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Manchester wound up as Eastern League batting champion, Grate made the Greater Boston League All-Star team along with Bill Cobb and captain Carter Lord and the defense began to work well together, pulling off at least three double plays in each of the last four games...
...Bill Cobb returned to the track team from a tour of duty with the baseball team, and won the 100 yard dash with a 10.0 timing and ran the opening leg of a winning 440 relay. A sensational pass from Cobb to Bill Jewett gave Harvard a quick lead in that...
Cooley is a demon for speed. In his first heart transplant, he performed the actual implantation of the donor organ in Everett C. Thomas' chest in 31 min. His second, for Recipient James B. Cobb, took 42 min. Cooley's third transplant, which took about 30 min., raised a legal question. The heart came from Clarence Nicks, 32, who died after being beaten in a barroom brawl. Nicks showed no brain-wave activity and had had no reflexes for hours before his doctors shut off the machine that had been oxygenating the blood in his lungs. There...
...Cooley's three patients, Thomas continued to make good progress a week after his transplant; Stuckwish, at week's end, was still battling for life. Cobb died 2½ days after the operation, of obscure causes. But it was certainly not because his new heart had failed. It was in such good condition, said Cooley, that he would have transplanted it to a second patient if a suitable recipient had been available...
Other Harvard players who fattened their batting averages were Pete Karageannes, Bill Cobb, and Carter Lord, each with two hits...