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honorary pallbearers who included
prominent sportsmen and sports
writer's.
Among those present were Mayor
William ODWyer of New York;
Mayor James M. Curley of Boston,
where the Babe began his big-league
career with the Red Sox, and Mayor
Thomas D'Alesandro of Baltimore,
where Ruth got his first feel of a
baseball mitt.
Msgr. Joseph F. Flannelly was
celebrant of the high mass for the
great Yankees batter who died of
cancer Monday night in Memorial
Hospital at the age of SO.
Relatives Arrive Early.
The Babes widow, Mrs. Claire
Ruth; their two adopted daughters,
Mrs. Dorothy Sullivan and Mrs.
Richard Flanders, and the Babe s
sister, Mrs. Wilbur Moberly, arrived
early at the cathedral. az"
The list of those who filed up the
wide gray steps of the Cathedral
read like the headlines of the sports
pages-today's as we'll as yester-
years: Jack Dempsey and Connie
Mack; Leo Durocher and Moe Berg
AS great as the tribute of the
famous was the grave silence of the
huge crowd waiting outside the
Cathedral and on the route taken
by the hearse from the funeral
chapel to the Cathedral
The usually noisy canyons of mid
town Manhattan were hushed as the
Babes body was born behind
mounted police from the Lexington
avenue funeral home.
The tangle of traffic grew still
thousands looked silently down from
skyscraper windows and rooftops as
the measured clopping of the police
mems horses echoed in the streets
100000 File Past Body.
Msgr. Flannelly and his assistants
went to the main entrance of the
cathedral to meet the casket as il
was borne from the hearse.
The crowd was still. A few wept
Those who could not pass into
the Cathedral waited outside to see
the Babes funeral cortege move to
Gate of Heaven Cemetery in subur-
ban Westminster County where his
body will be placed in a receiving
vault.
The thousands who damned the
streets marked the climax of three
days of mourning and tributes to
the Babe.
More than 100000 persons filed
past his body as it lay in state in
the lobby of Yankee Stadium fol
two days. Mrs. Ruth had requested
it, mindful of what the Babe meant
to the public who never forgot
him.
Young and old, rich and poor
they came from hundreds of miles tc
look on his face for the last time
Chandler Leads Sports Group.
Police officials said it was the
greatest such demonstration in New
York City for public figure since
Rudolph Valentines funeral here ir
1926.
Many of those who moved pas
the cof1in-some of them cryine
openly, others moving their lips ir
prayer-were-fans who had seen ths
Babe in his hey-dsy as a ballplayer
Others were youngsters who never
had seen Ruth in action, but knew
his stored fame. Many of the boys
in the line of admirers wore baseball
uniforms.
Baseball Commissioner A. B
Chandler led a group of sports no.
tables to- visit the stadium. Weep
ing, Mr.. Chandler stood besid,
Ruth's coffin with an arm abou
the shoulders of his 14-year-old son
| Daniel.
Il wanted my son to see tn,
Babe" Mr.. Chandler said later. "Ht
was a great inspiration to our kids.
i Scores Of Youngsters Pass.
Others joining Mr.. Chandler il
paying tribute to Ruth at the sta.
dunn included Will Harridge. presi'
dent of the American League; Ro,
McG illicuddy, vice president of Thu