Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-01-24 | Page 14 | Yank Rookie Prays Babe Won't Return

Yank Rookie Prays Babe Wont Won't Won t Return By EDWARD J. J NEIL Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Jan 24 The 24 The secret prayer of or young George Selkirk most promising of the Yankees' Yankees youthful outfield crop is that George Herman Ruth sticks to his determination to remove h himself from the outfit into some managerial managerial mana mana- gerial berth elsewhere Only one thing has Selkirk against the Babe and its it's all in fun which makes it worse Selkirk is something more than extremely ticklish and the Babe not only knows it but takes every possible advantage of ot it I. I a On th the face tace of ot It it that sounds un un- un important But Yankee experts credit Ruth with unwittingly chasing chas ing lag Selkirk out of the American league in 1933 with schoolboy tricks that had the young outfielder jittery They say too that last season when George came up from Newark to replace the battered up Earle Combs in center field hed he'd have been even better than the hitter hit ter classy fielder and smart runner run ruo ner ncr he turned out to be if the Babe had let him alone Why dont don't you OU belt the big gU guy once and for all asked a team team- mate stop him Selkirk a powerhouse of ot an athlete ath ath- lete with a well ni nigh h perfect record record rec rec- ord in alls free stared What he gasped lilt lIft the Babe Career or no career that wasn't being done as far as Selkirk was concerned Dixie Walker tells another story about this big fellow whom the Yankees are counting countin on definitely as a regular in an outfield o that so far tar includes Ben Chapman in left I I The question o of Ruths Ruth's willingness willing willing- ness to 10 tr try another term terra in right I Combs' Combs recover recovery from the condition of or Walkers Walker's throwing arm armand armand and the fate tate of a trade now in the I. I making all ail figure in m n the other regular reg ular post Walker says Selkirk is a great natural fighter except for his teeth In Newark one afternoon Selkirk was on first base waiting to be advanced advanced ad ad- when a fight broke out on the other side of the diamond Selkirk has a lot of fancy bridgework bridgework bridgework bridge- bridge work in the front of ot his mouth So he carefully plucked this out Walker Walk Walk- i ier er says and neatly tucked it under one corner of ot the first base ba bag where he figured it was safe before before be be- I fore tearing acro across the field and into the fray S Hes He a right careful man said II W Walker