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Show "Yeah, I Like to Hear Fans Roar' Says Babe, "But my Real Interest Is to Just Hit 'Em Hard" nv I.OHHV A. JACOBS. X. IC A. Staff Special. NEW YORK, June 22. "Forty and Forturje!" ! That' Babe Ruth' anibltlon for jlhl year as he told it to me. Forty hontH runs and a fortune In vatideHle. the movies, the magazine. and vry other eoncHvnblo thing. When you sit up In the granatand and watch the TEItltlBLB INFANT I pole out a hit that look as though the ball wri nper going to stoj). and see him shuffle round thi bases in his queer cinnamon bear-like fashion,' you get the Idea that no Ane with such powerful muscles could have a corresponding brain. Hut nbe Ims. He thinks rath-it rath-it deeply. He knows fnmc and fortune lire paj.slng thlriss. The hnt tluit nrr thrown In the air when he docs his ninx'tacular htunt.s nmy be thrown Tor mhiic one rise next year. And so he has made up his mind to gnt while the getting is good, break ail records Into a thousand pieces, smile happily at the applause he gots. but not take It too seriously, and provide pro-vide for his older days while ine providing Is good. Babe has a (jueer. hesitating way of speaking- You havo the Jmproaslon that he's afraid he'll mak a mistake, but when he doe say It, Just as when ho does smack the old horsuhlde. he does it with force. That's Babe all over. "Yeah." says Babe. "I like to hear 'em rosr. I like to see the hats go In the air and hear the handclapping as I come to the dugout, but Jt doesn't fool nie much. The real interest for rne is not In the applause, but in the fight to do the Impossible. "I've poled n lot of homo runs, but I never enjoyed one more tlian the one I got against Walter .Johnson .John-son a few days ago. Why? Well, because It's linrtler to get one against him than anyone I know. And there are two teams that havn refused to gle me homers so far. II want to get them. "That where th sport In it Is for me." (The teams are Philadelphia and Cleveland.) And so it l that Babe convinces you that he's a first -class fighting man. But he has the Instincts of a Uluo-beard. Uluo-beard. You needn't gasp with horror, either, eith-er, for it iHn't so terrible, after all. You remember, don't -you. how the California Bluc.brtir(l. Ilarvev. sjd that he always felt happy after he had killed a wife? Well, that's the wav BAbe Uuth feels after he has killed the ball happy and peaceful, and contented con-tented and everything. "When I feel the Impact of the bail against my bat I am almost ilway able to Judge whether or not It's going to be a homer." says he. "I non t think I miss once out of ten." And there's just one thing thai worries Uubo and Hint's the fear 1 hat some day some plaver will 1 gel directly In the way of one of I his hot one. and will gel .-erloujly hurt. "That's why I'm alwas glad when they soar skyward." says he. 1 1 And he's particularly happy that h has been batting heavy asjde from home runs this yar. "That'll settle the hash of Ihoso ' boobs who said 1 wasn't good for any- think but home runf." says he. He's a great boy, Ruth. A great, big, lovable, shy boy. And he deserves! every bit of the thundering applause lhat he gets around the entire rlr-cuir |