New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
ABY LEON M. SILER)

New York. June 26.-You find the name Cohen" in the lineup of the New York Giants from time to time these days, and 1t isn't typo graphical error.
 It's the rugged, pungent, pulsating answer to q fervent Irish prayer.
 The wearer of it is Andrew Howard Cohen. He has face just like the great open spaces from which he came.
 Among his other possessions arc five feet eight and a half inches of height, 155 pounds of weight and some three months Of professional baseball experience.
 That's a meager equipment for New York Giant. in a way But he is of the solid and substantial Hebriac cognomen graced the Giant bench only for matter Of hours before he busted into the real show.
 That's how glad Irish John J. McGraw was that his prayer at last had produced something resembling providential response,
 There's a long story back of it. Almost as long as the years Me Graw has guided the Giants deS- tinies. But it can be told in few words.
 Search the Bronx, the East Side and sundry other portions of Goth am and you will discover a million or more actual or potential baseball fans in whose veins flows the blood of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
 The Irish aCumen of John Nc Graw sensed the presence of this million long, long ago.
 In every minor league and on every sandlot he sought for them a Jewish Giant star.
 Bonnie Kauff came to cause re- joicing in McGraw's heart for awhile. But because of certain idiosyncrasies. Bennie failed to last
 This Cohen, 22 years of age and neat both at bat and on the base lines, is his successor.
 Twenty thousand dollars and an other player was his price. A "clever business stroke" the New York sport critics called it. The twenty grand" will come back in two or three weeks. they hazarded, if Cohen makes good.
 The sandlots Of Fl Paso, Texn gave Andy" his start. Than these sandlots, none is sander. Geogra- phical phenomena worked with in heritance 10 fit Andy well for the part in the McGraw scheme of things he was to play,
 Away back wonder Andy's daddy adn John McGraw played baseball together on the Baltimore Orioles. My dad played under another name than Cohen though, I think. " smiles Andy. Jewish baseball play CTS weren't much in demand then"
 Andy specialized in basketball and football as well as baseball when he went to high school in Fl Paso. Twice he pioted his high school basketball lives to state championships.
 Then he went to Alabama Uni versity for three years. A crack man on the diamond thcre, he signed up last season with Waco of the Texas league. joining that team in June. McGraw bought him on the strength of .%12 batting and .946 fielding averages in 106 games, and recently sent him a hurry call to re- port to New York.
 It's history now how Cohen sent to bat for Frankie Frisch in the ninth inning of his first game with tho Giants. delivered a single with a man on third base, and how few minutes later the first colorfu' Cohen to Rely" putout was regis tered with Andy functioning al sec ond.
 They spin Andy's life history with eclat and embroidery around New York now: how his Ma gave , him a licking the first time he ever evinced desire 10 play baseball how his kid brother, Sidney, is set. ting a fast pace for Fort Bayard New Mexico, in the Copper league and how Andy doesn't smoke, drink chew or swear and goes to bed regu- larly al 1O:30 D. m.
 The big show? I like it fine, contributes the subject matter of all this agitation
 This Andrew Howard Cohen, oi the long-awaitel Cohen to Kelly combine. the answer to an Irish mans prayer.