Evening star., 1947-04-09
DurocI1er 0usted
For All Season
InM'phaiI Feud
Dresser Suspended for
80 Days by Chandler;
Two Clubs Fined
sy ths Assoeiotsd Press

sy fhs Associated Press
CINCINNATI, April 9.-In an
action unprecedented in major
league baseball, Commissioner
A. B. Chandler today suspended
Leo Durocher, manager of the
Brooklyn Dodgers. for the 1947
season.
"Durocher has not measured up to
the standards expected or required
of managers of our baseball teams"
the commissioner said in his ruling.
"As a result of the accumulated
unpleasant incidents in which he
has been involved, which the COM
missioner construes as detrimental
to baseball, Manager Durocfer is
hereby suspended from participat-
ing in professional baseball for the
1947 season."
Dresser Ont 30 Days.
The commissioner also announced
the following other actions as re-
suit of an investigation launched
after Larry MacPhail. general mana
ger of the New York American !
League club, brought charges OF
defamation against Durocher and
Branch Hickey, head of the Brooklyn |
Dodgers:
Suspended Chuck Dresser, former
coach of the Dodgers and now a
member of the Yankee coaching
staff, for 80 days beginning April 15
Fined the Brooklyn club and the
New York Yankee club $4,000 each,
and
Fined Harold Parrot, travelling
secretary OF the Brooklyn team. $500
for writing a deliberately derog-
atory" newspaper article about per-
sons in baseball and violating Com
missioner Chambers order to remain
silent after a hearing at Sarasota,
Fla.
Statement Dispr0ved.
Evidence produced at a hearing,
the commissioner reported, dis
proved statement-allegedly made
by Durocher-that two gamblers
were guests Of MacPhail at a base
ball game in Havana.
The commissioner also held that
Hickey had not made such charge.
Dressen's suspension, it developed,
was the result of his leaving the
Dodger club to work for the
Yankees. The commissioner said he
was convinced Dresser had agreed
to remain with hickey for two more
years, although no formal contract
had been signed.
(Durocher probably will fly West
tonight with his movie actress
wife, Laraine Day, it was learned
from an authoritative source in >
New York
Miss Day has passage on a
TWA plane leaving La Guardia
Field at 11:30 pm. for L6e7
Angeles. Durocher, upon learning
of his suspension, d was Under
stood to have sought passage on /
the same f1ight0
ChandIer's Statement.
The text of Commissioner Chand-
ler's statement:
"On IS March, 194T, L. s. Mac
Phail, president of the American
League Baseball Club of New York.
Inc, placed in the hands OF the
commissioner a request for a hear
ing to determine whether: la
Certain statements appearing in the
public press. alleged to have been
made or issued by Branch Hickey,
president, and Leo Durocher. man.
ager Of the Brooklyn Baseball Club, ,
and (b) articles appearing in the ,
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, under the .
hy-line of Leo Durocher, were au- +,
thentic, and whether Mr.. Rickey and
the Brooklyn club might be held
responsible, and whether their
publication might be considered con-
duct detrimental to baseball.
AT the same time Charles Dres- 6
sen. a coach for the American
League Baseball Club of New York, ,
filed with the commissioner pro- !
test against certain statements al ;
legedly made both publicly and pri- :
vately' by Mr.. Hickey and Mr.. Dur :
ocher.
Newspaper reports quoted Mr..
Hickey and Mr.. Durocher as saving =,
that two alleged gamblers were Mac
Phail,s guests at one or more ex-
hibition games between the Yankees
and the Dodgers in Grand Stadium.
Havana, Cuba, on 8 and 9 March
1a47. Mr.. Hickey was quoted as say
ing apparently there are rules for
Durocher and other rules for the
rest of baseball
Article Is Quoted.
''In the article 'Durocher Says ap-
pearing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
on March. l947, admittedly written
by Harold Parrot there appears the
following:
He (referring to MacPhaiD tried
to drive a wedge between myself and
all these things hold dear. When
MacPhail found I couldn't be in
duced to manage his Yankees for
any Of his inducements, he resolved
to knock me and to make life as hard
as possible for me but surely
people must recognize that it is the
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