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Babe Ruth’s Name Still Magic
By SANDY PADWE
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
NEW YORK — (NEA) —Most
of the trophies and mementos
ere in Cooperstown now.
Only some pictures and few
awards remain.
"It’s better this way,” Mrs.
Babe Ruth said. “The Hall of
Fame has a beautiful display
of Babe’s trophies and things.
Everybody can see it.”
Mrs. Claire Ruth lives in mid-
Manhattan, on Riverside Drive,
just a few blocks from where she
and Babe lived when he was
aetting all his home run records
lor the New York Yankees.
“The kids in the neighborhood
all knew him,” Mrs. Ruth rem
embers. "They used to wait for
him outside the building when
It was time for him to go to the
ballpark. There was one boy. . .
he never let anyone else touch
Babe’s car.
“Babe used to leave for the
ballpark an hour earlier than ne
cessary,” Mrs. Ruth continued,”
•‘to sign the autographs for the
kids.”
Mrs. Ruth lives quietly now
In the spacious apartment build
ing overlooking the Hudson Ri
ver.
She makes public appearances
on behalf of Babe Ruth League
baseball and attends the Hall of
Fame ceremonies at Cooper
stown each summer. And she
doesn’t miss many games at
Yankee Stadium.
"Sometimes,” Mrs. Ruth said,
“it’s hard to look out at right
field and not see Babe there.
After Babe died, I didn’t go to
the stadium for two years.”
During his playing days, the
apartment on Riverside Drive
was a favorite stopping place
for Babe’s friends on other Am-
Thant Says War In
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honorable peace could be
brought about in Vietnam
where he said a continuation of
the war is “totally unneces-
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FAREWELL TO BASEBALL for Babe Ruth came on a
special day in Yankee Stadium in 1948. It was the last
time the famed No. 3 was worn by a New York Yankee.
erican League teams.
“We used to have a lot of the
boys over for dinner,” Mrs.
Ruth said smiling. "They used
to love to get a homecooked din
ner of ham and cabbage. They
get awfully tired eating out when
sary.”
But he said the United States
and her allies need to recog
nize the war is being sparked
by “nationalism not commu
nism.”
Speaking to the Fourth
Friends World Conference
Thant said:
“I regard the continuation of
the war in Vietnam as being
totally unnecessary. I have
analyzed the public statements
of the objectives on both sides
and if the task of diplomacy is
only to realize the objectives
which are explicit or implicit
in these statements I believe
this would be possible and an
honorable peace could be
brought about in Vietnam.
“The first task is to end the
fighting and bring the problem
they’re on the road, you know.
“Babe never brought the game
home with him,” Mrs. Ruth
continued. “He would oome
home from the ballpark — re
member the games were during
the day then — rest for an hour
to the conference table. This
first task requires certain first
steps and I regard it as a
great tragedy that it has not
been possible to get the parties
concerned to take these first
steps.”
Thant dismissed arguments
that the war against U. S.-sup
ported South Vietnam was be
ing waged by a minority of the
Vietnamese people.
“It is nationalism not com
munism that animates the re
sistance movement in Vietnam
against all foreigners and now
particularly against Ameri
cans” he said. “Those Viet
namese who have fought and
still fight against foreigners do
so to win their national inde
pendence.
“I am convinced that the
war cannot be brought to an
end until the United States and
her allies recognize that it is
being fought by the Vietnamese
not as a war of Communist
aggression but as a war of na
tional independence.”
The Chinese name for For
mosa, Taiwan, means “Bay of
Terraces.”
Portuguese explorers called
the island of Formosa Ilha For
mosa, or “Beautiful Island.”
and dinner was announc
ed.”
Mrs. Ruth knew, though, that
the 1935 season was to be Ba
be’s last as a player. He had
been traded from the Yankees
to the Boston Braves that year.
“It was a struggle for him,”
Mrs. Ruth said. “He was hav
ing trouble with his legs and he
told me it was becoming a real
effort for him to continue to
play.”
May 25, 1935, is one day Mrs.
Ruth can not forget. The Braves
were playing the Pirates in
Pittsburgh, and Babe was in
the lineup.
His first time up, he hit his
712th home run. Then his second
time up he hit another one. His
third time, Babe hit a towering
drive that cleared the roof in
Forbes Field, the first time in
history anyone had done it.
Nine days later, Babe Ruth
called the writers to the dress
ing room in Boston and announ
ced his retirement.
Thirty two years later, hi s
name carries the same magic.
“I still receive about 15 to 20
letters a week asking for Babe’s
autograph. Here, look at this
one,” Mrs. Ruth said, opening a
letter. It read:
"Dear Mrs. Ruth:
I am 11 years old and I don’t
have an autograph of Mr. Ruth
because the cheapest one is
$25. My allowance is only 25
cents a week, so it would take
forever to save up the money.
