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DON'T BLAME THE GOPHER—When your golf ball disappears on the course it's not the . work of the striped little fellow who didn't want to be quoted in this survey.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 17—You can absorb just 80. much of this Communist-spy stuff,‘ with a fresh revelation every hour on the hour, and then. it begins to run out of the ears. It sounds a little too E. Phillips Oppenheimish for complete credibility. It might have been an easy target for the liberal, or blush-rose, cry of witch hunt, and for Mr. Truman's elaborate shrug and label of political red herring. I say "might have been.” This : is, after all, an election year, and an international crisis year, and everybody is hollering and waving the arms. For a plain citizen who was raised in the simple company of rasslers, baseball players, police court characters and uncomplicated crackpots, all the nuances have a way of fusing into a vague aura of unreality. But.out of the charge-and-counter charge, with spy compounding spy and climax piling onto climax, ve - come two damning pieces of evidence. One is the fact that a Russian national, a school teacher named Oksana Stepanova.Kosenkina, took a dry dive out of the Soviet consulate in. New York. She jumped three stories onto concrete to get away from her fellow citizens, her protectors, her happy haven from persecution in a foreign land.

«Blunt as a Hammer Murder

HOT ON THE HEELS of that one is the bulletin from London which says that half a dozen Hungarians and Czechs, Olympic stars, have decided to stay on in England rather than go home {o athletic glory in their -Communistprotected lands. These two unrelated incidents are as blunt as a hammer murder. You can’t fog it up with ideology or politics, or protect it with potent public relations. It is as conclusive as a home run, and as immune to loose interpretation as a kick in the pants. This is the poor man's rebuttal of the apologists who say the Sovies aren't so bad, if we

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Hint Skid on HL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—You know what's speaking up on us so quietly that we're getting nb chance to. celebrate return of same? Warren G. Harding used to call it-normaley. +1 ‘mean have you slipped your butcher a box of ‘cigars lately? Bribed a room clerk in a hotel? Phoned a fellow who knew a fellow to get a railToad ticket? Been bumped off an airplane? Had any trouble buying nylons, candy, cigarets, whisky, underwear or chewing gum? “The answers give the clues. Prices of nearly everything still are outrageous, but have you noticed that the man who says, “I can get it for vou wholesale,” frequently can do exactly that? Sounds almost like the good old days. . A little shilly-shallying and palavering with enough storekeepers and you frequently can get 20 per cent knocked off the list price of an electric stove, vacuum cleaner, or deep freezer. The jeweler who fixed my watch the other day offered to get me a new one wholesale, plus $10 for himself. Two friends of mine who bought television sets got substantial discounts.

Surplus Piles on Shelves

KIND OF reminds you of Mexico where the ‘asking price is one thing, but the actual cost invariably is a matter of negotiation. Indicates, no matter what the big business men claim on the financial pages, that stuff is beginning to pile up .on the shelves, unsold. A An even better indication fire the bargain sales now in progress. Not in years have prices on summer clothes, for instance, been slashed so deeply. My bride at the moment is looking beautiful in a $69.50 dress for which she paid $19. That's only the beginning. The airplane companies are gathering in Washington soon to fig-

collection on A a golf ball,” declared Mr. Bola.

Not a Single Word on Golf Balls

I WAS GLAD he said that because in all my research gopher in relation to golf balls.

Mr. Bola on that point. off many a gopher.

who carries an air pistol with him while working on the course.

duffer’s theory that gophers steal golf balls.

in trim catching gophers,” Mrs. Parsons said, “and T've seen quite a few. All I have seen had small|® mouths. them.”

gopher (citellus tridecemlineatus). It has nothing to do with his big brother, the gray pocket gopher. The pocket gopher looks like a rat and for all I ' know may be a rat. But his kind are not present

The Indiana

My Greatest Day in Baseball— '

Homer In '3

Pitch Off OF Charlie R

oot,’ Ruth Says

(Editor's Note: Babe Ruth

many Here he tells of his own greatest thrill. It's probably the most repeated of many Ruth legends).

gave baseball a thrill.

berman., Lou Bola added a bit of information to my vast

the gopher. gopher’s mouth isn’t large enough to carry

there wasn’t a printed word about the Mac Parsons, Highland greenskeeper, backed up So has 19-year-old Mac Jr.

