Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-22 | Page 18 | Leading Major Easier than Rocking Baby

Leading Maor Maior Easier Than Rocking Baby PHI PHILADELPHIA ADELPHIA Aug 22 2 AP The AP-The The hands that swing the most potent bat in the fhe National league today rock a cradle with equal facil facility ty and considerably more more gentleness but Nick iten Etten of f- f the l ies insists its its easier easier easier to fo hit hit Whit Whit Whit- Wyatt vy t. t th than n make the bab baby go to sl sleep ep And if you didn't know wife Helens Helen's signal snaps big Nick into action at home with more alacrity than when acting Manager Hans Lobert puts on the hit sign at park He can get the job done both places though Domestic chores however dont don't mean a thing to Etten when he thinks of the trouble hes he's having trying to keep at top of f the batting bat bat- ting heap Nick vows hes he's currently currently currently cur cur- facing the best pitching I in baseball what with Brook Brook- lyns' lyns one-hit one Wyatt Cincinnati's Johnny Vander Meer of no-hit no fame and so on It looked as much earlier in th the week when Vander Meer and company set him im down in all six trips of a double header pushing him from first to third in the hit race But Nick came back yesterday to help rout the Cardinals Cardinals Cardi Cardi- Cardinals nals with three safeties and re regain regain regain re- re gain the lead at even though just a percentage point over StLouis StLouis St. St L Li Ll Ll Ls Lt Lt Louis Louis' John HoppI Hopp I think American league pitching pitching pitch pitch- i ing ng is go good d but the National l league eague e brand is more deceptive l lamented the year old first I sacker acker s who worked a year for forthe t he the Athletics then went to Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- I m more ore in the International where t the he Phillies claimed him hint this seaon season season sea sea- s son on for sE In the American explained E Etten if jf if a you two b balls alls and no strikes or three balls a and nd a strike you can look for a f fast ast ball Well ever since I 1 was wasa a kid on the sandlots out home homen i in n Chicago I could hit fast ball pitching itching p but those thos fa fancy cy pitches l licked me