The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-26
STENCIL, THIRD
 CHOICE, IS NEW BEES MANAGER.
Quinn and "Casey" Again Work Together
 Wanted Job
BY ERNEST BARCELLA tJnlted Preaa Staff COrFesnOndent)

(Untted Press Btnk COErcSpomuentl
 Boston, Oct. 2e.-(UP)--After q years interlude worth ei6,000 for NOT managing the Brooklyn Dodgers, Charles Dillon Casey 9tengel returned to major league baseball today as pilot of the Bos- ton Bees. H
 stengels vacation with pay. be. gun when he was dismissed last year by Brooklyn with . year of his contract still remaining, ended yesterday when President Bob Quinn invited him to replace Bill MeKechnio who left the Bees i7 days ago to become manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Casey, speaking from his oil fields in Omaha, TeXu accepted during c S20,70 telephone talk that was as dramatic as 1t was unprecedented.
 Quinn summoned Boston baseball writers into this private office, put through the long distance call and invited all to listen,
 DO you want to come with mep" quinn asked stengel.
 "fd be delighted" came the re- ply.
 "Weli, you've got the job,"
 It was as simjle as that,
 Somebody asked quinn about etengela elowning tho once lifted his cap and c pigeon flew from under 1t while he stood on second base during e game of his ma lor league eareer)
 He can Do as serious nS any oth0r person can possibly Do and he is as loyal aS anybody know" Quinn replied.
 That was the tip-ofs that Casey tho "un.olowned" would bo oil Do business in his new Job. He Is taekling Q serious job here-a job that was such c challenge to Me- Keehnie that he could drive tho Boston ontry Into the first division only twiee m eight yoarg.
 No eontraetuNl details were diS- eussed. They will Do taken care of when stengel comes to Boston next month.
 Tho transaetion-which did not contain A great clement of surprise thus reuniteS Brooklyns former front.offieo and field bosses. Quinn was general manager of the Dodg- ers when 9t0ngel succeeded Max Carey aS manager in 1884. Casey was depesed october 5, iO30 and was paid more -- Si6,000 -- for not managing the club In tho past soa. son than his successor Burloigl1 Grimes, reeelVed--feportedly 9iO,- 900. Quinn left Brooklyn after tho ie9B season to head the reoyganIged Boston club.
 By on ironie twist, tho Bees man. agerial problem was settled two hours after Babo Ruth, who unsue. eeesfully sought tho Job In tho tlir- bulent days Of lo3S, arrived here on route to Nova Scotia on c hunting trip.
 The Babe said that while ho would be "tiekled pink" to step into Mekoehnies old position, ho had received no offer.
 etengol' was tho third choice. Donio Bush, manager Of tho Min. neapolis club Of the American As. sociation declined. Catcher dabby HaFtnott Of tho Chicago Cubs. was not available.
 Tho new 40.yoar old Boston pilot, who halls from Glendale, Gal, broke Into professional baseball in hlN native Kansas Clty where ho 60. quired the nickname "CaHey" through tho abbreviation K. c. for Kansas city. He started his maIer league career with Brooklyn, getting "four-forsfour" in his Dig league debut. He went to Pittsburgh, tho Philadelphia Nationals, tho New York oiantS-for whom no won two World Series games in 1928 with home rtins-and, coincidentaiiy, ended his major league playing career here, with the then Boston Braves,
 Before returning to Brooklyn As coach In i032, ho was made man. ager of tho Braves farm team In Worcester, Mass. Later hO was ap. pointed president of tho club and 1t was then that he signed his own unconditional rolease 90 he could take the Toledo managing job.