The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-12
BABE RUTH GOT
INTO BIG LEAGUE
IN FIRST YEAR
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any time she failed to show Up I was
useless. She was attending a girls
college in Boston and taking a special
course in baseball at the open air
school in Fenway Park. She evidently
fell for Prof Ruth of the baseball
Faculty, because one day in October,
1914, when Prof. Ruth had a class in
Baltimore, he up and married Der.
And he has been happy ever since.
Although this story Is supposed to be
about myself. i wouldn't be fair to
myself IL l didn't present my better
W per cent. She knows baseball and
can handle temperamental batter
as easily as she handles hc- own car
whenever | am playing at home she
Is at the ball park, and she has
learned go much about the fine points
OF the game that she can anticipate
a managers instructions, and fire.
quently calls a play before 1t is made,
Dulng the season our home is IN
New York apartment, but we have
another place with trees and grass
around 1t up in Sudbury, Mass. We
spend most OF our winters in Boston
because have a cigar factory up
there which takes some management.
On the field we drop baseball We
motor together in the evenings or go
to the Broadway musical comedies,
1
times sit at home and play the organ.
No Kidding; l do And. believe me,
| wlgg!e a wicked trernolo She
doesn't call me Babe: she calls me
Hon And What l call her is-be-
tween MS.
But my story il back in the base
ball season Of 1914 and l must return
to it, When / arrived in Boston IT
seemed to me that there was nothing
more for me to win in the way OF
honons, And because felt that wav
the blow was all the harder when
the Red SoX refused to take Arc
from my spirit and casually farmed
me out to the Providence Club OF
my old league, the International
after about a month on the bench. II
was pretty disappointing to a Young
fellow who thought he was coming
along fine, but l remembered the
advice of Brother Matthias to play
the game so | said nothing much
and went to work for Providence.
On Sept. l was back in Bostor,
and they gave me a chance to work.
Altogether / broke. into the box score
four times before the season ended.
pitching for Harry Frazees team.
Two games l won, one lost and one
/ did not finish.
Boston did not have occasion to
farm me out after that. 1t is true that
l pitched only twenty two innings
and got no homers that year, but I
had taken part in only four games
and had done fairly well in one month
OF experience in the big time. | was
waiting for 1915 to come around
when | was sure I'd get my chance.
They started me twenty-five times
in 1915. l won eighteen games and
turned in seven defeats. This gave
me a pitching average of .720. The
| home runs did not come so easily
| against the expert pitching OF the old
| heads and cunning arms of the big
/ hague moundsmen as they had
against the kids on the lot or the men
who went up against the Orioles 1
was able 10 collect only four homers
and they did not attract much atten-
! ton, for a record Of four home clouts
in season was nothing u print on
twenty-four sheet posters However.
my batting average for the year put
me in the sO-Called charmed circle Of
300 httters. The end of the season
found me with an average of .315,
and only once since then have
dropped below 300, This was in 1916,
| when my average fell TO .272. Re
member I was a pitcher and pitchers
are supposed to be rotten hitters.
They thought around the Boston club
chat I would have to blow up in one