The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-03
(Reg. U. s. Pat, 0ff) BY HARRY FERGUSON limited Presa guorts Edlt0r)

New York, Dec. 3-(UP)-Can it be that after all these years the New York Giants are beginning to smarten up
 Yesterday they snapped what threatened to become Q marathon record for blunderng and creating ill-will by suddenly appointing Mel 0tt field manager of the team. With that one move the Giants retrieved much of the ground they have lost in the last five years.
 There was Q time when the Giants franchise was one of the most valuable in baseball, when large and noisy crowds packed the Polo Grounds, when the team was fighting for the pennant almost every year and when half Of the fights that occurred in New York city started out as arguments be- tween Giant md Brooklyn Dodger fans. Of late, the Giant fans have been too dbgusted to argue, much iess fight.
 From this distance and ct this early stage Of the proceedings, 1t looks as though the Giants made c ten-strIke. Bill Terry moves up to the position of general manager, far from the bench and even farther from the toos of the grandstand that have been his lot of late. Your agent belongs to the school Of thought which considers Terry one of the smarteSt baseball men In the busniesS, also consider him 0 Woeful failure in the field of pub. lie relations. He can't seem to get along with the fans and he makes no attempt to get along with the baseball writers, who, nj q sense, are Q committee representing the fans.
 Right Man, Right Place
 Tn the front office, Terry should be more effective. He is smart judge of young ball players, he knows what Is needed in the way of material to make Q winning team and from now on he can con- centrate on those things and for- get his feuds with the writers.
 As for Ott, he probably won't have to worry about feuds. There Isn't c more popular man in baseball, at least around these parts, than the Stump-legged little guy who has been playing for the Giants ever since the day he reported to John McGram as a l6-year-old catcher, Without knowing 1t and without trying to develop 1t, Ott has color, The way he kicks that right leg into the air just before belting one into the stands and the miraculous way in which he plays the bounces off that tough right field wall at the Polo Grounds have given him a place in baseball all his own.
 Ott is the second popular ball player in recent days to step into Q tough spet. Lou Boudreau, who took over the managership of the Cleveland Indians, is the other, but his pob isn't as difficult as Ott's. Eoudreau has some ball players, which he can keep, sell for good money or trade. Ott hasn't much of anything except ball park.
 No matter how popular the little guy may be, no matter how hard he works, he isn't going to return the Giants to the days of their glory unless they give him some players. That is Terry's job, of course, and We shall see what we shall see.
 It's interesting to speculate on what the =, John McGraw would have thought about Ott's appoint ment. The two men are as far apart as the poles. McGraw was aggressive, quick-tempered and will- ing to drop everything for a fight. Ott is quiet, modest, courteous. But great friendship sprang up be- tween them and somehow you feel that McGraw, getting the news in the faraway land where we all go some day, would nod his head vigorously and say: 'okay, okay."