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'THE KNEES OF A DEMI-GOD
• The legs of George Herman Ruth
represent a potential capital of some
$300,000. And so, naturally, the
Babe looks at them with interest, and
even concern. Once upon a time these
were half million dollar legs, but at
•37 it's obvious that a baseball player
can't go on forever. The question is:
How long ?And the answer lies, in the
case of Ruth, somewhere between his
arches and his knees.
It is hard to conceive of a day in
which the eminent slugger could not
lay hold of a ball and drive it to the
far reaches of any :field; but the. Babe
has to chase drives as well as hit
them. Keeping in trim has come to
be an all -year job as far as he is con-
cerned.
Ruth doesn't like to dwell much on
the dead days of his youth, when he
might spree his way right to the doors
of the park. In fact, he is inclined
now to pooh-pooh many of the legends
•which have been built around him. .He
was distinctly annoyed when I men-
tioned an old yarn of his having eat-
en two dozen frankfurters just before
a doubleheader.
"I don't know where people get this
stuff about my being a big eater," said
the Babe. "Maybe I don't diet in a
strict sense, but all I eat is two meals
a day. That's not so much.
Ruth takes baseball hard, and cer-
tainly fights to win. A close game
can probably get him as excited as
an undergraduate. When the mood
is on him he will give any ball hit
into his territory what the profes-
sionals call "the old college try." I
saw him once charge straight into a
field box, do a somersault over the
low wall, and reappear to throw a
man out at third. But it stands to
reason that in the course of 154 league
games, not to mention dozens and
dozens of exhibitions, Ruth must get
a little bored and weary of the grind.
At any rate, baseball is not the
Babe's favorite sport. He is the coun-
try's most enthusiastic golfer, and his
eagerness for this pastime is whetted
by the fact that during a long base-
ball season golf is denied him. On
the links, as on the diamond, Ruth is
a terrific slugger. Very few of the
professionals are as consistently long
from the tee. Anything less than 300
yards is a misadventure for Ruth. But
his wallop may go foul in golf es well
as in baseball. But for his wildness
he might class among the truly great,
for in addition to everything else he
happens to be a superb putter.
The rule against golf during a sea-
son is based on the notion that 18
poles take too much out of a man who
is going to play a double-header in
the afternoon. Ruth, for instance,
finds that he needs no additional ex-
ercise after the big league race has
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S#xriehew obscured his other talents
its baseball. In spite of his size and
at 2x26 or thereabouts he is in Ids
beet playing condition, he covers a
great deal of ground. Ruth is: a true
ball hawk. Moreover, I've never seen
a finer thrower. Ile can speed a (bail
into the plate from deep right field
and have it go almost on a line all
the way. As a pitcher, Ruth still
holds the record for consecutive soore-
less innings in the Wbrld Series.
He is a man of curious build. His
arms are short, and his underpinning
also seems inadequate for his gig-
antic torso. But he has stood up un-
der the strain for an amazingly long
time. At 37 the average ballplayer
is really in the sere and yellow. And
the Babe is still going along very
little, if any, below his best. This
happy `result can undoubtedly be trac-
ed to the enormous amount of care
and consideration he puts upon his
legs. All his gymnasium work cen-
ters upon keeping himself supple be-
low the waist. McGovern, his train-
er, tells me that Ruth is not hard to
train once you have learned the trick.
"The way I do it," he explained, "is
to make everything a game, a kind of
competition. You can always get the
Babe to work if you put it up to him
that he's out to beat somebody else.
I couldn't get anything out of him
with this," showing me two station-
ary bicycles that had been teamed to-
gether on the same indicator, "until
I got the idea of making it a race.
Now, when Ruth gets on one I have
to get on the •other, ,and work just as
hard as he does."
Much of his between -season exer-
cise, like handball in which he is a
real expert, is designed to get him
accustomed to quick movement of a
spherical object. Also, he boxes a
little and with considerable skill. And
at one time he was an excellent wrest-
ler. But this has been dropped from
the quota of sports as too dangerous
for a man who must not pull a muscle
out of place under the risk of disaster.
Swimming is also tabu because it
might tighten up a shoulder or throw-
ing arm.
Included in the repertoire of Ruth
is lawn tennis as well. The Babe told
me proudly that he had once played a
set against Tilden. But I imagine
that all he got from that was exer-
cise.
The career of Ruth in the long run
must serve as a moral fable for clean
living and care. There's no question
that the great slugger was slipping
until he decided to turn over, not just
one leaf, but a whole handful. And
to -day the outer man, at least, is tam-
ed and docile. He speaks in terms of
toxicity and abdominal exercise. Ev-
en the lesser vices have been rigor-
ously excluded. Thus, when I asked
him, "Do you read much?" he replied,
almost indignantly, "No, I don't read."
And he seldom attends motion pic-
tures, for here, too, he fears strain
upon the batting eye.
We discussed the question of going
stale, and whether it was advisable
to cut down on batting practice at
times of slump. Ruth doesn't think
so. He uses the opposite method and
experiments in his style of hitting
when things are not going right. And
he's inclined to ask some player to
watch him and advise as to what he
is doing wrong.
The term "hostile" cannot be aptly
applied to any crowd so far as Ruth
is concerned. "I always kid back at
them," he says. And it is true that
even on the road the fans want to
see Ruth get hold of one. And as
far as huzzahs and plaudits go, he
earns them in two ways. If he knocks
a home run there is a great shout
of\ appreciation. And if he strikes
out, the roar is just as loud. As a
matter of fact, it is more exciting to
see Ruth fan than to watch somebody
else hit the ball over the fence. He
takes, in every case, a very sincere cut
at the ball.
No more colorful figure has ever
been known in baseball. The glories
of myth and legend surround him.
And the end is not yet. Ruth likes
to present himself as a reformed char-
acter and it may be that this is: for
ever and ever. But I wouldn't be too
sure. I don't want to be too sure. I
hate to think of the obstreperous Babe
wholly in terms of his present status
as George Herman Ruth, Ltd., a pre-
ferred stock and a regular dividend
player.
In spite of the increase in wealth,
health and wisdom, there still lurks
in the giant frame of Babe Ruth
something of the old half -mad and
half -inspired energy of athletic gen-
ius. If he is not very accurately des-
cribed as the D'Artagnan of the dia-
mond, he can at least qualify as an-
other of the famous musketeers. He
is the Porthos of our pastime.
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Mabel, glancing over the long list
to whom she owed letters, sighed. She
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Losses from unthriftiness due to
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