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Show BILL TERRY IS PLAYING NICELY Gives Team-Mates Credit for His Average It seems there la very little In a name so far as baseball Is concerned. If you have any doubts about It consider con-sider the case of Bill Terry of the Giants. The syllable "err" comprises com-prises three-fifths of Mr. Terry's name and one might suppose he would live up to it. Yet William has made only one error this season. With the campaign half completed it is possible Terry will complete his summer labors with a record that will be the envy of all his first base contemporaries. con-temporaries. Still, so far as the cold figures are concerned, his one miscue prevents him from setting a new fielding field-ing mark. Stuffy Mclnnis did that several years ago when he went through the season without an error. At that the two cases are a bit different. Without With-out venturing any personal opinion on the matter it may be said that at the time Stuffy was setting his record the popular theory was that he had more interest in it than in team play. Terry Is different. Lie has figured in as many double plays as any first baseman in the big time and, roughly speaking, has accepted as many chances. Until It was mentioned to him recently he did not even know his fielding average was so close to perfect. Even then he did not take the matter mat-ter too seriously. "When things like ' that happen you have got to give credit to the other Infielders," said Bill Terry. Bill. "Jackson, Lindstrom and Cohen get their throws over to me so well that it is a real pleasure to work with them. It's that sort of teamwork that counts." Undoubtedly Terry Is correct, but, at the same time, his infielders are not throwing the balls that are hit to him, and he handles tricky grounders and slashing low liners with as mtfch skill as tosses from his companions. Last year Rogers Hornsby, a shrewd critic of ball players, called Terry the best first baseman in the league and the best he had ever seen on completing a double-play from first to second. It is probable that still holds good, for Bill Is even better than he was then. "The hardest play a first baseman has to make is when there is a runner run-ner on first and third and only one out, with the score too close for comfort," com-fort," says Terry. "When a grounder Is hit to you you have to figure fast whether It Is best to try for a double play or to throw home and try to cut off the run. Of course, if the runner on third does not try to score then your problem is simple, but sometimes you have to be a mind reader. |