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ports was-raised from 44.4 per-cent.
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request* hlnT’to fike’lTiis "trade**else
where.’ For mannequins in the land
of pretzels and beer, , td say the
months, of last(], year. Here’s hop-
in-
KEEP YOUR STUBS.
It wil,l ^undoubtedly come , as
■‘-^£“'2Vl'l^rta-“-?hud—~<wi*---igOomo~bt“ori.-e“
<—andllan—dollars—-a.[l—icai-iied,”——life-
from' the -cave,
modern' home;
the coach; to
the airplane.
, .Difficulties, perils and
backs - are inevitable —
vincible. '. The forward
. tlie -courageous' heart-, is
tee of victory.—Halifax
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via
and
_ L-lod it would not. live a-week.'
CANADA.- •
i the Empire
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Mb'S®?THE WORLD
AT LARGE
.CANADA
NAME, YOUR MAN.
' ; Nairne, badgers are "how pinned
■ employees '’of Drdminiq,n , Stores.,v And
■ bo.th customers, and employees seem
to like it.. Customers find they' can
; 1 .remember an. employee’s name. tbet-
T . ter is tbey'"a;ctua-l'Iy see--it-;*< employ.?
' ■’"ees are pleased-because' tchey prefer
■ to be referred to by. name rather.
■ than as “that ’ thih, ,i;ed faced man,
etc?'—Financial Post. . .
^.RECIPROCITY AMONG TOURISTS
The-•hql.iday.^exo.dus. .-on . the. great
1 American national- day, July -4th,. in
terms of motoring- tourists entering
Canada this year, created, -a record,
and moreover’ e-xceea&d- the returns
. in 1929, hitherto, a peak year. This
■ is most gratifying' news to ’ those
Canadians who think of Canada’s
- prosperity in, terms of ' mounting
tourist figures. Tliree days previous
to this great- American, holiday trek
to Ca^da, the 'Dominion'herself cel
ebrated a national day. it would be
■/interesting, to. knoiv toe .figures ot
. Canadian motorists crossing the in-J
ternational'border ■ pn July 1st, . but
the comparison would have -to be
•’’worked out. on- a. percentage basis
of total population.—Ottawa. Citizen.
. TAXES COMING ON.
»■ first, six months of this ye,ar
^_3i.ak_se£n._ $8.0 ,.00.0. Lmow-paid.* im-Ed-
mo.nton .taxes .than did.,t_he first six
months, of last, year,
'•’ing the' increase "will keep on
creasing.—Edmonton Journal.
a
’ shock .to most persons in Ontario,
' that, under tlie amusement ’taxi reg-
• ulations. now .in force, failure on--the
• part of a patron at any place, of
amusement to retain his btub of. toe
■ amusement . tak . t-icket is punishable
by a fine of from’ $16 to $200- under
"tlie Primaly’TCo’nvictions Act. '■ •
The actual requirement in the reg-
'. illations is,, that the person admitted.
must "produce.. his portion of ■ the tax
ticket on demand of any inspector of
.-the."amusements revenue, branch or
police officer, and lack of such tax
receipt is regarded as .prima facia
evidence that the act: had been evad-
i ed’’ ' ' ' .- / ■’ ’ '
i If. there -are any illusions -that
‘these drastic rules are not to be en
forced tlrey can be dismissed.—Peter
in' ro' Examiner.- _ ' , -
Carry On Tradition This time it is a poet who throws
the snowballs; not the first poet to'
do so, either, for Rudyard Kipling
pinned the nickname “Our Lady of
the Snows” on -the Dominion. In a
sense the Dominion' is all that the
nickname "implies—i|i" Winter. But,'
when a poet suggests that Winter ,
conditio-us prevail the year round,'
-Canadians make ■ strong dissenting
noises. ‘ i
That. Unfortunately, is what B: W.
seems to intimate in- his Bystander ’
verses.
Lord
have
just
gm-S
serious set-*
but' not in
look, plus
the guaran-
Herald.
' WHEN TWENTY WAS-FAST.
