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Show II EXPECT KEEN I BATTING RACE 1 IN BIG LOOPS Layoff Due to Hinder Ruth, Says Baseball Expert; Cobb Also Out. Bv GEORGE CHAD WICK, sppcinl " Conwpontleiif f The Stand ard-EWnmiiicr ( Copyright. 1 P2 2. By The Standard-AAAJ Standard-AAAJ Kramlnrr. i I NEW YORK, April 1 5. 'Ball players." play-ers." said Prank Snyder, cntcheY of the Giants, today, "arc more interested interest-ed this season than for :t long time In the race for the halting ch.mrplor-I ch.mrplor-I snip et both big league I hoard more .aik about batting on lb- spring train-KjH train-KjH mg trip thnn I have heard in five ijlf year I'll tell you why Ruth is oui f tlie rice and Hornsby and Eteil-BJBBBBBBJ Eteil-BJBBBBBBJ man in i ight-handers are left to ill 'iMkc It Probitbh neither Cobb noi - M aker will get in It If they are eom-ABAj eom-ABAj . is- lled to lay off because of Injurl AAA! it looks like another .l.unup for the AAj right-handers if both. Hornsby and AAA lllellman tlck up to the line and bit 'us thee did in 1921." Player say that six weeks' lay off (may get Ruth so out of wha k that he AAA never trill get into his stride. The I -opinion of payera about a thing; ol .that character is wHI worth while. Their prophecies iii regard to the chances of other players d-dir: . ertaln things sometimes are so accurate as to bo uncanm HORNSBV TO REPEAT Hornsbv appears to have a clean BBBBBBJ trark lo retain the National leaguo championship. Everything favors him 1 ll looks as if Koush Is out of it for the season and he Is -.hr.-.-: .be lest in the National league except Hornsby. There are no eastern battel In the National more promising than Meusel I and Prtach of New Yor:.. Neither. MMMMMMa however, looks like a batting leader AAA Meusel is too sluggish, Prlech can't i bAAbI make the old ash ring as Hornsby! inaks h ring There ure two men on the St. Louis ciub. who may crowd Hornsby more than any others. Thev are McHenry and Fournier The lat-j ter had nature seen fit to throw abou: ten pounds more of steam into him. would have been one of the great players in baseball: McHenrj who rau looked down upon .it first bj manaucis, has been mourned over many a time since then Jy those whOj passed h'm b; Heilman Is not going to bar- an easier fight than h had v;:h lictroiJ 'in 1921 and if he shows an Inellna-itlon Inellna-itlon lo start Blower than he did lasi iyear be may have to surrender his batting crown. Should Sleler gee awaj to . good .start, the Browns' first baseman may win out. Sisler is a .4oo hi ter when things are going well f-.r him ' u'f-jhand, u'f-jhand, he seems to be more of a nat-iurai nat-iurai .400 hitler than Heilman. Part , of last .summer Heilman was batting 1.500 aud it was high class, forceful Ibattlng. There war no scratches .ralscuos, and slipping fielder? to help :hlm. Ho drove the ball with trem. n-(dous n-(dous force close lb the ground and 'bin batting eye was so keen lie gave tone of the best exhibitions that baseball base-ball ever has seen. SET FAST A 1 However, the pace was too swift to i be maintained, 'if Heilman had ended end-ed 1921 with u rottinx average ol ' ' he. would 'l ivc put I'.ulh In the shade, i Unfortunately for C6bp he turned an inkle before the season started. That injury will affect his batting bt a player whose ankle bones oh. is not In proper shape to bca. out Infield hits. Cobb may eventually get going fast and may finish with an average that will put him on top but it won't be the kind Of a batting average that would have earned hlni a crown nad he played in every game. Ruth may run up a whale of bat ting average and he may not The players are wise. They know that when a man sits on the lench du; after af-ter day and sees things going on in which he cannot participate he begins to fret. If he is not the must pi eld athlete In the world there comes a time when something snaps. |