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Show BABE RUTH HARDEST HITTER Connie Mack Compares Boston Slugger With Anson, Brouthers and Other Old Timers. Some of the old timers are trying to tell the fans that while Babe Ruth Is a terrible hitter, he could not compare com-pare with Brouthers and Anson. Of course that is all poppycock. Ruth Is the hardest hitter the game has seen and Connie Mack is one old timer who will say so. Says Mack : "Anson and Brouthers and Freeman! Free-man! Why, Ruth could hit the ball harder with one hand than those old i J is-? 1 4 Babe Ruth. timers could hit It with two hands ! When Freeman made his record and played with Washington there was quite a short right field wall there. Why, there were short right fields all the way around- the National League that year. Chicago was short, too, and so was the old Walpole street field in Boston. Freeman was a hitter like Cravath, Delehanty and Crawford, probably nearer Crawford's style than any 'of the recent players. Roger Connor, Dan Brouthers and Sam Thompson were the real hard hitters of the old days and they took swings something like Ruth, but as I said before, Ruth can hit harder with one hand than they could hit them with two hands. Why, it's uncanny the way he hits them !" |