Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1916 — PLAYING BASEBALL AND GOLF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PLAYING BASEBALL AND GOLF

Novel Theoretical Comparison Made on Driving Gutta Percha Sphere and Hitting Bail. Someone has started comparisons between golf and baseball. Ty Cobb, says a man who knows both golf and baseball, can knock a baseball 400 feet, Jerome Travers can drive a golf

ball 350 yards, or 1,050 feet, about two and a half times as far. The fan proceeds theoretically to the conclusion that Ty Cobb would have to be twice his present size were he to obtain the driving power to send a baseball from a bat as far as “Jerry” sends the gutta percha sphere. Cobb, continues the theorist, measures 5 feet 11 Inches in height and weighs 180 pounds. To equal the golf drive he would have to be 14 feet 9 inches tall and weigh 450 pounds. He’d wear .a 17% cap instead of a 7, a 20 shoe instead of an 8, and a 57%-lnch collar instead of a 15. He would also have to use a bat 8 feet 4 Inches long and 6% inches thick.

Ty Cobb.