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Show Babe Would Like to Wear Harry's Crown This Yeai NEW TOUPC. Aug. II Bah Rutl seeks 4 el'ala eeverat beehbaU honor this year. Babe's ambition Is n long1 mere eoafined to the a ah lag of bomi rum Ruth's preatost goat this year 1a tt lead the American leasee In batting Bab wants I prove to th world thai he l sometnln mere ae a, batssnaa thai merely al agger. Thi year, toetead of sw lag tag for I htm ma every time he came t hat, ftuih has mixed m ep on th eppoat tloa. He has laid dewn and heat eul many a boat. . . When pitcher hare Insisted In a1nr lag np on him and- me king JMm hit i ball on l he otttelde, the Bab hal choked p on his bat And dropped shanj ft Tessa leagver late left field. At other time be has tak th old.-time old.-time hrallby eut that caused him tc dHes out fifty -nln heme runs during the seaoen, ea of the most r- markftbls reeorft ever compiled hn ilth has slowlr t surely Oft th commanding lead one hM y Harry Hetlman of Detroit and f; stire that he will too all thg jsmarlea) Wagae hatters at th finish, , . . Itaih ajao teeia mat fce wilt win Ms beme ran erow. It looked ! for tlm as If ty Williams of th Phillies .bad ft walkawsy. but the Bab has cut down the bit lead to ft mer nothing Battering Bab ale fels poeatlr Ihst If th pitcher oontlaw to walk htm with rkieea abandon he will hang up ' a bfte on balls reoord that will vr h tnrhed. IneldeatftUr Bab Teams for another ansae t deliver In n world srla. and the wa ythe Yankees sre geiag It took as if he was sortala t get It. TnHy this is a hi g year forth Bah. |