Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1919 — COBB SAYS TRAINING CAMPS ARE BUGABOO [ARTICLE]

COBB SAYS TRAINING CAMPS ARE BUGABOO

More Harmful Than Beneficial* Thinks Great Player. Enemies of Tiger Star Have Repeated—ly Declared That Failure to Train Would Handicap Him Considerably. Ty Cobb answers the critics of his training camp methods by the assertion that the routine of one month oi six weeks is entirely too long for the ball player. For many seasons Cobb has refused to report to the Tigers when they entrained for Dixie land. Rarely has he jumped into uniform earlier than a week or ten days before the opening oi the regular season. Cobb’s enetnies re -peatcdly- deehire that failure to traiE would handicap Cobb considerably. Bus it has never done so. Several times the “Southern Typhoon” has started slowly, but along about mid-June h« has found his stride and breezed along to the sublime heights-eff the offensive baseball world. : “Four to six weeks training in th« South, with two sessions dailyrTiUrt! rather than helps a player,” Cobb explains. “After two weeks in the Soutt the player is trained rather fine. Aftei that strenuous training begins to sap his endurance. When the season opens lie looks good and plays well. But before mid-August you will notice that h« Is growing stale, that he isn’t playing with all the old dash and speed. “Early in my career I spent four to six weeks in training camps. Usually I reported for the opening of the season in fine condition. But after about two months I would begin to get a little stale. My work would lack zip. I decided finally that it was because 1 was overtrained. So one season I did not report to the camp for the full . training, but merely-put An about ten days’ work. “As a result I was able to put into the regular playing season all the en* durance that wasneeessary andlearried it right along through to the end of the season. Instead of finishing the baseball year fagged and worn out and trained off, I was just as good physically as when the season began. And ever since then I’ve followed that system of training, just enough to get the kinks out of my arms and legs without the sacrifice of stamina.” „