Babe

In the area surrounding Lot No. 126, Section G of Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery, dozens and dozens of headstones and grave markers rise from the ground. For an insect, it's a skyline that would match that of any great city. For Paul Harris, however, it has been the source of great consternation. You see, while the surrounding area is filled with marble tributes and commemorative granite, Lot No. 126, Section G is bare, save the yellowed grass that has covered this area for decades. Harris, a retired attorney, first visited the site in 1995 and just couldn't shake the idea from his head.

Tommy Byrne, a Baltimore-born southpaw who pitched in four World Series as a member of the New York Yankees, died of congestive heart failure Thursday in Wake Forest, N.C. He was 87. A 1979 inductee into the Maryland Sports Hall of Fame, Mr. Byrne was a star athlete at City College from 1935 to 1937 - leading the school to state baseball championships in his last two years. As a major leaguer, he was an All-Star whose reputation for wildness on the mound led to several years of exile from Yankee Stadium and had hitters ducking for most of his career.

Owing more to the sword-and-sex-play fantasies of 12-year-olds than the traditions of Old English poetry, Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf will allow adolescents to have their cheesecake - and beefcake - and eat it, too. Old Hollywood's moviemakers used to set their toga sagas in Rome when Christianity was poised to usurp paganism, so they could exploit nude milk baths and gladiatorial combat while bewailing godless excess. Beowulf (Paramount Pictures) Starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Angelina Jolie.

Good morning -- Barry Bonds -- You think Babe Ruth would've skipped a chance to be in a home run derby at Yankee Stadium?

Screening Catch `Speedy' Speedy, a 1928 silent comedy that watches as Harold Lloyd tries to save the last horse-drawn streetcar in New York, will be shown tonight - with live musical accompaniment by the three-piece Alloy Orchestra - at the Senator Theatre, 5904 York Road. Even Babe Ruth shows up in the film. Doors open at 6:45; screening is at 7:30. Free admission. Call 410-435-8338 or visit senator.com.

BOSTON -- I suppose it is reassuring that when all hell breaks loose, the tabloids still keep their eyes on the heavens, or at least the stars. Even in the Middle East, a gossip sheet in the United Arab Emirates is dutifully chronicling the search for baby Suri. The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is not exactly missing. No milk cartons, please. It's just that the 3-month-old has not yet had her picture on the public show-and-tell circuit, a required rite of passage for celebrities.

On Wednesday June 14, 2006, FRANCIS B. "Babe" MIKULA of St. Cloud, FL, ad formerly of Crisfield, MD, and Dundalk, died at his home in St. CLoud. An Army, Navy and Merchant Marine Veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and a retiree of General Motors. He is survived by his longtime companion, La Verna Keene, their grandchildren, CJ and Lindsey Tyler, his daughter, Anita Mikula-Smith, his son-in-law, Jeff Smith, mother-in-law, Dorothy Tyler, sister, Frances Mikula Spence, and several nieces and nephews.

For good reason, Beverly Hanson has plenty of memories from the first LPGA Championship. It doesn't matter to Hanson that the tournament was played in 1955. "I never forget the ones I won," said Hanson, now 81. Speaking by telephone from her home in La Quinta, Calif., where she moved a few months after receiving a $1,200 winner's check that represented one of the biggest paydays of her 10-year career, Hanson can recall the week in Fort Wayne, Ind., for more than what she did on the course at Orchard Ridge Country Club.

Bonds watch -- Homers needed to tie Babe Ruth: 1 -- Yesterday: 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, ending an 0-for-15 slide