Judge — September 2, 1922 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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towered above him. Seeing that the issue was one not to be settled by debate, Ruth asked no more questions. He swung his left. This is the same left which has afforded most of the power be- hind the fifty-nine home runs. The left missed but behind it trailed a hissing sound. Pipp stepped closer to the man mountain and he used his right. He bit Ruth on the point of the chin and knocked him down. At that point those in- veterate meddlers, always referred to in stories as “cooler heads,” stepped in and stopped the fight. It had gone far enough. The one blow was enough. I Y HITTING Ruth on the point of the chin Pipp may very likely have saved a pennant for New York. The ticket speculators ought to give him at least a gold cigarette ca: Since the blow landed, Ruth has played nobody's game but his own. Immediately he be- gan to hit home runs again. For all his companions he has a smile and a pleasant word, Even in times of adversity he beams like a Y. C. A. secretary. And Pipp has been so much heartened by the proof that he could hit after all t he went out and began to do it to pitchers. For almost an entire Western trip he batted .600 per cent. And the moral is, “Right cross a bridge when you come to it.” We hasten to add that we have no wish to be included among the Ruth baiters. What if he does strike out occasionally or muff a fly that somebody else might have caught? Why do people go to ball games, It isn’t to see pitchers’ battles ght playing. If it were, and ab- and a solute perfection were possible, in- no time at Il the stoutest fan would be Thank you, no, I won't go up, ve seen my game this season.” Every ball team has to have what corresponds to the cast in the eye of Venus. Actually most ball teams are well supplied with them—but the managers don’t appreciate them as they should. AKE for instance the case of Whitey Witt, who was hastened into the line- up when Ruth and Meusel were under the Landis ban. He doesn’t throw very well and he isn’t hitting as he did a few months back. He makes up those de- ficiencies by adding color to the team. On the base lines he is always giving off sparks, Not that he actually steals so many bases, but he behaves as if any minute he might actually steal all the way home. He has a trick of getting a little way off the bag and_flapp' arms like a gamecock. We other players do that flapping but none who do it so well. Whitey behaves as if he were always riding the crest of a crisis. He’s worth two crack hitters to any club because teams, after all, play to please the cash customers. All this holds even more true of Babe Ruth. It took him a long time to getting going this season and even when he did it can hardly be said that his dawn came up like thunder. Often his patrol of right field has been shameful. There have been weeks and even months when il by every rule of correct baseball manage- ment he should have been benched. But he wasn’t. No matter how much he cost his team in hits and runs, he had to be carried along. And we think this was a sound decision. Ruth is by far the most towering figure of the game, even in his adversity. At his worst he was a monu- mental ruin. Even in those days people flocked to see him because was far more accessible than Pompeii or the Pyramids. We must make up our mind that genius will be erratic even when we find it on the baseball diamond. see Perplexity by Ralph M. Thomson WONDER what she’d say or do If I should strive to hold her hand, Or cuddle close, or softly coo Of things that she must understand? T wonder what would be my fate pparently disgraced For having dared to watch and wait, Should slip my arm around her waist? I wonder if the dainty 1 Would truly rage, or co Should I presume to steal a There is a way of finding out! sat is Mothers are shocked when they learn that their sixteen-year old daughters know the things they knew at sixteen.