"In his pamphlet [written years later] on Ruth at St Mary's  [his former classmate] Lou Leisman recalled a Sunday visiting day around 1912 when he  Leisman  was feeling sorry for himself because his father was dead  his mother was ill and he had had no visitors for two years  the eighteen-year-old Ruth  who had had no visitors himself  said  perhaps in a rough effort to console the younger boy  'You're lucky  Fats