Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1920 — LOCAL ORDER RECIPIENT OF PRIZED BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

LOCAL ORDER RECIPIENT OF PRIZED BASEBALL

♦ J. E. Murphy, Grand Knight of the local order of Knights of Columbus. has on display in the window of his College Inn Restaurant, an autographed base ball, the gift of “Babe” Ruth, world’s greatest batter and drawing card, to the Knights of Columbus of this city. During a recent exhibitin game in Indianapolis in which Ruth’s club met Indianapolis, one of the state officers of the Knights of Columbus went to Ruth and explained to him that there was a state .wide movement on the part of the Knights of Columbus toward the building of a Father Gibault home for delinquent and dependent boys, and asking that he autograph several baseballs which would be turned over to the councils first subscribing their allotments, and the local council was among the first. Every council in the state has now subscribed its allotment and the home is assured. “Babe” Ruth epent many years in such a home for boys in Baltimore, Md., and was greatly pleased upon learning of the movement of the Knights of Columbus in this state, and in a letter to Knight Murphy commended the work of the focal council.