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The What-Ails-'Em Department. the What-Ails-'Em Department will look into TODAY As You Like It By Murray Robinson sad case of the Giants, who this morning found themselves completely bogged and befogged in the depths of the National League cellar. The Giants look as strange in eighth place as a celluloid collar on a talkie hero. There must. be something amiss with the Polo Grounders, who were accorded an excellent chance to win the National League pennant before the present season got under way. If there weren't, obviously they'd be doing better than they are these days. And so the What-Ails-'Em Department goes to work on the Giants, or Joints, as they are called in the outlying districts. Allez: What ails the Giants? Well, their chief trouble seems to be an inability to get more runs than the opposition in any given ball game. This condition is caused, in turn, by poor hitting, poor pitching and a lamentable lack of spirit on the part of the Stoneham employes. In short, the Giants are in eighth place because they're playing eighthplace ball. Still the What-Ails-'Em Department hasn't explained what's really wrong with the Giants. But here goes: With all due respect to Manager Bill Terry, it's this department's opinion that the real reason for all the rapidly multiplying woes of the Giants is the fact that John McGraw isn't managing them any more. I don't mean by that that Terry isn't a capable young pilot or that he should stand or fall on his record this year. Far from it. But what Id do mean is that Terry, to be given a fair trial, should be permitted to start with a ball club of entirely his own choosing. Most of the Giants floundering around haplessly these fine afternoons are McGraw-trained Giants. They were products of. the Master Mind system which made the Polo Ground club one of the most feared and respected in baseball. To expect the same performers for whom McGraw had done all the thinking on the ball field to change overnight into self-reliant individuals was too much. Terry has tried to effect a most fundamental change in the system of the New York team in too short a time. The Giants are lost without the McGraw whip to drive them, without the watchful McGravian eye to keep them toeing the mark. No wonder the morale of the Giants has crumbled since their old pilot retired-even though they were on the verge of mutiny just before he quit. I'd wager a quick deuce that the Giants would snap out of their slump and start going places if McGraw took charge again! * * * * Maybe the Cardinals Knew Something. the snorting old war horse of the pitching BURLEIGH has GRIMES, been. reduced to a role most trying to one of his disposition. Manager Rogers Hornsby, of the Cubs, has relepeppery the World Series hero of 1931 to bull-pen duty, leaving the gated starting assignments for the Bruins in the capable mitts of Warneke, Bush, Malone and Smith. With Boily, Charlie Root, another veteran, has been demoted to a warm-up job. It. begins to look as though the Cardinals knew something when they sent the spitballer to Chicago for Hack Wilson last winter. At the time, Mound City fans and critics all over the country denounced the St. Louis office for tossing away the champions' 1932 pennant chances by disposing of Grimes, a moving spirit in the team's triumph last season. Grimes, as the picture develops now, is on his last legs as a league hurler. He's close to 40, and would have been of as big little use with St. Louis as he is with Chicago. Yesterday's World Series hero is today's bull-pen drudge. Ah, well, life is like that. * * * * This and That. EDDIE ROMMEL'S feat of pitching 17 innings yesterday recalls, of the classic marathon mound performance of them OLD course, all--the 26-inning pitching duel between Joe Oeschger, of the Boston Braves, and Leon Cadore, of the Dodgers, on May 1, 1920. The game ended in a 1 to 1 tie. It also ended the careers of both Oeschger and Cadore, who were never the same after their futile battle to the death. That game was a tragedy, cutting short, as it did, the pitchlives of two first class huriers. Fortunately for Rommel, he ing has no future to consider. * * y The four -hour, 18-inning Athletic-Indian clash in which Rommel strutted his stuff, was a woozy affair any way look at it. But its outstanding performance was Johnny Burnett's nine hits in 11 times at bat. That's a record-probably the only one Burnett will ever make. It's usually the case that the average with most of the freak records in the book. ballplayers pop up * *
Article from 11 Jul 1932Times Union(Brooklyn, NY)
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