Evening star., 1942-08-23
RecordDonation
For Baseball
Seen Today
500, 900 Cote Assured, ,
And Tribute Is Paid
To Burrows Skill

BY Stall correspondent OF The star.
NEW YORK. N. Y. Aug. o.
From the pedestals in baseballs hall
of fame tomorrow will come two Of
the mightiest men the game has
known when Babe Ruth and Walter
Johnson emerge to ospice war relief
fund program that officials predict
will fracture the Yankee Stadium
attendance record of 84,04I.
More conservative estimates Of
the probable crowd ranged up to
10000 but virtually 1t is certain the
New York Washington double-head-
er and its added attractions will
pour some 100000 into Army and
Navy Relief fund Golfers. Thus far
baseballs largest contribution to
those funds has been the $4,000
from last months all-star game at
the Polo Grounds.
Between games the 47-year- -old
Ruth and the 54-year- -old johnson
will show new generation of fans
how they used to hit and pitch,
and rekindle the memories of older
| spectators. Ruth, the greatest slug
ger of all time, reached his peak in
1927. when he belted so home runs
for a Yankee team many rats xi,
finest In major league history.
Program Packs Variety.
Johnson, Of the explosive fast
ball, won 416 games in 81 years with
a Washington club that almost ha-
bltually finished in the second di-
vision. With johnson pitching,
Ruth will step to the plate and at
tempt to hit theoretical homers, Just
as he blasted them out Of the park
TIA times in his % years in the
majors. Billy Evans, an American
League umpire during the elegant
sports era of johnson and Ruth.
will be behind the plate.
The program during the inter-
lude between games will include a
6O-yard dash which already is con-
ceded to the Mats Meteor George
Case; 50-man relay race, a fungo-
hitting competition and an ac-
curacy test for catchers who will
try to throw the ball from home.
plate into a barrel at second base,
| Tomorrow's throng will bear testi-
mony to the business acumen of
74-year-oid Ed Barrow, president
OF the Yankees. He had to make
his appeal to city which already
has donated more than $217.000 in
three previous military fund games.
Makes Ruth Skip Feud.
Barrow was forced to depart from
the Yankees custom Of giving the
fans strict diet of baseball. He
plucked johnson from his farm and
appealed to Ruth despite the fact
relations between the Babe and
Barrow were strained when Ruth
left the club. He otherwise gave
the day a carnival-tinged setting
to offset the Mats lack of drawing
power.
The attraction will be a success,
despite formidable opposition in the
form of Giants Dodgers double-
header at Brooklyn. On Nav 8.
when the Dodgers played the Giants
in a relief fund game, Barrow can
celed the New York Washington
game to give the charity contest
clear track.
Larry MacPhail, Brooklyn boss,
attempted to make an issue of Bar
rows request that the Dodgers play
only one game tomorrow. He ap-
pealed to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
to settle the matter, but Barrow
, countered with the remark there
was nothing to be settled, then went
to work to make the program a
; success. Yankee fans have rallied to
his plea for a record turnout.
f Case Favorite Despite Injury.
Pitching for the Yankees In the
1 double-header will be Red Ruffng
and Tiny Bonham while Manager
Bucky Harris of the Mats will send
Buck Newsom and Sid Hudson to
the mound with the fond hope
they'll do something about Wash
ington's losing streak.
Case. who Is nursing slightly
sore right leg, nevertheless will be
heavy favorite to capture the
: sprint event against the Mats
Johnny Sullivan and Tuck Stain
! back and Johnny Lindell of the
Yankees. Case also will run on the
Washington relay team otherwise
made up Of Al Evans, Sullivan,
Mickey Vernon and Ellis Clary. That
team will be opposed by le YAM
KEGS Phil Rizzuto. Char ~ Keller,
Tommy Heinrich, Joe + ordon and
George Selkirk in a = zee to be run
around the bases q. inst time. In
the accuracy throwing event it will
be Washington's Jake Early, Evans
and Bengough against New York S
Bill Dickey, Rollie Hemsley and
Buddy Rosar. The fungo-hitting
contest will pit the Mats Newsom,
Bill Zuber and Alexandra Carras-
mel AGAINST Ruff7p0 Idnde11 md