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Show ! GAME KNOWS OTHER ME BATSMEN BUT NO HITTER, BILLY EVANS SAYS, IN THE BABE'S CLASSl By BILLY EVANS "ll-A-BE' KI TH, the home-run km D"f the universe is still trailing ln the 1922 campaign. "Ken" Williams Is showing the way in the American league. Rogers Hornsby Is out In front ln the National. Nation-al. Despite his late start, I wns of the opinion that Ruth would bo out In front by August 1. I felt confident that h- would retain his crown of "Home Kun K.ng " It i beginning to look as if he would be dethroned. I Thp rush to the from by Williams the rather unexpected home run spree ;lhnt Hornsby has been indulging ln. J and the j:r,-at number of other play-1 its WbO base bruken Into the circle ! of home run sluggers this year, has 'caused much dlSCUSSlOn as to how they compare with Buth. I s)Ml- I'M lus IRISE I Does Williams hit the bail aa hard as Ruth? 1 lot s Morneby compare with Uith as a long distance slugger? slug-ger? These and scores of olher questions relating to the batting end of the gnmo have been fired at me ever since Ruth started to trail a number of other j home run hitters. Ruth in supreme when it comes to the making of home runs ln my opinion, no other player In the game' compares with him when It comes to getting distance to his drives. Williams Is a Kreat hitter Rogers Hornsby Is a marvelous batsman. In all proablllty, a hitter of the Horns-, by t pe Is far more valuable to his club than Ruth. However, when you HORNSBY (LEFT) KI TH (CENTER) AND WILLIAMS ( RIGHT) start discussing the great sluggers of; Ruth had thrilled with a long homer the cam.-, you must accord Jluth po- I asked Brouthers hOW he compared ulllnn Vr. 1 t n. r.l1-tl,w. nl iii'i-cri 1 1,1, I rVE IN HISTORY Ruth may not lead the home run hitters this year. 1 doubt if he does , The swats of Ruth however will go down In history long after many of his rivals have been forgotten Several years ago I asked Hughey ' Jennings how Ruth compared with the', great sluggers of his time. It was the day after Ruth had beaten Detroit with one of his record-breaking home runa Jennings wao managing the Tigers Ti-gers ot the time "Never saw a batter like him and never expect to see another," Is the way Jennings expressed himself In his day. Dan Brouthers was a noted slugger He gos back a bit farther than Jennings Dan Is employed em-ployed now In an ofrlMal capacity at the Pojo Grounds. One day. after TWICE As PAR "Ruth hits them about twice as far as we old-timers did " replied Brouthers Brouth-ers "However, the ball is much livelier live-lier than ln our day.' he added " would have liked to bat against the modern ball " There you have the opinion of two famous stars of yesteryear. They say Ruth Is without compare. Williams is a great batsman as Is Hornsby The other home run con-t( con-t( aders are worthy rivals but Ruth stands out as the longest hitler in the hlitprs of the game Most of his home runs are classics. Few Of them are high flies that Just rlear some short fence. "The Colossus of Swat." Is the title ti-tle given Ruth by a certain expert and he richly deserves it. |