Mrs. Parsons added her bit to dispel the “My cat, his name is Tommy, keeps himself

Couldn't possibly get a golf ball in

All this pertains, of course, to the striped

in great numbers around here.

_ So, fellow duffers, there's still a couple of): ° months left for us to lose balls.

Leave us not blame the gopher. He's innocent, I tell you. . For one whole afternoon I tried getting a quote from a gopher and failed." Timid little things. Probably thought I was nuts. But that's the way it goes

when you try to do someone a favor. Little stinkers.

By Robert C. Ruark

would t give them half a chance to be nice kids. is. the ordinary tax payer's evidence that there is something to the prosecutor’s charges that the Russians are a gang of murdering thugs, with our local Commies as adjutants in planned world assassination. This is a meat-and-potato commentary on the often unsubstantiated charge that.things are not too nice behind the iron drape. Old Homer Q. Sapiens, the bewildered American male, may not know whether the pudgy spy queen, Liz Bentley, is a real menace or a neurotic fool. He may not savvy the ins and outs of the

Yalta, or the true story of Greece and Korea. |

Suppose he didn’t believe most or all of the Weeks and when I started to play again I had to wear a rubber bandage from my hip to my knee. You know, the<old Babe wasn’t getting any younger and Foxx was ahead of me in homers. I was 11 behind him early In| September and never did cateh| *

up. I wouldn't get one good ball consulate, does a half-gainer out the window! series to swing at. I remember]

one whole week when I'll bet I death in a dive in order to get into the hands of was walked four times in every| .

game.

current commotion in Washington, which is being presented by the Truman administration as purely a political smear job,

Risks Life in Dry Dive . BUT ALL of a sudden a Russian woman, being protected from her evil persecutors by her own rather than be protected any longer. She risks

our police, and to avoid being sent home to Papa Joe. This he can believe. This is incontrovertible sense.

And across the water, a flock of athletic heroes tions: I wanted to play 20 years in the big leagues. I wanted to theirs if they return to their native, benevolently|piay in 10 World Series, and I protected homelands. They choose, instead, the wanted. to hit 700 home ‘runs. drab poverty and grim privation of seedy Eng-well '32 was one away from my 20th year and that series with This is roughly comparable to Jesse Owens and the Cubs was No. 10. and I finalEleanor Holm suddenly deciding to stay on in1y wound up with 729 home runs, rather than come home 10/countin’ World Series games, so {I can’t kick,

suddenly ‘decide not to reap the renown which is

land.

Hitler's Germany, tickertape and national acclaim. If you seek an unshakeable verification of our|

stand against the Russians and their local afili- 1 had to quit the club and go ates, it seems to me you have it all, right there. home because my stomach was] | An old lady jumps. Some muscular heroes, once gickin’ up and the docs found out

my appendix was inflamed and maybe I'd have to have it out. No, sir, I wouldn’t let em. Not

till after the season anyway. By Frederick C. Othman| Te world series aian't 1ast long, but it was a honey. That Malone and that Frimes didn’t

Cancer Spread to 3 Areas Of Babe Ruth's Body

Tumor Began in Ear Passage Back of Nose,

Affecting Lungs, Liver, Autopsy Shows

By PAUL F. ELLIS, United Press Science Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 17—The cancer that killed Babe Ruth had

sprung, won't go back home.

ure out schemes to get more customers into their half empty flying machines: They may even consider the idea (which I give 'em free) of cutting fares. No longer is it necessary to get a coupon and stand in line to buy a railroad ticket. My mail box has been stuffed the past few weeks with urgent pleas from summer resort owners to favor ’em with my patronage. One at the beach in Delaware says his rates are the lowest in years. Another in Vermont says his charges, have been newly reduced. ™ It is an unusual hotel anywhere, New York and Washington included, that can’t produce a room without a reservation. Nor have I had to stand up in a restaurant in I don’t know when, waiting. for a seat. Service seems to be a little better, too. |

