Outing . the time the ball is returnedto the infield. The first baseman calls ahasty conference. Play is resumed. Thenext batter raps a ball to the third base-man, who throws quickly in the directionof first. It is a habit of Cobbs to feign scoringfrom third on any ground hit, so he pre-tends to dart for the plate as soon asthe third baseman makes his throw. Butthe conference had evolved a trick tocatch Cobb. Back to third flies the ball, the firstbaseman not stopping to touch his he is caught, and cannot regainthird, Cobb breaks for home. A fewswift strides and his slender frame sh
Outing . the time the ball is returnedto the infield. The first baseman calls ahasty conference. Play is resumed. Thenext batter raps a ball to the third base-man, who throws quickly in the directionof first. It is a habit of Cobbs to feign scoringfrom third on any ground hit, so he pre-tends to dart for the plate as soon asthe third baseman makes his throw. Butthe conference had evolved a trick tocatch Cobb. Back to third flies the ball, the firstbaseman not stopping to touch his he is caught, and cannot regainthird, Cobb breaks for home. A fewswift strides and his slender frame shootsthrough the air. It is a long slide anda wall of dust screens the scene. Cobbsspikes barely scrape by the corner ofthe plate, but the umpire yells Safe!Thinking it had been a planned stealhome the fans applaud steadily. Cobbslaps the dust from his uniform, sneersopenly and calls: Did you think youcould get me on an old bush leaguetrick! And with more swagger thanever he struts back to the bench, know-. CHRISTY MATHEWSON SAYS: SURE OF BEING A STAR Photograph by Paul Thompson, N. Y. KEEP OUT OF BASEBALL UNLESS YOU ARE ing he had almost been made to appearridiculous before a great crowd. Yet this same arrogant Cobb, removedfrom the excitement of the game, de-clared that Sam Crawford of Detroitwas a greater batter than he! Cobb ex-plained that he beat out many infieldtaps and bunts that Crawford would be thrown out on. Also, Cobb claims thatif Crawford were more ambitious everyfan would come to rate him as the bestof batters. But here is the difference. If Craw-fords batting slumps, he waits for hisluck to change. If Cobbs batting slumps,he spends his mornings practicing at the 145
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