Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1914 — TYRUS COBB’S CRACKED RIBS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TYRUS COBB’S CRACKED RIBS

Georgia Peach, Panned' for His “Vicious” Sliding, Gives His Own Version of the Matter. Speaking of Ty Cobb’s ribs, the result, of an all too strenuous slide into a base, reminds me of an incident concerning that wizard of the paths. Cobb has always been panned all around the American ring for his “vicious** base sliding. The Tigers had played this day at the Yankee park. As usual Ty had slid into some baseman and the evening papers had taken him to task because of his “deliberate spiking.” That night Cobb was playing billiards at his friend, John Doyle’s. The question of his base sliding was talked of. Suddenly Cobb dropped his cue,* and facing a half hundred fans —some for him, but -most against him —he said: "They say I cut men down purposely on the bases. I play the game to win, I can’t help it if they block my way. When I’m coming into a base feet foremost, I hawe the right of way. It’s the rule of baseball. But I want all you men to bear witness that Ty Cobb doesn’t do all the cutting down. Just look here boys,” and Ty sat on the billiard table and pulled up both trouser legs to his knefes. Each leg was cut from ankle to knee in a frightful way. Hardly an inch of whole skin remained uneut or bruised. “And they say I deliberately