Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-24 | Page 16 | Bill Terry Needs Lieutenant to Censor His Many Speeches

Bill Terry Needs Lieutenant To Censor His Many Speeches Manager i of World Champion Giants Lacks Tact When l lIt It Comes to Contacting World Dr By DAN PARKER New York Mirror 1 Sports Writer Baseball writers with the seem t to have taken a sudden dislike to Bill Terr Terry manager of the club Last season Bill had a crItic or two among the scribbling fraternity but this year car the thing has reached epidemic epidemic epi- epi demic proportions Practically all of them are on him Try to pin some rome ot of the boys do down as 5 to what's wron with Cool Papa Bill from Memphis and they grow a bit vague As far as asI asI I can gather the chief fault they have to find with him is that he sUcks sticks to himself doesn't black slap or handshake and makes the writing lads come to hIm instead of adopting the Casey Stengel manner I thInk the trouble with Terry is that he thinks tact is something with which you nail down the rug He isn't a mixer by nature and is so stubbornly stub stub- Independent he doesn't be be- lieve its it's up to him to do anything further about it One hesitates to condern a aman aman man for being himself Theres There's no complaint against Bills Bill's honesty hon hen esty Integrity or willingness to rive give out the news when the boys boysuk uk ask hIm for It He doesn't lie to them or double eroS cross them as asI some lome much more affable baseball I men do Certainly his hll relations fth the press will not have any great beating bearIng on the clubs club's stand stand- unless Jug you mean Its finan dat standing at the close of the season But that is something for the Giants Giants' owners not me to worry about What I started out to say what Continued on U aze two SPORTS Terry Needs Speech Critic Continued from are ace Sixteen that Bill has about as much tad tact asa u as ua a cyclone in a lumber yard No long ago he attended a baseball dinner In Birmingham Ala When he came his turn to speak Mr Terry got up and told the getters go-getters from the New NewYork NewYork York of the south that they didn't know what good baseball was since they saw only the Southern league variety Bill probably meant to say ay that the eggers and not havIng had a chance to compare big league baseball with their own brand had no idea how much faster the major Iea league e article was It was a atypical atypical typical with no malice or feeling of superiority behind it Bill just didn't know how to express him sell self Whatever he intended to say however he put both feet feil plump into it and they're still burned up In over oven this affront from froma a Memphis boyThe boy The other night In a public speech Bill committed another fox pass He Hewa wa was talking about the Giants Gianu chances in the coming race and apologizing for theIr rather poor showIng during the spring training se season son We will have a much better ball baIl club when we get Mancuso back in inthe inthe the lineup said Blunt BilL BilLIt It If he was listening Paul Richards the smart young catcher who has so o ably filled in while Mancuso was out with Injuries must have felt dt like a cracked fungo stick AU All Richards Richardt did while for Mancuso l wu was to make Gus Gus' absence hardly hardly- noticeable and lead the club In bitting with an average ot of Bill tactlessly forgot this In trying try to rive give rl Man n cuso a boost It seems to this observer that what Terry needs more than a second baseman Blondy Ryan will do for formy my dough is someone some some- one to censor his speeches