Show I BAMBO A SEEKS SE HONOR 1924 RACE Home Run Hitter Has New Ambitions For Coming Baseball Campaign BY GEORGE CHADWICK COP right 1924 by The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association I NEW EW EW YORK reb Fob K 16 Babe 16 Babo I Ruth has shied his hat Into the tho ming line as ns a tt candidate for tor another championship Not content sith Ith being the Icing run home hitter of them all the th Babe announces that ho he i Is out for tor tho the batting champion champion- championship championship championship ship of his hi league And just to prose pro pro his hele ho te Is already with only a little more than half of February submerged In the dim past himself oft off to a resort to reduce the poundage which he h took tool on dum ing the 5 winter Inter hibernation Ithe To achieve 0 his ambition to be bethe bethe bethe the champion hitter of his lila circuit Ruth must b beat ot out among others Harry who Is still till cele- cele celebrating cel I brating hi his second acquirement of those honors 1 BUSE Br So So the tho Babe Babo I Is out for Cor the th bat bat- batting batting bat ting laurels laurel I In Is he lIell- lIell mann Hell mann when hen ho heard the news Welcome elcome Babo Babe But I e ha no present Intention of relaxing In la my efforts to win In em It Three Thre time times for l Hellmann will sound well nell In the little red rell book In III the tho future To tell the tho truth I nier ne felt relt so o much like Inning a batting champion champlon- championship championship ship In my life a as I do 10 do right no now non I too ha ha e e an aspiration I am going to sum win In the championship three times at and be tied with Je Burkett and Ty Cobb If Mr Ruth Ins usia the tho championship In 1924 ho have hav to bat better than Cobb too will have hase hi his say about that batting championship ch and un- un un unless less Speaker falls Calls from grace erac he III bo be b up where ho can mix It with the tho leaders all the time Ot or the tho American players nho ho o ha their eye o es on the honor elana Cle seems ems to ha c the tho most and the mot most ino t serious contenders contenders- 1 they continue as they neat lent In 1923 There Is jq I Joe Sewell for tor Instance ho ho hits the tho ball a wicked blow and en el en the th facile grace trace and ease Ith a ith a bat that V S Sillie illie had mIght be the tho new now Wlllie Keler of the American Amerlean league leafu Of It might bo be Jamieson ho eho came on lat t la like fire ClIo h dry sage brush buh And then thee is s Stephenson who can hit the ball birder than any right right- right handed handed batter In tho the American so league so the pitchers say and their word ord must be taken for It Rogers Horn b the last Ia t years year's champion of ot the National league Is of course cours out for tor tho the honors again In that circuit Unlike Ruth Ruthh he has not found faund It necessary toCo to togo togo go into for the tho reduction of He H Is ono one of ot those men who ho do not iun tun I un to waistline S 'S SUCCESSOR And who will wilt take tak the tho place or of Hornsby If It ho he fails Calls alia to make such uch headway as he h did In his cam her ds daIs s at St Louis 7 National league men say If It he had the th Inspiration ot of a 0 championship team there ther wouldn t be any chance chine of any ono one taking hi his place and that he would be noso nose and noso nose with horn nhom he h resembles resemble more mor than any other batter botter And yet the tho fact act that lie he h Is not nith a championship contender should mak make It easier easler for Cor or HornsbY Horneby to roll up a n high batting average lor I or with no championship to think about ho can be given more mor liberty to swat vat ad lib quid pro quo and no Ill I'll us ultra because It doesn t make a rip Ill of ot difference Who trail trails trolIs Hornsby In tho the Na- Na National National None other than Eddie Housh of course courne But Roush Rou h never g gets ls settled to baseball until the apples aio ILl 0 going tolne to pre press s In the tho cider mill Who Wl then of or the th younger genera genera- cenera tien Jim Bottomley y of o St Louis said one on National league manager ho didn't want ant hl his name namo men men- for fear Coal l his lilu s own players player would think he was wu slighting him Pie Pit of Pitts burg said another who ho added that ner was WILlI headed toward being the Na- Na National National Na National leagues league's greto greatest t of or his day d y Frank Prank said aid a third who bragged about something near near- nearer n r- r rr er cc r home horn NIt It If the weight of or being champion doesn't disturb hi his men men- mental mental mental tal adjustment and It U he be h can keep his average ratio ot of ement Frank Frisch Friech will be a 11 batting champion And thors thor's fight a as 81 It h has been thought out b bi the tho chaps who eho ha look ahead The Th pitchers cant can't say no now that they asked advance Information information tion on about what ehat hal to expect |