Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 307, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 9, 1926 Page: 2 of 16
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AMARILLO DAILY NEWS
NOY
LUBBOCK HIGH SCHOOL WILL PLAY PLAINVIEW SATURDAY
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TY COBB, GREATEST BALL PLAYER OF ALL TIME, CHECKS OUT
DIED UMPIRE
VRITES ABOUT
STAR’S CAREER
GEORGIA PEACH WAS A FIGHTER
AND PEER OF ALL
PLATERS
BY BILLY EVANS
Ty Cobb, the greatest player of nil
time, is through as a big leaguer, tem-
porarily at least. He has tendered his
resignation as manager of the Detroit
club of the American League, to take
place immediately. •
I made my debut as an American Lea-
gue umpire at the same time Cobb broke
in as a raw recruit. He was a “fresh
busher” in those days like myself. At
least that is the light in which the vet-
eran players regarded every newcomer
who tried to make good in the majors.
At the close of last season, Cobb was
the only player in active service, of the
several hundred who made up the per-
sennel of the league, when | broke in.
Be has soon them come and go by the
scores. Be have 1.
There never has been and probably
never will be another player jest like
Tyrus Raymond Cobb. He could do
everything, didn't have a single weak-
mess.
His impulsive temperament and ag-
gressive spirit kept him from attaining
the popularity achieved by some of the
other outstanding stars. However, the
fighter Is bound to make enemies and
Cobb has always been the fighter. He
never admitted defeat.
Off the field, after the bottle wss
over, Cobb was quite e different fellow
from the fiery Georgian who gave no
ground or asked no quarter in the best
of the battle. He hae been more or less
the Dr. Jeykil and Mr. Hyde of baseball.
Well do 1 recall an argument that
Cobb and I had over my calling him set
am an interference play. It happened
in a game at Chicago about 1& years ago.
The discussion waxed warm sad phy-
sical challenges flew thick and fast.
■ Detroit eventually won the game in
extra innings. In the drowsing room the
I Detroit players finally convinced Cobb
r off the correctness of my decision. He
r later saw it in the same light.
Just as 1 wee getting ready to leave
the umpires' dressing room, there was a
knock on the door and I said, “come in."
it: was Cobb.
“Everybody tells me I was all wrong
in my argument this afternoon and I am
about ready to agree with them. So I
am down here to apologize and call
everything off.
“However, if the apology isn't accept-
able, then 1 am down here to fight.”
B hastened to assure Cobb that the
spelegy was more than sufficient. I had
no particular desire for mortal combat.
During my 21 years ia the majors 1
have seen Cobb do everything that it to
possible for one player to do en the halt
field. There to nothing that Cobb hasn't
F have seen him reach first aal in
miet "ueeession, steal second, third-and
I have seen bias score from first on
e measly Texas leaguer to the outfield,
the very audacity of his maneuver caus-
inc everybody to hoodie the bell in a
faulty manner, enabling him to accom-
plish the seemingly impossible feat.
I have seen him stretch singles into
doubles, doubles into triples and triples
into home runs.
I have soon him make seemingly im-
possible catches end then follow them
ep by throws to the state that were un-
Succeeds Cobb
MARILLO SEMI-PROS
MAKING EFFORT FOR m M
RECORD ON DEFENSE IN K
The Amarillo imi-pro football team
which will likely, close its first year in
January is ambitious to finish out the
season with its present remarkable ret-
ord of not having its goal line crossed.
aPPu and will mean nothing in the district
F Amarillo is taking on a tough eleven
DVBLohn S in the Vernon squad which lost a hard
fought game to Wichita Falls 14 to IS
A TOD Saturday in Vernon. The Vernon elev-
A lily en were presented two intentional safety
U I UI scores by tbs Wicihta Falls team and
then cams near winning the game in the
last few minutes of play.
Vernon has many of the star players
GRID SCHEDULE
The semi pros under the leadership of | AMARILLO MEETS WINNER NO.
Captain "Red” Williams have displayed AmANLLY m-E!D winnr.it 4
better condition and an improvement .a
their play with each game. Williams
who has had much playing and coaching
experience, being asistant coach at Okla-
homa A. & M. in 1924, has developed a
good defense from the strong material
VENDER 20; VERNON GAME
IS NOT OFFICIAL
With Wichita Falls definitely estab-
he has had and is now pointing to an lished as the winner of the Class A foot-
even greater offensive team than the bal honors in the lower end of District
One, football coaches of Lubbock, Plain-
slew and Amarilo met is Kress, yester-
combination Sunday which scored five
touchdowns against the heavy Memphis
All-Stars.
