THE BABE

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."

It may not be cricket to do anything like that, but we envision the picture with considerable pride. Baseball has never attained much popularity in Britain. Frontal attacks such as Harvard made successfully on her sister island empire have failed in the realm of George V. It may be that our premier baseballer is taking a page from the tactics of radical labor agitators and is "burrowing from within."

Perhaps lacking an opening in major league managerial circles, the retired home run king has assumed the portenous mission of swatting cricket balls all over the field so persistently as to achieve the complete and permanent ruin of the English national game. That would be something to rank with our own Boston Tea Party.