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...Tyrus R. Cobb, professional baseball player: "I received the following mention in one of the letters of the late Archie Butt, which, descriptive of the Roosevelt Administration, are appearing serially in The New York Herald: 'I have gotten the President very much interested in Ty Cobb, the famous baseball player from Georgia. I told him I had given Ty a dinner .... and he wanted to know all about him. . . . Ty is only 22 years old and neither drinks nor smokes, neither did any of the ball players who were there. That interested the President greatly...
...enough stage for his strenuous action and roaring language. The desk of the Managing Editor was likewise too small, beside being occupied. So a new title, Executive Editor, was created for him. He took charge of the entire paper, except the editorial page, over which the late Frank I. Cobb (TIME, Dec. 31) presided. He took, too, a spacious office, at the far end of the city room, through the length of which he strides like a hurricane, swinging his cane, and shaking the floor with the weight of his stal- wart frame. Last May, eight months ago, Mr. Swope...
...Detroit Free Press, that he first attracted the attention of Joseph Pulitzer, the Great Pulitzer. The (health of William Henry Merrill, chief editorial writer of The World, was failing. The eyesight of Mr. Pulitzer himself no longer permitted him to serve in the full capacity of editor. Cobb was called East. He became Mr. Merrill's chief assistant. When Mr. Merrill died he became chief editorial writer of The World, and on Joseph Pulitzer's death in 1913, he succeeded to the title of editor...
Like The World, Cobb was a strong Democrat, but he was as fearless in criticizing Democratic leaders as he was ardent in his politics. Of late years his editorial page was recognized as one of the few vigorous examples of its kind still surviving in America...
Died. Frank I. Cobb, 54, Editor of The New York World. (See page...