Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 19 | Yanks Make Jake Happy on His 70th Birthday

Yanks Make Jake Happy On His 70th Birthday ' By BILL CORUM International News Sports Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (INS) Colonel Jacob Ruppert was 70 years old yesterday. Said he felt fine. His bankers also were reported to be resting comfortsbly. Colonel Jake was born right here In New York City and sort of grew up with the town. Every so often hs buys another little chunk of it just to make sure there is prosperity prosper-ity around every corner. It must be nice to be Jsks at TO. Hs hasn't a worry wor-ry In ths world, not even one little lit-tle wife. By wsy of celebrating cele-brating the boss' anniversary, ths Yankees mads eight runs In the aiffhih Inninar at 1 era of ths visiting teams. All they get is to showers a day, ons in ths field and one In ths clubhouse when they are relieved. At that they have got a Mexican stsndoff. So far they have managed man-aged to savs their lives while losing their ball games. When Red Ruffing is doing the pitching for our sids, as he hss been doing the bulk and the best of it this modern murderers' row throws nine men up there who are apt to knock ths ball down a pitcher's pitch-er's throat without even bothering to notice if he's hsd his tonsils removed. re-moved. There's no Justice in one ball club having all that power. But Colonel Jake loves It. He'd like a Ruth, a Gehrig, a Bill Dickey, a Joe Dl-Maggio Dl-Maggio for every candle he had on his cake last evening. This column wishes him lots more candles and a 10-gams lesd on every birthday. (Barrow probably would settle for 60 per cent of that lesd and a SO per cent Increase in gsts receipts.) Stick in there and pitch, colonel. They can't hurt us so long as we've got Lou and Joe and Bill and Tony coming up next Inning. ths stadium, with Ruppert Lou Gehrig hitting a homer for him to grow on. ' The colonel's birthday also was Joe McCarthy dsy at ths big bsll park on ths Harlem that still isn't big enough to hold soms of ths crowds that want to see ths current cur-rent slashing, alsmming, slsughter-ing slsughter-ing Ysnkees. Everybody has been having a day up there recently, except the pitch-