Special Deals on Auto Tires

I DON'T have to make a date ahead of time any more with the doctor of motorology to get a transfusion for my elderly two-door sedan. The tire stores are offering special deals again and anybody who pays regular list price on a shoe for his jalopy is a spendthrift. Street cars have seats frequently these days. No railroad station I've seen this summer has been without its fleet of waiting taxis. Mostly the drivers have been polite. All these items and others, as I say, have crept upon us almost imperceptibly the past few months. The past few days, in some instances, the creep-' ing has become a rush. High prices, buyers’ strikes, and heavy production have done it. Next step, unless I'm even blinder than some) of the economists who have been wrong at every turn, is a drop in the cost of living. For those who don’t mind haggling, it's already here in a small way. Personally, I don’t mind. Puts a fellow in the driver's seat again at long, long last.

Quiz Master

??? Test Your Skill ???

When did the Democratic Party hold its first national nominating convention? In 1832. Andrew Jackson was nominated for a second term as President, and Martin Van Baren ‘was nominated for Vice President. What is the smallest kingdom in the world? Monaco is the smallest kingdom in the world. It is only fifty-three and a quarter miles in cirenit, including Monte Carlo. ,

Who inaugurated the modern postal system? The world is indebted to Sir Rowland Hill, of England, for introducing » cheap uniform postal minion because it was the first English colony

According to native tradition, what town is the oldest in Europe? _ Toledo, according to Spanish tradition, is not only the oldest town in Europe, but the oldest in the world. Authentic history goes back more than 2000 years, when the Romans took Toledo, in 194 B. C, from the Carthaginians.

Why is Virginia called the Old Dominion? Virginia is known as the Old or Ancient Do-

game off ol’ Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field. The day, October 1, the third game of that 1932 World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments; I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to. I just sorta waved at they whole fence. But that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was MY, Parsons has written give that thing a ride . . . outta the park, anywhere. . ”

hittin’ homers, but mostly among us Yankees. Combs and Fletcher and Crosetti and all of "em used to holler at me when I'd pick up

Babe, hit one” Pennock? He was a great pitch er. believe me. He told me once:|! “Babe. I get the biggest thrill of my life whenever I see you hit a home run. It's just like watchin’ a circus act.” So I'd often kid 'em : 3 "”, A b i Dk otter} That's where those Cubs decided did; sometimes I didn’t . . . but!to really get on us. They were what the heck, it was fun. |in front of their home folks and One day we were playin’ in I guess they thought they better Chicago against the White Sox, and Mark Roth, our secretary, was worryin’ about holdin’ the train because we were in extra innings. He was: fidgetin’ around behind the dugout lookin’ at his watch and I saw him when I went

told him. “I'll get this over with right now.” Mike Cvengros was

‘cause old Mose Grove was tryin’ to keep the Athletics up there| for their fourth straight flag and} sometime in June I pulled a leg muscle in my right leg chasin’ a Berlin business, or who said what to whom at|fly ball

By BABE RUTH (As told to John Carmichael—Distributed by the United Press)

NOBODY BUT a blankety-blank fool would-a done what I did} that day. When I think of what-a idiot I'd been if I'd struck out and I could-a, too, just as well as not because I was mad and I'd made up my mind to swing at the next pitch if I could reach it with a bat. Boy, when I think of the good breaks in my life . , . {that was one of ‘em!

Aw, ; the day

bat in a close game; “Come on, ‘Member Herb

up to hit in the 15th. “All right, quit worrying.” I

I was on the bench about three

» ” » I ALWAYS had three ambi-

But then along in September,

spread to at least three areas in nounced today. The announcement officially

Ruth’s death was made after an autepsy. Prior to the autopsy it

was not definitely known where deadly growth.

