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...default; Sonnaband (U. C.) defeated A. C. Ingraham '31, 15-9, 15-7, 15-9; N. F. Glidden '31, defeated Marshall (U. C.), 8-15, 14-17, 15-11, 17-15, 15-9; E. M. Shelton '30, defeated Hoag (U. C.). 15-5, 15-11, 15-5: Cobb (U. C.) defeated B. A. Richardson...
...difference between the "idol of fandom" and the man who is hissed out of a ring is entirely a matter of personality. Writers have called it "color", that intangible quality that makes a Cobb or a Ruth or a Dempsey. If a man possesses it, college education will iron it out of him. The Bachelor or Arts who hears a symphony of boos when he steps into a ring would hear the anvil chorus if he had never gone to college. It is a gift, no more and no less. And to him that hath shall be given...
Aware of this condition, the smartest of ballplayers, Tyrus Raymond Cobb* in company with George A. Putnam, Pacific coast baseball magnate, and Ernest C. Quigley, National League umpire, three months ago sailed from San Francisco to Japan. Last week having toured the country lecturing on baseball subjects at Keio, Waseda, Meiji and Osaka (four leading universities which, with a Japanese newspaper, paid for his trip) and having played nine baseball games in the capacity of first baseman, Ty Cobb returned with his party to San Francisco...
...Cobb played baseball in Japan as a member of the teams of above named colleges, against their rivals. Usually, the team of which he was a member won the game and this was not due to the fact that Umpire Quigley was officiating. The reason was a more significant...
Although 20,000 persons were usually on hand to watch him play, and though the curious cries of the Japanese enthusiasts, who greeted him as Babe Ruth's cousin, must have helped convince him that he had not passed his prime, Ty Cobb, as soon as he returned to the U. S., reiterated his intention of retiring from professional baseball. He said that he was not considering becoming the manager of any big league team; he will go for a hunting trip soon and after that he will spend a year in touring Europe...