Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-17
PARADE
OFFERS VARIETY
IN TCDAY'S NEWS
BY HENRY McLEM0RE
United Press Staff Correspondent


CHICAGO, June II. - Since Nc
Graw stepped out COR got kicked
OUT the sports pages of the New
York GazetterS have asked not
once, but a hundred times, what is
Bill Terry going to do with the
Giants?
1t seems to this department that
it is high time somebody stood up
and asked the much more pertinent
question-What are the Giants 60
ing to do with Bill Terry? For,
contrary to popular belief, a ball
club has a lot more to do with the
making of a manager than a man
ager has to do with the making
of a club.
Proof of this is all around you.
The Yankees are a prime example
of what we mean. Right now
Marse Joe Mccarthy and Sun
set Burke (the latter, by the way,
is our notion of the worlds worst
first base COACH, are being pelted
fore and aft with praise for the
/ manner in which they have the
Yanks up there this year. Hal Ha!
The Yankees have needed about
as much guiding as Daniel Boone
did in his prime, this year. They've
been getting tremendous pitching
and tremendous hitting, and when
a team gets that combination it can
toss the manager and all his assist
ants over the right field wall
By the same token, a team that
isn't getting good hitting and good
pitching can't be helped by all the
managers, living and dead. The
Phillies are fine examples of what
we mean. You could place Nc
Graw, Mack, Street, Chance, and
Old Man Doubleday himself on the
Phillies bench and all their COM
bined strategy and cunning would
not lift the team out of the Sec
ond division.
Dan Howley of the Reds is an
other manager whose case fits into
our argument. Earlier in the sea-
son when the Reds were knocking
all and sundry over, HoWley was
hailed as a wonder man, 1 say he
didn't deserve it; that Hafey ano
Herman and lombard were the
boys responsible for Cincinnati'S
coming out of the trance. Alright
you say, but it was Howley who Sa-
the Reds needs and went out and
filled them. Hooey! Any person
with the intelligence of a nine
year-old schoolboy could have tolC
you that such men as Hafey anc
Herman would help a team, any
team.
Offers Proof
Would Bert Shotten qualify as {
mental genius if he should sit dow
and figure that the PhillieS WoulC
be a better club if he could secure
Gehrig for first base, Grove anc
Ferrell for pitchers, and Ruth fol
right field?
Baseball is comparatively simple
and it doesn't take any little Ma
poleons to figure out its subtleties
After all, scoring the most runs is
the only way for a team to win
and there aren't a hell of a lot
of ways to score runs. They talk
about Connie Mack winning game
after game by his wig-wagging
players TO the right or left, deer
or short. Well, maybe his foes win
one every month that way, but
the games Mister Mack wins by his
genius are a small number when
compared to the number won by
the bats of FoXX and Simmons
and the right and left arms, re-
spectively, of Earnshaw and Grove
Ninety-nine times out of a hun
dred when ball games are wor
they are won by players-players
who are skilled in their profession
and who could get along fairly well
without any master mind directing
them from the bench. To prove out
/ my point, we'd like to have the
Yankees turned over to Freddie the
fireman right now and let him
manage them the rest of the season
You know as well as 1 do that
nothing Freddie could do would
prevent the New Workers from run
ming one-tWo.