The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-16

Alice Marble To Earn Net $5O,OOO To Help Singing
BY JOE WILLIAMS

W charming young lady like Alice Marble to prove that art and culture and the finer things are not dead in this chaotic world. Miss Marble, tennis player, has just turned professional. It is estimated she will make $50,000 in the next four and half months, the length of her tour.
 Miss Marble is not interested in the money as money. With her 1t is only 8 sordid means to 8 delightful end. She aspires to be a concert singer. That is the one ambition of my life she states, modestly and directly. Her implication is that if her soul were not torn with unex- pressed lyric yearnings she would have spurned the money and con- tinued to play tennis for the sheer fun of it.
 This places another responsibility on the public, one it cannot, must not, shirk. Every right-minded citi- zen, whether he be interested in tennis or not, owes it to the arts to patronize the Marble tour. This lofty, idealistic ambition must not be thwarted. No longer think of Miss Marble as 8 mere tennis play CT; picture her, rather, as the hope of the American concert stage. Can she sing? Gosh, we never thought to ask.
 It is amusing and ridiculous how some of our glossy amateurs at- tempt to explain their reluctant adoption of commercialized sports They always have some aesthetic or poetic justification for their &C., ton. They talk as if the money in volved is 8 mere incident. We re- call the time cash and carry Pyle was trying to pursuade William Til den 2d to turn professional. The great Tilden was informed that Pyle was in the hotel and wished tc speak with him. MT. Tilden called the manager and in his most supe. rior manner, snapped: Throw thai vulgar person out" P. s. MT. Tilder1 will tour with the Marble troupe ir secondary capacity.
 Leo Gabby Hartnett has been de- posed as manager of the Chicago Cubs. We can appjreciate his cha grin and disillusionment. When he joined the Cubs he figured he was getting a regular job. It lasted only nineteen years. There is tendency on the part of the press to moan and weep when an old-timer is given the air. Perhaps that's as it should be. A thin coating of sym pathy markes frowsy world look a little better. But MT. Hartnett must have done all right for himself all the time he was with the Cubs. For years he was one of the leading catchers in the majors and leading catchers do not work for tin foil and discarded razor blades. Whether MT. Hartnett was a competent man ager or not is moot point. The cir cumstances under which he oper- ated were not perfect. The owner, P. K. Wrigley, is not @ practical baseball man, nor does he seem to be given a baseball enthusiast. Con- sidering one thing and another. per- haps MT. Hartnett did as well as anybody else could have done. III any event, MT. Hartnett will be re- membered more as 8 catcher than a manaker. No less an authority than Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators, called him the greatest catcher of all time, ano MT. Griffith goes all the way back to the stone age of baseball. Whats more, MT. Griffith is very sparse ir his applause for National leaguers This makes his tribute to MT. Hart nett all the more noteworthy.
 A young Chicago sports writer James Gallagher, has been named general manager of the Cubs. It | pointed out that MT. Gallagher, wh' travelled with the Cubs, was thei most biting critic. He did not pull his punches against MT. Hartnett O any of MT. Hartnett's underlings For this he was rewarded with on of the best positions in baseball. W, ponder this situation with certain misgivings. Will this lead to schoo of blistering critics, contemptuou of anything save absolute perfection in tactics and play? It would seen from the appointment of MT. Gal lagher that this is what the clul owners want. Whether it's wha they want or not that's what som of them have been getting for { number of years, anyway, and mucl to their annoyance. Well, the. needn't be annoyed any longer; al they have to do is turn their prob lems over to their critics at goot pay. We expect a call from Horace Stoneham any minute now.
 One of MT. Gallagher's first duties will be to appoint new manager fol the Cubs, We have two men in mind Either would be perfect. One i' Casey Stengel now with the Bostor Bees, the other is Bill Meyer, associ. ated with Kansas City in the Yankee chain. You'd be surprised how many men insist Stengel is the best man. ager in the National league; they applaud him for his mental agility his resourcefulness, his patience witt and ability to handle young pitchers Some of the stuffed shirts frowr upon Stengel because he is some thing of a clown, but the gentle. mans clowning, greatly exaggerated is never evident in the playing of hi! teams. On the field Stengel is al baseball, and since when has it beer against the law for a fellow to have a sinse of humor? As for Meyer ht is the outstanding manager of thu minor leagues, different type iron Stengel, but a keen, thorough. en. terprising and energetic baseball man. Give him the players and heI win as quickly and as often as any man in baseball. minors or majors Some years back the Cubs reached down in the minors for a manager and they never had any reason tC regret their daring. You may have