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BABE RUTH HONORED BY GREAT CROWD OF FANS AT BOSTON►■PENNANT RACE” FORGOTTEN AS GREAT BAMBINO SAID FAREWELL TO HUBBOSTON, Aug. 13.—(/P—Babe Ruth, rounding out 20 long years of competition his regularplaying days behind him as far as Boston was concerned today. But of all the* tributes he has heard down the years. Ms last one here probably will ring longest inhis ears.The New York Yankees split a doubleheader with the Red Sox yesterday, dropping 4 1-2 games behind Detroit, but even the excitement of the American League pennant race was lost in vhe farewell Boston was saying to Ruth, who started his major league career here 20 years ago. On Ms own word the Babe won’t be a regular next year and yesterday's games were the last the Yanks plav in Boston this season.So great was the feeling for the Babe in his farewell that the. greatest crowd ever to see the Red SOx In thja city—46,766 ^aid-turned out to cheer the Babe's every move.Unfortunately the portly Babe, who ambled on to the same field in 1914, couldn’t rise to the great occasion as he was wont to do in the past.There were volleys of cheers for him as he singled and then doubled in the first game, which Wes Ferrell won for the Sox, 6 to 4. The’ Babe -missed low drive off Bill Werber’s bat in the eighth that meant the ball -‘game f°r the home team, but the failure brought only groan's from a crowd that for this day was putting the homo team behind its loyalty for a national herP. ..The Babe walked twice in tfs second game, won by the Yanks 7 to 1, and, after grounding out once,- left the game. Every pr-lt;son in the hall park stood ana cheered in a final, thunderous ovation, as ho trotted away with the funny shuffle that has carried him 50 miles or more around the bases just running out the 705 home runs he hag hit
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Corsicana Daily Sun
Corsicana, Texas, US
Mon, Aug 13, 1934
Page 11
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