1 2 A mether, all of my relatives and the Gicotte, the present Boston pitchor, Was | hila'phla GT 44 “604 Hoston.... 24 208 New York 64 [eteeran? san Megitedion ihe halthe aerit Get-hich-Uule Var ag ord League vl play two genes at West Kart client Ae | H vouare of ng) K wn te Lui d premeure t9 with Detroit and that he had been sent KESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S Phe last round was the hottest, Tres CULUA Y MATIN Se, a “J ni fe me on my fatier, Minally he gave his ek to A usta, The ption on Cloot lew Yor! Mh tacte amlibnat s t 4 215 ie Side Park to-day with Montreal, ‘Two | Handing, Cleve... 20 3 10 aN pees Zetling sie Ay Aa one | oe it Augusl "i rhe opt D9. ie flow York. 9: Mrhitadelphie, { Webies |member catching a fleeting glance of einen epee 4 g | hat the ! nm Ohicago-St, ‘Louls gaiue’ postpone away at the dance floor a few 4 ee Rain accompanied the ‘Can on | ee ag fon| ‘Son, I am golng to let you go to| Augusta team was @ bunch of ball 2 ‘ Why. AR Rebtee “onpatiunien’ ihe thelr last visit. Jerse; City, Hence Crim ‘st 322 24 098 | Auguata and see what you can do, Aa | pia wh ward became famous GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. |musiclans would give a hurried look AVTOMOBILES & MOTOR BOATS, the two bargain bil! | Herren. Ww j af 8 M8 |long as you've made up your mind te | Cicotte, ¢ Engl®, Nap Rucker, New, York at Washington, Gwar, -thelp ahabideen| twat’ iia csinie AUTu aies asus CU -- > | tpleates. | ee 3h. ee: | LB Balibiaver, t pant you te be ot, | Cobb al worked tie youre and Te Bi lars a Cles side, Although every mother's son of WHEN YOU Aik Tait Gi du aly, Polo Gre Monday, 2 gam, tot | Molise, ae ¥ : 1 904, | Cobb all worked on the club a me joston at Pailadais them was Itching to see that fight, they LOOK!) Ais event ea tee ade Biba | De sg = ‘BRB bust here, is some menay tor you @ live! time Can you imagine what @ ely stuok “bravely to ‘their quae untit the | BA’ey? HEM MEEOD MRE XG ‘ of re Sah Ne a cnt