Show BAMBINO SEEKING V NEY ROLE IN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME Home Run Slugger er Con Con- Considered Considered As Big Eater By GEORGE DWICK Special Correspondent of Standard Examiner Copyright 1925 by the Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association NEW YORK April It Babe H-Dabe Ruth having ha been exploited as a batsman super batsman and the super most super most else everything i Is now being her her- her heralded of base base- baseball aided as the tho super enter ball bail But It Is doubtful whether his admirers can safely claim that he Is the champion baseball eater of all aU time after they scan the records of some come of the famous others others Indians and others who have brok brok- broken brok- brok broken broken en Into the game g-ame from time to time All ball players are good eaters but very few of them can eat themselves Into a stomach stomach stomach ach which travels around the world like that of Babe Dabe Ruth Jim Thorpe the Indian was one of the great eaters caters of baseball Chief Meyers was another Rube was another The writer could name many more that he be has bus known some of whom are still In Inthe inthe Inthe the game today One time during the war Thorpe was traveling cast with the Giants when the craving of his stomach told him that It was wag time to eat cat cat He lie He entered the dining car and sat down at a 0 table with a friend He ordered ham and eggs a cup of coffee rolls hashed brown blown potatoes pota- pota potatoes pota pota- potatoes toes and boiled eggs on the side He ate It all looked out the win win- window window window dow stretched himself and re- re remarked re remarked marked that he was hungry So he ordered some lamb chops chop more rolls fried potatoes and another pot of coffee That disappeared also Good heavens exclaimed the tho friend In amazement Jim looked up quizzically and said Well Yell a mans man's got to cat eat Int aint he be If It he ha stays slayS In this thia business MEYERS IE Ens TWINKLES Chief Movers Meyers stalwart of the Mission Indians catcher for the Giants and athlete extraordinary when It carn came caine to to bustin them witha with a bat could stand privation of many kinds if he could line Une his hili paunch with beefsteak One time on the road Meyers moped and fell feU away amazingly JU Ills spirits left him Ho He couldn't bat and perhaps that was part of the reason why he was sq so spirit spirit- spiritless spiritless less Then the truth tame out I want a beefsteak said the chief My Iy stomach craves beef beef- beefsteak beefsteak steak beet steak An Indian must mu t have meat or die Ho lie i Is Ia born with a 0 meat appetite I haven't had a steak fit to eat for tor two weeks So the man who paid the bills for fOI the club sallied Into the din din- din dining ing Ipg room of the hotel and asked for the chef lIe He had prepared for the noble chief a 0 three pound three porterhouse steak smothered mothered with onion with plenty of hashed brown potatoes bread unlimited and all else that should go with a 0 civilized artistic steak Wh When he n dinner time came the chief was I wasI ushered to his bis place and the steak was set before him An An ecstatic smile mile covered the tho taco face of ot this hu- hu hu man pile driver er lIe He revelled until everything was gone Next day he hit a home run The Indian had come back to his bis own The chief could eat cat a half balf bushel buhel of salad made mado of lettuce tomato tomatoes ell onions cucumbers asparagus dan dan- dandelions dan dandelions delions beet tops anything tops anything green and and rub his bread around in the thc bowl to get set the tho last lut of o the dress dreu- dressing dressing ing But Hut he ho got so fat he couldn't get farther than second base on a ahome ahome ahome home run hit unless he batted the ball out of the lot The old atom stomach ach had lifted him out of the big big- league Once Rube Waddell add ell undertook to eat cat halt half of a barn ham sandwich with every glass of beer that he ha drank The Rube Hube got well along with ten sandwich Then the beer put him to sleep Bleep and he toppled over with an art empty mug muc in one hand band and a 0 ham sandwich In the ho other There was a party given at a club In Savannah anna some year years ago at which the players were invited In to eat cat oysters Each guest had a colored d waiter walter standing behind him bins and there was a barrel of oysters between each two men One player who Is li now a man man- manager manager ager aler sat at the table Now bo boy begin your our he said I wI like em cm all ali size sizes and andI andI I like cm fresh The oysters disappeared as they struck the plate Bring em m along boy said the walter waiter Heah Ileah George come help me with this whito man I Two walters waiters chucked oysters an ani the bivalves In a run Three waiters walters got busy and the tho began to empty Ball Bail players need Dud much food Ninety per cent of them haven't the notion of or what a diet means Thy The ord order r that which ap- ap appeals appeals ap appeal peals peal to o their sense of taste and their heir lr sense of smell and they lick the platter clean |