Evening star., 1947-02-21
Skins Tur|ey Looking
To Other Grid Jobs;
Marshall Helps
By Lewis r. Atchison

Doug Turley, only unsigned Red
skin veteran, hasn't KID the papers
because of two tempting outside
propositions. One story is that the
Baltimore Colts want to shoe him
for their Au-America Football Con-
ference and the other is that the
Wilmington American League team
has offered him job as playing
coach. The price tags on both
would keep the scion of Scranton
in pigs feet and pumpernickel for
@ long time.
The decision is up to Turley. If
he wants to go to Baltimore, Pres
ident George Marshall will arrange
to get him waived out of the league,
then, If the Baltimore deal soured,
he would be free to return to the
National League or to join Whining
ton. He wouldn't have to jump
and incur the five-year suspension
that Is the penalty for such action.
Marshall frequently goes out of
his way to help players who for
one reason or another want a
change and Turley has been one
of the chiefs prize athletes since
the 1943 playof at Chicago, when
Joe Aguirre and Bob Masterson
fell below par. Turley played an
inspired game that day and Mar
shall didn't forget it-in his 1914
contract or later. We've personally
heard deals made when Redskin
players had to be dropped in which
Marshall sold" them to other clubs
and offered to make up the differ
ence between their Washington sal
aries and those offered by the new
team.
Marshall sprung AL Piasecki when
the big end got homesick for Caro-
lima, enabling the former Duke end
to sign as coach of the Dixie
Leagues Greensboro Patriots. But
material was scarce and Piasecki
finished the season as the club S
regular quarterback and it didn't
work out financially as well as AL
hoped. He may try comeback
in the big league this autumn.
Carl Oliver grew up with Charley
'Trippi In Pittston, Pa, but that isn't
helping him get sports equipment
for 80 boys and some 80 girls at the
Industrial Home School on Wiscon-
sin avenue Oliver has sent out an
sos for anything from skip-ropes
to boxing gloves. He knows the
stuff Is hard to get, but he'll take
1t when you think there's absolutely
nothing left in it.
Nobody quite realized Jim Mag
ner's Importance to the Touchdown
Club until 1t came time to turn over
his managerial duties to someone
else. A committee of f1ve-Knocky
Thomas, Ralph Pittman, Len Walsh,
Bob Simmons and President Bingo
FIynn-had to take over the job
until Magner's successor is chosen.
1t was a nice tribute to Jim's ability,
even If it wasn't meant to be.
jim left, y'know, to open his own
filet mignon stand with Ted Lewis
and Mike Palm on upper Connecti-
cut avenue. Mike was escorting
some visiting hremen from press and
radio through the place and pointed
to a room big enough to hold basket
ball double
This Is where we keep the meat, "
he announced.
Where do you keep the mort
gage?" innocently inquired Dick
McCann, q ringer on the press team.
Staunton Military Academy's S
basket ball team which will be In the
vicinity today and tomorrow, meet
ing Episcopal this afternoon and
Navy Plebes tomorrow, Is coached by
Harrison S. Dey, a Central High
School graduate. The Cadets are
undefeated in II games and have
what is considered the best team in
the schools history. Dey was a
pupil of Bert Coggins, who thought
no basket ball team of his had gotten
properly warmed up to play a tough
schedule until it had won II games.