The autopsy showed, however,

that the original cancer was in

the naso-pharynx. The official an-/yq1ue in the treatment of cancer. nouncement from the hospital

sald:

“Babe Ruth died of cancer. The nis tumor, not only locally, but

tumor began in the naso-pharynx, | also to the lungs and liver.” a part of the ear passages back]

of the nose, in a locality near the upder surface of the skull. Presses On Nerves “From this point, the tumor had first grown out to press upon certath nerves which emerge from the brain, one of which partly supplies the motor function of the throad and larynx.

sease, Babe Ruth suffered from paralysis of one of these nerves and as a result became hoarse and found it difficult to swallow. This symptom continued up to the time of his death. “As in many cases of cancer, the growth spread from the point of origin and appeared in his neck. The diagnosis of cancer in this case was definitely established a year or two ago by the surgical removal of a lymph node from the neck for microscopic examination. “While in Memorial Hospital, Babe Ruth received treatments

time for his general condition.

in the New World po {

t I hit the homer talk like any Sunday school guys and their trainer . . Lotshaw . . . he got smart in; the first game at New York, too That's what started me off. Ii} popped up once in that one, and he was on their bench wavin’ a towel at me and hollerin’:

wagon, you pot belly.”

» jyellin’ , cuttin’ in + . . that made me sore. = 1 USED io. pop off 4 lot about, long as they started in on me,| we let em have it after 'em and maybe we gave ‘em more than they could take ‘cause they looked beat before they went j off the field. | &°8

| Bush walked every the bases. I'll betcha 10 bases on balls scored for us. Anyway we got

{act tough.

hell about how cheap they were to Mark Koenig only votin’ him a half-share in the Beries and they were callin’ me big belly and balloon-head, but I think we had ’em madder by givin’ them|in that fifth , , , just ahead of

finger at the windpipe. like callin’ a guy yellow.

going

“Karly in the course of his di-|

by x-radiation and radium, and| in addition such supportive treat-ia hospital that specializes in the ment as required from time to treatment of cancer. He knew he isis {was getting X-ray and radium “He received no special drug or treatments, So, probably the ‘chemical in the attempt to con-

trol Bie’ tumor=—po’ taropiggin, 3

+ yeah, Andy

“If; had you, I'd hitch you to al

® = = |

I DIDN'T mind no ballplayers| at me, but the trainer,

We went We didn't have to do much he first game at home. Guy

body around You look it up and

nto Chicago for the third game.

We were givin’ them (the Cubs)

that ol’ lump-in-the-throat sign + « « you know, the thumb and That's Then

into the fifth frame,

WE 4

2 World Series C One Of Breaks In Life By ‘B

‘I Was Mad and Determined to Swing at Next

away from big league games. He Yankee Stadium when every bal Babe Ruth Day. :

YOU KNOW another thing lone and Grimes with their think of in that game was the thumbs in their ears, wiggling|, , | gettin’ a hold their fingers at me.

play Jurges made on Joe Sewell

me. . J was out there waitin’ to hit, so I could see it good and he

made a helluva’ pickup, way back| si

itchin® and I hit one outta the : 1aughed : Re We made the train easy. In the first inning I got a hold on the grass, and “shot” Joe out sand. the bases It was fun. of one with two on and parkediby a halfstep. 1 didn't know lucky bum, . . * = # it in the stands for a three-run whether they were gonna get on ny looked at I I'D HAD a lot of trouble In jead and that shut 'em up pretty me any more or not when I got took wa ' me '32 and we weren't any sifishes well. But they came back wits to the box, but I saw a Jemon : pn r (¥ to win that pennant, either. some runs and we were 0 4 rolling out to the plate and | wavin' I held up my finger sald: could see

looked over and there was Ma-

HIS DAY—After his retirement from baseball, Ruth stayed

did return, howaver, in (947 to | park in the U. S. celebrated

: t : I knew it was going I told Hartnett: “If that bum| _ . yes sir, you can (Root) throws it in here, I'll hitiyour hands when

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Ask Gabby , . . he loud me. Then's 1 waved to thelyoiieq fence. Ee 80 they'd r . . Koe a NO, 1 didn't point to any spot, : but as long as I'd called the first 0° two strikes on myself haddal oh. ;

