The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-10
(Reg. U. s. Pat. OfY.) By HARRY FERGUSON Limited press Shorts EdltOr)

New York, June i0-(UP)-Wil. liam Terry, head of the brain dc. partment of the New York Giants, b suffering today from Q bad attack of the St. Louis Blues, It is a fair. ly common ailment and Is prevalent among baseball men who make deals with the St Louis Cardinals.
 MT. TerryS condition became critical at dusk yesterday. Ills tern- perature mounted ct an alarming rate, his pulse died to almost Q whisper and he saw white spots Do. fore his eyes. The spots were base balls that a gangllng gent named Harry Qumhert was throwing in the Polo Grounds.
 Less than Q month ago Mir Terry decided that dumbert could not throw baSeballS with sufficient eff. ciency to remain c member of the QiantS. MT. Terry liked the way one Fiddler Bill Mcdee Of the St, Louis Cardinals threw baSeballS and he decided to venture Into the slave martS of the national game and swap some human chattel with Branch Hickey, chairman of tho think department Of the Cardinals.
 When q man decides to swap with Rickey, he already Is in the first stages of the St. Louis Blues, After that the disease progresses rapidly and the crisis arrives when the pa. tient hands over to Hickey a bunch of folding money in addition to some ball players,
 Mir. Terrys case history followed tho familiar pattern. Hickey al. lowed that he would be willing to discuss swapping McGee for Giin- bert, but he naturally added that MT. Terry would have to lay some lettuce on the line inasmuch as he thought Mcdee was such . fine baseball thrower.
 Tossing feverishly in the critical stages of the St. Louis Blues, MT. Terry muttered that he would give Gumbert, Paul Dean and big wad of lettuce for McGee. Some say the lettuce amounted to $20,0o0 and some say $25 1000, but that Is Q com. paratively trivial poirt. What mat. ters Is that Hickey allowed himself to be argued Into taking Gumbert from MT. Terry. Whereupon MT. Terry thought everything was going to be all right, dismissed the doctors and called for some thin soup.
 Bad News Ahead
 He didn't know 1t, but the worst stages of the St. Louis Blues still were ahead of him. McGee reported to Mir. Terry, donned the garments of the Giants and prepared to throw bageballs. He lost game to the Cincinnati Reds and then he lost one to the Dodgers. MT. Terry be- gan to feel dizzy and phoned his doctor. McGee lost another one to the Reds and then one to the Pirates, and MT. Terry took to his bed once more,
 Meantime, Gunbert found the climate in St. Louis was just what he needed, and he immediately be- gan to throw baseballs for the Car dinals better than he had ever thrown them for the Giants. Up to yesterday Gumbert had won four games and lost one for the Cardin- als and Rickey had become almost as fond of him as he had of the let. tuce that came along in the pack age.
 Yesterday MT. Terry had Q com. plete relapse. He led his young men into the Polo Grounds to play 6 contest with the Cardinals and who should be find out there throwing baseballs but that same Gumbert. All afternoon Gumbert threw base. balls at the Giants and all after noon Terry saw white spots. That is more than the Giants did--they didn't see anything as Gumbert buzzed the ball past them and only four times could they obtain hits. They lost, 5 to 3, and Gumbert won his fifth game in the garments of the Cardinals and pitched them into first place.
 Mir. Terry is expected to be up and around in about six weeks.