Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-06 | Page 15 | Pegler Doubts Terry's Ambition to Push Lawnroller at Ball Park

Doubts Terrys Terry's Ambition To To- Push at Ball Park Picture Reminds Gotham Scribe of Time Bambino Posed With on New York Dock IDock By WESTBROOK United Feature Sports Writer NEW V YORK M March r h 6 6 One One day when Babe Ruth Ruth- was a new celebrity I was assigned to go around with him and do a living human document on ona a day in the life of a great man We made photographs of the high spots including a study of the Babe answering answering an- an an imaginary phone call with one ne finger hold holding ng down the hook and nd another of the Babe biting his tongue and squinting at the eye of ofa of ofa a n needle as he went through the motion mo- mo mo-l mo ion Hon of threading the the- same so that Mrs Irs Ruth the first could strut her frugal rugal domesticity by sewing herself a hat She didn't really sew any hat She got out an old birds bird's nest and posed with it in her lap as the Babe ogled the he needles needle's eye until the photographer photographer pher said Okay When he said okay that closed sed the h hat scene It was an off day for oi some rulon rca rea reason ru- ru son Ion lon and d we we tho thought of many homely activities for for- forthe the Babe and the late Mrs R Ruth th The photographer photographer pho pho- kept on that he borrow an apron from someone someone some some- one in the kitchen and pretend to be making a bed with Mrs Ruth or helping her her wipe dishes But Dut they were In a big hotel ho ho- hotel tel at the time and th that t sounded Bounded rather silly It wasn't so much that I did not wish to deceive e the readers ruders On the contrary I Iwas Iwas Iwas was afraid they be bede bede- de Still Still- the thc photographer hated to give up on these two He lie said Dempsey Demp Demp- sey always posed with nil an an apron making mak mak- ing irig beds and doing dishes even althe at al atthe atthe the Murray Hill hotel But along in the afternoon I said Lets you and I go down somewhere and catch a fish and the Babe said All right So we went vent down to a pier on the I Hudson and borrowed a pole fish from a man and the Babe sat on a a. a pile in his sulphur sulphur- sulphur colored elored flannel pants and grinned and fished He didn't catch any fish though and arid we had to have one so I said I would grab erab a cab and go over to Broadway and be right back with a fish At that the man who owned the pole said he would lend us a fish too and opened a newspaper per lying there in the sun I and unrolled a dry rigid fish about eight inches long which he had caught many hours be before I It was the only fish caught on the pier all day dy and In return for forthe forthe forthe the loan wo we took a picture of the theman theman man gazing enviously as the cut cut- lines said when the picture came out In the paper at the Babe Dabe I suppose this man or his heirs have the clipping yet Mr Al Smith struck a blow at photo photo journalism when he called this kind of ot pictures boloney pictures but bul bulI butI I do not think the harm was permanent perma nent flout for I am nm beginning to see more of ot the same coming up lip out of ot the south just now There was one showIng showing show show- ing Bill BiU Terry the manager of the Giants pushing a roller lawn and I Iam Iam am just shrewd enough to suspect that the manager of the Giants has too much professional pride and too much to do to go shoving a lawn- lawn roller around the ball park in person The boloney picture does docs not seriously seriously seri serio deceive anybody but provides harmless entertainment and fills Inthe in inthe inthe the periods between blizzards in the north hurricanes in Florida and earthquakes earthquakes earth earth- quakes In Los Angeles earth I Copyright 1934 for The Telegram