Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
WIN, LOSE OR
1NAV BY FRANCIS STANN
Aston Must Do or Die


wend their way esurey honeward leave take look and
hear word from the manager
Walt Aston, the Who's He boy of 1854 has lost of
his freshman reticence but not much Smokey such
questions he without sticking his neck out but volun
nothing The baseball writer's covering the Dodgers still
miss Chuck Dresser powerful lot.
Aston will with approximately the club that he
did last season. following two flags
In under Dresser 1t is outfit possibly
we'll seasoned Sooner or later old rocking chair has got to
catch up to Peewee Reese Jackie Robinson Carl Fuo and
Roy Campanela.
81 feel club confidence had last year"
Walt says playing it close the 1.-THE fellows think
Newcombe is all right and that Campsnelas bad hand
is all right again Those should two of the key men,
This like gambling that two plus equals four but
it's Asons and there's nothing to be done abouti
WHEN YOU FINALLY come down to it, Smokey was
not such failure last his severes critics seemed to
think The Dodgers finished five back of the Giants
of whom Leo Durocher is proud ("Were the solid team
quoth the Dandy Little Manager the other day.
Campanella baed exactly los points under his SO
and drove 81 fewer Take that from
any ball club and it's got to hurt There long period
when the bury catcher couldn't hold his bat after taking
big swing his catchingthe best when he is right
suffered when Campanella found he couldn't hit
1t is true that Dresser did not have Newcombe when
he remnants in 1852 1883 which before he went
in for writing letters to the management but Aston might
we'll not have had Don last The big Negro pitcher
returned two Army service alangy fat and
didn't look at all like the who spun successive
records of II, 10 and 20 wins.
Newcombe posted 9-8 record for Aston which
painfully out of proportion to the teams pace nearly $780,
and thereby he made doubly rough Who's He Aston
knew privately that Don couldn't help much but if he hadn't
used him often he did, the would have been
second-guessed all over Ebbets Field.
AMONG SOME THE learned there is suspicion that
before long the Dodgers who need additional time to get in
shape because of advancing will they the
top club in the National League With bow to these
however Mwaukee's Braves still look like the Florida
based team And those recent bulletins from the Far
West attributed to Duroer indicate the Giants feeling
their oats.
BY the token Aston, whose appointment Ores
sens out of the clear blue be whstlng
in the dark when he discusses Karl Spooner and his
Il don't think it's serious Walt has been saying Hes
got youth his side"
Spooner is 23-year-od lefthander who startled the big
league boys the closing last Right off the
bat coming up from Fort WORTH he shut out the Giants,
80 and record for strkeouts by pitcher in his first
game by tanning Is later he shut out the Pirates
(horses of different color to be sure and whitfield IL to
National for most StkeoutS in two
cessive games.
Greatest young pitcher SEEM Catcher
Campanela. This boy will win big"
WELL THAT REMAINS to be seen. In the Texas League
the htters averaged 3l4 earned off the young
although he 81 and lost only g. and there remains
the question to whether Spooner fool the major
leaguerS in April, May June and July he did when he
arrived in September when the MI about decided
top everything that has happened to Aston,
his boy Spooner with the miSeres early this
You couldn't truthfuy say that Smokey who played in
big league game in his fe striking out in his only time at
bat has enjoyed fortune There may times
when he wonders whatever compelled him to leave the
paratve anonymity the bushes to take the Brooklyn job
especially in the wake of Dresser
Aston practically has to win the pennant this year to
keep his job according to the of Dodger
They think President Walter OMaey almost maliciously
hired the direct opposite and retaining him
for a second season matter OF pride
Il" Aston strikes out this time, he's dead" spokes
man offered land it won't make difference whether he