Show unemployment problem solved babe finds job by WILLIAM C UTLEY ON T be alarmed that D DON whoosh 1 you just heard and felt was not the beginning of a whirlwind it was has just the collective sigh of relief of about peo people X for the nations nation 5 most appalling unemployment problem has been sol solved ed babe ruth has found a job what was to become of babe has caused as much consternation as what will happen to the the mighty sultan of swa who left his native land to become uncle sam sams s unofficial ambassador to japan and ere abed more good will in a few weel s than statesmen haie in years returned home to find himself on the outside looking in lie ile had declared he would mould not become again an active player for the new york who bought him when he was a young pitcher with the boston fed red sox and and then had bad to build the worlds world s largest baseball base bill sta daum to hold the enormous numbers of those most fanatic of all idol worship ers erg the baseball fans who wanted to see him bambino who answered to name dame of george herman when they called the roll for soup in st mary alary s orph anage three decades agu ago wanted a managers job when he left on the barnstorming barns barnstorm torning ng tour which found him still able to paste the old pellet higher than mt bit fujiyama and farther iban than japan s imperialistic amb eions he lit tie doubted that there would be a suf fi fl clency elency of such posts awaiting his return baseball om 0 ed it to him but there were none baseball which the babe s wagon tongue bat had lifted from just a swell swell game to a giant glant industry had no place for him even his own yankees dant want mant him ahey would have hired him yes be cause there would have been bloody revolution in manhattan if they neg lecter him entirely but they d t want him that was apparent it hurt the baab no of course but it was his own fault the babe Is like a b g shaggy playful dog that is al ways doing something ute lute he ile senses that he has done cometh ng tint that pleased you very much gets pretty cocky about it proceeds to jump up on you gets his dirty paws on your nice clean shirt and has to be spanked in short he lacks d at the close of the 1934 playing sea son with I 1 is batting average havin having shrunk to his I 1 lome ome run total t to 32 and his salary to a mere 35 per annum and his forty one year old legs about as steady as those of the card table you borrowed next door for tuesday tuesdays s bridge game the babe an bounced to all and sundry that he was through as an active player his D c way with all the diplomatic aplomb of the puppy dog we have mentioned he went straightway to col jil jal e ruppert who manages to find time between his beer foundry and his yacht to run the affairs of the sew new york american lea league ue ball club the colonels eye brows lifted in mute surprise no doubt because the time was hardly r pe for the curtain to rise on tie tl e an nual melodrama that these two sei sea ans are wont to enact for the benefit of the pi ess each year bear before s ning to give our hero more money for circling the bases than the president gets for running around the democratic platform are sou satisfied with your dour man agern asked the babe mak ng no ef fort what whatever eier to keep the question se cret from the press and the public colonel ruppert replied that he was ailward G barrow general manager of the club f arther evidenced complete satisfaction with manager joe me bic carthy it was cot not the first experience of its kind for the babe when miller hug g ns died a few years ago babe ed for the job the yanks hive have never considered ruth of managerial timber and dlan didn t tl ti en they made bob shaw key manager when he failed in a 3 jears ears tr al they imported joe me bic carthy from the nat onal league babe his has always been petulant about this injustice and in consequence there his has always beai beail a coldness between him and mccarthy with ruth cly ely declared to be after mccarthy McCart hv s job the yani s and colonel ruppert were on tt if e spot they felt obi ged to retain the babe should I 1 e res agn n as a player b t could they countenance an open I 1 o hilty be tween th their thir ir manager and one of his men babe was getting old could he still draw at the gate to draw the fans new lork has to have hane a winner inner could the babe stand the gaff me ale carthy was almost sure to keep the babe on the bench would mould the fans put up with it now to change the scene for a ino ment than things s were mere hap happening Dening in the town where the bambino began his b g league career the boston braves struggling along as a second rate club for years were losing money something had to be done S eting in a box at a braves game one afternoon were mere judge emil fuchs president of the club and the then alador jimes james A curley now governor of massachusetts bus ness was mas bid bad curley convinced conNin ced fuchs that the braves must secure some great star to offset the gate attraction of the red sot sox whom tom dough had bu it into a winner he ile went ment himself r to tall to puth ruth on the night of ruths ruth S departure for the orient babe was willing enough to go to Bean but there were mere too many obstacles in the way and the thing was presumably dropped right there boston goes wild when ruth returned it was general ly accepted that he be would s agn again with the anks lanks as a player placer colonel ruppert refused to be left on the spot he telephoned fuchs in boston and asked him if he wanted the babe fuchs responded by catching the nery ery next rattler for manhattan Blan hattan on february 27 ruth was made as distant manager of the braves sign ng a three year players contract at a figure variously reported at 20 to ao 20 a year he ile was also made vice pre president aident and granted a share in the receipts which sl make his earnings from 40 to 50 a year boston where the fans I 1 ke le their baseball even better than their native beans went wild babe was toasted at dinners rosy