Show t 4 4 a How flow How Tommy Armour the Golfer Hit Homer At Polo Grounds I 1 4 T By Bv BILLY EVANS i NEW YORK May 7 J Tommy i-Tommy Armour one of ot Scotland Scotland's best Jolters golfers no now located In this coun coun- countr coun- coun country country tr try Is 1 an ba baseball fal fai ai For sa sO lears Armour has bas anent much of his time at the West Vest chester chester-Biltmore club New York When goWn golfing permits Armour hies himself to the Polo 1010 Grounds Carl Stays Mays star alar pitcher ot of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Yankees Is ft a person personal 1 friend ot of Armour Incidentally Carl aside le from being some pitcher Is a bit bitof bitof ot of a toiler golfer In golf circles Armour is I known as one of ot the longest hitters In the lh th 11 game frame me Ho He takes a healthy cut at atI atthe I the little white ball ll and d gets gels Babe Babo Ruth distance to his hili hi THOI GHr IT j EtS While Armour his l ne never neier er played baseball he had ass a wild lid Ild Ide t I that It itRA RA a no great groat tas task to hit the ball bali balias balla n as delivered by big league ue pitchers One day he confided his hh belief bellef to Mays Maya who eho ho incited him out to the Polo Grounds to make malte good his opinion Mays lIIas Ma s did the pitching Armour the batting and a number of ot the Yankee pia players era who ho had been lt I t tIn I In on the tho secret formed the galler gallery s I From this pointy na e will let Armour tell the tile story I I picked up a bat that suited mn me after testing about 50 In the mean mean- meantime meantime time Mays had been warming arming up t I stopped stepped Into the batters batter's box n While Jule my kno knowledge ledge of ot the art of ot hitting a n baseball Is le cry scry cry limited I had made up my mind that I was as going to take a healthy s swing sIng Ing That I had decided was HIS the best system after having watched Babe Ruth Rutht SO 0 kEI A HOMEK R As Mays May delivered the ball I hit lt the tho ball late te In golf golt gol th y say I sliced It But that doesn t matter I lilt hit the ball hard and It dropped Into the right stands fair a sure enough home run In a regular game Then the gang started to josh Mays Ma s but later I was nas as their I have hate since decided that Ma Mass t put much stuff on that ball lIe He threw at least 25 more and I didn t even On e en take make a a foul ul during dur- dur durn That d de- de decided de decided In ing n r the rest of the test me that hitting a golf golt bull ball is h much softer sotter than hitting a II base base- baseball baseball baseball ball A lot of ot players ers who nho can canhit canhit hit the old pill pili but hate o ha e a terrible le time ting conner with th a golf olt ball will take Issue with Armour on that th point t- t tn r n Jil- Jil ARMoUl e Pr r L HAD A WILD IDEA HE COULD KILL EARL iiA 5 0 tt t t HE BALI OUT t OR THE D I U- U UN N g ia La e a ao I o lJ e a aA A HE 25 OF eH l J A |