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Show GREAT SLUGGING BEING DONE BY ! LEFT-HANDERS IN BIG LEAGUES i . v. 1 ' -q Xx ' - N vf- . f Jc " ' $ lip :5SS1 4 Yfc VV N pnptapjf J mmm. h . y ' , MimmM JIB1 Mmyyyf 1 Are the right-hand batsmen of the major leagues losing caste; and are they going to allow ail the- left-handers to carry off the honors- that are going? Babe Ruth, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Joe Daubert and Tris Speaker seem to be running away with the batting honors' of the two big leagues. There are no half-dozen right-handed right-handed batsmen in the major leagues-to leagues-to compare with them, writes Ai Spink in the Chicago Post. George Kellly, the big first baseman base-man and light-handed batsman of the New York Giants, started off this spring like a house on fire, hitting the-ball the-ball over the fence early and often, I and giving promise of giving Babe-; Babe-; Rnth a fine battle for leading home-run home-run honors. But recently Kelly has fallen down-in down-in his hitting and Ruth has rushed' out into a long lead that will be-hard! to overcome. There was a time when the right-handed right-handed batsmen of the major leagues--; had it on the left-handers. Tip O'Neill, leading batsman of the-' the-' first American Association ; Knelt Ewing, leading batsman of the old and original N.ew Tork Giants; Ed Dele-hanty, Dele-hanty, who, when with the Phillies, was the leading batsman of America ; Captain Anson of the Chicago White Stockings, of two decades ago, and who they used to say could hit the half harder than any other player living, liv-ing, wrere all right-handers. But at that, running with them, and' in their day such woiu'erful left-handed left-handed batsmen as Roger Connor and Mike Tl eman of tje New York Giants; Dan Brouthers of the famous Baltimore Balti-more Orioles; Billy Keeler. ?'ed Han-Ion Han-Ion and Roaring Bill Tucker were just a' few of the boys who wove hitting from the port side at that time. But they, great as they v:ere, were no- match for the company of right-handed right-handed sluggers who were going along with them. Of reeerat years, however, the men ruranbrgr the professional teams appear to be trying- to educate all their new- (turners- to batting from the left side. TTieir figure that speed is everything fn tnese days, and that tle left-handed batsman has a lead to first base of several seconds over the man wdio 13 : hitting- from the other side. |