Among the gleanings' from it's'.files'
of a_ quarter-centuryjagoja_ the,,Ren
frew Mercury is -;an- item tellijig .o'f
the fining of an Ottawa' -motorist,
•charged witli .travelling through the
town at a .rate of twenty miles, ah
hour;. . In. his own defence the mo
torist asserted, that liis customary
speed was fifteen -miles’ in the coun
try" a'iid ’ten miles oh town- aiuT'city
■streets;,, One wonders, -if the s-peeds
of fifty or fifty-five miles mentioned
in ’ cases of iexlcessiYe speeding in
our courts, today, will seem so amus
ingly low. to the- readers of'twenty-
five ^years agio -columns in the news
papers of 19G0.—-Kingston ■ Whig-
Standard.
" SPEED COMES LAST^ '
• A group, of. automobile nranufac-
t.urers has asked a million motorists
to list toe qualities they mostdesire
in a motor"'car. ■
The replies ’■"are rather- surprising.
-First and foremost these, million
.motorists emphatically J' -say ..they
want "dependability.,' In overwhelming,
majority the 'motorist likes to feel
.- tha.t his old.car .Will keep on-running, ]
month,-. in;and nionth out, with a mini- ‘
..' mum. of balking, breakdown and. ..-re
pairs. ............. , '
’ ’The second requirement is eeono-
.my, which is . elosely allied-, to. de-
• ■penda’biiity; -. Third1-'-comes—esafe'ty,
' which also* is'"very largely a matter
L of mechanical dependability insofar
as it is; a quality of ’ toff machine
’ itself.-
Next in order motorists voted for
• comfort,' appearance, ease of con
trol', low first '.cost, smoothness,,
pick-up, and last of all,, speed. —
Winnipeg Tribune. • . . -
EDUCATE THE ’ADU LT.
“ An adult educational plan such as
that fostered'by the’-Provincial Gov-
■ ernmenf.and a group oFTdirdartloh-■
: ists in Manitoba lias., ani immediate
value and one that- is prospective.
• It encourages mfht. and ■ women ''•to
take an interest' in ' ot’iier ' things
than possessions ; ’ and it gives them
greater sympathy with education
for ■ youth. Where the intelligence
of, the adult population is high pro-
gress--i-s,. more certain. "Manitoba is
to'be congratulated on its efforts to
make education' continuous-. — Hamil-
. ton.Spectator.. ..................
' would be able- to keep only .^19,292
for himself. Federal and Provin
cial income taxes alo-ne would take1
• $929.708;—Ottawa . Journal.
" I-n the first place,, can anyone
really .’“earn" a irjillion " dollars a
year? In the second place, is there
anyone who .cannot, manage to strug
gle along on $79,292 per -year?- It
is niOre than most men earn in" a
lifetime-.—Toronto Star. ’- ',
A SHIP REBUILT.
Congratulation to the Halifax
1 Shipyards on a big- job ofjvork well/
and ably done!
Wliat lias just ■ been accompli’shed-
oii' 'and with the Si-lvervidw was no.
. ordinary repair job. but the biggest
and perhaps the most. .diffifiuJt. cop«_
t,raqt of its kind over attempted in
Canadian,yards. And today the $11-''
vorview' is-igoing, back into commis
sion- “as good as new"—“Transform
ed' from'- a b-Ully-mangled;. "'almost
doomed ■ '■hip. to r ^newly-palnled,
well repail'f-d steaming uhit.” —
Halifax Herald.* .
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MARCH' OF SILENCE.
A- law has been passed at .-Essex
Falls. New Jersey, making it' illegal
for' a duck Io quack, a rooster to
. . crow and a dog to bark between the
hours of 10 pun. and 6. a.tn. Owners
syhose^anTnYals or Towf “"clislurb' "fhe"
peace ipay be fined from $5 to $25s.
’• Whilipbonipiaint bad only been made
about- a canine prowler,' Hie roosters
; and ducks wore1 inclpdod “just in
case. . » • \
.You can go and live, in .Essex Falls-,-
,,, N-.J., if ■ ypu . want t;o, buknot j^pr uS.
•f r wb want, to keep, our" (log artyl wo-
wants, him to bo happy.—Windsor
. ' Star.
ROOM FOR CONFlDENCte.
