The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

tween Critz and the foul line. This
conclusion I arrived at independently.
I was sitting in the press box at the
Polo Grounds, turning the pages of a
Sears Roebuck catalog and all Of
sudden 1 thought Terry's managerial
duties would interfere with his Gus
tomary spryness between Critz and
the foul line. I didn't jump and I
didn't say a word to anyone. Quietly
I drew forth my notebook and jot-
ted down the idea. Remarkable, how
your best ideas come as flashes out
of the clear blue. Unassumingly, I
replaced the bad.
Terry, as it turned out, had ideas
of his own He finished in tie for
second in the league batting,
and folded more than adequately
throughout the season. There is no
need to dwell on further details. The
Overwhelmed One came through
with a pennant, World Series and
a five-year contract. Stubbornly but
niexorably my idea wore down,
quailed, hung in shreds and disap-
peared. The process was gradual and
virtually painless. I stationed Mr..
Terry on a small private pedestal
and let it go at that.
nDS bodkins, though, that was a
" letdown yesterday. I was sitting
in bed watching Montmorency pour
cream into my tea and jenkins placed
the papers in front of me and there
mas Bill Terry, grasping his Colo
nels diploma, sub, smiling for all he
was worth, as us Ozarks say.
All right. So he's Colonel now.
Let him burn the candle at both
ends. Harpo Marx did it. But you
can't burn the candle at both ends
and in the middle. You can't be
Manager, First Baseman and Colonel
at the same time, especially when the
three are so interdependent.
What if Terry starts batting 220,
what if Hubbell falls down? Will they
strip him off his epaulettesP Does
the commission expire with the five
year contract? Who killed Cock
Robin? I've got four votes in my
family and demand to know.
There's nothing in a colonel's title.
It's a fake. saw more than dozen
majors and three colonies at the
Madison Square Garden Rodeo last
Thursday and you think they were
any good? Remember what said
about them?
I'm confidentially hushed tones the
announcer let you know that one of
the attractions would be colt tagged
Mountain King or Dynamite Dan ora
Smedley Butler, something ferocious,
and he was snarling, kicking, un-
tanned mustang from some Arkansas
range, never been successfully ridden
before, pay close attention, ladies and
gentlemen.
"Smedley was busy being saddled
in the chutes and he didn't hear
a word of all this. He issued with
his rider, buckad and twisted per-
functorily but with "a great deal less
vigor and efficiency than his pred
ecessors. For a mustang he mustered
a painfully anemic display of energy
and adroitness. He was coralled with
dispatch"
That horse was owned by a Colonel
You know what they did to it? This
came in today's mail:
NEAR ED,
" don't recall seeing anything in
your Last Stand Of Romance"
story about the method used to make
very tame horse buck like a wild
mustang.
Guy Endore
Well, the man said they were wild
for two cowboys tocows, to start with
COWS, to start with. The contest called
fer two COWBOYS to rope and hold
the animal while third one MIXED
her and rushed the bottle to an an
pointed place Would you like to be
roped in that brightly lit arena and
be MIXED in front of all those people.
One of the cowboys was captain
and the other a Colonel like Bill
Terry. Even SO.