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...rushed to hospital, hastily given a blood transfusion. In the eyes of Japanese jingoes his conduct has long merited Death. Not only has Tycoon Shoriki annoyed Japan's dominant dictatorial clique by printing eulogies on Constitutional Government but last year he even went to the extreme of bringing Babe Ruth to Japan just as her jingoes were successfully working up public opinion to believe that the U. S. is the "White Menace...
Inoffensive Mr. Ruth, cheered up & down Japan by frenzied millions of slant-eyed baseball fans, proved a Peace Envoy par excellence (TIME, Nov. 12). Shocked in Manhattan by the news from Tokyo last week, the Babe said: "I am mighty sorry to hear that anything has happened to Mr. Shoriki and I hope he recovers. He wasn't in the game for money, but because he believed baseball a good thing for Japan. To us he was a fine host, full of energy and hustle...
Latest reports from England have Babe Ruth progressing rapidly in John Bull's national game of cricket. The coach who has taken him in hand describes him as one of his most apt pupils and Lou Gehrig who returned this week said that when he left him the Babe "was knocking a cricket ball out of the grounds against the best bowling or pitching in England...
...Manhattan, Middleweights Vince Dundee and Babe Risko fought ten uneventful rounds. When the officials awarded the decision to Risko, the crowd booed. Boxing commissioners promptly ordered the decision reversed, had Dundee declared winner...
Born, To the 13-year-old Denver girl to whom an abortion was denied last summer (TIME, Oct. 22); and to John W. Brewer, 38, who is now serving a 20 to 30 year sentence for raping the girl: a 7-lb. son; in Denver. Mother and babe were reported doing well...