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Show RUTH GREAT DRIVER WITH A GOLF STICK Babe Ruth, the Red Sox pitcher, is an ardent golfer, and quite an expert one, too. Ruth is one of the hardest-hitting hardest-hitting pitchers in the big leagues and he carries his batting punch onto the links. He was playing at Bellevue, near Boston, one day and some of the drives threatened to land in the eext county, but the daddy of them all was the one he hit oft the ninth tee. It is seldom that a drive carries the cross trap on this hole. The hole itself is something like 2G0 yards, with the trap perhaps 30 yards short of it. Babe not only carried the trap, but landed on the roof of the clubhouse, which is at least hole high. If the ball had been straight, it would have carried car-ried fully 280 yards. |