The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1923, Page 25

YANKS WILL BID FOR FLAG WITH LINEUP THAT WON IN 1 and je ace Ppha- part 0,000 tion ee aR He 2 oenaieeremmenme ™ Re os ater at. - iw _Movements of the arms and body. IDAY, APRII 6, EMINISCENCES D-EDugdate As Told to Leo H. Lassen A Heart-Breaking Race CHAPTER LXYXXV. EATTLE teams have figured in several exciting races for S baseball pennants, but the grandest of them ail was the 1902 Northwestern league season, that was it. All of the six teams were unusually strong that year and the first two months passed without any team having much advantage. Then Butte, Seattle and Portland started to draw away from the rest and in the final month of the season the Miners and the Seattle club swept into the home stretch. The season's winner was in doubt until the last week of the schedule. But not to get ahead of my story The week before the end of the season seattle and Butte played five games on the al lot and the Seattle gang won four out of five games played, DUGDALE Each game was hotly contested and, in fact, from the moment the umpire cried play ball, it was a fight every inch of the way. The fans certainly stood behind the home team that sea- son and there was organized rooting with megaphones, and the largest crowds that had ever seen a series on the Coast turned out. The most - ; tacular thi ened in this spectacular series occurred in the third game utte was leading 2 to 1, Bill Hurley was on third base, for a hit. One ball and two strikes called on afe by a beautiful 4 then Hurley We scored t out for the plate. in the 15th Hie was inning and anc weral fang went thru upside down and him after the game. ‘The last week of t aight games, w utte nosed us out for t with hats and megaphones ¢ for Hurley—$127 red being turned over to eason Butte went to Spokane and won six ng three out of five from Tacoma. ¢ flag by two games > swallow was that had had champions. we 10.0 00 beautiful beating the Seattle team as after Butte, and SKATE SPRINT QUEEN HAS" OWN SYSTEM OF TRAINING y OMAN'S champ speed skater ordinary details, you can become a of > a ts the title tys Robinson of s retained for three years | YO ce of competition growing| With the proper stride deve keener with the spread of the) anyone can become as good « x of speed skating among} As her time records for the to, | SPOed skater If you have the tnclina wronto, oped, 4 skater as there is in the field today. omen, majority of distances are four or tive| A!! It requires Is hard work wconds better than those of Euro.| Hard training is the only factor pean title bearers, she ls regarded by | that won me the title. No exception some authorities.as champion of the|! athletic ability came to me thru world. | heredity $ S# | SPEED BY GLADYS ROBINSON | SKATING IE secret of the thrill that comes} And here are some tips for aspir. from skating lies in the fact|@@ts to speed skating: t skates are our nearest equiva-| Don't do your training on the ca, lent of the Seven League Boots of| The danger of “going stale” at speed fairyland. For as much energy as| skating {s perhaps greater than in you put Into an ordinary vigorous| any other sport. slep. you get a return seven timesas| Walking is the best exercise for great. | training—when [ am getting into Skating is one of the most exhila-|trim I walk seven miles each morn. rating of diversions, healthful, be-|ing. Bicycle riding and swtmmin cause most of it is done out of doors, | are excellent also. soothing to the nerves, because of its| I find it best to be on my skaton smooth rythm. | not more than 15 minutes a day. Here are some hints for beginners:| Don’t play hockey or engage in Don't take choppy strides—make| fancy skating—concentrate on speed. them long and rythmic. | Don’t dance while in training. If Don't perform a tot of useless| you do you will notice the effect the moment you get on the {ce again— Don't use ankle supports or straps,| discomfort due to fatigue of certain no matater how treacherously your | muscles. ankles behave. Let them strengthen| Don't forget to use your head. A themselves—they will. Properly fit-|fast skater who does not employ ting qghoes are the best of ankle sup-| strategy is in the samo fix as a’ good ports. | racehorse ridden by a poor jockey. DON’T FEAR | Develop endurance and style first; FALLS |let sprinting come later. Don't be afraid of a few falla.