Show GIANTS WANT TO BECOME TOUGH Squad Hopes To Overcome F Habit By JOE WILLIAMS Special to The Telegram I I thought at first It might have been cen an aftermath of the ether I mean when I read in the newspapers the he assertion by Mr Bill Terry lerry that the he Giants of 1936 were going to be bea a pop off team and that he himself himself him- him self elf would be foremost among the popper But 1 I checked back through the files tiles and sure enough hats hat's what the newspapers said If It you OU can picture the present Giants Hants as a gas house team and Mr r. r Terry as a virile aggressive scrappy crappy leader of the Coch FrIsch-Coch- rane ane type then you should have no trouble rouble visualizing old Doc Doe Townsend Town Town- send end as the next secretary of or the treasury A pickle cant can't change its warts and its it's going to take more than han a trivial interview to change a dead pan ball club into a ball of fire ire As a general rule ball baU clubs re reflect re- re fleet their managers The Cardinals Cardinals Car Car- after whom hom Mr Terry claims he intends intend to model the Giants r reflect the driving forceful forceful forceful force force- ful personality of FrIsch He has haJ communicated his rugged bellico bellicose belli belli- coo cose co o spirit to Martin Medwick Delancey and the rest of them It would be just as a. difficult for Frisch to make nice Nellies of ot othis his men as it would be for Mr l Terry to make gas house gents of ot his hili Giants Giant Like Popeye they yarn jam am what they yam am Besides most of the customers seem eem to have become habituated to the he decorous quiet please of the Giants and the box office success of the organization would seem to indicate that popping popping popping pop ping off by design or instinct is unimportant It is my notion the customers are much more interested interested interested inter inter- ested in what Mr Terry is going to do about protecting the team against another collapse For two straight seasons now the Giants have folded up like an a accordion b opera hat c tele tele- scope In 1934 they blew a 7 n game lead Last summer by way of oi proving It was no fluke but absolute absolute lute ute genius the they blew a 9 4 game lead ead Should this happen again next summer there will be a lot of oj popping topping off at the Polo Grounds Grounds- but aut hardly the kind that Mr Terry has las in mind I As is his annual custom the gifted dramatic critic Mr Burns Mantle ManUc has listed the best plays of the year ear But for some odd reason he ignores the triple play that occurred at Fenway park last summer hummer It was a triple play in which Bad News Hale of the Indians used his lila head You may recall the details It was the ninth inning The Red Sox were leading 5 1 In a brief brier space two runs were scored and the bases were filled with none out and Oral Hildebrand pitching Mr Joe Cronin stepped to the tee in inthis inthis inthis this vital situation The Boston manager swung a aa at ata a fast ball and slammed it on a aUne aline aline line Une toward third Mr Hale threw up his hands was a a. second late the ball hit him on the head am and bounded high in the air Mr 11 Knickerbocker Knickerbocker Knickerbocker Knick Knick- caught it on the way down and since all the runners were on the move it was a simple matter matte to complete a n triple play And Anti al all because the deep thinking Mr Hale Hal had used his noodle But the most astonishing thing about it remembered Mr A Al Schacht was that the ball wasn't wasn damaged in the slightest |