Each member of the team ia pledged
to observe strict rules of diet and living
i and it ia believed that the squad will
continue to show improvement each
week.
The local team beat the Claude team
7 to 0 in their first game, played Chil-
dress to a 0-0 tie in the next game, beat
Claude 7 to 0 again and then Sunday got
trois Tigers next season to succeed Ty underway against Memphis for a 34 to •
Lobb, who has resigned. While no offi- win.
GEORGE NORIARTY.
George Moriarty will manage the De-
cial announcement has come from Presi-
Red Cross public health nurses made
dent Navin, it is understood the former Red Cross public health nurses made
Tiger star, more recently a member of over a million visits to homes during the
the American League staff of umpires, last year to care for the sick and pro-
has signed a contract.. A success as a tect the well. Join today and help to
player and umpire, Meriarty should do continue this good work!
equally well as manager. --- ------------------------
last year to care for the sick and pro-
day afternoon and scheduled games
which will determine the winner in thia
half of the district.
The agreement reached by Coaches Von
Tunglelen, Allen and Hays follows:
Plainview meets Lubbock at 3
o’clock Saturday,in Lubbock.
The winner of the Lubbock game plays
Amarillo on Saturday November 20.
If Lubbock wins the game will be play-
ed in Amarilo and if Plainview wins the
game will be played in Plainview and
will not effect the 1927 schedule of the
teams.
The Vernon-Amarillo game here on Ar-
who are well known to Amarillo fans.
The team is captained by Gelhausen, e
great grid and cinderpath athlete.
At the meeting yesterday the coaches
agreed that 50 cents weald be the ad-
mission price charted for school ehil-
dren and SI for adults.
The Golden Sandstorm will be in good
condition for the Vernon game Thursday
and it is believed will be in the best
condition of the season for the decidir it
game on November 20.
CHARLEY GRIP
WILL WRESTLE
BOBBYEDWARDS
TOUGH PACAFIC COAST MATMAN
BEING BROUGHT HERE
FOR OHIOAN
MIKE M'TISUE IS AFTER
HIS LIGHT-HEAVY TITLE
Charley Grip meets Bobby Edwards,
Pacific coast wrestler at the Armory
Friday night, according to Elmer Guth-
rice, matchmaker for the American Leg-
inn under whose auspices the wrestlers
will appear.
Edwards ia a flashy grappler and man
who likes the going fast and furious, ac-
cording to Guthrie.
(By The Associated Pro
NEW YORK, Nov. s.—Mike MeTigue
wants hie light-heavyweight title back.,---
No plans to post a $2,500 forfeit check to see him go against a real, rough and
with the New York State Boxing com- tumble welterweight", said Guthrie yes-
mission Tuesday. M^Tigue claims that terday. “Kopecky could not stop Grip
since Jack Delaney added twelve pounds jand I feel sure that Edwards will have
to his weight and is seeking a heavy, ja very busy evening. I am sorry that
weight match with Gore Tunney, the
French-Canadian has vacated the crown
“Grip has given such good account of
himself in his matches here that I want
Grandfather Alfred Mantell is unable to
he won from Paul Berlenbach.
mistie day will not count determining ----,-------
the winner in this end of the district fill 128 values.
if Webster's unabridged dictionary
were printed in Braille type, it would
meet Mr. Grip.” •
Grip defeated Kopecky last Friday in
a fast, scientific battle and won much
favor with the fans by hit trmenduous
strength and his apparent natural form
at wrestling.
Dr. and Mrs. Rehard Keys, 1805 Van
Buren street, have retimed from Dallas
where Mrs. Keys was in Baylor hospital .
for some time. She is much improved.
“To the American Red Cross we tom
instinctively and confidently when sud-
den calamities occur,” says President
Coolidge. Join today, and keep it ever
ready! *
BOHEMIAN 1
OP-FLAVORED
A RICHEST
STRONGEST
t BEST 1
■JUST TRY IT
A ASK ANY j
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AMARILLO PROS
BEAT MEMPHIS
ELEVEN 34 TOD
FLOTDADA TO PLAY UNDEFEAT-
ED LOCAL SQUAD HERE
SUNDAY
Developing gradually into a football
machine with eleven strong, speedy
players working as a unit, the Amarillo
semi-pros tackle a strong team from
Floydada next Sunday, after defeating
the Memphis All-Stars, 84 to 0, here
Sunday.
