Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1920 — PITY THE POOR PRODUCT OF THE REFORM SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

PITY THE POOR PRODUCT OF THE REFORM SCHOOL

It developed recently that “Babe” Ruth, the greatest jiatsman of them all, is in a fair way to dean up a fortune in, this baseball season of 1920 through his prowess with the willow. When the season opened Ruth was guaranteed by New York baseball men >SOO for every home run he made this season in excess of his 29 record of 1919. To date he has made just 20 more home runs than in 1019, which nets him the tidy sum of 110,000 under his guarantee. But that is not all, for the “pride of the diamond” nets 35,000 this year for a movie contract, geta >lO,000 from a soap company, >5,000 for talking into a phonograph, will draw >20,600 or more as his season’s salary, and has more than a fair chance to figure m the worid• series. In addition to all of this he has ' a contract calling for a ten weeks’ tour playing baseball in Cuba, which will het him several thousands weekly. A pretty snug salary for a reform school product.