Evening star., 1953-10-15

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dent that chucks job hadn't been automatic as lot
of had thought The Yankees pointed Brookyns
pitching weakness
NOW AFTER of the most startling sports develop
mens in months Dresser apparently is out as manager OF
Dodgers oneyear which President Walter
OMaley offered wasn't what Chuck had expected.
Why he reasoned, he merely offered one-year con-
tract whereas Leo Durocher already had been given
twoyear pact and Eddie stanky still to
agea ranks received hreeyear paper? In the dispatches
Dresser didn't mention Stanky but he did ask bingy:
What did Durocher do except contender into
fifth place?"
Dresser has point Durocher'S job with the Giants
notably unmpresSve The club lost big money at the box
office Yet Horace soneham quelched reports that Leo would
be ousted by giving him new contract
Stanky better. Cardinals wound up in tie for
third although % back of the Dodgers If he could
threeyear contract reported $4,000
why couldn't Dressen?
THERE MAY BE MORE than meets the eye. The fnalty
with which Chuck first said, II won't the Dodgers
next year, suggests that he has something else the fire
that regards equally attractive. Nor does OMaeys
refusal longer
winning manager entitled to expect at least two
year contract Most many get longer In the entire
history of modern baseball only two got sacked
after winning pennant One Bill McKechnie after
plotting the 1928 Cardinals to flag, but losing four straight
World Series. The other also
other ST. Louis manager Rogers Hornsb who beat the
Yankees in 1926.
Managing year basis dangerous
we'll lot of things happen in baseball Chuck
only realize this much That the
when his Brooks blew 1872 game lead late in the
campaign. 1t touch and go whether OMaley would
invite him back after that disaster He did and Chuck
delivered the next two years.
DREssEN HINTED STRONGLY that he would be inter
ested in managing the Baltimore Orioles They might
do worse! Chuck not be the greatest in the
business but he tries hard and anything but dull and color
less Matter of fact the recalls the 1858
including the Series the is likely impressed
with the job he did.
When he couldn't find third outheder spring who
belonged in the company of Duke Snder and Carl Fuo he
switched Jackie Robinson from second base to leed This
meant putting the rookie, Junior Gillian second The
young ready and Dresen true had little to do with
his development aside from giving him chance to play
When Robinson did all right in the oued his regular lineup
less pat.
Dressens chief triumph, it says here the way he
manipulated his pitchers When club wins pennant by
13game margin indeed, when team wins earlier than
any National League club except in history strong
pitching staff Indicated When exposed the garng
pressure of World Series it turned out that Brookyns
pitching was way short.
DRESSER WENT INTO the Series with two talented but
fragile pitchers Carl ErSkne and Preacher Roe Each had
good effort in him. After false start when failed
to the bell for the second inning Erskne
to beat the Yankees and set Series skeou record of A.
Roe lost to Eddie Lopat hoerS McDougad Mantle
the aer widely believed to have been the result of lucky
swing.
little guy and not geared for three Series starts which he
slender to the point of being skinny and
Preacher had him, too Dresser needed than
this pair and he didn't have anybody ee unless you count
Billy LoeS, who the only Brooklyn victory that Erkine
didn't. But Loes' sloppy affair,
relief.
Dresser did what he could with the rest Labine .
Podres Miliken Hughes Wade :. Meyer They
weren't much and although Dresser criticized from time
to time during the Series for his strategy
Dodgers fell baScally short in pitching Which
mindful of the dispatches of September H. when Brooklyn
clinched the pennant.
"Th is the greatest team I've managed" Dresser
chortled.
"Th is the greatest team in Brooklyn history" OMaley
said.
AS of the greatest team, etc, is manager.
In baseball it doesn't take long.