The Washington times., 1932-10-17

He'd rather bat against them
any day in the week or on Sunday
than swing at pitchers wearing
the uniforms of Chicago's other
major league outfit. the seventh
place White SoX.
Babe saw the Cub pitchers in
only four games this year, due to
the worlds series finishing so
early. He saw the White SoX
pitchers in 10 games, missing only
the last visit of the Yankees to
the Windy City. .
But he hit as many homers off
the Cubs pitchers in four games
as he made off the White SoX
servers over the whole season. He
made two visits to Comisky Park,
but in eight games played there
he could not connect for a circuit
clout, the White Sox citadel going
into the records as the only Amer
ican League park without a
Ruthian homer unveiled within us
precincts throughout the 1882
season.
Waited Till August %
1t was not until August 26 that
the Babe solved Chicago White
Sox pitcher for a homer. On that
day, in the Yankee Stadium,
there was a double-header. Babe
hit a homer off Ted Lyons in the
first game and one off CASTOR IN
the nightcap.
In the 18 other Yankee-White
Sox games the Babe was homer.
less and the White Sox staff had
the best record against Ruth any
hurting corps in the league could
boast. Babe hit only four homers
each against St. Louis and Boston,
five against Detroit, seven against
Philadelphia, eight against Wash
ington, and II versus Cleveland.
George Earnshaw OF the
Athletics, Clint Brown and Yves
Ferrell of the Indians and Lloyd
Brown of the Senators were the
pitchers with the most Ruth
homers against them. Ruth
touched each of them for three
four-maSters, and it was off
LLOYD Brown, who is a SouthpaW,
that the Bambino drove his only
homer of the season that came
with the bases filled. 1t hap
pened in the Yankee Stadium,
May 81, in the first game of a
double-header.
Victims of Two Drives
Ruth hit two each off Rube
Walberg, Carl Weiland, Sarge
Connally, Tom Ragland, Monte
Weaver, Earle Whitehill and
Wallace Hebert. His other
homers were off Lefty Grove, Ed
Rommell, Hod Lisenbee. Johnny
Michaels, Mel Harder, Jack Rus
sell, Oral Hildebrand, Carl
Fischer, George Uhle, Vic Sorrell,
Tom Bridges, Walter Stewart and
Bob Cooney, one off each.
Although southpaws are freely
represented on the Babes clout-
ing list, he had 26 of his seasons
quota of Al against right-handed
pitching. His failure to ap-
proach his total of go, set up
in 1927 for homer hitters to
shoot at, may have been due
to his September illness.
In 1927 he hit his last II
homerS in September. This year
only two of the Babes crop had
September date lines.
Made Nine in First Inning
Because of the Babes position
in the batting order and the
habit on the part of pitchers of
starting a game confidently, it
was natural for him to do a lot
of his homer hitting in the first
inning. Nine of his Al homers
were opening-inning slams.
Otherwise, he was mainly a
sixth-inning slugger. For some
reason the sixth was his favorlte
inning for homers, getting the
call over even the first inning,
for he hit ten Of his homerS in
the sixth.
The second inning was COM
plete blank for him all season,
and only once did he set off a
full-length blast in the eighth. He
had only one eXtra-inning homer,
drive in the tenth off Clint
Brown in a Cleveland game at
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