. Tn the very upset of thing’s there
Is ground for confidence and .optlm-
v Jam. The worlcl-w.ide restlessness of
toff age is proof positive of - the
world’-? dissatisfaction with things' as
they. am. History proves that man’s
dissatisfaction has always .been the
first, step towards • fmprdv’oment and
advance? It explains Jhe -progress
via. the .but, to
from' -the horse,
the automobile
Following the footsteps of their noted parents, ’thes6_..youngsters, associated with the Lakewood-
Theater “at Showhegari, Me.,, carry on family Traditions. Left to right, seated are Owen . Davis- Jr.,
SP'ri of plawright; Eileen; Byron, daughter of Arthur?Byron; Keenan Wynn, son of,Ed Wynn; Mary
Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers;^ Virginia Dunning, daughter of playwright, and ..'John Drew pevexT-
.6anx, grandson of the late John Drew.' Standing are Kathleen., Kidder, ’niece of Kathryn Kidder;
. Frankie Thomas, son-of Mr.- and. Mrs. "Frank M./Thomas (Mona Burns), and Sandford Cummings son',
of Jessie C-ummings. ' - -, - ;
Before- Prime" Minister- Bennett ieft"
for the seaside Iks-t week to rest up
before getting into the election cam
paign he ■ announced a number or
long-awaited appointments, .with the,
exception* however,, of cabinet -ap-
pointjnents.. These he is expected to
announce upon, his retyrn. ■*
.Ten Senate vacancies were filled
by Mr.. Bennett, and included in the.:
.list was .Mrs. Iva .Campbell Fa 1 list of
-Be t-ei'b'o i-ou-’g-l-i—G-nt-a-rior-wi-fe-o-t—a—far=-
mer.L Her appointment ■ makes the
-second- -woman- -t-oH-sit-- -in, -the- .Red -
•Chamber. - Mrs. Fallis has worked un
tiringly for the Bennett. Government,
and the honor bestowed, upon her is
regarded to be well merited. Four
men were appointed to the judiciary,
three to the Unemployment and So
cial Insurance -Commission and one
was named; commissioner of patents.
Few; if any;, of the appointments
came as a surprise. Col. the Hon.'
G. S';> Harrington,, former Nova. Scotia’.
■Pr-emi-er, will, head tire •Gnempldymerit
-.... -Q-tfieia-i-a-pp.ro v-a-1 -41-a-s- - -been - -gi ven .->■
the government’s dairy products mar
keting equalization -Scheme, which is
‘designed to'assist ih the maintenance
of the cheese branch of the dairy,
industry. The scheme .also aims to
stabilize the price of milk entering
into.-, the manufacture of cheesei at
a spmewhat higher level than-can be
realized from the proceeds of the sale
: _dt_clie.esff.__ A-r£und—lias-^b c-en-^p ro-v-i-d ed~
by Parliament out-Q( which it is rn-
-te'tttfed“t-ha-t-p'arymeiite_Tnr*th'e'—basts~oT"
the- quantity of cheese manufactured
-w-ilh-be~ma d ew -Fa rm ers - who- desire'
such payments must apply to the
Dairy and Cold -Storagh Commission
er, Department of Agriculture, Ot
tawa. Payments received by factories
from the dairy products equalization
fund mjist. be' apportioned
milk A ” ‘ "
as proceeds from ,tlie sale, of elieese.
In a. very short tiine the govern
ments will announce the list of ap
proved loaning companies to which'
borrowers may apply for benefits un
der - tire. $1-0.,006 ,-000- geyern-ment-
~wflfcdje.reth c-first—concrete—et ep-r-te=-
-^3rWls^brmgjiig-,tInSEplan -HUo nopejras-
lion possibly by the end oEAugusCT
German Models
'■ Smiling “ Agi
( They ' Don’t. - Have To Do.
Year’s Compulsory. .
. • - ’ ' Farm Labor ' '
Berlin—Mannequins.-in the' Third
Reich are smiling again—they can,
■stick to displays of fui; coats - "and
beautiful" gowns and avoid blistering.
. hands and feet -out on a. farm doing
'one-year compulsory labor service. !
The fate of "the beatifies; and cuties
who parade 'winter fashions in -sum-“
_mer_ .aland ^s„el,Lfroc.ks„
with smiles? and streamlined figures,
-fohked—pretty-^b'lnelv-f'qr^a—t-rme^-vrhen-
the Nazis 'commanded that every girl
”between~48’"aiTd'"2p"shouW"ge.t a—taste
'of hard work’by being “assigned” to
a farm to learn and work.
