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Show Greatest Natural Lover of Children in Sports Rud Rennie, a New York baseball writer, describes Babe Ruth as the "greatest natural lover of children in sportdom." An instance of how Ruth's sympathies sympa-thies were aroused by children who through illness were never able to .get to a ball game, was a visit the Bahe paid to a bed-ridden boy in Birmingham Birming-ham this spring. The father of the boy, shabbily dressed, accosted Ruth near the local park and told him how much his son admired the Bahe. After Aft-er the game, Ruth went out to see the boy, autographed baseballs for him and cheered him up with a lengthy stay. |