The Washington times., 1920-09-10
so St. Mary's School
Band Boys RendAir as
Ruth Hits Out Homer

CLEVELAND. Sept. 10. - Fifty
youthful tanners OF wind instruments.
none other than the Justly celebrated
members OF st. Mary's Industrial
School Band. went delirious with Joy
yesterday afternoon when their idol
OF idols. Babe Ruth. slammed the
leather bound sphere oyer Cleveland's
risht-neld fence for his forty-seventh
home run.
Not All the kings horses nor all the
kings men could have held the lid on
those Baltimore youngsters when
Babe made his mighty lunge and the
sharp crack of = perfect wailop broke
the expectAnt hush. No music coaxed
out OF cornets. trombones. ssxophonss
or cymbAls was ever SO sweet TO
those SO pairs of ears as that resound-
Ing thwack. Beethoven. Mendelssohn.
Chopin. Rubinstein. Irving Berlin
and George ~. Cohan have all. each
and severally. lost q bet There are
30 budding musicians who viii swear
that the astonishing Mr.. Ruth has
found the lost chord"
woRsHIPFUL BREAK LOOSE
The echo Of that conclusion must
have been audible out in the middle of
Lake Erie. 1t burst simultaneously.
spontAneously. not to mention ex-
plosiveIy. from the throats of tho
worshipful 50. II they ever let loose
the same degree of pneumatic horse
power into their band instruments
they would be a total wreck. And
as II their practiced lungs were not
enough, they used hands. feet or any
other convenient portion OF their
anatomy that could bang into some
thing and add q note or two to the
general din.
The sportsman-like Clevelanders
who swarmed the stand to witness the
mighty struggle for leadership be-
tween the Yanks and their own home
team were prepared to give Babe .
bit of applause for appearance sake.
but they never did. Their amisble in
tentions were Jared loose and lost In
speechless amaxement at the inter-
ruption just abaft Of third base.
where the st. Mary's contingent had
it's reservation. They seemed to
In the face of that uproT would be
pale and Intellectual. II would have
been too much like sing ing whisper
ing Hope" in a good. live boiler fac
tory. One man was so overcome with
emotion that he treated all the boys
within reach OF him to peanuts.
THEIR WARNINGS GRATIFTED.
Those juveniles had travelled from
Baltimore, tossed through q prac-
ticaIIy sleepless night on Pullman
sleepers. throbbing with yearnings to
see the former st. Mary's boy wallop
the old pill out Of the lot. They may
toL xIo At
Grams, but they are boys for all that,
and the boy that is in them has loomed
big ever since they learned of the
plans of Brother Paul and the COM
mittee campaigning for funds to re-
build the institution to take them
around the big league circuit with the
Yankees. They have talked II,
dreamed il, lived through 1t a thou.
sand times in anticipation. and yet
when the hoped-for happened II
thrilled them as though 1t was the
last thing in the world they expected
to see
1t was we'll for the spirits OF the
tourists that Babe didn't do Casey.
for, subsequently to the tSird inning,
when that forty-seventn nomer was
pen to the Yanks. Ruth's perform.
ance must have peeved the Cleveland
aggregation. for they proceeded to
wreak awful vengeance. upon the
New Workers. As one after another
of four Yankee pitchers was admins
tered a painful trouncing the youth
full bandsmen could only bolster up
each others sinking spirits by re-
repeating, and reiteratins,
"Well, anyway, Babe gotta home rum"
There were thrills aplenty. however.
for Babe accepted Ave chances. four
of them outs, with pleasing ease and
agility. They helped to heal the lac
erations caused by a 10 to 4 score.
The st. Mary's boys received flat
tering ovation from the throngs in