-‘But this calamity, as the manne
quins looked at it, has been happily
.-avoided for. their part because the
powers that be have .recognized that-I
beauty and a streamlined curve jire, I
after all, a rare comr>0dity,t and one
that cannot be provided -from the
rank and file of womanhood of Ger-
riiany. .Fashion shops left, no stone,
unturned to convince authorities that
a husky and 'heavy-Tooted ■-maiden -
Explaining, -with
Twe.edsmuir, that-
meant to. him-,much
a passing
on to say-:
“And that’ is
goes
To Canada’s
Fur now our
And honored cilice in the State.1
. The. trouble . with ' the word
Veter hal'1 is'.'that it'is-..apt to" be ’
misunderstood., The poet may have
meant that Canada’s climate will
~a lAvays'~be_ta"7 'S'nowy^fre-^n vWinter.'
All light. So it -is,..and Canadians'
should net'be afraid to say sm We
are altogether-too apt - tOj. have ’ an
inferiority complex with regard. • tb"
our glorious • and stimulating Winter ’
temporu-tures. But to many, readers
the poet’s “eternal will convey the
idea ‘that it is always-srrowy here— --v--—
-, If he really thinks so. it would
be fine to have him in Toronto now,
to- Watch his collar- wilt and face
break out into beads of perspiration.
It would be delightful to see himj^go
and- drink a lot of—a lot of what
ever he does drink.—only to find him
self ho.ttef ", and more .perspiring,
than-, before. Then'he-equid listen to
. the., weather, man explaining over the
radio that. it. really isn't the - heat,
but just the humidity. And some.'
health sharp would—tell him that_ the
-yva-y -t-o -keep..cool.is -to -avoid "work?...
and worry and food? AIT-The time he . ’
would be: getting hotter, and - hotter y “
wfiim,’1-
respect to S
" “politics,
more than ?
the .bard
why - John Bucharf .,
.Ar ; ‘ ‘ .
eternal snows,'' , „ ■
rrauthor holds a great fflK
I' cilice in the State.” ' ■
J and' .repenting;, more and.. more tbox-...' _
• oughly that he had- "’ev&r fashioned' .a''■
line abo'ut.‘“Ganada-s eternal snows.”
. He would, no. doubt, feel impelled to
rewrite )iis poem. ' ' . '
“Ahid That is why John- Buchan cats';
’Mid'Canada’s infernal heats.
Where Winter’s Winter sure'enough, "
But Summer a quite, different-stuff.’’ .
Different indeed! B. W. would want
to kick himself,- but wouldn’t hav^
enough- enedgy left .to do.it.
COTTON MESH LINGERIE
ZZ'Cotboir^nes-h—14-n-^rl^r?w^U--pu-nch^
ed with holes for extra; coolness,-can.
be very--easily -t-ubbigd and -dried-al- ?
most while you wait. Very desirabk
for daily vvear during, the dog days.
TRADE AFTER OTTAWA.
A, disposition in Gi'eant Britain and
•some of the Dominions to discount
the achievement of Ottawa in ’fost
ering Empire trade, shoal'd be correc
ted by mpre recent trade trends. .Pro
bably the mistake has been' to look
for results tod quickly. It takes time
to alter the direction of 'commerce'.
Last year the' British returns‘showed
an unmistakable and substantial- in
crease in the proportion of Empire
trade. ' More .than 75. per cent, of
£22,100,000' of growths jn -Briti||sh ex
ports was accounted for. t„ -'r^-
wj.thin the Empire. Moreoyer,.
Empire's shai% •dP.’jtot&V Bn.tjsli
to -46.9 per _c’cnt._____ , _______
“cenT'iplalnFThat the EmP'it^ ya.’> a!
liability rather than an asset, taking
more than it gives, ■ cannot find
much support in these figures., —
Weekly Times,' Auckland. ."
* “ting the ihTiyr^ten^^
Baudet, Montreal insurance manager,
representing . -employers.. T<he com
mission will get down tol work almost
immediately. •
The Senate . appointment were:
Npva Scotia-—;Hon. Edgar N. Rhodes,
Finance”Minister, Ottawa;- Col.' Thos.
Cantley, M.P.? Pictou; F. P. Quinn,'
M.P., . Halifax; J. L. Q. Robichau,
merchant-farmer, Maxwellton, Digliy
County.’
■, Prince Edward Island—Hon; J. A.
