Fanning this Ruth is not as easy as the name and occupation might indicate. In the third frame Ruth knocked the slant out of one of Jack Warhop's underhanded subterfuges, and put the baseball in the right field stand for a home run. Ruth was discovered by Jack Dunn in a Baltimore school a year ago when he had not yet attained his lefthanded majority, and was adopted, and adapted, by Jack for the uses of the Orioles. He is now quite a pitcher and a demon hitter—when he connects.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Fanning this Ruth is not as easy as the name and occupation might indicate. In the third frame Ruth knocked the slant out of one of Jack Warhop's underhanded subterfuges, and put the baseball in the right field stand for a home run. Ruth was discovered by Jack Dunn in a Baltimore school a year ago when he had not yet attained his lefthanded majority, and was adopted, and adapted, by Jack for the uses of the Orioles. He is now quite a pitcher and a demon hitter—when he connects." in the context of "Damon Runyon, in "Yankees Tie in Ninth and Win in Thirteenth, 4 to 3," The New York American (May 7, 1915), reprinted in Middle Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1900-1948 (2004), edited by Dean A. Sullivan, p. 74" to mean that wisdom is timeless.