Show RUTH UNWRAPS LAVERS OF FAT FATI I FOR COMEBACK Hes He's Taken Off 20 Pounds and Seeks To Lose Ten More SOUTH SUDBURY Mass 1 Jan 19 I BY By the Associated Pre s Bab is coming back strong to hi honors as the home run king so He looks ItA it itA sas A gentleman farmer Carmer sowing seedOf lor hard work regular houis and Simpie food that he may nay reap a more hits more especially of home homeI I the runs the time one slugger e iry I Is wintering in this snow snow t ew England Calming region seeking to lay a firm tor Cor his come come- comeback comeback back It If appearances luay 1 be talen at their face alue he Is 11 doing It It If conf may be taken at Its 0 n the ba babe e Isell Is well ell on the ay to malting good Ills his pledge ge to the kids kido I of New e York that he v would be at the he top of oC the home run heap heal this ear I 1 ent pounds taken oft under a of oC splitting wood setting UP hiking an and In recent eek- eek snow shoveling Is tho measure of Buths Buth's conditioning process to dat with an appearance of fit n bs that is its outward mark But the babe is not iet et content He pounds when he foi COI Ills hb faim hI m house houe here He weighs t pounds pound tod He lIe t lS he expects to br bl down to when Ien the season opens with Ith a two t 0 weeks eels at Hot Springs s Ark meantime to bung him close to that gOll v OUI II HD I am hick no now hel e I was 1 three years ago Ruth said In ss of oC his efforts to reduce weight as a condition to Inci the PO POel el and speeding the e with sharpness of c e are the components of oC his hitting pI pio 0 e sIll c Ill have to p etl haid hald to an mOl moie off but bul Im going I to do doit It A month flom now no Ill I'll b in Hot Meantime I have ha a n lot ot oC Ice t cut and haul antI and this driving Ing a and pung does docs not let one get getas getas as soft as whirling the wheel hel of oC I ought to bo b bose ose to when I report to the Yankees at New Orleans and that Is mv best eIght AI n ros S O s o I i iThe The Che babo babes babe's two automobiles are arc In storage but not through his Ish Th have been stored In his barn for foreS eS s at Jt a Urn time while the roads leading from Crom the reno Carm house whelo he has made a homo for tor Mrs Irs Ruth Huth baby DorothY and himself were ere Impassable except b sleigh As a consequence nuth had to Colow the lead of Ills his and use u u pung and hose horse on his h dips to the village for The pung was hired Its use Ube was one detail o of conditioning pieces piece's as not the result of oC plan In Jn the evenings through the win win-tei te the Ruth Ruths ha have kept early hour declining Imitations In to whist and other parties s from the th babe might follow tollow out t Ma ls sched sched- schedule ule 1 Iwo 0 trips to New York an oc occasional visit to an jC e once or twice when the loads wel copen open to 10 other places In t ew England ha have hae e been the on I breaks from the TIO I l J L One of oC Ruth s trips to Ne New York this week eek when he under under- underwent underwent went a slight operation for Or an Intec Intec- infection tion on the tho third ringer of ot his lefthand hand the re result ot oC an old injury The operation was not of oC serious character and the sluggers slugger's hand was 10 heal rapidly With Baby Dorothy on his Inee Ruth a In cont ast Ith that familial to fans kno him as a 0 swashbuckler of the dia- dia diamond dia diamond mond The habe was ac QUIt quite willing to discus discus- his home 1 lun un po possibilities oC neU season not In terms or tC Continued on 1 Pace 10 Two I RUTH UNWRAPS LAYERS OF PAT FAT FOR COMEBACK Continued nom Page One but of or prospect Whether hether he can equal lor or better his high mark of or all time time- time 69 59 homers homer made In 1921 will 1 21 will depend largely on his condition and nd on the new grounds of ot the th New ew York Amen Ameri Americans cans ho he slid s The Tho fences fence at tho the new park remained the uncertain quantity Opposing pitchers were not consid consid- considered I ered ened I As to the to apply a 1 zon zon- zon zon-ine zon log Ing plan which would make mak two and three of balls hit 0 over er fences close to the foul toul lines ino mo babe dis- dis dismissed dis dismissed missed the subject with Ith the th state state- statement meat ment I Its Its It's a 0 crazy Idea Lea Leave Leao e the rules alone |