The strength of the Floydada team is
not known hot it is reported that they
have combined some of their players
with Lockney, Plainview and Lubbock
players to form-a strong combination to
send against the locals.
Captain “Red” Williams passed the
pigskin into the waiting arms of his
teammates Sunday and the crowd was
treated to some flashy open-field play-
ing combined with the serial attach.
“Skeet” Gibson, star Amarillo base-
ball player, cavorted about the gridiron ■
Sunday in much the same manner as
he played left field this summer. He
picked ep a Memphis fumble and raced
45 yards for a touchdown in the see-
and half. He also caught a pass and
sprinted Id yards across the goal Une
for a touchdown. Vaught and Close
were on the receiving end of passes that
netted scores and Williams bueked the
ball over on one occasion for e touch-
down. Vaught kicked four goals in
five attempts.
The Memphis team, big and powerful,
was stopped without any flashy gains
by the Amarillo defense. Severs! Mem-
phis players were injured but not s
substitute was used by the local team
and time oat was called only once by
the Amarillo squad.
eanny in their accuracy.
I have seen him w.n scores of hall
games by timely base hit or a daring
piece of baserunning. He was als*}' at
his best in a pinch. inot been scored on as yet. Field ard
I have seen Cobb do everything on the 1 indoor training is scheduled for the
bail field but steal first base. Thatsqund this week in preparation for the
can’t he done. Floydada game.
Some years ago, when Umpire George | The Amarillo team to making an ef.
Hildebrand broke into the American fort to secure a game with some strong
League with me, he was all excited over college eleven after Thanksgiving.
The locale are undefeated and have
seeing Cobb in action, having heard so The tiro-op.
much of him. MEMPIS
The season was about a month old be-
fore we finally bumped into the Detroit
elub. 1 had hept telling Hildebrand that
ba probably would see more than enough
of Cobb if he was going good
Hidebrand was umpiring the bases in
the first game he ever saw Cobb play
Ty wee at the top of his game and gave
one of his greatest performances. Hilde-
brand was doing a Paddock all after-
noon trying to keep pace with the “Fly-
ing Georgian.”
Reaching our dressing room after the | J olipecy
9- game, my first words to Hildebrand
“were: Thompson
“Now that you have seen him, what do 1 .
you think of him?
"You don’t think when he gets on; you
just keep running," was his reply. “To-
day will last me for the rest of the
Morris .....
Yarbrough
Martindale
Bryan
Dean
Martin ...
season.
“Say, he gave me more close decisions
Position Amarillo
............O’Flannigan
Luft End
..........Hall
Left Tackle
Left Guard
... Sikes
Guard
Goodwin
Right Guard
Right Tackle
Right Erd
Qnarterbaek
Left Half
.... Cleghorn
.... McQueen
......Gibson
.....Vaught
Brunk
.... Williams
Pullback
The substitutes: Dyer for Cohen: Co-
hen tor Dyer; Anthony for Sweed;
in one game than I had all last season Sweed for Anthony: Wheat for Yar-
broorh: Townes for Bryan: Yarbrough
in the Coast League.” He had umpired
in that organization the previous sea- for Wheat: Bryan for Townes: Stephens
"T. glad that Cotb has decided to re | The officials: Hun. Referee: Duttor,
tire as a player before he began to slip. I umpire: West, head linesman.
It would have been a shame for him to
have tried ot carry on and be unable to
maintain the hunt standard that FEW CHAMPS KNOW WHEN TO
has been his for nearly a quarter of
RETIRE: LA BARBA SINCERE
century.
Such an act would have tarnished the
remarkable record of perhaps the freit
est hall player the game will ever know
Cobb was too smart for that.
I have seen players come and players 111,1 in going to the well once too often,
| Fe w champions in any line of sport
k o when to retire. Most of them per
go. but only one Cob b. Seldom has any champion given up his
Ito long, Tyrus. 1 favorites sport without cashing in on the
----------------------------- -— . prestige of his title. In this respect Fidel
1+ Barba, flyweight champion, is a de-
a. sided exception.
1 Although he has been champion of his
NONE JUST AS
GOOD AS .
wii’O peror
TOAGHETT/
class only n year and three months, be
has announced that he will retire next
year and enter Stanford University.
Friends Insist Ln Barba is sincere in
his determination, that his desirs for a
college education is mere thia a mere
gesture. When he turned pre it was to
earn enough money to satisfy his desire.
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