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Show FAR fMhl VM ! ,- run ilifLAi iLAn L ( Red Sox Southpaw Pitcher- , m Slugger Is Great Boy in I Eyes of Jack Barry. m CHICAGO, May 25. As Manager l&S Jack Barry says it, Babo Ruth, the giant southpaw pitcher-slugger of the m Red Sox, is due for a wonderful year. The big gent is aiming for a mighty M record this year. Ho openly states $j that he feels capable of winning thirty j games, and opines that he may run M the total up to thirty-five. Qulen sabe? Today he is one of the most pictur- t, esque figures In tho game. Surely ha t I will be a big tonic for the American league. When the fans of St. Louis , '; know Babe is down to pitch you can ; J; see them, in your mind's eye. strain- , '7, ing to get out thero to tho ball yard. For they'll .never forget the way Babe ' Tk knocked that ball over those Sports- ,- men's park barriers, and tho same i goes for Philadelphia and for New lork, where ho has several times vlo- l lated Shibo park and tho Polo grounds - with tremendous clouts. K".' The secret of Ruth's good pitching Is t. i his fast ball. When ho Is right he $ Just whizzes them by tho batters and ' $ that s all there is to it. If Barry sue- ,. f? ceeds in getting Babe to acquire a , f&l gpod slow ball, you'll see a wonderful t &L Pitcher. His control, broadly speak- 'f Ing, Is not bad, but he has not tho art ' of direction down to a science, as had Jfc. Christy Mathewson. Ho can't get S Lhem high inside or low outside and J& po cortain that they'll go through in K those zones "ST |