Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-08-12 | Page 7 | Home Run Ruth after Record in Circuit Trips

HOME ME RUN RUTH RECORD IN AFTER AFfER 1 I I I CIRCUIT TRIPS t I Ir f r 1 r Only Thing g Possible to toI I l Keep Him From Breaking b OJ I I Record Is Own T X i f 4 Wo V o have a a. right to suspect th that t Babe Babo Babet I t Ruth Kuth hopes to slam bang his hs wa way to toI toa tos a s now 10 major le league sue record for h home me I runs funs In a single season eason i Ruths Ruth's more than half halt way war to ft l new I r record and tho the seasons season's just about half halt done That gives I cs you oU the best Idea of oC his bis chances I As most every avert thirty-third thirty degree i nut bug-nut In the universe IU knows knon's one ono John Freeman affectionately dubbed clubbed Buck holds the medal for or slamming L 6 v f out the bre greatest test number of oi 01 hunters num nl In Ins in III b 1 s given Iven year ear in the big shows With I tho the Washington club in 1899 1890 ho drove out twenty five homo home runs J The record never ne has been equalled In the majors maJo although h It ha h has 4 been boon H i 4 eclipsed several times In the tho minors I Some Some- of ot tho minor lea league e records arc are Interesting though as IB the they were mado made b by mon men who ho also starred In tho the thoi t i majors but failed to set an any home run I j records after thc they advanced to tho fastest fastest fast fast- ast- ast est com company pan The best record was hung up b by Frank Roth with the thc Evansville team in tho the old I Three league In 1001 1901 Roth noth I connected with thirty six homers Ping Pine Bodle earned his name o of fence buster Luster when he slammed thirty balls balla against n the tho fence for tor homo home runs while with San In 1910 1010 A v Ga Cravath made recently mana manager man man- a ager er of the Phils treated American association fans to some somo slugging gln in when he laced out twenty-nine twenty t I. I four our gerS Outfielder Leslie J. J Mann ann while with the Seattle club In the tho Northwestern league ran up twenty seven homers during the campaign campal n of oC 1912 Wildfire Frank Schulte Schult in 1911 got one twenty home runs That same sarno season Bues Hues with the Seattle club mado twenty se en seenI I t When hen Ruth poled out his sixteenth hooter the tho other da day ho tied the tho American Amer Amer- lean ican league record hold held b by Socks Soya Soy Scy- a bold Theres There's ont only one thing thinS against Ruths Ruth's chances of setting a major league J. J mark t That Is s his work of or last Jast year ear i Ho He started out the 1918 season b by I giving the hc fans In ever every A. A L. L town an m Idea of how homo home runs are made Up to the close of oC June Juno he hc had slammed out eleven cn Then ho he suddenly quit hitting circuit drives His total stood at eleven when the curtain dropped Wh Whether or not he will get ot off his home homo run stride before this season ends remains to be seen It doesn't look like It Just now no