Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-14 | Page 10 | Mighty Blow in Series Changes Babe's Career

Mighty Blow in Series Changes Babes Babe's Career Bambino Becomes Outfielder After Setting Pitching Record in World Series Sold to Yanks for Big Price This is the third of a series relating the he prodigious worlds world's series feats of the he one and only Babe Ruth Nearing Near Near- I ing ng the end of his career the Babe this his year will make his tenth and perhaps perhaps per- per haps last appearance in the classic By EDWARD J. J NEIL NEIL- Associated Press Sports Sport Writer NEW YORK Sept 14 14 One One mighty blow DOW the first Ba Babe Ruth ever struck in a worlds world's series turned his baseball baseball base- base ball jail career from the pitching mound toward the outfield headed him inthe in inthe the he direction of the New York Yankees Yankees Yan- Yan kees and into such slugging fame as asno asno asno no other ball player ever has known It was the fourth inning of the fourth game of the 1918 worlds world's series and Ruth in three short years had become one of baseballs baseball's greatest left handed pitchers He had tossed back the Cubs in the first game with witha a brilliant 4 1 shutout and had run his lis string of scoreless innings in worlds world's series play to twenty The Red Sox led two to one in games when Ruth started the fourth game As the big lean youngster walked out of the box at the end of th the third inning he was still a pitcher his shutout shutout shutout shut shut- out string intact Shean walked to start the Red Sox fourth Strunk flied filed out to Whiteman walked and Stuffy McInnis forced Shean at third THE BIG MOMENT Ruth still a pitcher picked up his hitting tool and walked to the plate Bill Tyler in grand form was tossing tossing toss toss- ing lag for the Cubs It looked as though the uprising was over As Tyler whipped a fast curve at atthe atthe atthe the outside corner of the plate the lanky youngster faced the first great batting crisis in a career of hitting glory flying toward him on the wings of that speeding baseball The Babe swung cleanly rhythmically the ball soared far to right center field Two runs scored and the triumphant panting Ruth drew up at third base KISSED KISSE HURLING URLING GOODBYE In that brief gallop he left the bulk of a great pitching career carer behind him Baseball needed his hitting more Bullet Joe Bush stepped in to relieve relieve re reo re- re lieve the Babe with two on and none out in fri the ninth after the Cubs scored twice In the eighth to end Ruths Ruth's scoreless inning streak at 29 still a record for series play Ruth never appeared again as a worlds world's series pitcher By 1919 he had started his home run splurge with 29 for the Red Sox and a hitting average of That year he was sold to the Yankees for the greatest cash purchase in baseball history He was off In a blaze of batting glory