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Show BABE RUTH REMARKS If I had lived some years ago. And been a baseball star. You would have seen my name bestowed be-stowed On some five-cent cigar. You would have seen my face displayed dis-played On ads for liver pills. On every sarsaparilla flask. On all the circus bills. And Do Wolf Hopper would have had A piocfe of poet-ree With not a word of Casey's feat But i! concerning me. You would have heard the fans declare de-clare With pride and loud acclaim: "There never was or will bo such A player in the game'" You would have heard my praises sung In meters snitched from Dante; And, g";-isj you never wonld have heard Of Eddie Delehanty. Tho fellows with lone whiskers love to sit around and argue that Dele-hJiiity Dele-hJiiity was as hard a hitter ns Babe! Ruth even though he made no oer-' vhelmlng collection of home runs. They'll maintain stoutly that Brouth-ers, Brouth-ers, Connor and Anson wore Just as' good, If not better, considering that In their da the pitcher had tho advantage ad-vantage of throwing a shortei distance dis-tance to the plate. I Twenty years from now we'll be I I perched around whatever Is used for fSt&f .1 stove in those days deploring the BBS fact that there arc no more lniielders WBjt like Eddie Collins, no outfielders Uko B&S Tn- Speaker, and no batters like BB Rutll Ar . There is always this persistent com- IH parlson ot present-day stars wltrt those iNSr of days long gone and frequently the HK , loudest argument Is in favor of those BRfu' who have gone glimmering. jgTr; H You hear a good deal bout those BS old-timers and their defend. 1 are very Bl j staunch, chiefly because there Is J heavy cloud of romance about them BBk They shine extra bright, even to tn:. MfcjQ day, because they did not have so iHiS much competition when they thrived Bmafr Baseball players were not plentiful Bjt& in those days. There were hardly as many bull teams then as there are BEPi leagues now. Consequently there were IfSw fewer stars and they were as consplcu- gvfCl ous as a wart on your nose. Ifctlj 9 Swlr Today a star has to shine with real ) brilliancy to make a showing in the , big galaxy of players. There Is plenty v- Bf U' of competition and when a pi.iv k rises above 'the r :?t as Cobb or Ruth W it's a cinch thc must have something k on the old-tlm m There never has been another quite B Wi id Rood ay the Bambino, and it will bo a long time beforo there's another I like him. |