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Show Emil Meusel Puts Golf Grip on Bat for Homers Some batters grip the end of a bat firmly with both hands, tuke a toe hold and swing. Others choke the bat, stundlng alert like a boxer, and take a poke at the ball. But It has remained for Emil Meusel, Meu-sel, home-run hitter of the New York Giants, to demonstrate that a golfer's grip on the baseball but may be prolific pro-lific of home-run drives and extra-base hits. Unlike other ball players, whose bands rest separately on the handle of the bat, his left hand grips the bat firmly at the end, while the right rests partly on the left hand and partly on the bat. This grip is one usually taken by the golfer in driving. Meusel says that the grip is a natural one with him. "I have no special reason for holding hold-ing the bat in such a way, except that I think it gives me a greater accuracy In meeting the ball," he says. "Some managers have wanted me to change, and hold a bat like the majority major-ity of ball players do, claiming that I would be able to hit the bull harder If I gripped the bat with both hands. "But I have noticed that a golfer with practically the same hold can send a golf ball pretty far, so I can't gee where a change would benefit me." |