Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — SHUT YOUR EYES AND SWING HARD, PING BODIE’S PLAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHUT YOUR EYES AND SWING HARD, PING BODIE’S PLAN

“You’ve Got to Take Old Man Confidence to the Plate With You,” Says the Fence Buster. If you have an ambition to attain fame all that is necessary is to outguess the pitcher, grab your bat like It was your last dime and swing with all your might. Then hope and hope hard. That’s Ping Bodie’s recipe for busting the fences In any league where he may happen to be playing. Inasmuch as it has brought him back to the American league and a chance at more fame as a big league outfielder, there must be some truth in it. Ping says swing hard the first time, go Inhx second speed on the second, and thenXf you’ve got to do it again turn on alXtbe gas, jam down the accelerator and swing I Ping cracked oiit twenty home runs while "amassing A battingaverage of something over .300 last year on the Pacific coast “It’s all in the way you grab your bat and swing,” said Ping. “The pitcher who can throw harder than I cun

swing ain’t been found; If you miss the first two, whang again, and you’ve got to take Old Man Confidence to the plate with you. “You gotta think you’re going to make the fences rattle or you’re done for. Watch the pitcher, outguess, him, and you’ve gotta hang onto your bat like grim death and swing your head off to set a new ground record.”

Ping Bodie.