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Show BENNY KAUFF HAS MANY BATS Buys Eighteen New Bats at a Time Expects to Pass 300 Mark This Year. NEW YORK, March 30 "Benny Kauff has Just countermanded an order or-der for eighteen new bats. That must, mean he is hitting upward of 400. although al-though I haven't seen a score in ten days." The speaker was a famous bat maker He continued: "That boy buys more bats has them made to order, too than all the rest of the club put together. He doesn't order just one bat or maybe two, as others do. He orders from one dozen to two dozen at a clip. And he goes right down tho line, trying one at a time, until he gets a good stick. He then sticks to that one until un-til he has a bad slump in hitting. Then he destroys the whole lot and buys a new set." Kauff has bought two dozen bats since going to Marlln. Benny Kauff is a very ambitious ball player and he is determined to pa-s that three hundred mark this year or dio in the attempt He has never recovered from his disappointment disappoint-ment over falling to be the leading hitter last year. "But I have learned a lot," he wrote to a friend in town the other day. "I have learned to wait for good balls to hit at, and when I do that you know I can bust 'em." |