 He helped arrange photography shoots (Gehrig in a leopard-skin and wielding a cave-man's club) and screen tests of the muscular first baseman; he buttonholed agents, producers such as Sol Lesser, and Hollywood columnists such as Louella Parsons in a publicity campaign to boost Gehrig's chances.The slugger himself was unenthusiastic about swinging from jungle vines and wrestling lions, but he told Rennie that he wouldn’t say no to a man-of-the-people role in a western or mystery picture.The Tarzan effort fell as if from a high height with a thumbs down from producer Sol Lesser and a telegram from author Edgar Rice Burroughs to Gehrig, care of United Press, so the Yankee could read it in his morning newspaper