The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
SIMPLE HOW RUTH EATERS
 OUT HOME RUNS FOR RECORD
Red Sox Fielder on Way to New Mark Swats Harder
 Than Others.

Seems to be lot of fuss about Babe Ruth and his home runs lately. We've been giving the matter a lot of thought and have decided it's awful simple Our dope is: You make a home run the same way you make a single. only you hit it harder. If the ball goes over the fence, it's a home run. If 1t goes into the bleachers, it's a home run. Where 1t lands is the only difference between a home run and single.
 Almost anybody can make home run. All you gotta do is whale 1t over the fence. You don't even have to put it over at any particular spot. Any part of the fence that's inside the foul lines will do And that's all there is to a home run. We know all this for a fact-got it straight from Babe Ruth himself.
 Peculiar part of it is nobody seems to get home runs but Ruth. Must be a coincidence, because anybody can get a four-bagger, as we've proved above.
 Real dope is probably this: Babe is a little feller, according to his nick name We never saw him, but we believe everything we see in the newspapers, which is just as good. Well, then, our dope is that when Babe steps up to the plate the pitch CTS don't know who he is. He out guesses 'em by being small Pitchers probably figure he's some poor rookie, so they pitch to him easy and Ire hits it hard.
 As soon as the pitchers learn who he is, Rutn'n probably have a tough time. But you have to go round the circuit a number of trips before peo- pie know you, and pitchers, above all folks, don't notice the batters
 Pitchers just watch the catchers' signals and that's about all they do except throw the ball. So they'd never know it was Ruth at bat un- less somebody called him by name. But even if some guy did say, Hello, Ruth,'' the pitcher'd think he was i calling some wren in the grandstand. | So that's how Ruth gC-9 by. We got | this straight-not from Babe this | time, but one of the ushers at Fen way.
 1 'Taint any harder for Ruth to | make home runs than it is for Kip ling to write poems. Ruth just hits l the ball and starts running. Kipling | rolls a pill and starts writing. Ir l fact, Kipling has it a little harder we think-he has to rhyme every 1 other line. Ruth don't have tc | rhyme anything so long as he touches home plate, going and coming.
 Nobody seems to know how Babe started making home runs. Pitcher! are more interested to know how tC stop him. They say when he was il T e., T for home runs. Later he switched over to Meccas, but now he's back t' the old brand again.
 When he climbed into fast com pany, Babe figured a run in the bis league was worth two in the bushes so that's what started him off. Tha ain't our dope-we got it direct iron a guy that knows. He's baggage man on the 9:05 each morning. Tha Is, he is on the mornings we catch it
 Lotta folks ask will he break the record. We think he will. He: broken up IS or 20 ball games, sever fences, four dozen bats and 19 pitch CTS. Has also tried to break a few faces-all of 'em belonging to um. pires. Only thing left he can break is the record. And he's trying hard to smash that record all the time he! on the ball field. Wouldn't be sur. Gprised if he was working nights and even trying it on his Victrola.
 c7ly by the name of Freeman holds the record-Buck Freeman. Buck wha1ed out 25 home runs when bal parks were as big as dahlia patches But still the record stands, and Babes due for three more home runs before he can bust old Freemal's string Would be tough on Babe if one Buck 1 cost him the record he's after.
 Bat he'll get it. He's been making | home runs in Detroit at the same l rate as they make the flivvers. And l this week he's coming home! Ii 1 home ain't the place to make honu ! runs, then you can drink safety razors and call 'em hair tonic.