Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — STAR BALL PLAYER IS SPEED DEMON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STAR BALL PLAYER IS SPEED DEMON

Ty Cobb, champion batsman of the American league for the season of 1910 and star outfielder with the Detroit Tigers, wears the smile of a speed demon as he sits at the wheel of a big racing car at the Indianapolis motor speedway. Cobb made several fast drives while he was at Indianapolis recently and proved beyond a doubt that he can handle an automobile wheel as well as a baseball bat.