Show po x a W 2 X fa lJ m Babe Ruth Has Chance For Double League Lect jit Title y 1 t BAMBINO NEAR TO IN RUt RUNS S I AND BATTING Possible Not e That Hell He'll Break Home Run Record By Dy GEORGE Special Correspondent of or Standard Standard Ix Copyright ht 1924 by the th Consol Coned ConsolI I Press Pros Association I NEW DW YORK Aug Hope 16 It 16 Hope springs princ eternal neath nestle the tho Bron Drone Brom writer sweater sw ator that De Be D Babe Babo will b breal- breal ea his old record th ii a Q 00 EV son on It If the Yanks Tank should bo be boil boat en out of the championship II a now non r qt 1 home horo run record would ho co 0 all th i j Bronx would have hav loft lett to Ie crow cro about Suppose Suppo e the th Yanks Yanka should I- I lo-a lo would would the th home horn run cro crowd crol re 1 l CJ os to follow Ruth aa so It Ie he- he Certainly It would It K ho he h would or M ora iwa a 0 new record Probably It woul an how for tor the tho th noisy noty s q who ho go BO wild when Ruth bats bata ou on ona oua a 0 homer base hav not boon ben 1 In the th atmosphere of ot nd ba baseball where a single d nt at the th right time tim Is I valued at It flier m than a n a homo home run with nobody Gnand ci nand and where the th niceties of o the th name game call for fighting chances chanc In tra trae of ot an Inch or er frictions of Gl f a second ion lOR NEXT f Even Evon It If Ruth does doos do not ot o better his hl high water mark r i 11 4 home horn runs run there ther still will bl ho howay tway way to 10 feature him n st Mo 1 Dy By the th time season ll is over h should hould be b itch ell up toward the tho bome hoot run mark A slogan is i season ea on of soo see ea Ruth make malto is h and start on the th road reed to th lb fourth century mark will l to 10 pack them In Mathematically It 18 I 1 possible pos for Ruth to pass pau the th mark this hl season season But pr practically It ll is fin To do co It ho he would hays hav to average better than throe three ansi on ona anda ansia a fraction traction borne hOIlle horn runs run a wok week Thi Ihl Thiis Thiis is 18 too much to tUsk ask a k oven va ot or home run kIng But that mark mirk tell will 1 male make i tine fine slocan for next spring ani then they can start tart the tho rl nG-rl Inane Whether Ruth will r re- re remain re remain main In baseball long lone to 10 accumulate JOO homo home runs rund run li is sonic sonic- thing thing- else lse he h will ac cumulate even K It be h stay In baseball for tor a long looff Imo Kl log a 1 Ig 9 another chapter OUT 02 Off OF Just now new thoro thor la Is nothing tack InchIng log ing In his hi power lie II gels let el M 59 10 force behind hr his win Ha U tv But early this thia season o on he bo h Wild Was corn oom off ott That Th t lon about which the tho th like lilt to talk was wa not there than lh r Ruths Ruth's arms and his hi eyes eos yo were wr not working ta tu gether tether It was wa that IhM hilt ho hI was as ill Probably bly he h wad eyes nut hut Io a i t tI I similar lar slump lump may come corn Once One ho rot got started l this thi IIO Ruth has ha been going golna great Ih Ho Ihnot not only batted out a II at quota of ot homo home runs runa run but he h ha batted his hi way WilY toward III the r top 1011 I ci uth the American league In tact act he hehM hM has ha been at the th top fe for tor n a Un tiMe Ruth has ha long long- Coveted the tho th bon of loading leading his hi league l ofu In 17 batting liS as awell as a In home horn runs rune run and perhapS this may be b tho the yoo year for tor him to toland toland land Ind the th double title That would euld ho bo especially specially sweet for him If It hIs I club won the tho th championshIp Without With With- Without lout out the pennant the tho th Individual shines I less leir resplendent men i 1 IN IX SCORING Everything seems oem to bo be headed Ruth e way ay as a tho ho champion champlon Sr er r bo ho far for he h has bill ha scored cored mOre mor than runs or something like no hits That puts put him About about 28 ahead of ot the th But as Vw read d recently rec pointed out Ruth hAS everybody dy el else duo o handicapped be because cau cause s his hom runs ar are ara In Inthe inthe the total while tho the others ethers hoe have to get most mo t of ot their run runs b by bt clever elsver base se running The Tho total tol ot o runs II made mad would be b Il ii much bettor better beU in'S In- In S 'S dox of ef on en the th bases Ward ard suggests su If It everybody s shome shome home homo run were ere deducted betor comparison was wa made mad On that basis baals lure of Washing Washington ton ton would shine lu as he h has made about 75 7 runs rune run mostly mo by gooi nood hard plugging on tho the b bajes rho rh seine thing Is true tru of Cobb ot of Detroit Collins of ot Chicago o teal Goslin 0 of t W Washington all of et whon lire are around the th 75 76 mark AOU AG Au in 11 T ST OLD WALT The tilt between wen Ruth as a s bat but butter ter tor and the th Waiter r John son on as a a pitcher hM has ho been Inter Inter- Interesting eating esting- Johnson John on the tho th type ot of ball that Ruth likes to hit bit cause b-cause be- be because be because cause th thi ball responds respond when met Inet hut fair but Ruth does doos do not always lilt hit It He H got sot his hi first t home horn run nin ott John ou In 1918 1018 Ho made mad two off Johnson Johnon that lar ear Johnson being the tho th only pitcher to yield two In Hit 1919 Johnson Johnon didn't let lt him have any In 1920 1 20 he h made maelo mad one ene In 1921 1 21 three In 1928 1823 1 22 ono one on and In 1923 one on This year he h has ha made madon one his his first t homer bomer of ot the season 1 Altogether Ruth h baa ha the th thereat great Walter tot for nine nin and he h Is working hard to make maJce mok an on even von 10 The Tho pitcher against t whom hem Ruth has made mad the th most mot home hOlne horn rune run I 1 IDaus Dauss of ot Detroit 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