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Show mm (S I TERMED BABE RUTH JUNIOR Chadwick Gives Interesting ; Data on Greatest Sluggers in National Game. . P (.1 ORGE M MU :- Speciu Contsiioiuirn Ui Stand-ard-lxamincr (Copyright, iyj by the Standard-Baamlner.) Standard-Baamlner.) I NEW Y"KK. April 20. Kenneth Williams, of the St. Louis Browns. Is 1 a grow ink- bitter. Growing hitters develop Into Bluggers Tha ditferonce between ,i slugger ami a hitter in baseball base-ball Is tha difference between a steam whistle 11 nJ a fog horn The whistle makes a noise that carries all over town when it is time to knock off work and eat. 01 the sluggers of baseball 111 these days there are Ruth and Pred William-, of the Phillies, in other days then were Bmi'.hers. Sam Thompson Delehants Ed. Dfelehanty, not th-younger th-younger Dels Pete Browning, Anson, , who WdUld h ive been more of a slugger slug-ger if he had been iiie to run faster than a wjoden legged horse, Swing, BtlvettS uml others whose names might be cited Willie Keeler, who was one ol the 1 best batters In the history of baseball, base-ball, could not be called a slugger. Nor can Ty Cobb, with all of bis su per-batting. be so termed. He i a a artist. So was Keeler. Their batting is the top-hole balling of the skilled athlete to whom the wooden stick which he wields la hut the prolongation prolonga-tion of his arms and which he handles with such dexterity that It seems to be a part of him. Trls Speaker is a near-slugger. He can hit two-baggers more often than run player In durance but he doesn't seem to be able to hit home runs and trinlea with any prodigality. Williams of St. Louis may become tho Babe Ruth. Jr.. of the bas ball leagues for he has done what no other player In the American league over has done, except Ruth. Also ho has done something that Ruth hasn't done. He has hit three home runs In one gams He did this April 21 against (he pitchers of the 1 hic.igo American le.i gue. Having batted three home runs In ono dav, Williams took up the tusk and batted another on the next day, April 2 3 That gave him four home runs In two successive days. That feat tied Ruth's record made in 1921 On the third day, April 24. Willi, 1 ins batted another homo run That gave him five In succession in three consecutive con-secutive Rami's that also tied Ruth's record of 1921. On the fourth day, April 2'k Williams batted another home run and that tied Ruth again for a similar feat. Will Williams equal the record that P.vith had made in other respects? Can ho bat as many home runs In a season as Ruth batted and will he be the batter who this year will surpass sur-pass Ruth? Who knows, except perhaps per-haps Oulja board and It won't do to bank too heavily on that. |