predictions were made for a revival of w nning baseball in the hub numerous inspired citizens even offered to buy stock in the club which was badly in need of fresh caff tal and r lit in the midst of all the cheer ng n the the playful puppy again tor for got his d and got muddy feet on n tl ti e masters master s shirt I 1 will tile ril e over oner the complete ac ive tive management of the bra braves es in said the babe there had been in an undercurrent ever since the news of f his sa s1 sign ng that the capable bill mckechnie wily scot who man mana aged ged he the braves would get a raw deal I 1 re fe d 1 colons were that ruth would mould take iver over the reins from the popular me bic A 1 f the babe greeted by new boss bill mckechan e manager of the boston braves at right the babe as a player at st mary marys s school kechnie before july 4 ot of the present bear ear or even before the first of may blay already in a ticklish position de sp te the fact that huth ruth had been in the fold only a couple of day daub the bos ton management announced magnani magnant that when ruth was made play ing manager dich mckechnie Uc would mould be in moved oved up to the exec ilive post ot of gen gell eral manager with more dignity and more salary babe puth Is popular for the same reason that tad jacl dempsey was sel ence and sl sk 11 are creat stuff for the coaches and the trainers but what the fan who mho waits in line hours for a bleicher bleacher seat practically in the next co anty wants is the I 1 nock nok it pun h nevertheless it Is this real natural boa bo lines of P ta s th tb t mil mal e I 1 the I 1 idol iol I 1 ie 1 is P aibe ibe I 1 les the I 1 ds a d cobl es ith 1 S J tta S them continually at the ball park con he Is regarded almost in the light of a deity lads who con ddn t tell you the name of the governor ot of the r state can recite ruth s lifetime alte time records in their sleep an orphan himself kuth ruth Is never so much at home as when he Is enter the children at an orphanage or other institution once when the lanks m were ere in minneapolis for an ex game queen marie also hap bened to be in town newspaper men saw tl e story possie I 1 ties of a meet I 1 ing between the sultan of swat and th the e queen of rumania and a time for the queen to receive ruth was mas ar ranged earl er in the evening the bab babe e vis ted an orphanage the young fell immediately in love with the genial behemoth and begged him to linger Alean meanwhile while frantic calls were coming from the hotel he was already late tor for the reception for a moment he listened to the pleas of the tiny fans then he returned to the tele phone tell the queen I 1 im in sorry he said I 1 got a date fame t really spoiled him he ile still gets a great lick out of the at paid him the writer accod 4 babe talk ng to a pat ent in a ch I 1 dren s hospital palled babe and his wife on a tour of the ch cago IN world orld a fair in 1933 there were a quarter of a million peo pie on the grounds that hot afternoon and walking over the three and one half miles of grounds was v as any L thing but pleasant the exposition had furnished a luxurious car and a chaff beur for the babes party and babe chortled we ave were rolling along with the greatest of ease when babe yelled for the driver to stop back up to that woman will jou said the babe po out a woman trudging 7 wearily along hating the walk malk and the heat it was the wife of lefty 0 doul then an outfielder with the new aorl giants and now manager of the san I 1 cli cit b of the pacific coast league Eile everyone thought babe was going to offer her a ride yoo hoo he called imagine the shock when she turned around and he made a fr gotful face emitted a long rasp in ing noise known in ball part parl s as the ba bird rd settled bad bael in I 1 is seat and s said aid 0 X drive on I 1 not ot ten in later he entered the amphitheater of the marionette show where a puppet babe kuth ruth was part 0 of f the program instantly zed by the crowd he had to go to the mi ml crochone cro phone and be introduced by george rector speech I 1 speech was the cry cl clewing enn ing nervously on five sticks of gum he opened his mouth to speak he ile gulped turned red began again he ile gulped once more morl and al alp geared eared to be strangling finally he bl arted out a few ble words and dashed embarrassedly back to his seat cripes I 1 he sa d I 1 swallowed my gum cumi I 1 will help braves what a personality like this will do for the braves and the national league Is a foregone conclusion lie ile will still bang a few over the fence espee ally with the short barr ers erg in the senior cincu t IN ne of the braves branes exhibit tion games in the south are with the yani ees and tl ti ey are drawing record crow crom ds leaves the american league without hs h s career having slumped to an anti climax joining the national league he w 11 stimulate tiel et sales all over the loop especially in loston where no less than fans turned out to fete him in his last american league game last year and in the polo grounds where the giants hold forth and where he gained his greatest fame lie ile Is expected to pack the parks in cincinnati and I 1 litts pittsburgh itts burgh wl ich have never neer had a gl apse of his tn in gaty clouting this is healthy for baseball chicago too will be interested when he steps to the alae aga ast the cubs for the windy city fans w 11 never for get blat worlds series of 1032 1932 when he be created what was wag probably the most dramatic dri matic scene ever ener enacted in base ball all through the series he had ragged the cub cuba players unmercifully already considered aim alm st a dod dering old man he strode up to bat at a crucial moment del beritely bera tely he took two str kes joshing the cub bench all the time then pointed to the farthest d stant point of the bleachers in center came the p ten tell and hackl hacki went ent the hall ball right to the spot one of the longest drives ever spen seen at rigley fiel I 1 rhe file cubs were eked fr n thit that moment oc wa we tern new pa oer union |