San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-16
PRIZES
FOR FANS
Skill.
Your Choice May Be Best
Picked Team in Major
Leagues.

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Who are the ten best baseball
players in their positions in the Ma
tional and American Leagues!
WHAT would be the real champion
ship combination of batting, fielding
skill, speed on the bases. catching
acumen and pitching brilliance, based
on the work of the current season:
Pabe Ruth, champion home.run HIT
ter of all time, pursuing an annual
custom, will select such team ot all
stars for The Light-his "All-An:r-
lean Team" he calls it.
The Light now offers the same op-
pCr;unity to the many baseball rdns
among its readers and will give three
cash prizes. Babe Ruth himself to
acS ac judge with the cooperation If
ten sports editors and baseball %"it-
c:S representing the major le.slc
cities.
TEN PRIZES IN ALL.
Baseball fans love to name their
favorites and to stimulate a careful
study of the merits of the many stars
for the various positions, and to en-
courage frank expression of opinion
as to why players are selected. The
Light has arranged this contest.
Prizes will be offered as follows:
First prize ..............1... .Sl5.OO
Second prize .................S $1,000
Ihlrd prize ............... J.UU
Babe Ruth is an authority on base
ball. BY playing with or against all
the stars in the American League and
closely watching and playing against
at times in exhibition games the stars
of the National League, he is quail
fled to express an opinion and further
more to pass judgment on the
opinions Of those who may be inter
ested in selecting an All-Amcrican
team for the season of 1925.
In agreeing to name a team himself
and to serve as judge in this contest
offered by The Light the great hit
ter makes only one exception.
The name of Babe Ruth in any
position must not appear. He does
this because he refuses to name him
self, and furthermore because he does
not wish to be biased in any way
in passing judgment on the teams
SuDUlllltu ny VI ut
Naturally those teams which most
closely approach the one which Ruth
himself selects will earn the award.
In no case will a prize be awarded
unless, those submitting an all-star
team express their reasons for so do
ing in a short statement of one hun
drcd words.
The competition opens with this an
nouncemcnt and will close Septem-
Der 4.
The all-star team must be made
up of ten players of the current sea-
son picked only from the two major
leagues as follows: two pitchers, one
catcher, four inficlders and three out
ficldcrs.
WATCH WORK OF 1925.
Care must be taken in the selec-
ton of teams, for Ruth, who bars his
own name from selection, will pick
his squad on the basis of play only
in the 1925 season. Great reputa-
tions built up in the past have no
weight in this particular case with the
star home-run hitter of the century,,
The man who at first blush would
say that an outfield made up of Cobb,
Carey and Heilmann is the greatest,
must look carefully into the records
and see whether these stars have
lived up to their past greatness in
1924 or whether some younger star
hasn't done enough to crowd one OF
them out. The reader who makes his
selections without watching the box
scores and the records may find him
self Outsmartcd by the carefulncss Of
those who are up to the minute in
their baseball and their ratings.
Is Kelly or Sisler, Blue or Grimm
or Fourier or Judge likely to get the
call at first base? All are stars. Who
knows what they have been doing? ?
Perhaps the readers won't select Kelly
for first base at all but would rather
place him at second. The rules of the
selection have been amended in in
stances where a man has been play
ing out of his position. For instance,
Frisch, ordinarily placed as a second
bascman, has played at short and at
third this year. He is eligible to
choice in any Of these places, the
rule being that if a man has played
in one championship game out of his
regular position he is eligible as a
choice for the new one.
For the benefit of the readers of
The Light who may attempt to gain
the prizes, Ruth has announced that
he will make his choice of players
with an eye to producing the best
all-around team, the best offensive
and defensive unit that can be placed
in Tho fold from all or Tho sfnr
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