Show Hornsby Is Wrapped Up In Horses I Dy Dr BILLY EVANS S LEVELAND Ohio Jan 20 20 0 CLEVELAND C Horses horses horses lies lie's crazy about horses horses horses Tho guy cuy that wrote the popular song lIong one along alone those lines lies must have had bad no less Jess a a 0 persona personage o than Rogers Hornsby in mind 1 It if we would believe the word of ot a wealthy bookie Th The day following the signing or of Hornsby to a New York contract for two years calling for 4 per annum said ald bookie book brol broke e Into print with a statement that horns Hornsby by was indebted to him to the tho ex- ex extent extent ex extent tent of In Ill other words the tho bookie In- In Intimated intimated In Intimated that for fop the next two years would bs be b playing ball merely for his love of o horses horace horses 1 J COINCIDENCE Hornsby rl ridicules the word of the bookie sas sa's says say he h doesn't do owe thin him do much much as as II a a wartime franc but butIs butla la Is willing to settle ettle the th claim If It his accuser will w tal take tako o stage money It Is a a 0 rather unusual coincidence dence Ienco that two of the greatest stars rs In the history of baseball should ball be beall befall fall all guys gU for tor th the tho ponies pontes Babe admits that quite a a pile othia of hi his earnings has bas gone gono ono to tl sw swell lt the bank banI roll of ot the tho bookies j While the tho Babe Babo no doubt still likes to make nako an occasional bet Jat fOI there is a 0 el mor to the run run- run I run run-ning race races that has a 1 distinct ap- ap ap appeal peat peal eal to many of o the tho major league athletes ho he has lies learned learnell bis les- les lesson Ics les lesson son In the tho old days clas when hen Babe Bab was breaking home horn run records and making an equally equall earnest effort to bust all tho the bookies ho thought nc ot of betting a grand irand as they say in fn tho the parlance of the th race raco racetrack track Now a century note ote Is i Do a holo of a bet f for tor or him his limit or OP RUThI One day last la t I listened to Ruth Buth tell of ot his reformation which by the tho way Wll was W staged at Havana Cuba Guaranteed 1000 per 1 er ram game gamo for 15 games cames Ruth Huth Journeyed to w H at the th close of o tho the sc onto to 10 pick lck up sonic somo som soft change chance The rhe series of games scare w re to be b played over oyer a period of one ono month The Tho ponies s s were running at Ha- Ha Hamane mana Ha-mana mane at the th same ame time said sa Babe In leading up to his turning over o overa a new leaf and when hen I wasn't on the tho th ball field I was was ira at the track I I took tool with rue roe as a spend spend- spendIn spending spending In ing money earned while In Havana and when I was ready to depart I wired homo home for tor an ad- ad additional ad additional and didn't have o moro more than enough left to buy my ticket to the th stales state That proved to me JUl that someone may break the bookies bookIe but Babe Labe Ruth nuth is b through trying PICKED lICKED ON OX ANY ALIBI LIllI In tine tho th old days Bab Babe Babo would sort rt-sort re- re resort sort to any excuse to get et down dOI to the tho track while whilo playing at home Well do I recall an n Incident of this L I sot In 1921 at the Polo Grounds Ground It seemed M mt 1 the Babe Dabu Dab ha had 1 laId I Iwo wo bel bets on the Ih first two tao races trout t OU tin tit second cond om on II i brought the tho Information to the th bench that both of ot his selections had born been beaten I was calling balls and strikes A New lew York player between In- In Innings Innings In said to me You can expect h 1 the Babe A to let Jet out a roar at you ou umpires on anything from now onI on I understand 1 he lost heavily on the first two races In and Is anxious to get ret to th the track in Urn time for th the sixth and d seventh races as ax he hM has two hot tip tips MADE I HIS OBJECTIVE Ruth was Vas the first man up and nd fortunately for the me m ho lie hit lilt safely but very ery foolishly ho tried to stretch It into 11 a double and I wa was an ca easy out at second The Th urn urn- um pure pire so ruled and III as a ho did so 50 the Babe thre threw a I handful of dirt most mOEt of which settled in the umpires umpire's eye eyes a a very cry ba bad 1 spot Ruth was chased and was on hi his way without th the slightest comment as to the umpires umpire's lack 01 ot eye sl ee eye eye- eyesight sight ht The next day when I walked to tha the New York bench I rather sarcastically remarked Well VeU I suppose you ou were in III time for the tho SIxth race 1 Better than that thai I was In time lime timeto to get iet a 1 bet litt down dawn on the Iho th fifth filth and II It was his his good rood natured re- re reply re reply ply 11 when he h realized I knew w his stuff However Howe the Babe Is II cured or of trying to break the tho th bookies It just cant can't be bo done |