| — ‘That will take care of itself because! ROUSCH HOLDOUT AGAIN when you have falien a few times| OAKLAND CITY, Ind., April 6— you will realize how little a fall mat-| Unless the Cincinnati Reds will give ters and never again will you be/|him more than $15,000 salary Eddie| Develop nerve—nature has} Rousch will quit and play outlaw| afraid. given you everything else necessary | ball, he sald today. Word from Cin- for a skater. poneeet sald that the Red officials And when you have mastered the} would not meet his demanda. STAR ENTRY BLANK _ I wish to enter the ae pe Apert seeee team in The Star’ Junior Baseball league, subject to all the rules and regulations of the organization, (Manager) (Address) _ Entries close April 14. ing editor of The Star. Hair Stays Combed, Glossy Millions Using this Greaseless Combing Cream— Few Cents Buys Jar any Drugstore—Not Sticky, Smelly (Phone) Send this blank to the sport- K Hai Combed business and on social occasions, Greaseclens, stainless “Imir-Groom” does not show on the hair becaune it in absorbed by the scalp, therefore wives that natural gloss and well|your hair remains so soft and pliable groomed effect to your hair-that}and #o natural that no one oan poss (inal douch to good dress both in|bly tell you used It, Kiven stubborn, unruly or sham- pooed hair stays combed all in any style you like, "Hair-Groom" is ® dignified combing ¢ream which If ever there was a heart-breaking race | souve: | by Golf and | Baseball Discussed Everett Yaryan Says Links Game Does Not Hurt) Baseball Batting Any BY LEO H, LASSEN Sporting Editor The Star RESNO, Cal, April 6.—In spite of the talk that many managers frown ball players playing wolf during the season, not a pilot in the Coast loop forbids the royal and ancient game and of the 16 big league loaders only Frank Oh © and Clark Kverett Yar yan, the Seattle catcher, who play Just a fi game, a ting around 90, Bays that the players don't play enough golf to get them out of thelr stride, and he claims that it tm-} proves his eye | “The object is smaller, but you are aiming at the center of both the golf pill and the baseball,” says Yaryan, ‘and altho the swing ts different, the Players don't shoot enough golf to affect their batting swing Well, that's it. | KELLY Lost | |TO SEALS | Joe Kelly, ck Frisco outfielder | |may be out of the game for some | due to an injury | etice game with the Cubs the As Joe is one of the the Seales he will be| ELDRED'S BIG WEEK WITH BAT | Brick Eldred fondly remembers the Breatest week he ever had with the big stick “Back in 1919 when 1 Sacramento we were playing Salt Lake at home. Four straight days I came to the plate and we were one |run behind each time and had run- ners on the bags and each day I got ® safe one. The fifth game I came up tn the h with the bases full | nd the acore tied. “T walked. and was forced ovpr. “That night | handling the Salt Lake team, put on |& party for the Bees and the next day they snapped out of it and beat | us & double-header, “Yes, brethren, that was the big- gest week I ever had” was with winning rua STATZ HITTING RIGHT-HANDED | In the games with the Beals jast week Arnold Stats, former Los Angelos star, now with the Cubs, hit [right-handed altogether. He tried | batting left-handed for awhile to get jthe Jump to firet base, but he didn’t | | set enough power at the plate. He! looks much better on the right-hand ide and he hits much harder. |KRUG I8 \QUIET CUSS The boys were discussing Marty and some of the Seattle Indians think that he hasn't enough jazz to make @ go of It, altho they all put in a! boost for him as being a smart base. | ball head. “In the two seasons I knew Krug |1 didn't hear him say five worda,” says Elmer Jacobs | Krag may have more to say, how- | ever, since he's running @ team, | ‘WOOD LOOKS | TO YALEBOX LUMINARIES. ACON, Ga, April 6.—Joe Wood, | | famous American league pitch. | er, who will coach Yale's baseball candidaten, feels certain that he will |develop a winner his first year in| jcharge. The Yale squad’ ta doing | spring training here, | | For several yearn Yale has been| slipping in an athletic way, particu. | larly with reference to us snowing | against Princeton and Harvard. | Wood hopes to win back some of the| lont baseball prestige, He has a} great opportunity and fairly good! material to work with, "I understand,” sald Wood, In dis- cussing Yale's chances, that pitching plays the Mig part in college baseball, | that hitting on the whole 1s rather| weak, “What Is true of college ball is| jequally true of the major leagues, |pitching 19 most essential. A big | league club that ts weak in the box | has little chance of winning a pen-| nant, regardlens of how atrong it may be in other departments of the ‘game, | “I fool that the fact that T rpent| the greater part of my major leaguo will enable me to get the best poast- ble out of my twirling candidatos. “If Iam able to develop a tow good pitchers I will have no fear as to the outcome of tho college season, it will be success, “In addition to my pitching