The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-11
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, Jan. 11--(UP)-Four major league baseball clubs will have new managers next season but only one of them, oscar Witt at Cleveland, will be making his big time managerial debut.
 The other three are familiar fig ures around the circuits. Bill Mc- Kechnie, who has won pennants with the Cardinals and Pirates, moves from the Boston Bees to the Cincinnati Reds. Casey Stengel, who was paid his regular salary not to manage the Brooklyn Dodgers last season, succeeds McKechnie at the helm of the Bees. Gabby Street, "Old Sarge" who has world cham pionship to his credit with the 1881 Cardinals, takes over the St. Louis Browns.
 No "Cinch"
 Perhaps the toughest job In base- ball goes to Witt, who moves up to the majors after phenomenal year with the Newark Bears, a Yankee farm. His club won the 1nterna- tional pennant by 251s games, then swept through the playoffs by talk ing four straight each from Syra- cuse and Baltimore. Tn the "Little World Series" Witt proved he could handle ball players in diversity as well as success. Columbus, Ameri- can association champions, won the first three games from Newark and went west to polish off the Bears. But Vitt's club came roaring back to win the next four straight at Co., lumbus and win the Little World Series" Eess
 Witt, AT, has no illusions about his new job. He admits he's 'be- hind the eight ball" from the start but already has laid the ground work for a good start by handling of the Cleveland scribes who have made the life of previous Indian pilots less than happy. Oscar, & third baseman with the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox in his playing days, is fast talker on and of the field. This is an important angle in the previously tangled Cleveland managerial situation. Witt realizes he can't talk the Indians into pennant but he hopes to get everyone-players, fans and scribes coming out of the huddle with the same signals.
 Another of Vitt's outstanding gifts is his ability to handle pitchers. At Newark, he developed the finest staff in the minors from inexperienced men. With Allen, Teller, Harder and Galehouse to build around Witt may possibly assemble one of the ma jor's best pitching staffs.
 Witt says his only iron-clad rule will be: My players must hustle all the time or out they go. There will be no exceptions"
 Builder Upper
 The job confronting Gabby Street with the St. Louis Browns is largely one of rebuilding. During his man. agerial career in the majors and minors-with the Cardinals, Mis- sions and St. Paul-Street has al- ways improved the club he took over. An old catcher himself. Street should be able to help the Browns pitching and if he does that the club is bound to improve.
 Bill McKechnie, chosen No. major league manager by the Sport ing News for his work with the Bos- ton Bees last season, takes over the Cincinnati Reds, whose nose-dive in last place won them disrepute as the biggest disappointment of 1897. Me- Kechnie will draw a salary of, $25,- 900 and a percentage of the gate re- ceipts.
 McKechf1ie's work in developing Jim Turner and Lou Fette, a pair of 30 year old rockies, into 20-game winners and piloting the Bees into fifth place, is tribute to his efforts. In tactical knowledge McKechnie has no superior in baseball. It seems safe to asume that he will get the very utmost of the Reds material and maybe more.
 McKechnie didn't leave StengeI much material at Boston but Casey can be counted on to inject color into the drab Bees if nothing elsa Casey can make 8 club hustle and his players all like him. One of his training orders was: Drink all the beer you want to, and if you have toothache take 8 shot of grog But don't let me catch any of you guys trying to slip out of the hotel -1ar R IIRIr o1 SrTIrrrOrrr arro I'll c aa