The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-17
|H. STONEHAM, JR.
 ABOUT TO SEE. DREAM OF YOUTH.
Giants He Now Owns By Gift From Father Cost
 $l,3OO,OOO
BY GEORGE KHRKsEY

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 (United Press Stan Correspondent)
 New York, Sept lT-Horace Stone ham, young president of the New York Giants, plays Q game of base ball all his own in the tower ofilce in deep center field at the Polo grounds every day the club is at home.
 The office has four windows over- looking the field, and before each of them the majors youngest proxy las Q chair representing the four bases on the diamond. If he wants Joe Moore to hit a single, he sits in his flrst-base chair or If it's home run that's needed he rushes to the home plate chair,
 Stoneham has been hopping from chair to chair during the Giants whirlwind rush which started in mid-July, and has been working just as hard during every game as any of his players. But 1t really isn't work for young Horace-This business of trying to hocus-pocus his dream club" Into the National league pennant.
 Black.haired Horace gets 6 big kick out of this afternoon abra- cadebra because he still has his boyhood complex about the Giants, the team that he worshipped from afar as 6 kid when John J. Me- Graw, the little Napoleon" of the diamond was at the helm. Ever since he can remember, Horace's world has revolved around the Giants.
 There was the time the teacher at Loyola school assigned each member of his class to write 6 composition on What I Would do if I had $i,00o,ooo." Horace had no trouble ct all preparing his pa- per because there wasn't any doubt in his mind what he would do with $i 100000. He would buy the Giants. He was SO wrapped up in his subject that his composition drew favorable comment from the teacher.
 Horace played second base on the school team. When he wasn't play ing ball he was at the Polo grounds watching the Giants. He worshipped the belligerent Mc0raw and the fighting ball players under him.
 Then one day his father, Charles A. Stonehann, told his son that he had Q deal on to buy the Giants. The next few days were exciting ones for the l7-year-old Horace. Then the papers came out with headlines, "stoneham Buys Giants, " and down in the stories the elder stoneham was quoted as saying:
 T bought the Giants for my boy"
 Stoneham paid approximately $i,- S00,000 for the Giants-a pretty ex- pensive father-to.son gift. Then last winter the elder Stoneham died at Hot Springs, Adk, and the Giants went to young Horace.
 If the Giants do win the pennant, the victory will be doubiy sweet for the 33.year.old proxy because of their dramatic comeback. When Horace took over the presidency he explained he wanted the Giants to Do c fighting team--a game gang of ball players like those he used to worship as Q kid. These lo36 Giants proved for Horace that they had plenty of spunk by pounding to the front after even their most ardent supporters had given up all pennant hopes when they sank to lift hplace in July.
 Thus 1t Is that when the tele- phone jangles in the tower ofilce at the Polo grounds, the caller need not be surprised when c voice on the other ends says:
 Just minute, please"
 And neither should he be per- plexed if the minutes tick away and he's left waiting. That will be be- cause the Giants have on c batting rally and young Horace Is work In his char magic on the oppes- ing pitcher.