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Show RUTH WILL MURDER LOW CURVE BALLS l4c1 - j "- 'liiiisjn rr , An "Action-Graph" of Babe Ruth, the Mighty Slugger, Completing His Swing Which Has Resulted In So Many Home Runs. The First Three Cuts at the Left Picture the First Motions of the Swing, the Three Cuts at the Right Showing the Powerful Follow-Through Employed by the Bambino. "Babe Ruth Is a 'bust !' The pitchers pitch-ers have got his number. He won't hit anything like he did last year, either In the number of home runs or In his average for ordinary buse hits," said a veteran Polo ground habitue after seeing Walter Johnson toy with the Big Hitter In the game In which the Grlffmen beat the Yauks. "And he won't get the number of bases on balls he had forced, on him In the two years he hus been smashing out his four-baggers. They are not afraid of him any more. They know what he cnn't hit. You don't see any one sending him along to first now, do youT "The change dates back to the world series. The Giant pitchers found out what he doesn't like a low, slow curve across the inside of the plate. They'll get him on that many a time this year." And a lot more to the same general effect. The Bnbe has a weakness, the boys declare, and the pitchers are going go-ing to pitch to It and wreck all chance for even a second-rate home run record for 1022. Go Easy, You Pitchers. Good advice to the pitchers who think the Babe can't hit a low ball, curve or no curve, Inside or outside the plate, is stop, look and listen I Feed the Babe low, slow balls and some of the best golfing records In this country are going to be broken. Likewise, some of our best known In-fielders In-fielders are liable to lose arms or legs. He can hit low ones and when he does, they go. He golfed ono at the St Louis park lust August and it cleared a high wire screen, a high bleacher stand, row of houses and some trees outside the grounds. One he caught at his shoe tops went over the flagpole on the top of the right field stands at the Brush stadium. It was a knee-high ball that produced the record rop In Comlskey park, Chicago. This one cleared the stands in deep right and then bounded an eighth of a mile through a playground. At Galveston this spring Sherry Smith served up one of his low underhanders and the ball went out of the park and almost to the Gulf of Mexico, half a mile away. These are only a few Instances. Ask the Bube's teammates and they will tell you that the slugger "likes" tncm low. Ask him and he will tell you that he- "likes" them anywhere. He believes he can hit anything, and there Is the secret of his strength. |