oxpert- ence I have played the outfield, and been a regular in the lineup, which has enabled me to grasp the pons. bilities of the other end of the game, “The fact that I have played under two stich great managers as Bill Carrigan and Tris Speaker will also work to my advantage, since I have had the benefit of their instruction and advio SOX WIN VICKSBURG, Miss, April 6—+ Five runs piled up In the eleventh inning gave the Chicago White Sox & 10-to-b vietory over the New York Giants. Read about the ROU. BLES OF MR, BROCK night’s Star, Eddie Herr, who wan! Tr rt >. ae a A a Bobby Johnston, Seattle's The Star cameraman as he their training quarters, watching for charley horses. Hack Miller Almost Set Long Hit Record BY LEO H, LASSEN RESNO, Cal, April 6—Hack Mil- Jer, the strong man of baseball, is otill busting hits, He ts now draw- Ing pay from the Chicago Cubs. Last week when the Hruins were playing | Seattle at San Jone Miller got to g08-| Ito ought to be a big favorite with F ft nia year. | Krug, new manager of the Angela | @P!ne about long hits and he claims) Seattle fans this year, the longest drive be ever made was caught in Boston. “The National league park In the Bean city ts the largest park tn the country,” claimed Miller, “and no- body has ever hit the left field fence on the fly, I got hold of one last summer there and the left fielder picked It out of the afr with hin glove Just as it was going to amack against the scoreboard. I'll always claim I was robbed.” Miller still gets an awful kick out of some of the wallops he used to send on the fly in Seattle when he} would chase Bill Cunningham all over left field to catch ‘em. ROHWER HIT ONE IN STANDS One of the Cub rookies got to talk- ing about Ray Rohwer and he said during the fanning bee that day that Rohwer was the only left-handed hit ter to send a fly into the left field bleachers at Pittsburg last year. Rohwer hits longer to left field than the average southpaw sticker, mak- ing him doubly dangerous at the plate. ORR 18 PLACE HITTER Bill Orr is one of the few place hitters tn baseball today. It looks like he is drawing away from nome of the pitches at the plate, but he does that to hit balls on the inside to right field, Orr, the players claim, 1s Just about the best hit and run clouter in the league. STA "Em Over 5 new trainer, was snapped by was looking over the boys in | BLAKE GooD | IN PINCHES The writer has meen Fred Blake enough in gamos this spring to know | that the Virginian haa the guts un- | der fire, The tougher the going gets | the harder Blake bears down. He has | a world of stuff and a good hard one. |JANVRIN GOOD ON DOUBLE PLAYS | Hal Janvrin isn't a very apectacu- lar fellow around second base, but there will be a world of difference | around that bag when it comes to! making double plays. “Boston” ia a pip at starting or finishing double killings, That's where Seattle was weak all last year, the gang not turn-| ing in a double play during the first | eight woeks of the season, No won- | der we finished in the second di- vision. | MULLIGAN IS | SUSPENDED Eddie Mulligan, former Salt Lake | third-sacker, 1s on the suspended list now because he refuses to report to| jthe San Francisco Seals, | ,Charley Graham says the Seals of- fered him as much money for this season as ho got from the White Sox |last year, but Mulligan wanted more | jand Graham doesn't think he's worth It. PLAY REGULARLY Nick Williams expects Cooey Mo- Ginnis, former shortstop for Spo- kane in the Northwoatern league sev- jeral years ago, to play that position | for the Sacramento Solons this year {€ Charley Rohwer doesn't make a| | go of 1t, McGinnis has seen service in the Southern and Western leagues during the last few years, They say he 1s quite @ fielder, but won't hit much, RESTLING, as a sport, is enjoy- ing a big revival in the college world. The “Big Ten” of the Went, an well An most of the lending Eastern inati- tutions, are paying much attention to wrestling as @ sport. For a time, the mat game received only a luke-warm reception, but that attitude has changed entirely, In many of the larger schools from 600 to 1,000 students take part in wres- tling events which are graded to meet the physical possibilities of the vari- ous candidates, In recent years the football coaches have come out strongly in favor of wrestling as @ college sport. Tt develops there Is a method In their madness, Wrestling makes for bet ter football, hie Is particularly true of the forwards, There isthe case of Jim MeMillan, of Mlinola, A good lineman a year ago, MeMillan took up wrestling, und became the most-talked-about player in the Middle Went last nea. won, ince the clove of the foutbull What? Evans thinks reanon MoMillan has