Evening star., 1947-03-13
Yank Boss 10 Protest
Dodgers Charges He
WAS Gamblers Host
By Jock Hond ,
Assoeioted Press Sports Writer

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Mar. 13.
Larry MacPhail, president of the
New York Yankees, said today he
had filed verbal charges with Com
missioner A. B. Chandler, accusing
Manager Leo Durocher, President
Branch Hickey and Road Secretary
Harold Parrott of the Brooklyn
Dodgers of conduct detrimental to
baseball for insinuating by writ
ten and verbal remarks that he had
two notorious gamblers as his guests
at an exhibition game in Havana.
II have talked over the matter
with President viii Harridge Of
the American League" MacPhail
revealed. "He agreed I should take
up the matter with the commits
sioner. The three of us talked over
the matter yesterday at the dedica-
ton game and I will file formal
charges as soon as I receive copies
Of New York newspaper columns In
which the charges were made"
Chandler declined comment other
than to say, II have received no
fixed formal written charge from
MacPhail. Until I do I will not
make any plans for a hearing or
investigation"
Brooks Wrong, MacPhail Says.
The Yankee president claimed the
box assigned him by Brooklyn for
the Yankee-Dodgers series in Cuba
was directly behind the Brooks
bench. When he had it changed to
the Yankee side of the field, he
insisted, he noticed the two gam
blers in the next box.
"Oficials of the Montreal club
and Mrs. Mulvey, who still owns
a share of the Dodger stock, were
my guests" MacPhail insisted.
Mrs. MacPhail was the only other
person present in the box"
(Rickey was quoted Monday from
Havana as saying, eff I saw these
men in the Brooklyn park would
have them thrown out. Yet there
they are as guests of the Yankee
president. Why my own manager
can't even say hello to this actor
George, what's his name. He
won't have anything to do with
gamblers. But apparently there are
rules for Durocher and other rules
for, the rest of baseball.")
MacPhail elaborated on his
charges when he said Durocher, in
a Brooklyn newspaper by-lined COL
umn entitled, "Durocher Says"
had claimed to have turned down
a $4,000 offer to manage the Yam
KEGS. The Yankee president said
he had read where Durocher
charged him with saying, "I1l run
you out of baseball because Leo
had spu1ned the Yankee job.
Parrott was brought into the case
when MacPhail alleged that he
wrote the columns which carried
Durocher's by-line.
Claims Hickey Should Know.
Referring to hickey, MacPhail
added, 1T is inconceivable to think
the president of a ball club doesn't
know who is writing such articles"
IF the facts are true as Leo
states them, the commissioner should
take action" MacPhail continued.
If they are not true, then he also
should take action.
II have never discussed Job
with any individual employed by
Brooklyn unless the Brooklyn Club
gave its permission or told me that
the man no longer was in its en-
ployment.
walter OMalley, attorney for
the Dodgers, asked me last August
If I wanted Leo. Then later when
we were about to sign Dresser,
Hickey asked me not to sign Charley
until I had read a memo from him.
He sent the memo and I then told
him there was nothing in that 1
keep me from signing Dresser.
"At that same time Hickey asked
me if I wanted Leo. I told all of
them that I wouldn't take him on
a silver platter"
MacPhail asserted that Dresser
actually had been appointed Brook
lyn manager in 1914 when Durocher
missed an upstate New York exhi-
bition game, but had bowed out
a day later to permit
Leos reinstatement.
There was no immediate comment
on MacPhail's verbal charges from
Durocher or Parrot.