The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-21
MocPhoiIMoy Get Durocher As Manager
By OSCAR FRALEY

New York, Sept. 21-(UP)-Leo Durocher, Spit-f1re pilot of the Brooklyn Dodgers, undoubtedly will wind up as manager of the New York Yankees for next season, tn- side sources tipped today, in a gen. eral house cleaning at Yankee Stadium in which only six men are certain of their jobs.
 Durocher is reported to be the choice of his old Brooklyn running mate, Larry MacPhail, who likes the dashing type of baseball played by Leo the Lip. It would reunite a scrappy, fiamboyant combination which revived baseball in Brooklyn in the hopes of doing the same thing at Yankee Stadium.
 "MurderlesS row. set an all-time attendance record for the game this year but MacPhail realizes that if the team continues to blackslide the palmy days can't be expected to remain. Durocher, the man who led the Dodgers out of the wilderness for MacPhail, is the shrewd red heads choice to pull the same job in the Bronx.
 New Board Expected
 If Durocher takes over at the Stadium it will highlight a com- plete new deal Coaches Red Rolfe and Johnny Schulte both expect to clear out if this happens and 8 complete new board of strategy will take over.
 On the field there will be many changes, too, according to the in- siders.
 Only six men are comparatively certain of their jobs. These are Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller, the one-two punch of the Yankee attack; Tommy Heinrich and catch CT Aaron Robinson, who hits a long ball in the old Yankee tradition, and pitchers Spud Chandler and Floyd Bevens.
 On the borderline are Bill John son, Joe Gordon, Snuffy StirnweisS and Phil Ruzzuto, along with the rest of the current crop wearing Yankee flannelS. How many of these Stadium pre-war stars remain when the firing ceases depends on what kind of deals MacPhail can or cannot-make. He won't give up any of them for peanuts but they are on the market.
 In Other Pastures
 Meanwhile, from Brooklyn comes the word that If Durocher leaves his most probable successor is Coach Chuck Dressen. Completing the general managerial shakeup, Billy Herman is expected to take over at as reported here ex- clusively Tuesday, and Herold (Muddy) Ruel has the inside track with the St. Louis Browns.
 The question now arises as to whether Durocher would be making a mistake going to the Yankees. He would be leaving a hot baseball town where the fans are behind him solidly and where there are plenty of young stars on the way up.
 The Dodger farm teams finished right up on top, or near the top, in their various leagues. Montreal copped the International League pennant; St. Paul did well in the Association and Three Rivers was top dog in the Canadian league. AS for the Tanks, their Newark farm had a poor club much promise in the way of major league material and Kan sas City finished in the American Association second division.
 The Lip works on a slim margin at Brooklyn, however, and has been going along with Deacon Branch Hickey on one-year contract. A .ong-term paper with the Yankees undoubtedly will sway him and MacPhail has the backing to buy what is needed. Then, too, there are those stars to be put on the trading block for cogs needed to win 3 pennant.
 Leo looks like cinch to go back IS boss of the team that originally 1idn't want him as a Shortstop in his playing days.