The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-20
Frank Frisch
 Discouraged
 About Team

NeW YOTk, Aug. ZU-NOH)- lIe combined pressure of union move ment, the Brooklyn Dodgers and last place weighed heavily today on balding Frankie Frisch, the dagger tongued Dutchman who asks just one more chance to have his job as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
 But the odds are stacked against him. As Fordham Frankie would say, "it looks like a cold deck!"
 Tonight's game with the Dodgers epitomizes the disastrous season which has plagued Frisch. Twenty three games off the pace in last place, the Pirates catch an angry band of Dodgers, their league lead cut to one and a half games last night when Ken Burkhart pitched the Cardinals to an eight-hit, 6 to victory over the Cardinal Reds. Guild Main Beef
 But before they take the field, the Pirates must vote on whether they went the American Baseball Guild as their collective bargaining election.
 That's Frisch's main beef
 When we get off trains, nobody asks us how we feel or about our coming game, it's always unions and guilds" Frisch said when a tired band of Bucs arrived at Pitts burgh today from their western tour.
 T don't have anything against unions. I'm entirely neutral. But we can't win ball games when union trouble is foremost in the players minds" he said.
 Discouraged
 It's the lament of a discouraged man, who figures that fate has stacked the deck on him. When Guild Director Bob Murphy picked the Pirates as his labor guinea pig he didn't help Frisch's mana gerlal problems. Then the Bucs were sold and the one time Ford ham Flash finds himself without a single red-hot supporter among the four new owners.
 New President Frank E. McKin- ney has announced that the oWn- CTS have drawn up list of II pos sible managers for next season and added, almost as an afterthought, that Frisch was among them
 Tonight's Pirate game provides another twister in that Dodger Manager Leo Durocher is on the list and it is no secret that Bing Crosby, one of the Pirate owners, is strong for the dapper, swift talk ing Leo, who sometimes thinks he should be on the radio and in pic lures, too.
 With the Cardinals driving hard for first place, riding three-game winning streak, Frisch would like nothing better than to sweep his tWo-game series with the Dodgers. It might not save his job but it would salve lot of wounds
 Prepping for Bruins
 The Redbirds, prepping for tSe Dodgers invasion of St. Louis this weekend. slammed EIwell Blackwell and Bob Mallory for 12 hits last right to defeat the Reds behind the eight-hit pitching of Ken Burx- hart.
 The 29-year righthander from Knoxville, one of the Cardinals many second-line hurlers, turned in his finest performance of the season for his third triumph over the Reds and his fifth victory of the cam paign. Rookie Dick Sisler, whose southpaw slugging gave the Cardi- nals doubleheader victory over the Reds Sunday, spearheaded the Redbirds offensive, slamming a double with the bases loaded in the first inning for three runs. , The heat of the National League . pennant fight became evident when the usually mild-mannered Bill Me Kechnie, Cincinnati manager, was elected in the seventh inning by ; Umpire Dusty Loggess for protest ing a called ball on Red SchOend