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...ablest baseballers who ever lived, famed Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb is now one of the world's richest retired athletes. His fortune consists mostly of fat Coca-Cola holdings which he bought long ago on advice from his hunting crony, Coca-Cola's President Bob Woodruff. When he quit professional baseball in 1928, Cobb toured Europe with his wife and four of their five children, went to Scotland for a season's shooting, returned to his 10,000-acre farm in his native Georgia. Five years ago, he bought a house at Atherton, Calif., 30 miles south...
...Monte, Calif., last week Ty Cobb entered the California Indians' Golf Tournament. He got a 77 in the second round, won the championship. 3½ up, from one W. W. Wurlburn in the final...
...rare in the U. S. as the four-volume mono graph on Pheasants, Their Lives and Homes-by William Beebe, published in 1918-22 at $250 per set and now a collec tor's item at $750. Brilliantly-plumed birds could be seen on the lawns of ty coons like Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising has become a fad among rich...
...unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save him. He perfected one, the screwball. In 1925, Detroit bought Pitcher Hubbell. When famed Ty Cobb saw the screwball, he contemptuously told Hubbell to learn something else or give up pitching. Hubbell's control kept him from arguing. Back in the minor leagues, he went on throwing screwballs. In 1928, he was throwing the screwball for the Giants. In the All-Star game...
...this year has made him one of the five leading batsmen of the National League and its most spectacular rookie since Dizzy Dean. The other was Joseph Paul Di Maggio, 21-year-old outfielder of the New York Yankees, the American League's most sensational recruit since Ty Cobb...