Evening star., 1946-05-25
Stormy Era for Bill
Is Visioned by Mats,
Now Busy With As
By Burton Howkins


as manager of the New York Yam
KEGS will touch of some of the
most vitriolic bench "jockeying" OF
the season, which will stem from
enlisted men who came in con-
tact with Dickey when he was
directing 14th Naval District ath-
letic activities during the war.
Dickey will find the war isn't
over for him. Extremely popular
with fans, Bill is not popular with
many major leaguers who played
under him and against teams under
his direction in the Hawaiian Is
lands when Dickey was a naval
lieutenant.
"Dickey's authority as an officer
went to his head" one of the Mats,
a former Navy enlisted man, said
today. "He was too busy to talk
to his own roommate, Joe Gordon,
during the war when Joe was in
the Army as an enlisted man and
he did lot of small things many
of us won't be forgetting.
1--WE talked to quite a few of
the Yankees this season and they
seem to have adopted the attitude
that they're forgetting Dickey's off,
cious behavior during the war for
the good of the club. That's COM
mendable, but when the going gets
tough he might find them not so
willing to let the past remain
buried.
Herman Swept Dickey's Office.
Maybe it sounds trivial, but I
don't believe Billy Herman has any
love for Dickey. He swept out his
Office every day and developed nc
respect for Dickey's swell headed
manner. Rollie Hemsley, who was
managing 14th Naval District
team, expressed an opinion in q
meeting of managers and was told
by Dickey. The enlisted men will
remain quiet Yeah, it may be
trivial, but it wasn't trivial to us
then and to lot of us it still isn't
Those . fellows - Herman and
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League and can't hop on Dickey as
they'd like to, but a lot of us who
saw how he acted are in the Ameri-
can League. Dickey has been TAX
ing riding so far this season be-
cause of it, but he hasn't heard any
thing yet. He's in for a rough
time
Another Nat, a former Army en-.
listed man, told of arriving in the
Hawaiian Islands with a group oil
major league players then in the
service and being snubbed by Dickey
Some of those fellows had known
Dickey pretty we'll in baseball" he
said, but although Dickey was II
feet away from us he wouldn't SAY
hello to anybody. Sure, there has
to be gap between enlisted mer
and officers, but he made a granc
canyon out of it."
Sees Him OK as Pilot.
'DlcKey was pain in the neck il
the service said another Nat, ais,
former Army enlisted man, "but
believe he'll do good job as man
ager. know one of the Yankees a
one time was saying he'd never pla,
on any team with Dickey again, bu
he did and apparently he's forgotten
the past. If Dickey can make hin
forget that rapidly he's good diplo.
mat"
Dickey, nevertheless, probably will
be forced to weather a storm O
verbal abuse seldom matched IL
baseball history. The storm ma,
subside quickly, but the announce
ment of Dickey's appointment a.
manager of the Yankees isn't bein,
greeted with cheers in all quarters.
The Mats. bumped back to fourth
place yesterday as Detroit won, re-
turned to action today at Griffitl
Stadium with double -headel
against the Athletics, who also will
be met in twin bill tomorrow.
Washington will invade New Yorl
for three-game series on Monday
then journey to Boston for a double.
header on Thursday, making the tril
by bus if necessary. The Mats will
cut in on one of the largest gates o.
the season on Monday night, whel
they battle New York in the Yam.
KEGS first home game under tn,
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