Judge, 1927-08-20 · page 11 of 36
Judge — August 20, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# "Judging the Stars: Hallucinations on a Ball Player" This is a caricature and satirical essay about **Babe Ruth**, the famous baseball player. The cartoon exaggerates his physical features—double chin, wide nostrils, small eyes, sloped shoulders, and massive torso—in the crude caricature style typical of early 20th-century sports humor. The satire mocks Ruth's behavior and temperament on the field. The text describes him as a "molested despot"—a star player so accustomed to adulation that he cannot handle failure. When he strikes out, he angrily throws his bat like "a swordsman breaks a faulty blade," suggesting childish petulance. The piece ridicules his oversized ego and expectation of constant victory, treating his tantrum as the behavior of someone unused to losing the crowd's approval. The humor works by contrasting Ruth's presumed self-importance with his human flaws and emotional immaturity.
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JUDGE MUIDGING “te STARE by Mauro Gonzalez Says an editor to his caricaturist, “Stick a pin in some of these windbags.” That's a pre- mature request, as the inflating season for presi- dential possibilities is not yet. However, to choose another celebrity. * * * There’s the ball field. Little figure throwing, catching. It has ears and a chin... it is a double chin. The e wide nostrils... a stump of a nose ... small eyes ... and sorrowing eyebrows. ... This is Babe Ruth. The small eyes of Babe Ruth follow the ball as it passes from one glove to another. He is a HALLUCINATIONS ON A BALL PLAYER student of the little “pill.” With the slow, measured tread of a baby elephant he walks into the field. Large shoulders and ponderous torso is all one sees now. The mob applauds. . . « Acrouching bundle stands pigeon-toed at the home plate. Restless, he moves a bat to andi from his shoulders. He swings and hits the afternoon air... “S other—and now he’s out. Babe Ruth fans! He hurls the bat to the ground, disgusted, as a swordsman breaks a faulty blade across his knee. He is a molested despot. A despot who misses the howls of victory as a city dweller in (Continued on’ page 28) rike one !""—and an- comicbooks.com