Evening star., 1953-11-10
Orioles Likely
To Put Marion
On Shelf Today
Manager Rejects
Any HoggIing Over
Terms of Contract
BY the Associated Press

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Marty Marion is to manage the
Orioles next year and the con-
lecture is that the answer will
be in the negative.
Marion and Art Ehlers, Oriole
general manager. who is making
the decision, talked four hours
behind closed doors yesterday,
but enough seeped out to make
the odds appear against Marty.
In the first place, there was
no good reason given for Ehlers'
saying: 'Marty's position will be
determined in the next "a hours"
Some thought it was to give
Marion time to get out of town
and back home to St. Louis.
After his arrival there Marion
said: II wouldn't want to bet that
I'd keep the job
Marion made it clear that he
wants to manage the club and
that he wasn't resigning. Marty
also said he had refused to hag-
gle over the contract he had
with the St. Louis Browns and
which runs for one more season.
Confer with Harridge.
Ehlers and Marion telephoned
Will Harridge. American League
president, for his opinion on
what happens if a manager
with a contract is released and
takes another job in baseball.
Harridge refused to reveal what
he had told them.
In st. Louis, Marion said he
probably wouldn't take another
baseball job Immediately if he is
let out by the Orioles and has to
deduct his second salary from
his earnings from the Baltimore
club. THAT would be like work.
luS LOT Tree, ne SAID.
Explaining that Harridge told
him this system has been the
custom, Marion said: I'D want
to talk to the commissioner (Ford
Frick) before I'd agree to that"
The Orioles already are COM
mitted to paying Rogers Horns
by for another year on contract
he had with the Browns. Marion
succeeded Hornsby in June. 1852.
Ehlers let it be known before
hand that Marion was no cinch
to come here along with the
Browns. He said he already had
been thinking about others in
case he wasn't sold on Marion
Among the others are Jimmy
Dykes, recently ousted by the
Athletics, Luke Sewell and Red
Rolfe.
Altitude Questioned.
Ehlers sounded out Marion on
his attitude toward present play
erS under contract to the Browns.
Marion took the occasion to
complain that Clarence Miles,
Orioles president, and others said
they'd been told by baseball men
that the Browns players were
better than their last-place rec
ord of 1858.
The outSpoken Marion told
Ehlers: IF you build up players
for public consumption and then
they go out on the field and can't
live up to it, whose fault is it
the manager'S?"
Marion said he was ENCOURAGED
by Bill Veeck, president of the
club before the shift to Balti-
more, to predict big things for
the 1853 Browns.
That was mistake, one I'd
never make again." Marion said.
Its not smart and you don't
fool anybody"
Slow Improvement at Best.
Marion added:
For the sake of the Baltimore
fans-So they don't suffer too
great disappointment hope
they aren't given too enthusiastic
a picture of the club possibilities.
With the money the Orioles can
spend, there can be 'notch-by-
notch improvement, but that's
all
"Ehlers, a good baseball man,
knows it,"
Meanwhile. rumors popped up
again in Philadelphia that the
Athletics may trade First Base
man Eddie Robinson to the Ori-
oleS for Pitcher Marlin Stuart,
First Baseman Dick Kryhoski
and Outfielder Roy Sievers or
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