The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-09

4. head in an attempt at real deep
nught. :.
thought other ball players were
f.vfh salaries approximately that
shis own. Without putting it just
- way, Babe refused to be invidi-
"a man who works for another is
4 roins to be paid any more than
/. il worth, you can bet on that, :"
.,,;ed Ruth. "A man ought to get
al he can earn. Don't makeNany
s5arence whether it's running a
srm. running a bank or running a
k.sav. a man who knows he is max
n money for other people ought
.aret some of the profit he brings
! It's business. / tell you; there
81 no sentiment to it. Forget
that stuff"
Pabe Ruth is preparing for his
,aming season like prize fighter
~su,d train for bout. But in lieu
i sthe sparring and the shadow box
e he takes to the golf links.
-s,re is no better training for the
- than there is in trying to keep
m a golf ball Ask the man who
Ems one. Babe never misses a
~ from his work. Golf in the
-arning. or midday, and stiff runs
srsr steep mountain paths in the
,asrnoon with hot water baths
are marked his period of prelim-
Snsry training here. Now he goes
| n join the main squad in actual
rsrk on the diamond Ruth is not
|,igible to play this year until to-
ard the close of May, but he in
lands to work just as hard each day
- if he were really in the game.
higgins will give him a raft of bat
|tsg practice, so that the moment
|Isdze Lands lifts the ban the
|Babe will be rearin' to go.
II Not to Be Manager.
Babes remarks about business
Iran henceforth naturally prompt
j the question:
VsDo you think you will be a man
|sser after your playing days are
lover"
Ruth smiled. He didn't think he
would burden himself with the re-
|sponsibiities and troubles OF
manager or magnate at any time
lin the very near future. Perhaps,
1.-The Babe thought, there might be
some $4,000 a year salaries com
ling home to roost.
! well what next in life? What
are you going to- do with all your
|nnney?' Babe was asked.
Five got five big years of base
hal ahead of me now, and / guess
rH have five more after that
What's the use of going further
ilong than that. ] haven't ever
thought of quitting the game. |
feel like ] was just starting 10 be-
kin. Course, haseball's different
rom anything else. Look at those
birds sitting across tn lobby. They
le business men. getting fit for
lie season, too. But they are mid
is aged and gray and in what yo1
binds call the prime of life. Ill
Ia SO when my new contract ends,
,fa a lot of people are reading me-
uu of the game already. TIA going
|1 be a business man, too, in base
|sal. Experience helps you lot
|ia this game. just as in any other. "
Ruth had a reason for saying
hat. With his confidence in his
|atural prowess TO drive the pill
NJ of the lot. the Babe has been
Interested IN the scientific side of
|ihe sport and has been studying
|nme slow action moving pictures
III his golf swing the last few days.
They have shown his entire body
In action during the stroke. Ruth's
isxing is not a perfect one, from
HE professional golfers point of
view. The camera shows him up
n both toes as he hits the. ball.
MS is bad golf FORM but it tells
Ermething of the hidden power be-
md the bat the battler yields.
4 Colonel Huston, who has been
{aFe with Ruth ever since the con-
rsct was signed and who accom-
Nnied the Hot Springs squad of
Iankees to New Orleans today,
PANIED with satisfaction at the con-
ahon of the diamond star. Colonel
Haston is a man of considerable
Irnh.
why, last year Ruth was as big
Isl am, and look at him now" said
Sne colonel. HE has settled into
hard working chap. He's got the
iabltion and the ability, and there
sno telling what he will do in the
Nature