Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-10
Chalk Up mo Runs. No Hits. But Error"
for the Dodgers Gabby Ex-Shor+s+op. Says
Sports coIumnist Parker. as Mrs. Duroeher
Complains His Umpire Batting Tactics
Around The House Force Her to Throw
Him q Curve

fession until he married the talented, attrac-
tive and fauluessy groomed dress designer.
The divorce papers, tabbing Leo as a
chronic nagger turn the laugh on the Dodgers
manager for the second time this year. Last
February, Durochcr was the butt Of all those
jokesmiths who pounce on the obvious when
the Army rejected him for military service
because of puncturcd or as they call 1t in
Brooklyn, "puuctuated ear drum.
He must have puncturcd it listening 10
himself bawl out those umprcs" whcezed the
AZ gagsters who should have been gagged
for il.
Those who knew that Grace WAS the boss
Of the Durocher menage and could silence her
Appy lover where the toughest umpires had
failed. suggested that Leo's smart bride may
have punctured the ear drum, reading the riot
act constantly 10 her errng spouse.
Leo lust wasn't the domestic type. He
liked 10 sit in with the boys at all-nght poker
games or keep his legs from stidening by Civ
ing them nightly workouts on dance floors.
Once n ball-players legs go, he's goner
himself, But, as far As Grace Dozer and the
Brooklyn Dodgers are concerned, it looks as II
"A coner is what Leo is nothin' else but now,
AS Octavus Roy Cohen would say.
For indeed. Leo seems 20 have talked him
self out Of the bail game again-this time,
indefinitely When he married Grace, the
sports writers recorded it as a felder's choice.
She says it should have been scored
error,
Leo was fresh young squirt working in
Springfield, Mass. mill when the Hartford
Eastern League club offered him a tryout,
back in 1925 He was an immediate sensation
and the New York Yankees bought him. Leo
was waived out OF the American League in 1880
and went 60 the Cincinnati Reds In 1888 the
Reds traded him 10 the St Louis Cardinals.
Il was in St Louis that Leo met his future
bride talented divorcee with an attractive
daughter The St Louis team was then made
up of the colorfuI bostcrous crew known AS
the Gas House Gang and the easiest Of the
lot was Lippy Leo.
Manager Frankie Frisch hearing that his
gabby shortstop planned 20 get married during
the closing stages OF Che pennant campaign IN
1884 voiced "a strong objection 20 General
Manager Hickey on the ground that wedding
bells and pcnnants didn't mix and that for
Leo 90 get married when the team was battling
down the home stretch might cost the Cards
the championship.
Wise Mr.. Hickey saw the futility of inter-
fering where the kid with the bow and arrow
was concerned and refused 10 back up Frisch.
II all turned out as in fairy tale, however,
with Leo winning his lady fair and the Cards
winning the peuuant
Deacon Hickey ninisterial-loolting gentle
man who often mounts the pulpit and delivers
sermons as guest preacher. though he is a
lawyer, not "A minister OF the gospel found
himself the arbiter Of the Durochers' troubles
after that They came TO him. as 20 a father
confcssor. He, feeling a certain amount of
responsibility for their happiness, treated
them as he would his own children.