Show Bill Terry Mounts High Horse And Bites Hand That Feeds Him Mimics Tunney and Tilden by Snooty Attitude I J Should Copy Leaf From Book P r. r R. R A SpecIal to The Telegram BLU BiU Terry Tem seems to have bitten the hand that fed him His His' recent statement t in the south to newspaper men would indicate nothing less than that It seems that the press the same organization that accorded him c columns and columns of praise BS as t the yo young ng 6 successful manager of th world champion GIants last year Sa a necessary Bill When asked for an interview dur ing the training season BILL is reported reported re- re ref ported to have replied to the news news- hounds You fellows can say what au please about me It wont won't bother mc me because I dont don't read the papers any anymore more Mounta nIgh Horse Th This 3 statement in Itself wouldn't h have ve meant so much but It caine came weeks ot of what appeared to be snootiness toward the boys in the training camps It rankled deep In the more or less manly bosoms ot of the scribes and it recalls to this c other instances I I in sports parallel to Bills Bill's case Take Bill BiU Tilden for tor instance When he was an amateur who ruled the netters of the world Big Willie was was as snooty mooty a guy to the press as could be found He was good and knew it and he didn't go CO out of h his way way to help anion especially anyone the photographers The camera clIckers had a weeks week's Work in one day when they were sent out to get Tilden in action Gene Tunney was another one ol th those sc guys Unlike Dempsey Dimpsey Tunney a hall hail fellow well met sort of a fIghter to all scriveners Photographers Photographers Pho- Pho could get him to pose al although though reluctantly when in training but when it came to private life the was a tau tough gh customer youn probably remember the time he gave a photographer the bums bum's rush when he be and Polly Lauder were spending their honeymoon In Europe Europ The lesson here is that Dempsey still Ull is 1 one ot of the foremost figures In the fight game and Tunney although i wealthy seldom iri gets geta a line Ime In in the sheets en there w wai T C r read ead stories recently classing him as ashe t the he forgotten man of baseball Theres little wonder Cobb now f alls faUs in that class He seldom went out of his way to help the boys and andIn I In n many cases took steps to antagonize nize them Look Look- LookOut Out Bill Usa to analyze Terrys Terry's case It might be that the young man manIs manIs Is sensitive and wants to climb the ladder with his own legs rather than expect praise and assistance from om the press On the other hand It may be that he feels hes he's reached the peak and being there doesn't need any help hell from rom the boys If the latter case is true Memphis Bill would better change his mind |