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Show fill!' BAKER. units jy it oil Would Increase His Average Aver-age if He Would Only Look Them Over. ' ' According to Miller Hussins. Frank Bakor should be a .400 hitter. Baker has one fault which Hugirins would like to correct, and the latter stakes his reputation rep-utation as a judge of baseball ability on his prediction that Baker will be a .400 hitter if he will make, the change. ' Baker's fault is an overanxiety to hit, with the consequent tendency to take a swing at the first pitched ball. Opposing pitchers realize this and continually feed Baker the kind of ball that he "is not likely to hit1 very far. During his recent re-cent batting spurt, when he was finishing finish-ing up his first century of base hits, the Yankee slugger took his time and he did bat over 1400 for quite a long time. But he loves to hit, and ho cannot stand to see a ball go by if it is within reach. Baker has ben hitting to left field more than ever before during the present season, and by looking over that first -ball he should finish the season sea-son with a mark far a.bove any figure of his previous seasons. , |