Show 4 Babe Starts Training to Wrest S Another Year From Father Time 4 1 j f I 1 Sf v f J 7 4 j j BABE RUTH Faltering Slugger Begins Daily Daly Exercises Before Leaving for Camp J S By JACK CUDDY S United Press Staff Correa Correspondent NEW YORK Jan S- S 3 Babe Babe Ruth started training today for for forthe the biggest fight lIght of his glamorous career an attempt to wrest from lather father time t one one more creditable season of bIgI big I time baseball before quitting play probably to become manager of the New York Yankees in 1935 The all time home run kings king's s first training raining was WM a public workout at Artie McGovern's gymnasium m for tor the benefit of writers photographers photographer and the he like Despite demands of radio and other activities Babe be hopes to exercise daily at the gymnasium until mid mid- February when he goes to St. St Petersburg Petersburg Peters Peters- burg Fla Fa the Yanks' Yanks training camp He will golf golt and fish until the rest of the Ruppert men arrive Prospects Worry Friends Friend The great man will celebrate his his- birthday in New York February ary 7 Friends are worried over hi his prospects for tor 1934 He faded considerably considerably consid consid- last year Many of or his games were nol completed he suffered suffered suf ered a couple of bad batting slumps lumps and was benched temporarily for tor the first time in his career for tor weak hitting Ruth now is heavier now than ever before His like barrel-like body depends upon spindly legs for locomotion Forty years is old- old age for tor a Ulan manto pan man panto to be scampering about the bases in fast company Its It's a particularly tough assignment for anyone built like Ruth The Babe is virtually certain to start the season as a regular b but butwill butwill t twill will have his salary pared ed down With good luck he may play playa a n maximum of contests in the game schedule If It he w weakens wakens kens during the season he probably will willbe willbe be reserved for pinch hitting Yankees Need Bambino The Yankees need Ruth more than ever not because lSe of his playing ab abil abil 7 ity but because he Is baseballs baseball's greatest great great- greatest est individual attraction For the first time since 1922 the Yanks cannot be hailed as 35 New Yorks York's big tea tear team The Giants' Giants 1933 world championship champion S ship victory left leU Colonel Jacob Huppert's Hupperts Rup Hup- pert's outfit a second rater New York fans cannot forget that the Yanks fin finished hed seven games behind the same Senators who wh took an unmerciful I ful beating from irom the Giants Nor Can Colonel Ruppert forget it He thought he had given Manager Manageri i Joe McCarthy In 1933 the great greatest t aggregation of baseball players ever as assembled by one club Something Went hay wire Now no Yankee scalp is safe until the Yanks recapture recap ture their former fanner glory glory except except Ruths S |