New York, July 17.
For a man who doesn't like tripe in any form the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club certainly served an unappetizing dish in its announcement that Babe Ruth had been signed as coach, and that there were no plans to make him manager, I wonder how many baseball fans who have reached the age of reason believe that no mention was made of Ruth succeeding Burleigh Grimes when club officials signed him to a contract that calls for $15,000 for the remainder of the season. My guess is that there aren't enough such fans to hold a fireman's net without it sagging. If I'm right, and I believe I am, then why doesn't Larry Mc-Phail come out and tell us the truth?
In discussing the deal, club officials went so far as to say that it was Grimes himself who suggested that Ruth be taken ansas one-of his-assistant; that no one had thought of Ruth as a coaching possibility until Grimes suddenly hit upon the idea and relentlessly worked out the bargain, You might as well try to tell me, and tens of thousands of others, that the last man to be guillotined in France asked for the privilege of sharpening the blade before it whacked down on his neck. If Grimes doesn't realize that George Herman Ruth constitutes a threat to his job, then Burleigh should be taken right back to grade school and started in on his A-B-C's.
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