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Home My WebLink AboutZurich 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." HORSE SPLASH - Leading her horse to water is no problem far Marion Lisehora as she and her mount, "Lorgah;' thrill au- diences at the Aquafair. Like a western film hero/ Marion rides the horse off.'aw40-foot diving board. Forest Of doom I set out early in May. Climb- ing for three days from the 3,000 - foot -high plain of Kathmandu to the 12,000 feet of the Saone Mani ridge, I first crossed huge terraced mountain -slopes, aston- ishing examples of the zeal and patience of the peasant . - . Human ants, long• caravans of Tamangs in Indian file — the women wearing numerous neck- laces of red beads—carried their produce: bamboo baskets one inside the other, massive planks of reddish wood, rectangular loads of hand -made fibrous pa- per, enormous bunches of green boughs which entirely hid the porter's body ... The woods and forests aston- ished stonished me in their turn. They bristled with black, branchless trunks like stumps, almost leaf- less, for in this region there is so little grass for the cattle that the peasants cut the foliage to feed cows and buffalo, just as they do in Auvergne in the heart of France. This habit, added to the activity of the woodcutters, is gradually killing the forest which would maintain the soil under the attack of the violent monsoon rains. As for the larg- est oak trees, they are burned where they stand, their trunks crowned with smoke, for their ash is needed to whiten the paper made on the spot from the bark of the:. daphne. The industry is so large that it has given its name to the people of the dis- trict. No one who has not seen them can imagine the overwhelming splendour and richness of a for- est of tree rhododendrons — pale ivory -yellow, salmon -pink and mauve the latter growing up to 10,000 feet. Words cannot paint a tree dotted with blood - red flowers standing out against the receding blue slopes tinged with purple by distance, under the dark indigo of the sky, whilst beyond shimmers the satin of the Himalayan snows. — From "The 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. u h K+w(lww y, J iS i' Ih tj�b - square-rigged schooner "Susan Constant" is sailing proudly into the htarbor at TRYOUT The square gg Hampton, Va,, after a test run to prove her seaworthiness. The ship, one of the three full-sized replicas of the ships which brought the first English settlers to Jamestown, 350 years ago, made the run as proof of her ability to take p art in the Jamestown 350th anniversary cele- bration that begins April 1st. - CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING .: . 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