The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-15
WILL BABE RUTH
 GET 70 H0MERS?
Business Acumen of Yankee Owners Proven By Draw
 ing Power.

New York, Oct. 15.-Like any other appetite, the baseball appetite always wants more. Having feasted on his frenzy of home run hitting, fandom is concern ing itself now the output of Babe Ruth's bat next season.
 How many will he get in 1921?" fans ask and wonder.
 Babe. with hfty-four clouts for the seasons work, came within four of doubling his 1919 record
 Will he do the same thing next year?
 One hundred home runs in a season is beyond the widest stretch Of imagi- nation, but there are already many who are willing to take a sporting lchance for a small roll that Babe will approach the seventy mark.
 Ruth is remarkable player, the greatest slugger the game has ever in the history of American sport. His record of fifty-four homers crowds far into the background the lbeSt marks of all the old timers when difficult task of the present day. His record may stand for all time. It is sure that no other player in the game can come within twenty of it.
 Last winter Colonels Ruppert and Huston gave the baseball world a jolt with the announcement that Ruth had been added to the New York Yankee roster after $125,000 had been paid to
 
 acres shook their heads and ques- ltioned the wisdom and business sa- lgacity of the spendthrift Yankee lbosses.
 His 1919 record made him valu able addition to the club, but 'he can't repeat, the pitchers will get his number" the fans said.
 It looked early in the season as if Etheir dope was right. Babe failed to produce any sizeable clouts during the preseason barnstorm in the south and his stick likewise failed to work early in the season. It seemed as if the American league pitchers had finally found the weakness of the king swatter who had been pronounced in vulnerable.
 But the Babe finally got started He was first page stuff" while he was breaking his 1919 record of twenty thine and when he was approaching Ithe fifty mark, a point that had lwagered. Baseball has come to take tBabe for granted in that he is doing nothing out of the ordinary for him. He is expected to hit home runs and he does it.
 Next year he will, of course, arouse the same mid-season interest when he begins to shoot at his 1920 record.
 Speaking of pitchers getting his mum ber-every pitcher in the Ameri- Ecan league tried it and failed. He famed on a slow curve and killed it the next time it was tried on him. kHe famed on low ball and knocked it out of the park the next time. He always ruined fast high one.
 PennOcl<, Ruth's Victim.
 Herb Pennock of the Red Sox was the particular victim of Ruth.
 Discussing his experience with the "demon slugger' at the Polo grounds lone day last summer, Pennock said:
 'I tried @ curve on the outsid Q once and got him. The next time I tried it he nearly knocked the cover off. Again I got him on a slow ball back of two fast ones. The next time he rapped it into the stands. He fell once for a low ball and I tried it again with the same result. Then reached the conclusion that if he was not to be walked, the only thing to do was to let most anything go and take a chance" /
 Ruth is not only a terrific clouter but a good consistent little hitter,''