The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-16
Ruth Tells Why He
 Is Sore At FraZee
Yankee Star Says Boston Owner Is Frightened and Is Knocking Ruth to Aibi Himself With Boston
 Fans for Sale

New York, Jan. 16-The details of
 the famous conference between Babe Ruth and Manager Miller Hugg1ns or
 the Yankees have at last drltted
 eastward and it develops that Hug
 gins had to search around Los An
 geIes for two or three days before
 he finally cornered the home-run sIugger and told him he was sold to
 the Tanks for s125,000.
 Ruth spends much of his time in Los Angeles playing golf at Griffith Park. He plays every day and takes Hong walks besides to keep in shape. When he heard that he had been sold by F'razee without his consent, he al irst objected to the procedure or the Boston club owner. Hugg1ns went
 out to the golf links and waited until
 Ruth had finished a round and then
 took him aside and had long talk with him. Ruth looked down on the
 diminutive New York manager and then remarked: "I should think you and me ought to get along all right together"
 Ruth, after the conference, said that he ha1 not made Huggins any promises and that he wouldn't agree to anything until he got a slice of the money which had been paid to Fra zee Later, however, when Ruth read what Frazee had given as req
 sons for selling him, Ruth said that
 he had been sold and would play with
 the Yankees if for nothing more than
 to show up Frazee-
 Out on the Coast Ruth avoided re-
 porters as much as possible, because some of them remarked that Babe used the personal pronoun too much when he was talking But when ha
 read what F'razee said about him he had a lot to say.
 Said Ruth: '+F1razea is not good enough to own any ball club, espe- cialIy one in Boston On Babe Ruth Day Boston people packed the park He reserved 15,000 seats and forced the
 ball players to pay for their wives ] paid for Mrs Ruth After the game ] was called to his office, where he handed me a cigar and thanked me That is a fair sample of his Eberality Because demande1 a big increase Iu salary, which I feel was entitled to l he brands me as an ingrate and 3 | tro11ble-maker The time of a ball player is short and he must get his money in d, few years or lose out Any Ifair-rnirded fan knows that my ef- forts on the Boston club last season warranted a larger salary and asked for it.
 T have always hustled as hard as amy man on the diamond, continuef
 Ruth. '~Whan not taking my turn in l the box I played in the outheld, doing everything l could to make the cluE win I don't like to play for Frazee 1 I like Boston and Boston fans They have treated me splend1dly and If Il were not for Frazee I would be con- tent to play with the Red Sox to the end of my baseball days Frazee sold me because he was unwilling to mee1 my demands and to a1ibi himself with the fans he is trying to throw the blame on me-
 Ruth said that with Frazee at the ] head of the Boston club he was on11 I too glad to get away from the Red
 Sox. As long as he was to be sold i he preferred to be sold to the Yan- kees and he promises to give New
 York fans his greatest season nex summer
 1 Ruth says that now that he has se'
 g. new record for home runs he is go, | ing out after the batting champion i ship next season He says that h' will take a shorter grip on his ba
 next summer and choke his swing little. He is going to try to make
 more hits instead of trying to knoca the ball out of the park every time h'
 comes up to the bat
 l Anyway, Babe says he IS going tt prove to the public that he is worh all he demanded and more