GEORGE H. RUTH
HOME RUN KING
Crowd* Expect Him to Hit a Home
Run Ever) Time He Comes
l'p tu lint
Who Is George H. Ruth?
Huh! There Is something about
that name—Ruth—that sounds fa
miliar It isn't? Yes. it is. "Habe"
Kuth. the mail who made f ftv four
home runs last season anil has
started out for a bigger record this
year's pace
A powerful man. only IT years
old. Kuih ht«s just started *»n in-1
career If he isn't injured and lie;
can pursuade the opimsiiiR pitcher .
not to walk him too often there is'
no telling what he will do to thej
records before he i» through.
Ruth stands six feet two and in ;
playing condition weighs 1"!
pounds Deep of chest and with
Immense shoulders he steps into
the ball and hits it with a cle.m j
swing that sends it out of the par
Walter Johusott, premier pitcl > r of
the Washington Amer cans. w'.o.
for years, was feared liv t •• mi
test sluggers, claims t i he <1
not fear Ruth, hut goes ! u to ..dmii
that at least on one occasion Ruth
picked out one of his M.:zlers and
placed it whore (lit- fielders were
not.
The play was our ill a ' lose Ktrae
•
w
Host mi men liitlh was pluyitiK for
liosion then were oil liases. Until
been sl:t:
risht f'eld a weakness of his
if he lias one, ttttd the Washington
fielders all moved «>\er into thai
Into one of .lutitti«iu's shools. Iiii it
'
had t'lon- 'it hi a I
tiunat ojuh in Hv i:
.
! "1 strike out quite as oiten
,ay player of the .300 class," says
Uuth, "hut when 1 hit the ball 1 hit
It." That's the whole story, he
puts all of that IDS pounds into his
swing and when he hits the hall it
goes.
L.ke all big men Uuth is particu
larly amiable. In a game in Phila
delphia he struck out ever? time up
:a"d Connie Mack's men won. The
«lay a delegation of citIs
cat'ie out to the plate and demanded
Until. When Rulh came forward
tiiey presented him with an impos
ing looking package from which
(tilth extracted a Hrown Derby. Now
giving a player a hrown derhv
supposed to be the most caustic
hoax possible to pull on him. but
Uuth put on the hat. a low crowned
affair of the type worn by Hebrev
comedians and more it and a hroad
grin all tlirouch the game winning
both t!ie game and (he friend
of the fans.
after he had lw*en one * ear on that
flub and at the close of the
Att'.efii alts for $ 1 .IO.hoO. two i
!»ut t •> manager *aid he «.-tld
around the circuit turn out to s>
Kuth play and expect him to make a
home run every time at bat. When
Ruth is batting and the pitcher
shows any inclination not to pitch
to liim the fans yell out their disap
pointment in vari-colored language,
even when the pitcher tries to make
Ttuth bat a bad ball.
The first thine Kuth did when he
broke into baseball was to try and
ruin the manager by eating the ho
tel out of business. When he got
his season's pay all together he
\> ent out and set his father up in
business, it was called to his atten
tion that his father had never been
a business success, but he said that
his father had never had a chance
before and. anyhow, he was his
\\ hen Kuth isn't playing ball he
run- a cigar factory np in Boston,
p! . golf and poses for the movies.
H ,>t $100,000 from the film art
ists last year. He swings a golf
club with the same freedom thai he
(1 • a bat and knocks the Utile pill
•i' it a far—Exchange
1 HMMI MM - 1! \VK
(JRKAT ( HAWK
ii-ws Item slates that one hun
. .-t| dollars of American money
for f.'tir million rubles. This
is t" .■ ;>te for the American Cotn
symfat hitters to get In on
wsim- nt game A few hun
irs spent in this way would
a tolerably big roll of
co munisiii- money.
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