HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-03-14, Page 7Ty Cobb Talks
About Batting
"Did you take a long lead off
base?" the young fellow at the
baseball clinic asked.
"Just as long as they'd let
me," came the grinning reply
from the No. 1 man in the
game's Hall of Fame, Ty Cobb.
Looking chipper, the former
batting and base running star
was the principal speaker re-
cently at the Stanford gathering
of baseball men. His topics ran
the gamut from a reeommenda-
tion that hitters be given more
leeway, to an explanation of
his formula for getting himself
out of a batting slump.
Most of his remarks came in
answer to questions as young
players and coaches kept him
busy demonstrating batting
stances and base running posi-
tions.
Cobb grasped the bat the way
he did during 23 years in the
majors—with both hands spread
well apart.
"When I started playing for
the town team, I was just 12
and had to hold the bat that way
to punch the ball for hits," he
' explained. "If you keep your
hands apart, they won't cramp
together when you swing."
On the matter of hitting, Cobb
maintained, "you can develop a
player's ability better if you give
him a little more leeway. 1 don't
think anybody sitting on a bench
should tell a batter which ball to
hit.
"If you're going to develop
eonfiidence in him, you've got to
let him decide . . . If there are
men on base, a batter should
Have -the privilege of hitting 'the -P-
ball he wants to hit"
Cobb's argument was against
telling a batter, for instance, to
let the. first pitch go by or to let
the ball go by with a three -ball
and one -strike situation.
"The element of surprise is
Important," he said. "If a pitcher
knows you will take the first
pitch, he's liable to serve up a
cripple. Hit and you can hurt
the pitcher psychologically."
The erstwhile firery competi-
tor, who compiled a lifetime
average of .367, recalled that, on
one occasion Chief Bender threw
a curve that he hit to the fence.
"Bender was a little too smart,"
he laughed. "He remembered
that I'd - hit' that curve and
never did throw me another.
He didn't know how lucky I
thought I'd been to hit that one.
Someone wanted to know,
"How did you go about getting
out of a batting slump?"
Cobb replied that when he was
hitting well he would have a
couple of players watch him.
Then when he'd slump, he'd ask
them what he was doing differ-
ently and try to return to the
former style.
"Then I'd have a pitcher come
to close and throw and I'd bunt,
bunt, bunt. Then I'd try to hit
n little harder. Next, with the
pitcher back on the mound, I'd
bunt some more and then start
taking swings.
"You have to work back into
the proper timing." '
What is most important in hit-
ting?"
"Concentration is the main
thing. Get set and then think
only of the pitcher and the ball."
Did you aim at a certain spot?
"No. I'd practice hitting
through a certain zone, such as
between first and second or be-
tween second and short."
Cobb claimed the players of
today are "Just as good as we
were, but they don't hit as well.
Too much emphasis on the long
'ball."
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Forest Of doom
I set out early in May. Climb-
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and mauve the latter growing
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Land of the Sherpas," by Ella
Maillart.
Tunney Down
For 14 Seconds
Referee Dave Barry stepped
in as Gene Tunney slumped to
the canvas, badly hurt from Jack
Dempsey's two-handed attack,.'`
"Go to a neutral corner, J'aok,",
Barry said.
"I stay here," snapped Demp
sey, with a scowl.
Tunney had fallen directly
over my press row seat and I
heard the exchange between,
Dempsey and Barry clearly. The:
referee had come up, arm ready,
to start the count, then realized.
Dempsey was not moving. Hi,
took Jack by the arm, but it was
a couple of valuable seconds be-
fore Dempsey cleared out and
the count could be started writes;
Nat Fleischer, America's leading
fight authority.
This was, of course, the seventh
round of the second Dempsey
Tunney fight at Chicago, Sept,
22, 1927. For most of six rounds,_
Dempsey was in trouble with
Tunney. He simply could not
catch Gene and was taking ''a,'
good lacing while trying it.
But here in the seventh, the
famed killing power in Demp- ..
sey's fists had exploded. He
hurt. Tunney with a left hook,.
then a short right fogged Gene's
brain. A terrible battering stack-
ed Tunney against the ropes,
where he took as murderous a
left hook as ever seen, then a
series of short rights before go-
ing down. '
It was to be 14 seconds before
Tunney came off the floor. That
was my count and that is the
way it will remain in my his-
tory. Others have argued that
Tunney was down for nearly
30 seconds.
Fourteen it was, and it prob-
ably was the most valuable space.
of time in Tunney's life. Demp-
sey wanted things his way—the
old way — standing directly
over a fallen opponent and hit-
ting him the moment his knee
left the canvas.
Referee Barry wanted it ac-
cording to the rules. So Tun-
ney, trying to clear his head, •
came to one knee and waited
as Barry, five seconds late in ,•
starting the count, reached nine.
Then Gene got up. And this
was not a dull -minded, desperk,
ate fighter who reached hxatf ".,
The. Tunney who came of
floor• v(as6 insteal
fighter who ran1Fs wit.
all-time best as a master
science.
Gene started circling the rih
His legs moved, moved, moved.
And he lured Dempsey into. a
mistake. The old Dempsey would
have piled into him, both hands
shooting. But the Dempsey who
lost this fight tried to stalk the.
circling Tunney.', He followed.
Gene's monotonous circles -and,
after a while found he didn't
have the speed to catch his man,:
Tunney would not gamble.
Weakened, he would have been
no match for Dempsey. Sohe
kept peeking with that left jab
and moving on those beautifully
conditioned legs of his.
Turney lasted the round and
in the eighth, he broke out of
his pecking with a short right
chop which put Dempsey on the
floor, Gene Tunney, heavyweight
champion, was back in stride
again.
The rest of the fight had Turi-
ney in command. Dempsey won
only three of the 10 rounds. -
There were 104,943 fans at
Chicago's Soldier Field t h a t
night. They paid a tremendous
$2,658,660 to witness the battle.
And the thrill from those .14,
seconds still carries over in my
memory.
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