Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1918 — RUTH GREAT DRIVER WITH A GOLF STICK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RUTH GREAT DRIVER WITH A GOLF STICK

Babe Ruth, the Red Sox pitcher, is an ardent golfer, and quite an expert one, too. Ruth is one of the hardesthitting pitchers in the big leagues and he carries his batting punch onto the links. He was playing at Bellevue, near Boston, one day and some of the drives threatened to land in the next county, but the daddy of them all was the one Jie hit off the ninth tee. It is seldom that a drive carries the cross trap on this hole. The hole Itself is something like 260 yards, with the trap perhaps 30 yards short of it. Babe not only carried the trap, but landed on the £oof of the clubhouse, which is at least hole high. If the ball had been straight, it would have carried fully 280 yards.