Show TERRY SWEARS HE WILL REFORM Giant Pilot t V Vows to Use Tact in 1935 By JIMMY JI POWERS NEW YORK Jan 4 On On the thc New York Giants Giants' second road trip to lo St Sl Louis LoWs last year a gathering of or 1200 sandlot kids kids' was snubbed b by byl y Manager Bill Bm Ter Ter- ry This gave a waggish waggish wag wagS gish local reporter Inspiration for a i sports editorial Incidents In of Terrys Terry's unwarranted c con con- o n celt were gone into in into in- in to in entertaining detail All An through the yarn the writer referred referred referred re re- to his subject sub sub- as a heel From time to time Bill Dill Terry he would excuse himself himsel in print and say Mr Heel Soon after this the clippings sped along the dugout grapevine In no notime notime notime time the goat goat getters getters picked it up When we came to Philadelphia Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my Wilson hollered Hello Mr 1 Heel When we came to Boston Al cupped his fingers and bellowed it It was the same in m Pittsburgh and Cincinnati In Chica Chicago o the fans smacked their palms palmo in a chant whenever Terry appeared at the plate Get your jour hit they shouted in m derisive uni unit son Terry to his credit grinned after this one and said not polite poUle they forgot the Mister Now all this abuse was pretty hard for a a. man to swallow McGraw McGraw McGraw Mc- Mc Graw took worse In his time So did Ruth and Cobb They would have sneered at Terrys Terry's sissy riding riding riding rid rid- ing but nevertheless it was a riding and an unusually severe one for this era of playing bridge and tuxedo tuxedo- wearing tuxedo ball players Terry took his like a man and like a man he conceded that probably he was wron wrong The press agents of the National league and the publicity men for the oil company that Terry represents took him aside this winter winter win win- ter and talked to him Terry then announced his reforma reformat reformation tion He lie gave a dinner to the baseball baseball base base- ball writer which ended in a fist fistfight fistfight fistfight fight incidentally and he promised that 1935 would woud be another year Hes He's Really Rully Sincere I Today we contemplate the new spring training schedule of ot the Giants It includes 37 gam games The itinerary is intriguing It proves that Terry is as honest in his reform as ashe ashe ashe he is courageous First oil off he intends to play In West Palm Beach Fla He has games scheduled there on March 18 and 13 19 with the Browns Last year Terry Insulted the chamber of commerce peevishly pulled his team out of ot a dinner arranged jointly with Rogers Hornsby Hornsb and left lert the town in a huff lie He go back there he says he will be diplomatic he will no longer longerI I fight as he did last year ear with a wheel chair cripple at the pass gate gale or throw a Palm Beach reporter out of ot his hotel room He will vill be gentlemanly gen and courteous He swears it Ungracious Again The new schedule shows that the Giants will play in New Orleans on March 30 and arid 31 Terry could have ducked this one too if he had wanted to Last year New Orleans friends of ol Mel Ott Oll staged a party They invited Terry Terry growled in it il for me He lie was swept out of or New Orleans by another blast of bad pub Unfortunately the n new nev w schedule I does not include Atlanta Ga Last year an influential friend of Bobby Jones met Terry in m the lobby of the Atlanta Biltmore hotel and said Glad to see you Bobby Jones willbe will willbe be too He will vIll be out to the park this afternoon Terry coldly cut of off the effusive greeting What hat am I supposed to io do hr he sneered Drop dead That afternoon an Atlanta reporter a asked ked You Vou used to play ball here didn't you Mr Terry When did you leave leav Atlanta Terry barked As soon as I could get ret the first train north There were Mere more headlines and Terry scrammed He lie tried to book Atlanta this year to make m amends It was full up Other towns spiced by 1934 tiffs with promoters rival managers fans and reporters were were- Tampa Asheville and Jacksonville He Hc has booked them all again and with the same traveling companions too the Cleveland In In- Last L. year Terry was in a rage because the Ohio reporters sent back stories stones saying sayin Carl Hubbell would not pitch against the Indians in Cleveland eland Wanted Truth Suppressed The stories v were ere true Hubbell was was was' i being groomed for the opening game gamen in in n New York but Terry felt that a suppression of ot that news would help his Cleveland gate Here the ball club feeds you guys takes you to Florida lorida and carts you around the country Your duty is to write nice stories not knocking ones he cried The Cleveland reporters listened listened lis lis- tenet patiently until the tirade was Mas over I III beg bel pardon ardon Mr l Terry Terry Ter Ter- ry their leader said laid gently our papers pay our expenses Our Out duties duties du du- duties ties are arD to our fans who want to know if Hubbell is going to pitch before they spend their money Terry gazed incredulously but he was man enough though to apologize and he was man enough to book the same team for a game to be covered by bythe bythe bythe the same group of ot reporters on this years year's trip It will likely go fio down in baseball history as the Spring of the Great Reform Reformation a lion i |