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Show LOOK OUT FOR I CIRCUIT HITS I IN BIG SERIES I By BRANCH RICKEY I Manager St Ixuils Cardinals. L Look out for homo runs In this ! world series. Jj Home runn are in tho air this ea: J ( The two major leagues will make more I I , than 1000 home. runs. There's a H i home run mania abroad in the land I i,T don't altoKether like this aforesaid t : mania, bur there are other perfectly " j gooil reasons djr so many home runn World series games s idom have - I been featured by home-run hitting I (It's sunirlslng to most of us that las! f I year's series xvnq not so featured H or to the 1921 scries, the baseball I yog not so lively as It is today. In the "olden daws" the bats in general H I use were not so large or so heavy. fs Thi n. too. the idea of the "wallop" ( has necome a r.ice among the present generation of players. 1 The decrease in effectiveness of gH , the present pitching Is much Insisted g ! upon as a reason for the lncrea90 In gH (batting. In any event, the year I 1921 waa the first year for big homo-r homo-r un possibilities in n world series. " I materialize. But look ou H There is a trreat Increase In homo- run hitting this year over 1921 and ftH the New York clubs have mado their them. As the games H are plaj in New York I believe good chancn that a new ! hoim ... record will be made. Ruth and Kelly and the Meuseu boy not the only home-run hit- 1 the clubs, fhe Yankees al- H made nbout 1 on home runs rod tb.e Giants are gggS :3ot far behind. fsH I don't bellove that the Giants' ggg : Pitchers will stop Ruth as they did a year ego. Put that'l another story- ggggfl Kelly a fence buster, too, al- ggga though he didn't look like a good ggggB he ( rlier pames lrut fall. Hu'h a world series vet- H eran now and It takes Babe Ruth H I at his best to hit a ball one whit ggggggl .harder thin George Kelly. H Emil Meusel ha rAvm. i ' with. Opposing teams claim he has n batting weakness and that his Igffffl I extra have hitting can be stopped gggfl u d this and that plan H and on.. r two of our own and all I With i.jout the same success th'- I same sort that followed tho plan of ggggggl ! the old fellow who tried to teach gggggfl ; his horse io live without eatlnc. H Just about the hour of victory the ggggggl Mcuscl looks- bnd on one pitch and I hits the next one. Just like the other gggggfl over the fence. Tie hits 'most every- H thing and hits it 'most everywhere. |