The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-04
HARTNETT TOBE TERRY'S FRONT
 OFFICE WEDGE?
Gabby Says, q Ain't Talk- ing"- Sutherland Gets
 New 2 Year Contract
BY JOE WILLIAMS

New York, Dec. 4.-When Gabby Hartnett was notified over the phone by a newspaper reporter that he had been added to the roster of the New York Giants he replied enthusiastic ally, T ain't talking" MT. Hartnett should be right at home as menn- Der of this modern Giants family. Nobody else in it talks either.
 There is speculation as to the pos- sible implications of the Hartnett transaction. Does this mean he is to move in ultimately as the man. ager and MT. Bill Terry Is to take over the front office, long his burn ing ambition? Let's look at the site uation realistically. MT. Hartnett was neither the best nor the worst manager in the league during his Chicago regime. This would indi- cate he can not accomplish miracles without material and when material exists managerial miracles just nat urally follow.
 Mir Hartnett was hired as coach and pinch hitter. If he's made man. ager that means decided boost in salary. The executive overhead of the Giants is already the highest in the league. It amounts to some thing like $135 900. One reason that 1t isn't going to be boosted is there is no excess of dollars in the Giants kitty at the moment. If anything the situation cries for revision down. ward.
 Thus we doubt MT. Hartnett is be- ing groomed as manager. Our first reaction was he might have been brought in to add color to the club and improve relations, two yawning needs. MT. Hartnett has color and has always been local favorite. Whether this was the idea or not it can scarcely be said MT. Hartnett made running jump in the right direction. Some of the boys who knew him when are Stil trying to figure out what he meant by that T ain't talking" crack.
 Runaround
 The struggle on the part of MT. Terry to. get into the front office and the firm stand on the part of Horace Stoneham, the president, to see that he doesn't is one of the most interesting and amusing af- fairs in the league. Several years ago Mir. Terry offered to pay half of Frank Frisch's salary out of his own pocket to bring about a deal; Terry would get himself a swivel chair, put on white collar and run things from a desk and Frisch would mas ter mind the Sweaty athletes from the dugout. Mir Stoneham declined hurriedly with thanks. It was the first instance on record where a manager volunteered to take & cut and, coincidentally, the first where a magnate refused to accept. As an illustration of stubborn resoiu- tion we think this takes the cake. the fostering and the frosting and the candles.
 It was inevitable that Dr. John Bain Sutherland's name would be connected with prospective eoach- ing assignments in the college field following his success with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Cash and Carry league. The feeling probably exists that the good doctor is not entirely divorced from the college game. Perhaps he isn't. But he has a three-year contract with young Dan Topping and that con- tract will be respected up to the ultimate period. That's the kind of Scotsman the doctor is. Whats more it's contract few colleges would have an easy time matching. Of hand we'd say the doctor is the highest paid coach in professional lootoall, and by a good margin.
 Jock at Yale?
 Young MT. Topping has caught the MacPhail fever. He spends money to make money. Turning his back to college football was not a happy decision for the doctor to make. It can now be told he was preparing to leave Pittsburgh, his alma mater, to take over Yale foot bal. All arrangements had prac- tically been completed. What stop ped It was national magazine arti- cle which presented Pittsburgh football in an unsavory light. This was reflection on the doctor, a re- dection which he and his close friends insist and know to be un- just. But all that is so much tomato juice in 8 red beard. Now that the doctors in pro football he's going to stay a long time. He isn't the kind that leaps from crag to crag.
 We remember talking with one of the executives of the Professional Football league when Dr. Suther- land joined up with the put-it-on- the-line group. This gentleman said: T know you are fond of the doctor but you must keep in mind he's been coaching college football: he'n find the pro game quite a bit different" At the time, of course, the doctor merely was rated as the No. coach of the country. All he had done was to win seven eastern championships and develop five Rose Bowl teams (the fifth declin- ing the invitation) in fifteen years. And that kind of a fellow was go- ing to have A koifph time |,. ,,rc