The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
BABE RUTH ISN'T
 QUITE BROKE YET,
 AS REPORTS CLAIM
Record Price for Soccer Play CT Paid in EngIand-About
 Mails
By JAMES J. CoRnE1yr
Ruth isn't brolle-yet.

l Babe Ruth isn't broke-yet. No. sir asserts the demon swat
 smith of the Yankees, T have still got
 a little jack slowed away Those boys
 who were punching ont stories that pat l me on the border line of poverty are a 1 little premature. It seems that every tune lost dollar at something or other they'd make it a hundred. And if | lost a hundred. they'd make it $f0,o00 read in some of the papers that had lost s35,0oo betting on the horses in Cuba. That surprised me quite a bit l did lose trying to pick the winners down there-like most of the folks are doing But l didn't lose any sum of money any where near the amount"
 The presumed authentic stories con cerning Ruins gambling ventures in Cuba have it that he lost close to s5,)oo ir a period of nearly a month
 ANNEXED $15,O00 IN CUBA
 Ruth annexed something like $l5 0JO during his Cuban sojourn. It is said he picked up about sl5,0O0 more while barn storming in the United States after the regular season. His salary with thu, Yankees, including bonuses, totalled around s20,00o, which meant $50,000 from ball playing sources It is estimated that Ruth got another $25 600 from odds and ins. which would make his income for 1920 in the neghborhood of $75000
 t 'nNie 1 d"ieo q p't oi that Ielt grins Ruth. e
 Soccer promoters are challenging base ball club owners as regards big sums of money paid for star performers.
 A few years ago mighty good soccer player swapped from one club to another brought only . few hl,ndrad dollars D-.t just the other day Stanley Fazackerly was disposed of for SIG Oo0
 There is something of a romance con- nected with Fazackerley's career He wasn't considered highly when he per formed for the Charleston club in Boston some years ago. After playing a season with that team he went to England and got a job with the Accrington Stanley club. His work with that outfit afE tracted considerable attention, and Hull City put in a 800 bid for him. Fazack- erles passed along to Hull City and co,t- tinued disn'evine his no-vars
 BRINGS BIG PRICE
 It wasn't long before the Sheffield United team, in Sheffield, England re- building it's soccer outfit decided it wanted Fazackerly. It made increasing bids to Hull City and finally secured the star for the sum of $4,Go0
 Fazackerley really found himself with Sheffield and his playing became the sensation of England. He was sold the other day to the Everton club, in I4iv- erpool, for $6000, which is the biggest price ever paid for soccer player
 Walter c'Duster'O vMails. the Indian ! pitched came a few weeks 1 ago against a convict outfit In San [ Quentin Cal. prison. Mails whizzed the l oall over the plate with all the speed l hat has made him famous. One of his | accomplishments was three strikeouts in [ row over a burly negro who was the ! 'Rabe Rujh of San E,,lep fin ~ After the game was over. the negro ap- . ,roached Mails touched his cap. and iaid
 T don't know what kind of ball you hrew at ma mister, because I didn. ver see it. But know you threw some hing because I heard it whizz past my iar. guess that must be one of those loisy balls you pitch, hey?''
 Copyright 1921 by King Features Syn
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