Did they come to Augusta to visit Ty Cobb?
He was a very friendly man but he was abrupt. Grantland Rice was having dinner one time at the Cobb home. I always sat at the right of Mr. Cobb at the table, at the training table and in his home when I ate there, and Herschel, his son, would sit by my father. My father was a trap shooter and he had a very good record and Herschel would ask if he wanted to get Mr. Cobb out because he was a great bird shot and he had heads of different antelopes and bears and big moose in his house in his den, but he was famous. He was a fine shot. Tris Speaker was out of a job. You know, he was the manager over at Cleveland and he had a fine record and he and Mr. Cobb were very good friends. He needed a job and Mr. Cobb had just signed up with the Athletics, though he said he wasn’t going to play anymore after 1926. He said that in front of me and so I said, “Mr. Cobb you’re not going to stop playing are you?” He said, “Jimmy m’ boy, I think I am.” I said, “Well I’ve lost my job.” But anyway, to answer
