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Show Remember Him? 9 Babe Rath . . H want Boat) post Bambino Seeks Pilot's Berth By BILL CO RUM, International New Bparta Writer NEW YORK, Oct 1 Among 1 th applicant for th Job as man- . agar of the Boston Be In 1M ' I th exiled ciar of baseball, George , H. Ruth. Judge Landl. Mr. Harrldg. Mr. Frick, Colonel Ruppert, Mr. Yaw-key, Yaw-key, Mr. Griffith You'U remember George Ruth. Think hard! He' th big fellow. Folk ueed ta call him Bab. Kid followed him around th streets. Still do. Grownup followed him through th turnstile might yet, it they had tha chsnc. Look him up In th record book. Look him up In your bank book. Yes, think hard. It'll com back. Memories of thos (creaming, hysterical hys-terical throngs that packed the parka. Memorise of thoaa equally screaming headline. I waa aura you'd remember It. Maybe you won't plao tha face ar tha body. That grows even stouter than before. But tha faint echo af aa many cheers must linger. Well, thafe the fellow who wanta tha Job la Boston. Actually, what ha wants, haa wanted from th day h quit th gam as an active player, la a managerial man-agerial Job In baseball. And baseball base-ball Is a business that owe him at least one shot, if vr any business owed any man on. I know, Colonel Ruppert. that you offered him 828,000 a season to go to Nswark as a manager at on time. I alao know that he turned It down and then waa sorry and wanted to reopen negotiation and that you said "no." Knows Mistake But w shouldn't forget, colonel, that a great atar find It hard to swallow pride. Th big fellow made a mistake when he refused that offer. He know It He ha mad other mil-take. mil-take. Let m tell you baseball gentlemen gentle-men what the fan are thinking. I know it isn't tru, but th fan ar thinking that some sort of mysterious mys-terious blackball haa been Introduced Intro-duced against their rtwhil IdoL Thl I not a ob (lory, Oeorg tin I surrounding thro husky meal a day. He living the life of Riley, aa a matter of fact. Ho may be ever so much better off as ha la than ha would ba managing man-aging a ball club. That' not th point The point is h wants a Job. And alnca b does want It the further point la that ha rate It Sverl legend not baud on fact hav grown up around Babe alnc his retirement. On I that a team without a lor of money couldn't afford to meet hi salary demand. But no club owner can know that, because no owner ha asked him. Actually Ruth' alary dsmands would be modest to the point of making it an economy for a major laagu club ta hlr him. He wants a Job. Not a big salary. Deserve Trial Another growing legend I that he wouldn't make a good manager. Poaaibly not. Who know that? . Nobody ever accused him of being i a dumb ball player, did theyT Aa a field leader, (specially with ' some such shrewd baseball man a ! Bob Quinn In th office behind him, he might prove an unqualified sue-. sue-. cess. At the salary hs would ask, no club would Joa much on him offering a one-year contract. : Bab may be th forgotten king to the baseball gentlemen. The 3 fans have more retentive memories. |