Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-20
Ruth Grasps War Club
After Season of Pendnce
With Grounds Crowded
Williams, Meusel and Babe Triple Extraordinary
Attractions to Fill Bleachers With New
York Fans.

New York. May 19.-Baseball fans
all over the city-perhaps all over the
country-were taking Friday night
about the scheduled return of Babe
Ruth from exile to the polo grounds
Saturday.
All reserved seats for the game have
been sold and some bleacher bugs are
likely to line up outside the gates be-
fore dawn. as they do for the world
series.
Must Ask Lands
There's one little Formally that must
be carried out overnight. since the
Babes suspension 50 not automatically
lifted Saturday. His bosses must send
a polite telegram to Commissioner
Lands inquiring if it will be all right
for their favorite employe to go back
to work. A reply must come from the
commissioner before Babe can take
his place in the lineup.
The sight of him. swinging the bat
that clouted 50 home run last year,
is Just one of three extraordinary at
fractions that Saturdays battle be-
tween the Yankees and the st. Louis
Browns has to offer. The other home
run swatters will make their 1922
bow to New York fans.
One is Kenneth Williams. who is
doing about as well in the four base
hit production line as the Babe was
a year ago. Already he's got IL of them
to his credit. This time last season
the Babe had only II home runs.
Babe Indifferent
But the Babe pretends a cool in
difference to the wallopping by Will
"Oh. he'll quit is his comment
when one asks him what he thinks
about the way this st. Louis chap
knocks 'em out.
The third debut Saturday will be
that of Bob Meusel, banished from
the game with Ruth for the first 80
days of the season because. they went
transforming last fall after Commits
Lands told them not to. Meusel
knows a thing or two about hitting
Last year he got "A home
runs.
Fair" said the weather man when
asked what he thought about the pro-
spects for Saturday.
His penance all performed, Babe
Ruth the prodigal son of Swat, takes
up his bludgeon again Saturday,
weather permitting, as the New York
i duhetS open VI 1OUS nome series III
The Polo Grounds with Kenneth Will
Iiams. the Ruthian Lochnivar from out
Of the west. trying to make his 1922
metropolitan debut the beginning Of a
for George Herman.
Uniform Fits Better
Since he has read of the ball
,lamming prowess of Williams. since !
lie has been shown that the Yankees
ire more than a one man" club. since
lie has found that Commissioner
NJ. Lands means t. enforce
he rules and since he has discovered
What it means not to be allowed to
it is reported that Ruth's uni
orm-including his cap-fits better.
But regardless of the %intrepidity Of
Williams. who seems intent upon
,alloping past the Babes highwateri
mark of 80 home runs for last season.:
'egardless of the fact that Ruth has a
'record"-as a baseball Sherlock. if
ne there was. would term it. the
drowned King of Klouters is still the
ride of Harlem and the biggest base
,all drawing card the world has aver
nown.
In the view of many fans the at
itude that Ruth has displayed since !
'eceiving his sentence from Com
missioner Lands. the quiet manner in
which he has conducted himself. his
Willingness to play the game" and his