The Washington times., 1922-06-06
BOY AUTHOR IS
AWED AS BABE
| SAHOMER
Ruth Short on Conversation,
But Does His Specially
With Bat.

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3 The Washington Times today
presents the fourth Of the renarka-
Die series of interviews totth mon
of national prominence obtained by
Horace Wade, the tOorld's youngest
author and neWspaper reporter.
'Todays story is about Babe Ruth.
By HORACE WADE.
ss'efS,s SHADOW ef Great f.a1 Perii" and o.hsn a'
Novels. Who Writes Exclusively for
the Chicago Evening American
and Cosmopolitan News Service.
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"East is West, and West is East,
and ne'er the twain shall meet"
Remember the grand old proverb? f.?
But it seems to have outlived its
day, for no matter where ! am
the West, Middle. West or East
George Sisler-Sisler, the king bee
of all the batters--checks in there.
Just before left Chicago the
city editor called me to him and
after inhaling a clond of smoke,
he emitted it into my face.
Horace" he said with a sad
shake of his head, 81 hate to do it,
but you've been gettin' altogether
too familiar with George Sisler
lately and so I'm sending you far,
far away where you shall never
more see his face. Aye, never
more, never more"
..,' Meets Sisler In N. Y.
I saw he'd been reading Edgar
Allen Poe's Raven" so L let him
finish his outburst before I started
TO complain.
Here's your ticket. Beat It,"
But. would you believe 1t? No
sooner had checked in in New
York than I saw Sisler out at the
baseball park. No need to tell my
joy, for l sure was happy to put
one over on the c. E.. and a, the
same time see my idol once more.
He ciasped my hand warmly, and
! saw, that all his old cordiality re.
mained with him-a little more, in
fact.
Say" he suddenly broke out
with, would you like to see Babe
Ruth? You know he just came
back to the game"
Sure" I returned. I've met him
twice already, SO I'll go over by
myself"
So / started to the Yankee bench.
Once there, went down into the
dugout where I met his royal high.
ness. Babe Ruth.
Well" he greeted me, and /
VONto NNf n nNy NAI
with that of Sisters. what do you
want here?"
Say, certainly did wish 1 was
Jack Dempsey for one second.
There wouldn't have been any Babe
Ruth left II had been.
II want to get a picture for
the paper" 1 ventured weakly, for
! knew that were I once to offend
his majesty he might become
sngered: and such a thing would
be terrible.
". Gets Picture Taken.
"A picture? All right, but Sc. It
comes out" and he moved himself
from the bench just long enough
TO have the picture taken and then
shuffled back to his seat without
another word. ..
Then the game started. Although
the final score was to 8 in the
Yankees favor IL wasn't Babe Ruth
who won the game for New York.
Not by a long shot
In the first inning, for the Browns.
Sisler walked. but was stranded on
the bases. When Babe got up he
received great welcome and I saw
then he enjoyed It. He hoisted a
high fly to, George SisIer. who
n al q
that never saw him tip his hat to
the gallery. and pat himself on the
back. No Stree. AS for Babe-I saw
him catch two easy fly balls and
Ruth tipped his hat.
In the third Sisler uncorked
double to center. and scarcely a rip.
pie of applause greeted him. In the
third Ruth flied to Tobin in right
field and he threw his bat down and
muttered savagely. When he start
ed into the dugout he kicked all the
bats over that the bat boy had
arranged and that individual glared
.fiercely at Ruth as he went about
fixing them up again.
Then came the fifth and Sisler
singled stole third and came home
on Schang's error. Ruth walked and
In an endeavor to get to third on one
on his teammates singles was out
by feet.
Knocked q Homer.
Then came the eighth and on the
first ball Babe knocked IT, into the
right field pavilion for a homer. II
was a swell hit and il sure did travel.
In the ninth and eleventh innings
Sisler was out and in the tenth Babe
struck out. tanning the air three
times. And IL looks could have
killed, Pruitt would have been In