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...year-old East St. Louis-born Negro speedster who is being readied to play his first season in the majors. Southworth's positiveness stems from Jethroe's record with Montreal last season, where he broke the International League record by stealing 89 bases (seven less than Ty Cobb's modern major-league record of 96), batted a neat .326, second highest in the league...
...Some other paychecks considered good in their day: Joe DiMaggio's $90,000 last year, Babe Ruth's $80,000 in 1930-31, Ty Cobb's $70,000 in 1928, Honus Wagner...
BASEBALL: Babe Ruth (253 votes), Ty Cobb (116), Lou Gehrig...
...report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest" stories, the Sun corralled such topflight reporters as Jacob Riis, Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Will Irwin, Irvin S. Cobb and Frank Ward O'Malley...
Dean Bernice Brown Cronkhite of the Radcliffe graduate school is chairman of the committee on awards. Committee members include President Jordan and Professors Gordon W. Allport, Arlie V. Bock, Stanley Cobb, '10, Alden B. Dawson, Leigh Hoadley, Karl Sax, and Edwin B. Wilson...