The Washington times., 1938-01-29

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Terry's career
as a manager ~ &
is not fin Ruu Corru
tshed,
Nor am I we'll fitted for the
lob. in spite of having ridden
the baseball circuit with both
men many times. For John NC
Graw I had the hero worship
of a cub sports writer, who was
treated with kindness and con-
sideration past his just deserts.
For Terry 1 have respect; no
hero worship.
It would be difficult to tlnd
two men more unlike than NC
Glaw and his successor. NC
Graw was big time. Terry is
big money. Nc reflection is
meant. It's Terry's own story
He glories in it.
BILL BUSINESS MAN
The man who made the New
York Giants, who was the New
York Giants, was a sport. He
loved life and living and fun.
Until the latter years of his life.
at least, he also loved people
and parties. Bill is the business
man who wants to close MS
desk at S o'clock and go home
McGraw would have spent
more on a rabbit hunt than
Terry on a vacation in Paris.
You can't bring the two men
together. They weren't gated
the same way from birth.
And the older I grow the
su1er I am that men travel the
way they are gated by nature
from the starting gate to the
wire.
CAN'T TAKE 1T WITH YOU
Big spenders don't, as a rule,
leave much behind when they
go. You can't take it with you.
Nor can you eat your cake and
have it.
In spite of Terry's announced
preoccupation with money, he
isn't cheap. Neither personally,
nor in business. McGraw was
the first man in baseball to in
sist on his players travelling
first cabin.
I can remember as though it
was yesterday the gasps OF the
guests in the then sacrosanct
Royal Poinciana when the to-
bacco-chewing diamond heroes
went walking through the lobby
and corridors in their baseball
socks on the Giants first visit
to Palm Beach.
Some of those lorgnetted,
overstuffed old dowagers prob
ABLY were never the same to
the day of their deaths.
Terry's giant team also
travels and lives de luxe. The
type of player, of course, has
changed. So has the Royal
Poinciana. It's gone.
If he should manage the
Giants for another Is years and
win 20 more pennants, Terry
would never be the figure on
Broadway and the "Broadways"
of Pittsburgh, Chicago. and
points West, that McGraw was
He wouldn't want to oe'
Couldn't, if he did want TO ne'
SUCCESS IN ANY BUSINESS
McGraw, in my opinion-since
sold Giant Fan" has asked for
it-was the greatest leader on
the field ever to manage ball
team. With all his success at
winning pennants, I don't think
Terry can touch him. Just as l
don't think McGraw could touch
Terry in the front office.
Until the years began to run
him down, the stubby, hot
tempered man from Olean was
player in his heart. John had
a keen mind. unusual forcetul-
ness, and the daring of the
born gambler. Not necessarily a
gambler with money, though he
would do that. too, but at any
thing he tackled.
McGraw probably would have
been a success at any business.
1t would have been easy to
vision him as a great lawyer.
Yet nothing ever would have
kept him from playing base
ball. Certainly not money.
But if Terry could have made
more money pumping oil in
Memphis. he would not have be-
come one of the greatest first
baSemen and most successful
managers the game has pro-
duced in our time.
Some men play baseball be-
cause they we're born to play it.
That was McGraw. Some play
1t because it offers an oppor.
tunity to make more money
thEn they could otherwise make.
That's Terry.
In a way, both men fit their
times, as all successful men
must. There still are players of
the McGraw type, however, and
always will be. Ditto the Terry
type.