Macdonald, Minister without ' Port
folio. ' p —. •'
Ontario—Hon.. Donald M. Suther
land, former member of Parliament,i
Ingersoll; CoL James Arthurs; M.P.,1
Parry. Sound; ' ■ i
-^N^BriTnswick--Horn”George”'“Pl"
Jones, Apohaqui, Royal.
•Quebec—Hon. Arthur Sative, St.
Eu s tacli e, Post m a st e r-Gen era I.
James Thompson. Mitchell, Ottawa,
at present acting commissioner, will
be commissioner of patents.
Mr. Justice Patrick Kerwin,LONDON-PARIS RECORD.
Again a British airplane has bro
ken the London-Paris record. Flying
the second of two Comet monoplanes
ordered by the French Government,".
Mr. IL S. Broad,, chief de Hawilland
lost pilot, travelled from rest on
Croydon airdrome tp^ a standstill
outside the cu->^tfi?~buildings at Le
-Bo-urget- in '52-' mimites, breaking by
seven minutes the record set by Mr.
Hugh Bu'cknghaRn in a similar ma
chine three months ago. His time in
the rain^-was 48 minute’s—an average
•.speed -over the 2^5' miles of 256.2
m.jLh. . , _ ....___;___
Mr. Broad, who was accompanied
by an engineer, has reported that" he
.climbed' abive toe' clouds' immediate!
ly after leaving Croydon. He, did not
see' the ground again till within fif
teen miles.of Beauvais. T'ho cross
wind Was no.t particularly helpful.—4
British Aircraft Society.
. TWO VOICES.
'Two voines are crying irt the „Em-
pire. Ono is crying’earnestly, for, a
maintenance of peace.- The other is
crying the demand for the prepara
tion of defence. ‘ The two voices are
creating 'a discord. Is it not possible
to ma'ke concord*’? Jt'is fevitknt J>hat
no party in the-Bri-tish Empire Wishes (hat ltas bpGf1 ’ de-fe-ticelss.-The
for a war. War is horrifying -t® coru 1 Australasian.
fornnlnto Jlnrl «i nartv. wli i.-.'h I '. '
ot
Quelpli, who has been-on thq Ontario
Supreme Court bench for only .three
years, goes to the Supreme Court of
Canada beiich to fill the vacancy
.caused by the Retirement of Mr. Jus
tice-Prank Hughes; Mr. Justice Ker
win' will be succeeded"by Charles T.
McTague, K.C,, of Windsor. Hon. Al
fred Duranleau, Minister of Marine^
succeeds‘Mr. Justice Coderre on the
Qucbee Superior Court bench, and'
Dj McKinnoVi, K.C., of Charlottetown
is appointed districtjjudge in admir-
. alty, Prince Edward Islands
—p- T - .
war may be forced upon us,, and
when the' time comes to defend iUr
country, and our people from an agu
grosser; the party which' says there
must be no defence would not Jive
a week. -.The vo.i'ce of thoke wlio cry
for a- continuance tjf pe’ac'e should
not be raised against thos’e who pre
pare'for defence; for preparation for
dei’oh-cd is .not' preparation for, ivar, -
but preparation to preserve! the'
peace. For the time will corrie- gs
’surely as nig'ht follows day when a
thoroughly p’repatT’d- foreign n&tlon
.will find a prey in a wealthy nation’
mannequin make. So, without putting
it down on paper beyond recogniz
ing the mannequin profession as
amongst those, where an individual
is. specially qualified, the authorities
have left Dame Fashion keep its
mannequins.
As a matter of fact, the. manne
quins in Germany always have held
a sort of privileged position, for jj.ir.ts.
with the bowing acquaintance, with
beauty are not too numerous. Con
sequently, a mannequin in Germany
can snap her fingers at the boss, and
if she doesn’t like the atmosphere or
conditions in her shop she-' knows
that other jobs are waiting.
Like all other “laborers0 in- Ger-
-ma-ny-, -t-he—mannequin is- '-or-ganixedL
and the same protective labor laws
,ttpply"to her as to the office sec
retary. For yfcars the .samq girls
will be seen doing their stuff in the
same fashion shops, and .buyers
making the rounds usually insist on
having gowns and furs displayed by
.“Fraulein Schmidt* who worked here
when I was here some years ago'” x
A customer coming from. foreign
shores, • where he is perhaps accus
tomed to giving the mannequins the
“once-over”, and subsequently picking
one . for a. date that evening, is cer
tain to find himself sadly disappoint-,
eil, .however. He gets a cold stare- in
return for the glad eye, and thumbs
■down on his date. If the uritutored.
customer should insist in getting in J
the mannequin’s way, it is -not un--
combion in. German, fashion shops to
i ’*" " ' ” '
of pretzels and beer, , th say
least* are independent.
