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...better ballplayer-Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth? To settle that question the two Immortals themselves, Cobb, who retired in 1928, and Ruth, who retired in 1935, last week met on a golf course...
George Herman Ruth (ne Gerhardt), New York's happy-go-lucky Bambino, broke fewer records but drew more fans. He too could break up a ball game singlehanded. Before he became the "Sultan of Swat," the Babe was a good southpaw for the Boston Red Sox. In two World Series (1916 and 1918), he pitched a total of 29 consecutive innings without allowing a run. Twice, in later World Series, he hit three home runs in one game. Ruth once scored 60 homers in one season...
...spare the handsome hide of Matador Power, Armillita, the Babe Ruth of Mexican matadors, bats for him in the bullfight scenes. Last week Armillita was doing double duty. While U.S. cinemaddicts watched his classic cape-work in Blood and Sand, Mexicans beheld it in an equally new but quite different picture - a Posa Films production starring Mexico's fun niest comedian, Cantinflas. Its title: Neither Blood Nor Sand...
...years ago had baseball lost such an outstanding player. In eight years with the Tigers, Greenberg was twice (1935 and 1940) voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, led the league in runs-batted-in four times, and once, in 1938, came within two runs of tying Babe Ruth's alltime home-run record...
...protagonist was no more than a Bronxy sounding voice in the flies, and Babe, the Blue Ox, was nowhere to be found...