Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-27 | Page 10 | Wee Gee Says

I WEE GEE SAYS rw-k. -r ,onK ta0 'rn3 wl" rPa again SvvCtf 7 You aee " 1 aln ' TlRhi) yW-jS' That Benny Leonard's gonna box Sf&U AgaiD with Charley Whlto, Babe f'.uth picked up hir. "Betsy" And strode ui to the plate He choked the bat up fondly And sacrificed his male. 'What s this," cried throaty voices, WV don't Hlji that at all; We paid our 'Jack' to see you whale The ball out o'er the wall." Some say that since the Kin" of Swat Made hlatorj with his bust." He'll ruvv ease up and sacrifice Like other players must Baseball without its Babe Ruth And his mighty home-run leans Would be about as colorful As catsup without beans. . It Is hard to Imagine Babe iruth cast in the role of hitting for anyone except himself. Will Miller Hugglns now implore the swat demon to play the sacrificing game when the game hinges on the old Inside stvle of play? , Ruth has made his record now and 1 some say that he'll be asieed to sacrl-' ' flee like other players must. ' ' But when a batter can --nle them out of the neighborhood as regularly as Babe can it would seem that castltiK .him In the role of a sacrifice hitter j would be poor basehall ! . . - Think of nil the folks who Just go out to the Yankee games to see Bambino Bam-bino lean on the horseskln 1 If Babe was an ordinary player then the sacrificing game, when the play railed for It. would seem Justified But j Babe Is a baseball freak. Baseball Is like politics. Conservatism Conserva-tism Is a relic of the age we Just I passed through. The public wants thrills it hasn't time to appreciate the finer points. i . That the ball park customers en-1 ioy slugging Is evidenced by the new crowd records being established almost H eeklv. A TOO hitter usd to be considered sufficient to make a player stand out This yeai they are as common as ptp botties at a picnic. The standard has been raised. '.. If Babe doesn't go ahead and pass the mark set by Perry W erden of the Minneapolis club in the Western league In 1908 it will be disappointing Wcrden poled out a total of 15 tho j world's record for a season. ' ' E. Tj Calvert, of the Muskogee team In the Western association, made 43 circuit wallops in 1917. "Ping" Bodle 'hit 30 homers In 1918'for the Frisco Seals. Minor league history has four other swatters who clouted between 30 and 40 for a season o There's still a lot of work ahead of Bambino If he doc? B3 well as some of his minor league brethren have done before him Will he do It? Ho oughta.