Show I I I I I I I I fr I j t tS t S J d' d dRING I RING KING OF SWAT I TOTTERS Ot ON OtI HIS THRONE Ruth Sent Home By I. I Huggins and Fined Five Thousand NE F. VORK Aug Au tiP tA 29 OP Rabe nabe Ruth nuth baseballs baseball baseballs s champion slugger of all nil time ume picturesque of youthful millions and the time highest t salaried plover player of the ma- ma maor maor or 01 or leagues league tottered from Crom his hrone today loda suspension su and amid a Ii fine I of Imposed at St St. Louis by I Manager Mann gel Miller 1 Huggins of oC the New Yankees Y i Iel with a brief explanation that Ruth nuth has been ben I guilty ot of misconduct off the were the vehicles of oC the dla- dla I kings king's descent Officials ot of the team hero here could i tot ot lie he reached tonight hl in ap ail ef effort ef- ef effort fort tort to cast additional light on the C leading lending to Jo to the punitive puni puni- punitive tive live b by Huggins Other S oC of o baseball bu Information in th metropolis were vere without Information natIon mation and the general air all of oC mys- mys by b a was penetrated only sense of depression among follow follow- followers ers trl of o the diamond ond lias 5 re resulted re- re from the ibm almost complete rol apse of the th nce powerful Yen Yan- kc Iw team and time the losing f of I II hapless Giants to retain the time National league championship against the aggressive lve Pittsburg Pirate ate machine thEN m liE REI The fall of oC Ruth nuth flom roam grace gracela ca la the New York back to the Ille close of the season of oC 1022 when Babe abe paid the time penalty of t a II day 30 without pay It r r violating the th rule against barnstorming h by 11 world series serie play- play Ii is 15 Unsatisfied with wll h his record I h lIl ht t season during which he Ime was a target of criticism Ruth called together the baseball writers enters of ot the metropolis at al a din- din Continued 1 on Page Seven baNG KING OP OF SWAT TOTTERS ON HIS THRONE Continued 1 from Crom rage Ono Involved In difficulties of the tha dla- dla mend mond m nr r and ond promised to turn over a 0 anew new leaf leat During the two campaigns on the diamond he played lIt ll 1 I an t baseball and conducted conduct d him him- himI self so 80 far tal reproach that l hI was adjudged In 1923 the most valuable player to hIs club In the n I. league lague ItE IE En EnA A review ot of Ruths Ruth's record Indi- Indi cates that the thEl champion home hom run hitter has no Infrequently been In Starch ot of 1923 Ruth was made defendant In ht a suit for Cor brought by Miss 1 Dolores Dixon 11 19 who charged him with as- as Ruth nuth the tha action chargIng he W. 8 being blackmail blackmail- blackmailed ed cd and ond a a. month later the suit was withdrawn In May of the same year the home run kin was compelled was to pay In damages as the result of an accident In which tits his car figured while n a month la- la laer later ter er ho he was fined 25 i for tor driving h his machine 50 miles an hour In New EW York Ruths Ruth's name bobbed up In court records for tor the tho third time limo In 1323 when hE was m made a defendant In a libel suit brought by a motion picture pro pro- ducer Settlement or of the action la later er for 7 50 was announced Early this year suit was entered In the supreme court against Ruth Ruthby Ruthby by Harry Lichtenstein ot of New NewYork York who alleged that the Yankee slugger refu refused e. e to pay he owed a 0 bookmaker for tor racing losses Ills collapse under an at- at attack tack of influenza leadIng to con con- confinement In a a. hospital here for tor tort nearly two months followed toll owed soon afterward t 8 0 I |