The New York herald., 1921-02-24
RUTH AFOOT AT 5,
HIKES IT UNTIL z
Babe Starts With a Rush to
Divorce Himself of Thirty
Pounds 0verplus.
BOWLS WITH HIS WIFE
Mays Plays Golf, Bathes and
Dances for Weight Reducing
Diversions at the Spa.
BY WILLIAM ID. HANNA ]

Special Despatch to Tan NEW YORK HERALD.
Hot SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. 23.-Each to
mis- own devices, the four Yankees in
training here went their various ways
to-day and each got in some useful licks
toward reaching that stage of general
condition desired before taking up the
more technical work of baseball prepara-
tion.
Babe Ruth was afoot this morning by
o'clock. He was one of the earliest
risers of the community. No rooster had
anything on him." He had his break
fast and was away and over the foot
hills. stick in hand and accoutred In
enough sweaters and such to make him
perspire and take Oft weight. The Babe
didn't get back until 2 o'clock He
started out on the run and finished on
walk and not a very brisk walk at that.
He must have covered ten miles, and
when he returned he looked it.
Ruth and his wife were up last nigh:
bowling until u o'clock, read awhile
then, and the Babe didn't have over six
hours sleep. He has started in with
rush to divorce himself from those thirty
pounds overplus.
Mrs. Ruth is walker of class herself
and had intended accompanying the
Babe on his first hike. but thought the
programme he had laid out a bit too
stiff for a first day. But" she said,
i've been on these walks with him and
shall be again"
Asked If she didn't think he bit off a
large chew for starter, she answered:
mo. That's Georges way George Is
Babe). When he has anything TO do he
wants to do it and gets at it right away.
He likes to be active and on the move.
He hates to sit around. He means busi-
hat httgf Ia m a
weight, and he isn't the kind to waste
any time when he has some definite OBJ
ject in view"
To which many fan and opposing
pitcher will subscribe.
Ruth and Mays will have their golf
tilt tomorrow. They'll be at it all day.
Mays and Hoyt played twenty-seven
holes to-day, and as Mays did a 9S for
eighteen and then q 43 for nine, II
doesn't look as If the more experienced
Ruth were to have a cinch in beating
the underhand. moundsman. Mays is a
left handed golfer. which. according TO
accepted dictum, makes him hopeless so
far IS ever attaining real expertness is
concerned.
Harry Harper was out on his own
hook most of the day. He takes walks
and baths, doesn't seem to be golfer,
and is a reserved sort of person. He Is
WIN w aIlers LOnHSOn anu Ciyue Uliidh
OF the Washingtons a good deal. He
used to play on that club. Mays golfs
and bathes and dances for his weight
reducing diversions. AS an exponent of
he light fantastic he is pretty fair and
cuts few capers evenings when there's
q dance at one of the hotels.
There need be no worry about his
staying UP late. for this is great town
for most of the fol
to be in the hay by
IL o'clock. Ruth has his dress clothes
with him and expects to shake a leg be-
fore the open season for said indoor
terpsichore and sport expires.
Just tell 'em back in New Yawk."
VS. Harry Greer, the negro rubber.
where Ruth and cast take their baths.
end who quotes Longfellow as readily
as a crap shooter says come seven"
Just tell yo readahs that I'll have all
TO of these Yankee baseball gentlemen
IN the best of shape. They're coming
along"