Show BABE RISES V TO TOV V OCCASION 1 Champs Shine When Stakes Are Highest By PAUL GALLI GALLICO CO NEW V YORK April 18 I The question that kept me awake part of last night was what was what is it about exceptional men such as Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean and Max Baer that hat seems to to lure Jure fate or circumstance circumstance cir cm- or call it what you will to make mako them the sole sale heroes on special occasions There was vas that season opening day game in Boston Tuesday torin for tor in instance tance where twenty ono m men n played in a ball game and when it It was over what had happened was that thai twenty of or them somehow bad had played minor and unimportant parts In tho the support of one great Ireat star If It ever one man seemed to have dominated a ball game hand single hand ed it seemed to have been Babe Ruth And it it was opening day his National league debut and his first game with his new club There were other good men in that Giants Braves opening day game made three singles singles singles sin sin- in a row against the great Carl Hubbell Lc Leis Mallon Mallen each time timo sent him bins along with perfect bunts Ed Brandt pitched a n. line fine game limiting tho the hard hitting Giants to e five hits I thought tho the fielding of ot the Boston Doston right and center fielders was brilliant and cut of off many ninny a hit Now you can argue about an any sports event as to what might have happened if it so and so had not been in the game But what controvert is what happened because because be- be cause R Ruth th was in the game The final Cinal score was 4 to 2 in favor of ot Boston and the big margin was Ruths Ruth's home run over the far distant dis- dis tant i But But h g he figured c otherwise as M well His single in the first inning drove In to score the first run and put him on base to score the second And the Giants admiringly admit that his one hand circus catch of ot Hubbells Hubbell's almost certain single cut off what might have been the start of real trouble for Brandt Three were out as a result instead of ot a man on base with the head of or orthe the batting order coming up I suppose one of the things that makes make luck or fate so kind to Ruth RuthIs Ruths Is s his enthusiasm for the job I have two pictures of the man One Oneat Oneat Oneat at the tho Yankee stadium last year the he day he played In his final game The stadium was almost empty He sat glumly and discouraged in the dugout tired disappointed and un un- un- un happy The season was at its end He had lad not played well He had announced announced announced an an- that he was through as a player Certainly he knew that owing to certain statements he had made he could no longer continue with the Yankees as a player and also not not for for a year at least least least-as as a manager manag And there thero had been no generous outpouring of or fans to bid him aim farewell And Anti then I visited flitted him again Tuesday afternoon in the Bra Braves cli cs' cs du dugout out before the game Jame And he was flushed his eyes eye were shinIng shining shin shin- ing lag ho was nervous out and eager and fidgety and little muscles In his throat were twitching Somebody Somebody Somebody Some Some- body said Excited Babe Babel He lie said Youre darn right Im I'm ex ex- cited Why wouldn't I be His nostrils were wre twitching and he was as gay and happy happ as n R bo boy He broke from a group of at writers with a Gotta get out there and warm the old arm up Gee I feel great Haven't felt so good in years ears Hope lope I can an do something today And this man has been playing ball around 25 years ears Here was no bored tired fellow with a yawn No he had all nil the wonderful bubbling bubbling bub- bub bling enthusiasm of of a 1 young boy setting settling out upon an adventure There was some sonic discussion in the press ess box after the home run as to what Ruth could and couldn't hit The run home-run ball looked like a fast fastball jail ball to us but I asked Ruth after the he game and he said it was a screw ball I guess it was a screw screwball screwball ball sail he said Anyway I know it broke I didn't get hold of at it good It VIt reminded me of at the day Babe Didricksen broke the worlds world's javelin record at the Olympic games in Los Angeles and then said afterward I I could have it further only I r slipped What people I |