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Ray Schalk, 32, Chicago teammate of Collins, is a catcher who, though not bulky, plants himself to receive a throw in the direct path of a runner going home, never budges, though many times in a single game he is rolled on his rump. He has caught more games of baseball than has any other big-leaguer, past or present.

Babe Ruth, 31, swashbuckler of the huge ash bat, is perhaps the most tooted "character in the game. He, with Pugilist Dempsey, is the apotheosis of U. S. he-manhood, adored of millions. In addition to holding all home-run records, he has pitched the greatest number of scoreless World's Series innings, 29, in 1916, 1918.

Walter Johnson, famed Washington pitcher, 37, intended his remarkable performance in the seventh and deciding game of the 1924 World's Series (which his team won from the New York Giants) to stand as the colophon of his major league career. Frustrated (by Washington interests, it is rumored) in his attempt to purchase a minor league club on the Pacific Coast, he has consented to pitch one more season with the Senators.

Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 28, manager of the team which Johnson so effectively adorns, is an immense drawing card because of his evident cleverness, his youth, his speed as a second baseman, his ability to hit when hits are needed.

Tristram Speaker, manager of the Cleveland team, is a year and a half younger than Cobb, but looks far older. Grizzled, lined, his batting average has been falling off in the last two years, but he still fields with the grace of a nautch-girl. He was the only player who ever broke through Cobb's years of batting supremacy (1907-1919) by leading the American League in 1916.