gone back to wrestling and continues to show great Improvement in the tricks of the mat game, Such being the case, |beat Burns in a Rose City ri Rocco Is Added to Ring Card Lightweight New to Local Fans Will Meet Burns in Semi-Windup BROW? EPING with his recently nounced policy of adding an ick to ational Athletic boxing intro many club shows by ducing as new batt possible, Druxinman nigned Chick Roe has 4 “ at Nght weight who has been doing most of his boxing in California, to joust in the six-round wemi-windup of the nization's ext card, to be staged Tuesday eve ning at the Arena Roceo will t the and wellknown slugger, George Burns in his section of the evening’s enter. tainment The men met before, when F hardy New Year's day Statistics indicate that their initial efcounter was | wicked affair Young Sam Langford, the dusky lightwetght whose bone-bending wal. p in regarded with noticeable re pect, will fight in the special event jof the evening—if some good local | boy can dug up to meet him, Scotty” Nato remarked this morn- ing. “The Langford boy is always a problem when we try to show him in Seattle, because most of the local 135-pounders become suddenly af fiicted with sprains, colds, bro! hands or other handic of a like nature, whenever a bout with tough Langford is proposed.” Drux inman raid. “However, 1 have the |wires working for several good op. ponents for the dark terror, and ex pect to sign a boy some time today.” | The usual pair of preliminary tte A | will be arranged later, | Bud Ridley t* working out daily at Austin & 6alt's gym for his main event clash with Joe Gorman. Ths Portland boy is going thru his con. ditioning stunts at home, and in ex-| pected to arrive in Seattle Saturday to taper off work The sensational and rather inde cisive manner in which their recent fo ended has spurred interest in the match, and the advance sale of seats is unusually heavy 100 ringnide roosts was reserved by Bremerton business men on the day after the boys were signed. CLASS “A” HE length of a major league ca- reer {a not decided by the age of the individual. For while gray |hairs may grow around the ears and the ankles squeak there remains something up there tn t which carries them on. Here in Eddie Foater, born Feb. 18, 1888, who was a member of thre Phila- delphia Athletics back in 1997, re- rded by Lee Fohl as a candidate for the third cushion in the Browns’ lineup this spring. When Fohl was asked to map out his plans on the 1923 team he placed Eddie Foster in the competition with Frank Ellerbe and the recruits. “And why not Foster?” says Fohl. “Ot course he is 35 years of age, | but he's younger than Cobb, Speaker, Collins and other players, “Foster played ‘ominent part in jlanding us a game away from the Yankees last season, Ellerbe was a cripple with a bad knee, Austin could not stand the strain more than three days and the youngsters were not experienced enough. “Foster had a batting average on the season of .265, but I believe he hit at least .360 while he was with the Browns, “Come thru in the pinch? Sel- dom misses, Still the best in the league on the hit-and-run play and you never have to shout from the bench to tell him what to do with the ball.”* With Sisler for first, McManus for recond, Gerber for short and Wil. Hams, Jacobson and Tobin in the outfield, third base ts the only posi: tion where there will be any compe tition with the Browns this spring. GIBBONS VS. RENAULT, NEW YORK, April 6—TIommy Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, and Jack Renault, Canadian champion, have been matched to fight 15 rounds in the Yankee ball park, Tex Rickard announced, The bout prob- ably will be held on May 8, The match was made after the New York commission announced that Gibbons could fight Jack Dempsey if he de- clsively defeated Renault, CAGE PLAY NARROWS CHICAGO, April 6.—With the field narrowed to eight contenders, the survivors in the National Interscho. it fa only logical to assume that ho will be an even better football player in the fall, In the Fast no lineman ts more fenred than “Tiny” McMahon of Penn State, who moasures*6 feet 7 inches. McMahon 1s a great wrest. ler, also an equally great forward, In 1921, when Penn State mado three touchdowns against Harvard, it was thru gaping holes mado by MeMahon that Killinger and Wilson filtered thru for big gains. It 1s an easy mattor to figure how wrestling can work to the advantage of a lineman in football, Wrestling demands co-ordination of the arms and logs, ‘That trait 14 also most on- sential in football, ‘The tricks of the wrestling game give the lineman who is familiar with them a distinct ad- vantage over his opponent. And the beauty of It Is that tho tricks of the mat game are usually sanctioned by lastio basketball tournament today swung into ‘semi-final’ play, Results late yesterday; New Trier, Chicago, ville, Utah, 1 Kansas Cit Idaho, 90. 