Distant Star
Hottest’ Place
■/ j0 ' ■’*__________; ’
Cambridge, Mass.—An . unnamed,
, far off star, whose surface tempera
ture is 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit,
the highest heat ever measured -any
where, .was described to the con-,
ference on spectroscopy recently at
t-he-Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. ’ ..
. The sun’s surface .i<» barely 10,000
degrees Fahrenheit. The hottest
temperatures, previously reported,
alFon stars, were 35,000 tp 40,000.
degrees Fahrenheit.
A. blue ribbon-L^the distant star’s
ultra-violet light—revealed the in
ferno. This star is a peculia? object.
It is a, sun surrounded by a nebula,
which in the telescope looks like a
halo—-a star surrounded by some
thing likeHhe ring around the moon,
It was tlys ring or nebula which .
made it possible to.read'the tempera
ture with new.Instruments and meW
methods. These were described by
Dr. I. S. Bowen, of the California
Institute of Technology. The temper
ature reading, he said,, was made by
Zanstra; a -Dutch astronomer,
The nety method calculates the
heat- in a fashion analogous -to study
ing a fire hidden under'a tent, but
hot enough so. that, sonie of its light'
might be dimly seen through thin,
-spots -j-n -the env-e-1 dping- -fa-brie.---- -~
. The star tent is the nebula around
it. -This nebula. is believed to be a
cloud of gas.
Only the invisible rays from this,
gas' cloud are used to calculate tern-'
' peratures/ They are ultra-violet and'
the-new ■ instrument which make this
clear detection possible is an alum
inum coated mirror, a device per-'
feefed at Cornell University.-.
■ Aluminum, catches ultra-violet, rays
better'than anything previously us
ed. Sortie’ of the ultra-iyiolet rays
caught in the alumir.tini mirror are
exceptionally strong. These , rays are
quite accurately, calculated' by the
aid’of the star tent, ft is the calf
dilation of their energy . which re
veals the enormous boat of the star’s ’
surface. • » . ed it as “a few'’agents of ic.e.”
Perspiring Writer
Corrects. Poem on,
Canada’s Snows
(From the Toronto Star)
In. that well-known fingltsh - pub-
lication* The Bystander there is . a
poem w.ith' the title “Jdhn Buchan”,
which repeats an old old libe||| upon-
Canada, a similar slander t<\ that
voiced centuries ago by a dis
tinguished Frenchman' who" describ-
ck.led. .“The-House That Ruto.BuiuJ
UY KEN. EDWARDS
^HAS MIT,,
HUNDREDS OF
home runs
INMIS
FAMOUS y
career..
KINp OF SWAT
George (Babe) Herman Ruth, that ■
phenomenal home-run hitter was the -
most majestic . figure in inodernday
major league baseball. .
lluto was born iii Baltimore in
1894, and started'out on fiia career
by joining the Baltimore .Club in
1913 at $1’00'3 month, being sold the
same year to the Boston.Red Sox for
$’2,DOO. . ■■ _ • : ' - ; " . (
The Babe was a pitcher at the be
ginning-of his career. But his hitting
prowess came quickly to toe fdre.
The popular slugger, who for 1D31.
and 1932 had a contract for
is never too busy ’t0 autogS>h «
score card for the '.dirty-faced kids ' .
all of whom are Ruth’s pals, .
In 1Q27 he slammed 60 drives out
of the parks in the American League
an all-time mark. Three times: dur.
ing his career he liit 3. home runi
jn one game, 2 being in World Series
contests in. 192.6-and 1928-. I
The Babe led' the American league
in. lip’me^runs for 12 seasons. Foul .
limes lie hit over 50 homers.' He hit
‘lOJjjyjiers 11 times. He has receiver
more bases on bails and striick out
more times than any player lipte?
in the„records. ;
Due to toe tremendous crowds th(
Yankees drew from 1920 to the lda|
the Yankee Stadium was popular!/
th liiiiltj