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Show BABE RUTH TALKS UN MONEY END OF SPORT Fan Trave'ed Far to Shaka Hands With Yankee Star. One Ambition Was to Gret Man Who Made $50,000 a Year as Baseball Player and Then Tel! Folk at Home of Incident. Babe Ruth Is willing to admit that ball players are strong for "commercialized'' "commer-cialized'' baeball to the point of getting get-ting what 'hey think is their fair share, in the way of salaries, from the receipts of the gate, and the average ball player is pretty much Bolshevik on that point, but Uie Babe says a little lit-tle incident in Louisville started him to thinking along a new line as regards re-gards the money end of it. The Yankees played an exhibition game in Louisville and the Babe, as the big noise, was the center of attraction, at-traction, of course. He gave the usu-al usu-al amount of time to visiting a school for boys, talked to them in the way they like, extolling the idea of playing play-ing ball to win for the sake of winning, win-ning, admonishing Miem to always play fair and square etc. Then Ruth went i the ball park. There was more or less introducing and butting la of b'igs who hadn't been introduced, all of whom wished babe Ruth. to meet Babe Ruth. Up comes om guy, crowds his way to the fore ani says: "Mr. Ruth, will you shake hands witfc me?" "Sure," said the Babe. When the man had released Bab from his fond grip he cocked one eye and said, with a smirk of satisfaction; "Well, I come a 100 miles just W shake your hand. I always wanted to shake hands with a man who made $50,000 a year, and now I've done it." Babe Ruth is pretty young, but ha has an appreciation of values. "That seemed to be all that guy had in mind," he said. "Just thinking about the money I make, or he thinks I make. Reckon if I'd given him an autographed au-tographed ball he'd peddled it around the pawn shops or put it up at auction to see what he could realize on it And then they talk about us ball players play-ers being money mad !" |