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MURDERERS' ROW-—Ruth and Lou Gehrig (above left) were

the mainstays in the New York

Yankees' murderers’ row’ that

terrorized American League pitching. Ruth was the first major

leaguer ever to hit 500 home runs,

his body, Memorial Hospital an-

giving cancer as the cause of

the cancer originally started its

|chemical which had been pre{viously investigated at Memorial Hospital and found to be of no

| “Death was due to complications arising from a spread of

| Before Ruth entered Memorial { Hospital June 24, he had been {treated with the new drug teropjterin, & cousin of ‘the folic acid, {which is a member of the B com{plex family. The drug, falled to {stop Ruth’s cancer, Having become a patient at {Memorial, Ruth had an aspiraition biopsy. That is a procedure whereby a piece of tissue is removed by needle from a suspected area and the specimen then studfed under the microscope. Doctors at Memorial Hospital gave Ruth only accepted forms of treatment. There were as many as 10 of the hospital's top

case at all times. Even when he was

in pain, he managed to smile, his doctors said.

medical scientists working on his 38 Ryth was as “happy as a boy” j

Major Records Of Babe. Ruth

The principal major league records set by Babe Ruth: Host Rome um du "Sest Han en season x Most runs batted in a h oxira base hits season (1931)—119. al percentage season (1920) 4.847. Most strikeouts In career—1330. a salary (1930-31)—4$80,000 per

ir. Mont years leading majors in homers

[Truman Lauds ‘Swat Kin

TWO IMMORTALS—Babe and Ty Cobb posed for th tograph in 1945, Both men have been elected to the B Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association

Leads Nation in

WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 17 (UP)~— day led the nation in mourning the death of the following telegram to the “Babe's” in New York City: : : } “A whole generation of boys now grown to manhood will mourn the passing of the home run king Pues d—— of the baseball world, Babe Ruth / had all of the qualities of a hero! symbol of

wife, Mrs. Claire

Most home runs five shmes—7. Most home runs with bases filled sesson (1919)—4. Most pasts In balls in career—2066. w D SERIES RECORDS Most played in--10, Most series batting 300 or better. Most runs scored—37

runs one series (1028), runs one game (1936)—4. hits one series (1938)—10. homers total-15. homers game (1938, 1928)--3, total

total bases, game (1926-1928-13. bases on. balls~33. Most bases on balls, series (1836)--11. Most bases on bails, game (1928)—4, He - es’ ohe ser tahing Most Consecutive Innings with mos utive sut being scored on (1p18. 1918) lo; (13 in 1018 game, 14 in 1918 game). Pi and unmg longest game in World Series history (1918)-~14 innings.

Salaries Earned By ‘Babe Ruth

average

for his professional baseball ca-

Memorial - doctors never told

asked and they never brought it { up. However, he knew he was in

Bambino knew he was

Ruth. he had cancer. He never!

Babe Ruth's salary by seasons

and as an exemplar of clean sport baseball.” was an inspiration to tens of . 88 i SRA thousands of rooters of all ages| FORD FRICK, president, Na» all over the country. To you and Host : Eirybedy : to all who mourn with you I offer th: baseball will > Babe Ruth as long as the gam is played.” aia) Y panER

this assurance of heartfelt sympathy.”

~ » ” AL LOPEZ, manager, Indianapolis Indians: “I knew Babe Ruth well and it 1s a terrible shock not only to baseball but to every American to lose a man like the Babe.” ~ . ” MAYOR WILLIAM O'DWYER, New York: “All I have to say is whole town and the

Pirates: i ro , I He was a —— figure"

R oo iW $ "oo. ate ge ol

“A ar ¥

happy landing’.” - ” » WILL HARRIDGE, president of the American $

reer: Your Saiaryluire and personality in the HH *'¥ 1.300] tory Of baseball.” jis : JOHN 3. Qi HH ‘+ Yooo|ager, Boston js Jo.git was probably wal . 30,000 sports figure in 1 . 3 %0iwas a 1934 : to but also to the grownups’ y - ~ - 1927 © }%| CONNIE MACK, m {vas . 70.00 Philadelphia Athletics: eat : 80.001 hitter who ever lived and one of 0 * soooe the finest the : 35.000/ever had in the death of B Js . 0.00 ” ; \

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