The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-20
BAMBINO IS BACK
Reinstatement of Home Run
King Today From Landis.
MeuseI and Piercey Also Can
Return to Big Leagues.
RECORD CROWDS FOR GAME.
All Seats Sold Long Before the
Day Set for Game.
Sun Is Smiling on Polo Grounds
as Ruth Steps to Plate.

New York, May 2O.-Babe Ruth
struck out on his first trip to the plate
IN the first inning of today's New
York-St. Louis game. A weak foul
dropped from his willow on the first
pitch. Then he let a bad one go by.
Shocker's next two pitches came ov sr
the plate and the Babe missed both cf
them on hard swings.
On his second trip to the plate,
Ruth popped an easy fly over second
base, which McManus had no trou-
BILE capturing.
Ruth popped a fly to Sisler in the
Yankees half OF the sixth.
(By the Associated Press)
Baltimore, May 2O.-When Babe"
Ruth goes to the plate at the Polo
grounds this afternoon for his first
game after the lifting of his suspen-
sion he will be presented with a large
loving cup the gift of his admirers
in his home town of Baltimore.
The cup will contain earth taken
from around the home plate of the
ball grounds at st. Marys school,
where Babe learned to play ball. The
earth was gathered by Brother
Matthias, the man who discovered"
Babe.
Chicago, May 2O.-Babe' Ruth. the
home run monarch of baseball, was
reinstated as a member of the New
York Yanks today by Judge K. M.
Landis, baseball commissioner. Ruth
will be permitted to play in the game
with the st. Louis Browns this after
noon.
Others Also Come Back
Bob Meusel Yankee outfielder. and
Bill Piercy, Boston pitcher, also were
reinstated. effective Immediately.
Judge Landis received the following
telegram from Ruth this morning:
81 hereby respectfully apply for
immediate reinstatement to enable me
to play. in the game here today, Sat
urday, May 90"
The judge replied as follows:
your reinstatement application
granted, effective imm ediately."
Similar telegrams from Meusel and
Piercy were similarly answered by the
judge.
They Forfeited Series Share.
Ruth, MeuseI and Piercy were sus-
pended until May 20 by Judge Lands
as a penalty for engaging in barn
storming tour at the close of the 1921
season in violation of baseball rules.
They also forfeited their shares of the
money won by the Yanks in the 1921
world series
New York May Seemingly the
1922 baseball season started today at
Babe Ruth from shady exile to the
indulgent glare of the spotlight.
Upward of 10000 elbow champions
fought their way into the great sta
dunn on the banks of the Harlem to
see the home run hitter in action for
the first time this season and the
crowd that was left to yammer in vain
outside the gates looked big enough to
stage a mob scene in Yellowstone
park.
All Seats Are Sold.
There have been some 80 odd games
played at the Polo grounds to date
while Ruth and his accomplice in mis-
chief. Bob Meusel. waited in the outer
darkness for the official wrath of
Judge Landis to subside. The average
attendance at these games ranged
from eight to ten thousand persons.
Two days ago fans were standing in
the rain buying reservations against
the Babes impending return. All of
10, 900 cash customers were Obliged
in this way. The remaining $4,000
were accom- mCdated before the game
today, the gates having been thrown
open at noon.
williams Also in Game.
Bets were offered and taken as 10
how many home runs Ruth would
smite within the next two days or
whether he would smite any at all.
Gentlemen of speculative instinct also
evinced an inclination to wager on the
possibility of Ruth eclipsing Ken Will
liams of the st. Louis Browns in to-
days sortie.
Ken will be in the lineup against
the Yanks and the chance to compare
the man who hit fifty-nine home runs
last year with the rival who has made
eleven to date, has had the boys cir
cIe-running for some days.
The noble Babe has lost some
weight since he underwent an opera
ton for the removal of his tonsiIs two
weeks ago but otherwise is in better
condition than he ordinarily seems.
The heavens, having wept intermit-
tently for forty eight hours, very kind
ly elected to smile today, which was