27; Spring. » Kans, 83: Woston, DOWN COIN NEW YORK, April 6.—Harry Fra. zoe, owner of the Boston Red Sox, has turned down an offer of a Chi- cago syndicate for the club, he an: nounced, He sald the deal was oft and intimated that he had not been offered his pri GAMES OFF AGAIN SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.—Rain postponed all four games in. the Const longue in Callfornia cities ‘Thursday, TRIO RELEASED FRESNO, Cal, April 6.— "Spike" Maloney, catcher, and Young Dennt the football offiviala as perfectly le~ wal, | boon released by the Seattle club, won and Bill Praul, pitchers, have | featherweight, who will meet| One block of { BACK AGAIN | qo | | | | Due | Joe Gorman, the Portland Bud Ridley in the main event of Tuesday's boxing smoker jat the Arena. | ‘Net Star Discusses Offensive | BY VINCENT RICHARDS Famous Tennis Star. 1E forehand drive in lawn tennis | j4 Naturally {t should be studied very carefully. land of these the drive has its full share, | short distance away advance the foot swing Into position on the foot closest to the ball. Grives should be topped. shot i a totally different stroke. the wrist. same way the forehand drive Is. Never under any bank-hand. If you do your game will run around your back-hand. Espe- clally never run around the return of your service. For to do so merely opens up your court to your oppon- ent. If caught in this position strive to face your returns, because a weak return means &n easy kill for your adversary. Do not develop one favorite shot and play nothing but that. If you have a fair cross-court drive use it in practice, but always try and de- velop a straight shot, Always remember that drives should have depth. The average drive should hit within three feet of the back line. One should drive deep against the man who plays the base- Ine, but short against a net player, striving to drop them at his feet as he comes in. Do not strive for terrific speed at first in your drives. Tho most essen- tial thing in driving is to get the ball into play. One of the greatest play- ers of all time said that the secret of his success at the game was the fact that he kept the ball in play. Accu- racy Is the keynote at first, then comes your speed afterward IAUIES TO PLAY The Louie’s French Dry Cleaners’ team of The Star Junior Baseball league will play a practice game Sunday with the Telephone nine at Walla Walla playfield at 4 p. m, All Loule players are requested to be on hand by 3:30, TIGERS CRASH APPLE AUGUSTA, Texas, April 6—The Detroit Tigers have a team batting average of .362 for nine exhibition games, Pratt is leading hitter, with 18 hits in 85 trips to the plate. Cobb is fifth on the lst. GAMES MAY BE POSTPONED PARIS, April 6.—Because of “po- litical conditions,” the French Olym. plo committze will ask the interna. tional committee to have the Paris games postponed one year until 1925, {t was announced, YANKS WIN AGAIN MONROE, Ia, April 6,— Lacing Dickermon, a rookle pitchor, for five runs in the seventh, the “anks won their third straight victory from the Brooklyn Robins by a soore of 9 to 4. Ruth got one single in four times up. BOEHLER PURCHASED TULSA, Okla, April 6—Pittsburg swamped Tulsa, 10 to 1, Manager MeKechnie announced that George Boehler, local “recruit,” had been purchased by the Pirates in a deal Involving $45,000, CUBS WIN SAN ANTONIO, ‘Tex, April 6— With the score 17 to 9 in favor of the Cubs, the umpire called the game with San Antonio yesterday in the eighth inning because of dark ‘hess Gnd Bungry epoctators, is the opening of everey offensive There are certain rules that apply to all strokes in tennis |1ife is to stick with the Yankees long In order to reach a ball that Is «| that is away from the shot and thus When one ts hurried, it {s not possible to change | the foot position, throw the weight The forehand drive is made up of one continuous ewing of the entire racquet. Always remember that all slice All drives should be made with a stiff locked wrist. There ts no wrist movement in a true drive. Top spin is put into the drive by the arm, not} The back-hand drive is made the circumstances favor the forehand drive over the be one-sided. Develop both forehand and back-hand, and be sure. never to} PAGE 25 vad ‘Huggins Trusting in Vets Same Powerful Punch and Brilliant Hurling Will Be Features BY BILLY EVANS N™ ORLEAD a. April 6— There will no ew faces in | the Mneup of the New York Ameri« |cans when that club takes the field in the opening game of the American league race. y Bchang will be back of the The infield will