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JACK DUNN FOUND MIGHTY BABE IN ORPHAN .
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ASYLUM, THEN BEGAN STORY OF PENNYLESS
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BOY WHO BATTED WAY TO $52,000 A YEAR
Yankee Owners Spent $2,000,000 for Stadium to Seat 70,000 in Order to
House Those Who Wanted to See Bambino Hit 'Em—In spite of His
Success Ruth Remained the Same Big Boy That Had Played With Or
phans and His Deeds of Kindness to Urchins Who Play on Lots Many.
NEY YORK, May 19.—One afternoon back in 1913, Jack Dunn, owner
and manager of the Baltimore International league club, received a tele
phone call from one of the priests at St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum.
“There’s a pretty good young ball player out here,” the priest said.
“He’s getting to the age where we will have to let him go and I thouht
you might be interested in him. He can do anything on the diamond and
I believe he has a future in baseball. I wish you would look him over, as
I want to get him in good hands.”
Dunn looked him over and thus started the career of Babe Ruth, the
most romantic in the history of sport—the career of a poor orphan boy
who rose from obscurity to the position of a national idol and the most
famous athlete America ever has known; the career of a penniless youth
who went out into the world equipped with the trade of a cigarmaker and
who clouted himself with a baseball bat into a salary of $52,000 a year
and an incidental income from side lines of at least as much.
Jttuin Decame me great Dome rum
king and the longest slugger that
the game may ever know. He start
ed on the diamond catching for the
team at the asylum. He then tried
his hand at playing first base and
the outfield and next turned his hand
to pitching. He could do everything
well, but he shone chiefly as a hit
ter.
First Good Break.
The interest that was shown in
getting a good manager to take hold
of him was the first good break
that the young Babe had ever been
ranted by fate. He was born in
Baltimore on February 7, 1894, of
poor parents. His mother died when
he was a mere youngster and his
father had to leave him at home
while he went out to earn the food
for a husky youngster who could
eat as much as the ordinary man.
Left to take care of himself, the
Babe became full of mischief and his
father finally had to turn him over
to the priests at St. Mary’s.
“He was never a bad boy, but he
was full of tricks and his only in
terest seemed to be in baseball,” it
was said of him by his superiors
at the orphanage.
Jack Dunn was very favorably
impressed with the youngster — a
left-hander by the way—and his ex
perienced judgment saw in him the
makings of a great ball player.
Ruth went to the Baltimore club
in 1914 as a pitcher and an outfield
er and was sent, later in the season,
to the Providence club. He attracted
the attention of scouts and he was
found in 1914 with the Boston Red
Sox, who had paid $2,900 for him.
His natural talent was developed
by a great ambition to make good
and by the love of work. Other
players played for pay, but the Babe
played principally because he loved
baseball and the money meant only
something that he could toss away
for most anything.
Sent to Outfield.
He pitched a few games in 1914
but was a regular the following year
and he developed into one of the
best left-handers in the major
leagues. His hitting began to draw
the attention of Edw. Barrow, the
present business manager of the
New York Yankees, who was then
the manager of the Red Sox. His
stick was too valuable to be left in
front of the bench wThen he was not
working and Barrow started to use
him in the outfield.
He developed into a good outfielder
and he was used occasionally on first
base. During this time he was ac
cepted as a good hitter but he did
not show the signs of a great slugger
until he started to hit home runs
in 1919 and became one of the sen
sations of the season.
He was such a great drawing card
at a time when baseball was almost
wrecked that he distracted attention
from the White Sox world’s series
scandal and did more than anything
else to save baseball.
The Babe jumped on the front
pages in the early spring of 1920
when the New York Yankees an
nounced that he had been pur
chased from the Red Sox for $125,
000. Baseball men thought that
Colonels Ruppert and Huston, who
then owned the Yankees, had gone
daffy to pay such a price for a ball
player. But the purchase turned
out to be a wise investment. All
attendance records were broken dur
ing the season of 1921, when Ruth
hit 59 home runs. It was a mark
that no one had the audacity to
think would ever be approached. It
was recalled that Frank Baker
earned the title of home run king
for hitting about a dozen homers in
one season. Ruth made business
good all over the circuit and he put
several clubs with lean treasuries
on their feet by the crowds that he
drew on the road.
Forced New Stadium.
His appeal was so strong to the
public that the Yankee owners had
to spend more than $2,000,000 for a
new stadium that would seat 70,000
spectators. Again the conservatives
of baseball said they were crazy,
but the Babe packed them in. His
hitting and all around playing help
ed largely in getting three pennants
for the Yankees and the dividends
he made on the investment repre
sented in him never can be com
puted.
With all the fame came to him
and all the notice that he attracted,
he remained the same Babe Ruth
that had played with the orphans.
He has a consuming love for boys
and wherever he went he was fol
lowed by mobs of adoring young
sters. Yankee players tell hundreds
of stories how the Babe during the
training season or on barn storming
trips w'ould appear just about sun
down at his hotel, with the sweat
steaming off him and his face cov
ered with dirt, after spending a
couple of hours playing on a corner
lot with some kids.
They tell the story of the time
that he rode thirty miles out in the
country to see a little fellow -who
was crying because pneumonia had
taken him down and prevented him
from seeing the great Babe in# an
exhibition and how the father broke
down on the Babe’s big shoulders
and wTept and how the Babe wept
with him.
Hours can be consumed with
stories about the big heart in the
Babe. They have to be told by
others, because the Babe always was
modest about the deeds that he
I thought to be nothing out of the or
dinary.
Ruth was a great friend to every
one but himself. He was so big and
strong that he didn’t need much
training and he could have a good
time for himself without hurting his
game. He was making piles of
money and he liked to have a good
time and see his friends have a good
time.
The Babe Slipping.
Finally it reached the point where
he realized that he was speeding on
the end of his career. He was an
awful bust in the 1922 series when
he batted because he wasn’t in
shape.
Just before Christmas his friends
organized a little party for him in
New York in the hope that someone
could “put him on the pan” and
make him realize that lie was hurt
ing himself.
The toastmaster at the affair was
State Senator James J. Walker,
father of the Sunday baseball and
the boxing laws of New York state.
Walker is one of the most eloquent
speakers in New York and he is
particularly at his best when he is
talking to a baseball or boxing din
ner.
“You, Babe,” he shouted, pointing
at the Babe, “you ought to be
ashamed of yourself! You have a
sacred duty to the little dirty-faced
kids in the alleys and you’re throw
ing them down!”
Ruth rose when his turn came to
talk. He hung his head for a mo
ment, gulped several times and then
lifted his glass.
“This boys,” he said, “is my last
drink for the year. I’m going up to
the farm and work and I’ll be in
shape when I go south.”
The Babe Braced
He was in shape and he has kept
himself fairly in condition since that
time.
The Babe had so much money that
he didn’t know how to take care of
it until he found himself broke. He
made a trip to Havana, fell in with
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