Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-20 | Page 19 | Giants Push Along in Usual Scramble

Giants Push Along In Usual Scram ble By BILL COHTJM International New Sport Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 20 "You fellow are alway squabbling with or over Bill Terry," Mid a fan the other day. "But I notice you seem to want In. be fair about it. What' the best defense that can be made for him?" ' "Th atanding of th club In the National league," I replied, Which still strike me a a pretty good answer. Not that th colonel need any def en, or that It would not be an excellent Idea for u all to forget th rest of It and center our attention on hi Giants and their (turdy fight for th flag. Under Terry the Polo Grounder seem to be an outfjt that Just wont down. For five year now they have been refusing to take "no" for an answer. That's not bad. Whether you Ilk th Giant as a team, you have to reipect 'cm. They do keep punching. Climb After Vara It waa just a coincidence, but one worth recording that the Terry-era Terry-era started their present upward spurt right after we broke a story on Terry's new contract. As I recall re-call they haven't lost a game sine. Maybe that reminded them that they had the most successful pilot in the major leagues, and that It waa high time they were living up to his reputation. In which case, of course, wo are sure to be remembered with a full world's series share. Even though it proves to be a four-game series, that'll be all right with us. We re not piggish. There remain th rather Important Im-portant detail ef the Giants winning win-ning the pennant ta get Into th Be rice. But It does look Just new aa though their chief rivals, th Cfebs, have cracked wide open under un-der the unfortunate Charley Urbnm. They have lost aa steadily stead-ily aa th Giant have wea the past 1 day. Possibly they read th Terry story, to. Whet I more likely I that the Brulna can't stand th los of "Rip- per Jim" Collins at first baa. Young Phil Cavaratta is a nlc boy, but he Just can't play that sack, aa has been demonstrated before thia. Had he been able to, Grimm would never have bad to let Lonnie Warneke go to the Cardinala to get the clouting Collins ia th first place. Furthermore, a ws hav been Insisting In-sisting all season, the Chicago pitchers run more to quantity than to quality. One Carl Hubbeli la worth a paper bag full of Grimm's Joblot moundsmsn. Usual Donnybreek So It shapes up aa another one of those famous National league Donnybrooks to which the fans have become accustomed. Even the oldest fan is hard put to remember when the American league had one of those Garrison finishes in a pennant race, or when th National didn't Se the Frirk loop gee en raking rak-ing In the eocoanut at the turn-sUIrs, turn-sUIrs, evea though It finishes a pretty consistent second la the ail-tar game and th annual aerie play. If the race tighten In his sfwgue, aa It give every appearance ef doing at the moment, mo-ment, Frirk tells me all attendance attend-ance records are sura to be shattered shat-tered before the winning aiun-bers aiun-bers are swung. For th Pirates and Cardinals are not entirely out of the race, either. Any one of the first four tesms that can atag a aiseabl winning stresk in the next fortnight can take the pennant. The Pirate itill are in this column's col-umn's book the best bslanced club of the outfit They could win from where they are without much trouble trou-ble if they'd go on and do It. But Pittsburgh teams somehow don't seem to b abl to do that In that respect they are always coupled with Cleveland. Thar ar so many times whsn they should win, and never do.