The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-16
TERRY PLAYING { LONE HAND IN ! WAR ON WRITER'S
Giants Manager Slowly Turning His Friends
 Into Enemies
By STUART, CAMERON. TJnffasf PresS Shorts E,dlfOr

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 New York-(UP)-It is reason able to presume that only the npat- ter of time might interfere to pre- vent Bill Terry from succeeding .fi his quite obvious intention of alienating the affection of every one, who has reason to string along with him, because he Is n big shot,. or a good ball player, CT because he used to be a pretty nice
 A possibility has grown into a certainty that if he sticks around long enough even sweet old, poke bonneted ladies from his native South will be yelling for his scalp.
 '.We Want Terry Club''
 Old ladies from his native South so far have escaped his bite, but they sand alone, while over on the other side of the room, stfetch- ing on down the back stairs ana through the streets in an un- broken line are the members of the We Want Terry Club"
 In this case, we want Terry is no demand for the hero's presence with the usual implied tribute. Rather, he is wanted for purposes of retaliation.
 Terry's biting sarcasm and out spoken attacks have encompassed just about every one connected with baseball, including the Brook lyn fans.
 Brooklyn's Revenge
 The Brooklyn fans, however, got their measure of vengance late last pennant rush when the Dodg- CTS came roaring across the bridge to knock the Giants out of the World Series.
 His next error left him some what smaller than little in the eyes of baseball when he fell short of the measure of sportsman in ducking the world series. Instead he might have beat down no end of harsh remarks by watching a game or two and going through the motions of being with the for tunate Cards.
 But it is now that he is eni- broiled up to his eybrows, for the baseba writers and "Sobbing Sophies,' sometimes called girl reporters, are encamped behind every bush and stone for the winter, awaiting his appearance in the spring.
 The best he can hope to get out of 1t is the worst of it, and it should be interesting to watch.
 Assailed Newspaperincn
 His ill-advised attack on the newspaper people who labor with him in the vineyards of baseball simply added a fresh supply of fat pitch Tennessee lighter knots" to the conflagration.
 In that gesture he made the direct, unqualified statement that he didn't give a second thought to the. opinion of the. sports writers, and as for the girl reporters he didn't believe them capable Of writing a story on sports, there fore they sought only news on his private life which was nobody's business.
 He then added naively that he was concerned only with the front office, an dhis whole team, except ing Mel Ott and Carl Hubbell, was for sale.
 Creates DisloyaIty
 Naturally, that statement will create about the same loyalty amonk his players as he will get from the writers.
 How do the fans feel about al, this?
 The fickleness of fandom is well known. To try to put the finger on and tag for one direction or another the reactions of the sprt- ing public might result in about the same success that would ac- company penning wild bull in a red cellophanc stable. %
 However, the fans have their heroes among those players. They follow the gospel of certain of the baseball writers and they appre- ciate loyalty and sportsmanship.
 How they will construe Terry's activities in recent months remains to be seen.