Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — WOW! HOW THIS BIRD CAN HIT; COPS 4 HOMERS [ARTICLE]

WOW! HOW THIS BIRD CAN HIT; COPS 4 HOMERS

Babe Ruth, Boston handy man, who carries the most wicked punch in the American league, in an exhibition game against the Baltimore club of the International league Friday, in six strolls to the platter j

drove out four homers, all of which cleared the garden wall by several feet. The elephantine young man was passed in his other two trips to the platter by the Baltimore flingers at the direction of the club owner who wished to save enough base balls to start the season with. Evidently the Babe doesn’t know that there is a ten percent war tax on baseballs. And still they assert that George is more valuable as a pitcher than as .a batter. j