Judge — August 27, 1927 — page 22: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

UDGE THE PL: Al N Ss The Worst Blow of All The baseball writer of The Evening Blah wrote “and Babe Ruth whiffed.” He pondered on this, decided it wasn’t snappy enough and sub-' stituted: “the mighty Bambino sliced the ozone.” hat didn’t suit him, either. So he crossed it out for “His Ma- jesty, the King of Swat, wasted a wild swing and the inning was > over. A MA Me Still he was dissatisfied. For 15 minutes he stared at his type- writer. Then a happy thought came: “George Herman Ruth was the most surprised baby in the world when he lashed at the pill and, instead of the sharp crack f bat on horsehide, there came only a dull, sickening thud from the vicinity of the catcher's mitt.” R VAR He turned in the yarn and went ASER MN BBED. IKE home. The next” morning he ereA ¢ NELL* looked the paper over and found that a copy reader had made just Gtr TLe A® e7o one change: “Ruth struck out.” C2 With a wild shriek the baseball writer started his typewriter at full speed, dived into the keys and was battered to death. — . —Cuerr Jounson The next offering of Duke Perelman’s Imperial Jazzotictans is “What a Slob I Picked When I Met You,” in three-four time. However, here’s the scandal: “Say,” remarked a football can- didate at Yale, “do you know where the French class meets?” “You got me!” responded a crew candidate, “T’'m a student here myself!” Hold on there, girls, going through a dark tunnel! Preacher denounces jazz from pulpit.—News item. ‘aking his text, presumably, from Do-Do-Deuteronomy. Not Quite Perfect Our milk is from contented cows, Our eggs from happy hens; Our pork chops from complacent pigs That come from pleasant pens. The foodstuffs on our table are The best we can provide; And yet they don’t taste right to us; Our cook’s dissatisfied. —R.C. 0. Hangers for trousers were in- vented by a married woman. It will be remembered that, when these are used, they cause the trousers to hang downwards. He learned about women from Ur. comicbooks.com