Judge — February 20, 1932 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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CONTEST RULES Here are the prizes for each month— 464 in all! For best Colgate For best Palmolive blurbs’ 125 125 50 50 25 25 10 | 20 next. 10 5S | 200nmert . . 5s WV ETE your “blurb” in one of the empty spaces on the opposite page, ot on a sep- arate sheet of paper. Mail with nameandaddress to Contest Editors, Dept. C-2, P. O. Box 1133, Chicago, Illinois. There will be six contests in all—one each month. Six sets of prizes, each set totaling $4200, will be awarded. Prize winners for Con- test No. 1 (this contest) will be decided Feb. 29, 1932. Prize winners for succeeding contests will be decided at the end of each month. Sixth and final contest closes July 31, 1932. Contest is open to everybody except em- ployes of the manufacturers and their families. You may enter as many “blurbs” as you wish. In event of a tie, each fying contestant will be awarded full amount of of the judges shall be final. Some hints to help you win Here are some facts about the world's two largest selling shaving creams—Colgate's Rapid Shave Cream and Palmolive Shave Cream. Here are some of the reasons why more men prefer these famous shaving creams than all others combined! PALMOLIVE 2. Multiplies itself in lather 250 times. 2. Softens the beard in one minute. Maintains its creamy fullness for 10 minutes. 4. Fine after-effects due to olive oil content, COLGATE'S 2. Breaks up oil film that covers each hair. 2. Small bubbles get down to the base of the beard, bold water against each hair atskio-line and soak it soft where the razor works, 3. Gives a close, skin-line shave due to small bubble action. 4. Gives a lasting, 24-hour shave the prize. Decision | market is looked upon with suspicion and scepticism, if he is looked upon jat all. | Contrast these stylish price-tags with the buying power of the dollar when players rode to the parks in buses, and any umpire was. ope viewed as a menace to civilization: Christy Mathewson cost the Giants Detroit paid $700 for Ty 1 money, too; it took $500 rs Hornsby, and a like Tris Speaker. When Bos- 900 for Ruth it was a page-one story And_ spe of Ruth, the jiman has assembled his va j and abdominal contours, and is now in the process of launching his Jeenth year as a big-l still lite nd poetically the 1 gest man sport—bunions, appe- tite and pay checks included. o ball’ player has had a more varied or colorful career than Mr. Ruth. He started out as a left- |handed pitcher. For three years he was one of the great pitchers of the American League. I believe he still holds the record of having pitched twenty-nine scoreless innings — in World Series competition. Had he rem: Ruth probably would along with, if not above, W: Plank, Pennock and Grove. As a pite ball players used to refer to him as board ing-house hash, a curi- ously romantic phrase of the trade, implying that he had ever thing. Mr. Ruth has a robust enthusiasm for baseball; he be- came an outfielder be- cause he wanted to play every day. In his younger days Mr. Ruth was addict- ed to loose moments of temper and conduct. It soothed his artistic soul to engage in in- formal knuckle jousts with 3 The n + as youthful pitcher, led sharply off the protruding chin of Mr. Brick Owens, who had [had the indiseretion to call a strike a ‘ball. In those days Mr. Ruth was also disposed to look upon the Pilsner |when it was pale, a disposition that led him into many novel social experi- ments, not the least absorbing of which was a theory that the race- to buy R sum to ge ton paid § aguer. He Judging the Sports (Continued from page 10) tracks and roulette wheels offered a to riches. “The money was well spent,” the philosophic Mr. Ruth tells you. “A sucker can’t expect an education un- less he pays for it As everybody knows, Mr. Ruth is no longer a play boy, a sucker or an informal fighter. With maturity he has become a sober man, a_ proper man and a moneyed man. Yet he has lost none of the color and richness of his prodigal days. It is not hard to understand the idolatrous position he occupies with the baseball public. He is the great- est slugger of all time and one of the most picturesque batters that ever glowered at an ememy pitcher. There is real drama in the spectacle of this enormous man as he stands at the plate with his big bat drawn all the way back and his eyes fixed ehal- nly on the man out there in the hox. The atmosphere takes on a strange tenseness, pulses beat faster, thunder rumbles in the distance. No other great hitter ever managed to construct such an illusion of power at the plate. he Mighty Casey of Mudville was a mere fantasy. Mr. Ruth is a living, vibrating fi Mr. Ruth has never allowed him- self to grow When he says. * from the game. They'll have to take y before I ins it. He likes baseball better than Dempsey. ever liked fighting. The ad- vance of time hasn't : and probably never will, bring Park Avenue elegance or drawing-room dignity to the man. Cards, billiards and golf, 1 will always represent the most serious problems in his life; nor is there any great danger that suspec he will ever go liter- ary in a conspicuous way. He admits the only Z hook he has read in =f recent years is “Babe Ruth's Own Book on Baseball.” A sceptic expressed disbelief that he had even read this book, and was silenced when the great man roared: “The hell T haven't. I've read it twice The critics say Mr. Ruth is begin- ning to fade, that he hasn't more than two or three years yet to last. What then?» For my part, they'll have to Without the aseball. devise a new game, Bambino, it won't be comicbooks.com