Evening star., 1936-10-08
Ends Self imposed Exile.

Mr.. Ruth sat there to toast and be
toasted with the boys at the colonels
table. 1t was such an unusual sight
that tongues began to wag all through
the banquet hall. For more than q
year the Babe had kept aloof from
base ball meetings and rallies and cele-
brations. He seemed to want no part
Of the racket. In fact. when some one
asked him a few months ago where
he'd been keeping himself, the Babe
said:
I'm staying away from base ball
till belong In the game again. I
catch . ball game now and then. but
that's the limit. The guys in base ball
have got their own lives to think
about, and I've got mine"
But here was Ruth breaking his
long exile and having q wee one with
the boys once more, like old times.
The boys asked themselves what the
angle was. In base ball. as in small
town society, the boys are always look
ing for the angle. And this time they
thought they had it.
Ever since Casey Stengel was punted
OF the Brooklyn club-and q bad job
of work that was. too-the air has
been full Of speculation about Casey's
successor. Dutch Ruether was men,
toned for the post. and Burleigh
Grimes, and Jimmy Wilson. and Chuck
Dresser. There was another rumor,
one which has bobbed up before. that
Col. T1llinghast LHommodieu Huston.
one time part owner Of the Yankees
and pal Of the late Uncle Robbie, was
ready to lay 81 SOC, 600 on the line in
exchange for control Of the Dodgers.
he would take Ruth with him as man
ager.
On the last day Of the world series
this report reached the ears Of Mr..
Christopher Haunt En-" Walsh,
Ruth's business adviser and a dealer
in wholesale and retail ghosts. Tear
ing his busy mind from the spook
racket Mr.. Walsh hammered out a
non-ghosted statement to the effect
that Ruth knew nothing about the
rumored Brooklyn deal.
Rumor Takes on importance.
NOBODY paid much attention to
Mr.. walsh's statement. one way
or another. But to Mr.. Ruth's sud-
den appearance in the halls Of the
reveling base ball mob, and to his ges-
ture Of renewing old ties. the boys
paid all the attention they had. The
rumor Of Huston and Ruth for Brook
lyn scared again. It still II soaring.
OF course, no one knows just how
matters stand in the Brooklyn front
ONCE. There's . screwy spot for you.
For 10 years the embattled agents Of
the Ebbets estate and the McKeever
estate have cut the Brooklyn team up
the middle. squabblins, pickering.
srousing, groaning and squabbhng
some more. The rival stockholders
appear to be agreed on Just one policy
not to spend any money. That policy
ruined Uncle Robbie, Max Carey and
now Casey Stengel. Everybody but
the Brooklyn owners seems to know
that you cannot win q pennant with
rubes from the sugar bush.
When they fired Stengel, the Brook
iyn master minds alibied themselves
with some Of the silliest remarks ever
made. Mr.. James Mulvey, Judge
McKeever's son-in-law, Is credited
with this classic statement:
I'VE feel We would have won the
pennant II stensel had not traded
Bobby Reis to Boston"
II Blufiiny Speech.
THIS u easily the daniest passage
L of speech since the mad halter
and the March hare foregathered at
their well-known tea party and dis
cussed the feasibility Of dipping
watches in butter. I am sure 1t will
baffie Mr.. Bobby Refs as much as any
one. Mr.. Refs simply Is an honest re-
lief pitcher and utility outflelder who
never won q pennant, or the twenty
fifth part Of . pennant, In any league
in the world.
Trying to top Mr.. Mulveys flight
of hallucinatory eloquence, another
Brooklyn wizard said:
I'VE bought Stengel the finest base
ball material-Hudson. Gautreaux,
Wilson, Jeffcoat, Radtke-"
do not think the fellow is kidding,
but we'll stop there anyway on the
chance that he 10.
ANY change for the better in Brook
lyn will have to be . change in owner
ship. II Ruth goes in there without .
fresh owner he will lose plenty of
weight and most OF his hair. II he
goes in with Col. Huston and new
money he might get some results
though I can't help feeling that his
conscience will be troubled from time
to time by the memory Of Casey STEM
gel.
(ccpyrisht. 1886. By the Norm American
Newspaper Alliance. 1ne)