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Show RUTH AND KELLY DISTINCTLY I OPPOSITE TYPES OF HITTERS . - ' ; , -- :: i ' C", S : M j . - ( . . Mu' , JA -i'-s j . -l!r,f I - ft l s f ' I , ! ' ' ' ( v. U'l s 4 f , Kelly The season's home-run monarchs to dale Babe Ruth of the Yankees and George Kelly of the Giants are distinctly dis-tinctly opposite types of hitters. All they have in common is the ability to land with extraordinary power, the ability to drag a bat up to the plate and a great yearning to slam the ball to realms beyond. Both get the leverage of height and a long reach, but in different ways. Huth Is a left-handed slugger; Kelly hits from the other side of the platter. Kelly Inclines more, to left-flein hitting hit-ting and Ruth to right-field hitting. Kelly Is a freer hitter than Ruth, in the sense that he will hit to all fields much oftener than Ruth. He makes some home runs to right, but It Is seldom, Indeed, that Ruth hits to left for a homer or otherwise. He jolts 'em to center-right often, however. how-ever. Ruth is a freer hitter than Kelly, in the sense that he will hit all kinds, high, low, slow, fast curves oftener than Kelly. Kelly is a wrist hitter, Ruth a long, powerful swinger with the arms and applied with such intuitive use of the principles of applying power that he gets the benefit of every ounce of his weight more than -any slugger the game has known he does this. Kelly leans well forward and Ruth does not, and Kelly's feet are further apart. He has an awkward knee action, ac-tion, but has an advantage over Ruth in that he can wait until the ball is nearer before starting his swing. He doesn't bring the bat forward from as far back, but whips In savagely with the wrist, and thereby, plus excellent timing, gets enormous power. Ruth's Position Easier. Ruth's feet are closer together than Kelly's, much closer, with the left foot in advance of the right. His position at the bat is the easier of the two. He holds the bat well, his arms back, with the bat vertical. Kelly has the bat pointing out backward, bat and arms lower. With his wider stance, he doesn't get as long a step forward when about to swing. |