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Show BOB VEACH IS LAST OF OLD SLUGGING SCHOOL ONLY BATSMAN IN AMERICA WHO NEVER CHANGES STYLE T There Is only one 100 per cent natural nat-ural hitter, or free swinger, in the American league and lie Is Bob Veach, left fielder of the Detroit Tigers. Ti-gers. Sine Napoleon Lajoie led the bats-I bats-I men. free sw inge, s have become about as Removed from baseball as I the dodo from this earth. ' i.ajoie was i natural batsman. ' probably the greatest that ever face'.' j a pitcher. Lajoie's success prompl- ed, batstnen to accept the free swing j as the propei method a' hat. 1 Cajole passed and In his place came TyruS) Raymond Cobb', the gamer. ; greatest scientific K'l-man Cobb i never has been tt natural batsman, I never a free swinger He Is a chop batter, meeting the ball ln front whh I a chop stroke. iim succes.-'. brought about a change i in bat:, us -tyle and the newcomers , followed his example. The groat 1 hnismc-n that strung along w.lth Cobb, j i Trie speaker. Qeorge Busier, Kddle Collins and others are ait exponents 1 of the chop stroke, all scientific hit I ers. Rl TB SOM1 W 11 AT FREE The- natural batter "takes a nasty, cut at the ball," In the parlance ot 1 the sport. "He swings from the ear with perfecl through." Veach Is the only muti In the American league j who does thi. today No matter what pitcher he opposes, what situation sit-uation he happens to flud himself in. Veach always swings with the same motion, always takes a long cu'., "from the e1i"" Babe Ruth, greatest slugger of all lime, i-- frequently classed as a nat-I nat-I Ural batsman. Ruth is a free swIngOl ! more than anything else, but not a 100 per cent free swinger. Not Infrequently Ruth changes bis batting style, slapping tlie ball, which 1m another form of the chop stroke. Most of the time though. Ruth takes the nastiest cut. in .all history. LIST OF Till SLUGGERS, Harry Hellmann. batting champion of the American league for 1921, i--an almost perfecl free swinger, but occasionally he switches to the chop stroke. New York has several players classed as free swingers, bob Meu sei, Wally Plpp. Frank Baker and Wallle Schang. Larry Gardner and Steve O Nelll are Cleveland's candidates, while Bio Falk and Johnny Mostil are. the h.- cago members. St. Louis, With its array of heavy sluggers, can list but two, illiams and Collins. Washington has Walter Johnson and Howard Shanks. Boston can point to Mike Menoskey. George Burns and Klmci Smith. a nd Phila-delphia Phila-delphia claims Tlllle" Walker. Jimmy Jim-my Dykes and Welsh. 'I he so- ailed free swingers are very 'much in tlie minority, but m this small list the only one that is a simon-pure free swinger is the swarthy Veach. who goes on, season after season, swinging ln the same old fashion without change or thought of cha nge. |