Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 14 | Stengel Brings All-Stars West

HI BRINGS m-STI 1ST Big Leaguers to Play on Coast; Babe Ruth Busts a Few. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Nov. 1. Casey Stengel of the Pittsburg National league club is bringing an all-star baseball team to the coast to play oxhlbltlon games here, according to word received today. The team is scheduled to arrive here Thursday. First crack out of the box Babe Ruth, greatest baseball slugger, made the .unrest .unr-est hit over seen on the Washington pane grounds, in a .game this afternoon between be-tween the Weaver and tho Klllefer all-star all-star teams. This hit can be better appreciated ap-preciated when it is token into consideration consid-eration that the grounds are about tne largest in America, and to the present no one ever has tilted the sphere over any of the field fences. Ruth's swat was more of a line drive than an air invader. After the ball lett the. bat it seemed to gain momentum anci appeared gradually to rise. It linaily hit the fourteenth tier in the rlght-neio bleachers and then almost bounded over the top of the fence. Previous to this I mighty swipe the fourth row was the farthest a Dan ever nau oeen Ruth has made several wagers that before be-fore he leaves Los Angeles he will clear the right-Held bleacher fence with one or his hits. To do tills the ball must travel more than BOO feet, but this distance has no terror for the mighty Bostonian. Ruth will be the attraction at Washington Washing-ton park tomorrow afternoon, affording Coast league fans their first holiday opportunity op-portunity to see this mighty player n action in the west. He will appear in Buck Weaver's lineup of all stars, playing play-ing winter ball against a similarly talented talent-ed aggregation headed -by Manager Klllefer Kllle-fer of the Los Angeles club. A! St. John, film comedian, has placed $5000 against Ruth's $1000 that the player does not hit the ball over the fence bun-day. bun-day. The monev was placed with Clyde Bruckman, a local sporting writer. The only proviso is that if a pitcher purposely waiks Ruth the bet is off.