be Pipp, Ward, bat Seott and Dugan. In the outfield | Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth and Whitey | Witt will do the fly chasing. In the box will be one of the five veterans on the pitching staff, Bush, Shawkey, Hoyt, May Pennock, Rumor has it that Miller Hugging would shift has infild slightly, send- | Ward to and Dugan to d. Ward, originally = third baseman, would much prefer to play his old position, but it so happens that Dugan has no desire to play ond, wi MAKE NO CHANGE “Ward ts mighty fine second baseman,” said Huggins in discuss ing the suggestion, “while Dugan has jonly played a half dozen games ut t position and has no désire to move over. “Shitting Ward and Dugan would break up two positions with no ob jective to be guined. There isn't a chance of any shift in the Yankee ine field. It will start the season as it finished last year.” a That settles all that talk. As a matter of fact, the Yankee# secondary defense is none too strong, Huggins frankly admits that he needs another utility infielder to |help out Mike McNally, who is really the only capable infield substitute the Yankees have. Of the infield recruits John Wight loom, up as the best prospect. The veterans of the squad have already dubbed him “Broadway Johnny” be cause at present his one ambition in enough to at least see the big street of the metropolix. He has a pret'y good chance of looking over the bright lights. The Yankees have picked up so) 8 excellent outfield material in Hea dricks, Tucker and Haines. Hea dricks and Tucker are left-handed | Litters and have shown much ability at the bat. As to flelding there is room for improvement. “Hinky” Haines is the former Penn Btate football and baseball star. Haines ts a right-handed hitter. The collegian, who was with the Yanks last spring, ts a wonderful outfielder, — very fast and @ fnished base runner, If Haines ts able to hit big league pitching he has a great future ahead, Of the young pitchers in the cam Oscar Roetteger made by far the bet impression on me. Roetteger is a biy right hander, who stands out tut more than his record of 16 wins with an equal number of defeats would ine — dicate, He was with Sioux City ia — the Western league last year. Roetteger has an easy delivery and gets a snap to the wrist on his curve that bodes {ll for the batters. All _ the veteran Yankee pitchers lika Roetteger's style, which makes it” seem as if he had a fine chance ta) | stick around, - é YANKESS HAVE THE PUNCH I also liked the looks of Catcher Bengough, with Buffalo in the Inter« national league last year. He is short, but built along husky lines, and is the most active player on the — field. He seems to like to play base- — ball and fairly exudes the old “pep: per." Bengough ts certain to be ree tained as a@ catching possibility, to assist Schang and Hoffman. Pitching wins pennants and the Yankees surely have It. Connie Mack admits their strength {s at least 50 per cent better than any other club, _ Since there is no greater authority in baseball than Connie, that state ment is most interesting. ED CAPABLE SUBSTITUTES The Yankees can hit the old pill. _ The pitching staff stands out, and pitching is most essential, On the bases the Yanks are just — so-so, but In these days of swat base running plays a minor role. It's the ring of the base hits that count, and the Yankees are capable of making & lot of nolse with their bats, If there is one department iin which Huggins’ team fs lacking it is capable substitutes. Every effort will _ be made to remedy this fault. All of which makes it evident you can’t overlook the Yankees in doping out the finish of the American leaguo race, It's a dangerous aggregation, BAMBINO IS HIGHLY PAID BALL SCRIBE EW YORK, April 6, — Among those great sport celebrities who. have turned literatists, Babe Ruth, the swatter, is one of the most promi+ nent, Tho Bam ifs not only the high+ ost priced man playing ball, but hols the highest salaried man writing — baseball, ff hie terms haven't been reduced since 1921. ae! Not only that, but the Babe on his 1921 rate for wordage ts the high: est priced writer in the world. 5 In the spring of 1921, when Ruth's name bogan to have commercial value, he was hired by a press asso ciation to desoribe after every home run just how he did it, what kind of a ball it was and all the exciting der tails, . He signed a contract for a flat sum, of $1,000 with a bonusof $5 for every — home run, ‘The hartbino hit Ba homers and that ran his pay up to $1,270, and the Babo's only contribs tion all season to his editor tvs one. wire on the first trip to Torton, whieh read; MY Low fast one outside, “BARE, ‘That rato Is $264 a word, and It! as good a record {nm tte line an homers, \