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Boston G ivesRuth FinalBig Sendoffs \Cilv Where He Started In | Sport Cheers Every „Move j -sBOSTON (/Pv—Bab»3 Ruth round- j inxr out 20 1 ongr years of c-ompc- Szizzon. left his regular playing days j| behind him-as far Bosron was | ; concerned Monday. But of all the 1 f tributes he has heard dlt;wn the 5j years, his last one here probably -j I will ring longest in his ears, ?The New Tork Yankee split a j | douMeheader with the Red Sox [ : Sunday, dropping 4 4-t games be- ; ; hind Bctroii. but even the excite- j | mens: of the American league pen- j ! nant race wm lost in the fare w el I j | Boston was saying to Rulh. who | started his major league career | i here 20 years ago. On his own f i word the Sabe won't be a regu-} [ lar next year and Sunday's games | [ were, the last-.the Tanks play In j I Boston this season, [I So great was the feeling* for the | j Babe in his farewell that the \ I greatest crowd e^er to see the I ; Kcd Sor in this city-—45.7SS paid | j —turned out to cheer the Babe's j f every rno-’e, IUnfortunately the portly Babe.! -who ambled on to the rame field in 1514. couldn't rt*e to the great j ; occasion as-he was wont to do tn j the past, iThere were volley* of cheers for | him as he singled and then doc-i bled in the first game, which Wes I Ferrell won for the Sox 5 to 4. The Babe missed a low drive off j I Bill WerbcrV bat in the eighth j ; that meant, the ball game for the | ; home team, but the failure brought j | only groan?* from a crowd that \ \ for this day wax putting the home jteam behind its loyalty for - fa va: [tior.a* hero.| The Babe walked twice in the j [■second game, wen by . th* Tanks s i 7 tc 1, and. after grounding out jonce, left the game. T.*'ry per-jsort in the ball park stood and J cheered In a final. thunderous ■ ovation, as he trotted away with f the funny shuffle that has car-1 ried him 50 miles or more around ] the bases just running out the 705 $ home runs he has hit- ’ i
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Paris News
Paris, Texas, US
Mon, Aug 13, 1934
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