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THE HERALD Thursday, August 9, 1973 Section 4 Publicly but maybe not privately The Babe would be rooting for Hank Aaron by MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK Right now. Babe Ruth would be throwing one of his arms around Hank Aaron, squeezing him in a bear hug so the photographers could get themselves a good picture and slyly telling him to stick Atlanta for at least a million next year, carry-over contract or not. That's the Babe Ruth I knew. He was always 100 per cent for the individual, no matter who it was. and I'm sure be rooting for Aaron to break his home run record now.

19. The Half-Volley The half-volley is a stroke never used by beginners, seldom by intermediates and often by advanced players since they attack in singles and may be caught by a good return of serve just behind the service line. Primarily a block stroke, it is used to return balls that have bounced at the player feet. The ball is picked up on the racket immediately after the bounce, often when it has risen only six inches from the ground. The novice moves several steps back when a deep ball is coming to avoid having to half-volley.

The intermediate player uses this stroke only when coming in on his serve in doubles. The player uses either a forehand or volley grip on the forehand half-volley The ball must be hit without under- spm. A short wind-up is vital. By definition, a half-volley is hit close to the ground. To get down to the ball, the legs should be spread and the knees bent, with the racket head parallel to the ground or slightly angles down.

The shot is taken in front of the player who is stretching forward. (NEXT: Return of Serve I) (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN Excerpted from The Book of Tennis'' by the editors of World Tennis Maqa- zine and Cornel Lumiere. 4 1965 by Grosset Dunlap. All rights resnrvec Publicly, anyway. Privately, it would be something else again.

Babe Ruth was as human as well Hank Aaron. not hard to picture he'd be feeling now and what be saying to some of those in his close circle. if I knew that 30 years later some bum would come along and break that 714 record of mine, have hung around a little longer and hit Babe Ruth would be saying. The would be nothing personal against Hank Aaron. Babe Ruth used the term a lot.

Often, even affectionately. The years have a way of trifling with your judgment sometimes, but even though nearly four decades have gone by since the last time I saw him tap his bat on the plate, bring it back up again and then swing it in that classic style imitated by thousands but never really duplicated by anyone, there the slightest doubt in my mind that George Herman Ruth wTas the greatest ballplayer I have ever seen. He could run, he could field ard he could hit. Lord, how he could hit. Almost like clockwork, every day, you'd look in the paper and there it would be: home run-Ruth.

Sometimes, two. For many people today Babe Ruth is merely a legend, only a name. The vast majority never have seen him perform, and those who include Hank Aaron. But once you saw Ruth play, you never forgot him. He had a way of staying in your mind indelibly, regardless of whether you saw him hit a home run or strike out.

Every pitcher who was ever a home mn victim of his, remembers him. Says Fritz Ostermueller, of whom he hit No. 703, about 39 years ago: can anyone possibly forget Babe I know I never will. He had a voice like cracked ice and the jolly, laughing disposition of Santa Claus, but he could get his back up, too. He did with the late Jake Ruppert, who used to own the New7 York Yankees.

he told him once, talk to me like a boy, a man and I warma get paid like Ruth was proud of the 15 years he put in with the Yankees but bitter about the fact he never got a chance to manage them. Not long before he died, he said to me: Yankees gave me shoe polish. Only he used another word, and if it for the Ford Foundation, I even have a job Many people thought Babe Ruth was an orphan. He wasn't. know who my parents he said to me.

they were so poor they had to send me to this home in Baltimore when I was When I asked him what his biggest thrill was, answer was Root He meant calling his shot against Cub pitcher Charlie Root in the 1932 World Series. Ruth said he pointed to the centerfield wall, indicating he was going to hit the ball over it and he did. Now Root said that was absolute garbage. If Ruth had done something like that, pointed, he meant, he would have knocked him down. Years later, I asked the widow, Claire, if he actually had called his shot.

surprised ask me she said. The Babe Ruth I remember was unlike many of the ballplayers today. He loved the kids who surrounded him for his autograph but also had a way of giving them the slip occasionally. Sometimes when cluster around him with pieces of paper, pictures or autograph albums before the game, say: only sign Then when he'd be mobbed after a game, say: only sign before the The episode which personifies Babe Ruth best to me, however, took place after he was the house guest of a good friend of his. Ruth spent a full week with this fellow at his home.

A day later, they were together again when another of the acquaintances joined them. Ruth, who had a terrible memory for names, knew he had to introduce the friend at whose home he had spent a week only a day before. how do you pronounce your name he finally asked. said his friend. (United Press International) Hersey invites fall athletes The Hersey High School athletic department has dispatched 275 invitations to potential football players for fall football practice.

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Freshmen are asked to report at 1 p.m. Formal practice for seniors, juniors and sophomores will betin Aug. 20 at 7:30 a.m. Freshman practice will be announced at the issuance of equipment. Frosh may purchase football shoes on Monday, Aug.

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