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Show FRANK K. BAKER I TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR Rl Another new crop of wars and goats are in the mak- ; ing by the current worlJ series, and it inspires our j thoughts to wander back over their predecessors some of them known to us, others just entries in the record 1 books, albeit personalities who live again, thanks to a few j memorandum notes by Richard McCann of the News- f paper Enterprise association. .! Sometlmei we wonder what heroes think while they are i twins lifted to the nedestal. to stand there for years thereafter, And likewise what does it take to make goal? Well, there it the comparatively recent episode of Babe Ruth pointing dramatically at the center field fence in the 1932 world aeries between the Yankee and the Cubs . . . gesticulating with t menace toward that barrier for the benefit of the Cubs who were taunting him from their bench because he had missed a second f gtrik . . . vindicating his gesture with a mighty borne run over i that same wall. v - ! What was Ruth thinking when he made that now his- torle gesture? Did he really believe he could stage a home ' tun like that? Ah, now, you're getting somewhere. ' After five years of silence, the great Bambino has finally ' relented and eonfesaes that a tingle would have cheered him no end when he made that gesture. "I was trying to slice a . foul Into the Cub dugout Just for fun." says the Babe. Per- haps that's how a lot of heroes are born. Look at poor Hcinie Zimmerman ... we know him as a goat . . . because baseball records say that he thought ' he could beat Eddie Collins to home plate and chased him 5 across the platter with a run that helped the Sox beat IL- the Giants in 1917 . . . but wait, is that quite fair to if Heinie . . . Let'i see now . . . What about somebody for- 4 getting to cover home plate? . . . Now you have some- 1 thing . . . Nobody was there, so Heinie had to give chase. 't Here's a hero, scarcely known, out of the musty record I books. His name is George Rohe, and his hour of stardom Vi eame a long time ago, back there shortly after the turn of J ' the century. It was in 190C, to be exact, when the White Sox i . needed a substitute third baseman against the Cubs . . . Rohe f got the call and Sox fans moaned in distress . - . but this un- I ' ' known guy slammed three triples which were the deciding , factor in as many games . . , but Rohe dropped bark into the ' minors next year and has never been heard of since. Heroes come and go in a hurry . . . that's why Ruth's V long endurance was so remarkable . . . Only two years ago at this time all Detroit was singing the praises of "Goose" Goslin . . . the man who slapped a single into right field to give the Tigers their first world series cham- pionship . . . but this week on' the eve of another autumnal j classic, the press dispatches carried a tiny item that Goslin had been unconditionally released by the Tigers . . . there- by ending the active playing days of this great star whose big moment came in the twilight of his fine career. Bill Wambsganss, the fellow whose name caused typesetters to groan every time they got Cleveland box score, has a great right to strut . . . he's the only player who ever made an un-' un-' assisted triple play in the series . . . that was back in 1920 when . the Indians beat the Dodgers . : '. Neither team has been in the ! series since. Old timers, it appears, will never quit talking about Hank |