Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — Baseball "Aces” Magnets When En Route and Help to Keep Turnstile Spinning [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Baseball "Aces” Magnets When En Route and Help to Keep Turnstile Spinning

The ball club shat has to worry along without a playing “ace” is a back number as a drawing card on the road. ; The outstanding stars are the “ages” in the big show, for their names’are kept before the public, and the fans go out to see them perform. Without them in the lineups of big league clubs

many and many thousands of dollars would wander away from the turnstiles, .'"'x - ‘ The “gees” are the bfggest assets the magnates can boast ofj and if you will lamp the rosters of the sixteen major league clubs.-yen will find atieast one player on 'riearTy every rbster who figures- as the real drawing card of the team on the road. I Turds' Haymond Cobb is the greatest drawing card in the business. He Is worth mere to Detroit on the road than ail the rest of her players put together, for the fans ip rival towns go out largely to see Cobh, Unless the Tigers are up there fighting'for a pennapt,_gnd the rablds- In small town^.within easyriding distance of the big league cities fiever miss a chance to be on the job. when Cobb Is billed to cavort at the ball park. So Cobb alone is worth thousands of dollars to Detroit at the turnstiles in the course of a season.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb.