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Show Ovation Accorded to "Babe Ruth's Brother' The biggest tiger In the world, so I believe, resides in the Culcutta zoo. I saw hlm there. And they also point out to you the grunlte shaft which marks the site of the infamous "Black Hole," in which 123 out of 146 British soldiers were smothered one summer night. But stranger than these things was the report of a baseball game played In Calcutta in July by sailors from Uncle Sam's warship lying in me nar-bor. nar-bor. says Glrnrd In the Philadelphia Inquirer. I am Indebted to our fellow-townsman, fellow-townsman, William Lancaster Jenkins, consul general at Culcutta, for this report re-port which appeared in the Calcutta ' Statesman: . "In America there ia a great man named Bube Ituth a veritable Jack Hobbs, In fact who apparently has several brothers. At all events, sev-erul sev-erul batsmen representing the navy took the pitch with a concerted yell, 'Here's Babe Ruth's brother!' " |