Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Herman "Babe" Ruth, failing to hit, wrote to New York for his favorite bat, Big Bertha, the heaviest bat used in the big leagues (48 ounces). Big Bertha has 31 notches in the handle, each notch for a home run. Ruth broke his bat Betsy in June when there were twelve notches...
Lyle Womack (Mr. Ruth Elder) last week won a fight in Panama. Fighting under the name of Jeff Ross, which he likes better than any of his other names, he is said to have beaten all the amateur and professional middleweights in the Canal Zone. When he is not fighting he works in the distillery of his uncle who has the biggest bourbon trade in Panama...
...Flier Clarence Duncan Chamberlin is not the cinema type, as reported, Miss Ruth Elder apparently is. The New York-to-Atlantic Ocean flier was besought by Florenz Ziegfeld last week to play the part of the American girl in his motion picture to glorify that young lady...
...Yankee camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, Babe Ruth stopped running on third base. He was afraid if he went on his feet would blister. John Koszciusko Grabowski, catcher, took off a reducing shirt when he was hot, caught cold. Lou Gehrig wrote his mother to send him a jar of potted eels...
Among his selections will be the following: the story of Naaman and Elisha, selections from the Book of Ruth, and the third chapter of the General Epistle of James; and from Shakespeare, the famous Crispin speech of Henry V, before the Battle of Agincourt, and several scenes from Macbeth...