The most I could pay for one is
$2.00.”
“I wish I had something to
send him with Babe’s signature,”
Mrs. Ruth said. “Babe would
feel terrible if he knew a child
wanted to pay for his autogra
ph.”
Millions Pray
For Race Peace
By United Press International
Millions of church - going
Americans today met the new
week with prayer for peace and
racial harmony in the United
States ringing in their ears.
In churches throughout the
country, clergymen Sunday
responded to President John
son’s appeal to make the day
one of prayer for an end to U.S.
racial strife.
"Let each of us ask himself:
Am I mostly white? Am I
mostly black. Or am I mostly
human and as such united to all
my brothers ...” said the
Rev. Darrell Walton of the
Matthewson Street Episcopal
Church in Providence, R.I.
“Let us not be deceived,” he
said. “We are all responsible
for what has happened.”
Other members of the clergy
simply prayed for racial peace.
Some attempted to lay blame
for the riots. Others suggested
remedies.
Climate for Violence.
The Venerable Harold H.
Hayes, rector of St. John’s
Episcopal Church at Bellefonte,
Pa., said “Negroes have been
bottled up in a climate where
anything can trigger violence.”
He called on Christians to rid
themselves to “latent hostility”
against Negroes.”
In the heart of the Detroit
riot area, the Rev. Marshall
Hunt of Grace Episcopal
Church, said, “Maybe now some
of the ills, the infections, have
been washed from us. Many of
the good things we have sprung
from bad things.”
Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle,
archbishop of Washington, said
in his message read to all
“Roman Catholic congregations
in the naton’s capital:
“I see at least a glimmer of
hope in the tact that so many
Americans, instead of pinning
the blame on someone else as a
kind of sacrificial scapegoat,
are now willing, perhaps for the
first time, to examine their own
conscience and assume their
own share of responsibility .
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WONDERFUL MEMORIES of her husband’s career be
long to Mrs. Claire Ruth who resides in New York City.
Mrs. Ruth still follows baseball closely and sees most of
the games at Yankee Stadium.
Most of the letters, Mrs. Ruth
said, come around Babe’s birth
day in February. Many mass
cards are sent in August.
“Some,” she said, “just ad
dress it Mrs. Babe Ruth, New
Avoid Inflammatory Statements
Pittsburgh’s Roman Catholic
archbishop, John J. Wright,
warned priests to “avoid any
word that inflames bad feeling,
that incriminates others or that
otherwise sparks hatred, suspi
cion or violence. Our prayers
must be unqualified in their
openness to God’s judgment. . .
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The Rev. Edwin Edmonds
told a predominately Negro
congregation at the Dixwell
Avenue Congregational Church
in New Yaven, Conn., “Whether
out of frustration or out of just
plain anger and desire to
destroy, people are the products
of their culture. We have
neglected the denied at our
peril.”
In Harlem, Abyssinian Bap
tist Church, where Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., is
minister, the Rev. David N.
Licorish said, “We will pray for
peace but peace is not a salve
to put on an already festering
sore.”
Munitions Maker
For Hitler Dead
ESSEN Germany (UPD—
West German industrialist Alf
ried Krupp, 59, one-time head of
a munitions empire that armed
Hitler’s troops, died today.
The vast multi-billion-dollar
empire that he rebuilt after the
war went with him.
Just four months ago, Krupp
said that he would be the last of
his family to direct the
industrial empire that has been
in his family’s hands for more
than 150 years.
11 DROWNINGS
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sons drowned over the weekend
in rivers in and around Seoul,
police said Monday. Sultry
weather brought a turnout of
some 300,000 weekend swim
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York City. Some send the let
ters to Yankee Stadium. Some
just address it: Mrs. Babe Ruth,
USA.”
Mrs. Babe Ruth answers ev
ery one.
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Babe Goes Back To School
NEW YORK—(NEA) —Babe Ruth in human
ities class?
Babe’s biography is the first of 20 in a series of
books about famous figures, titled “People of
Destiny.”
The books are designed for use in the humanities
courses of the nation’s schools.
Babe joins such luminaries as Sir Winston
Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Robert Frost, Albert
Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold, Harry Truman and
Ernest Hemingway.
Recalling her late husband, Mrs. Babe Ruth said:
“The Babe has developed into almost a folk hero.
The American public of hisfday took Babe Ruth
into their hearts as they have no other sports figure
before or since. Perhaps the secret lies in that Babe
never tried to deceive his fans. His life and ways
were an open book and he never learned the social
grace of keeping his thoughts to himself.”
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