Sport: Champion

One of the 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 of...

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