Evening star., 1955-05-03
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAV BY FRANCIS STANN
A Cow Is q Luxury


leads to adversely and disaster for the ndugent club
The untouchable ball player sometimes reflects
form of paternaism in magnae but in instances the
cold calculating has the his colleague
Clark Griffith is humane and considerate by any
Standards and especially for baseball club owner but
this virtue than has blocked the ambitions of his
For, while might admire Griffith for
this quality they find themselves symied when to
making sharp intended to improve bad ball clubs and
by no means incidentally, proong their own tenures
This seems to be precisely the problem Chuck Dresser
faces at the moment. figure prominent in baseball news
calousy predicted months that by June Dresser
would be wishing he with Oakland in the Pacific
Coast League hasn't to that yet but dispatches
from the West Chuck is thoroughly dsenchaned with
the Senators and ready and willing to trade just about
any ball player on the roster
The big question in Dressens mind seems to be whether
Griffith will see eye to eye with him.
DREssENs SIDE OF 1T is understandable. Back in
managed second Cincinnati teams and
he did not like it, Chuck not gracious loser When
Washington the fellow Bucky Harris Dresser
coming off two pennants and playof for the flag IN
three years at Brooklyn He used to success
Chuck has contract that he will live with the
Senators for at least two seasons At the rate MS cuo Is
going that is in ITSELF What could be read INTO the
dispatches from Kansas City is that Dresen angered by the
clubs showing requested permission to make any deal he
wished
Eddie Yost is sacred cow There to suspect
that Dressen way, would trade Yos at the
drop hint 1t bit late to get the best deal tor
Yos may reasoning that better late than never
Yost Gri boy Three years ago the washington cluO
studied offers for Eddie from nearly club in the Amer
League including the Yankees Griffith considered Yot
untouchabe then still does Within the last Few hours
the old gentleman confirmed his trust IN Yost.
you've GOT TO STICK by Yost, Jim Busby and Mickey
Vernon" Gri saying. "Pete Runnes too Yost WELL
I like his earnestness. I like the boy"
Yost is indeed nice guy, although longer boy. He
played in organized ball when he wasn't in
Washington uniform and he is by all odds the most durable
ball player in business. Yet he has hit reasonably
close to 800 than IS
in 10 years and change.
2nf0r Andy Care
senge Yankees wanted Yost badly they would have
given passel of players Yos value has dropped snce
but Dresser has his almost bet that Eddie Will
be party in the first trade the Senators make before the
deadline
This is not to be construed as criticism of Yost
natural leado who draws more walks than
anybody else gets by pitched balls But Eddie
is Griffith Stadium and the Senators Where he be-
longs-and may wind ups in Boston where the likes OF
Jackie Jensen and Ted Williams perhaps will score him from
first base. if gets his way, Yost also will be
available to the Chicago White sox in return for favors
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CLARK GRIFFITH HAD JUST replaced the telephone
after lengthy conversation yesterday and the who
the other end was Dresser
.e wanted to say" ri explained "hat some of those
about trading anybody everybody club
exaggerated. Dresser doesn't want entirely free hand
the this together This the way always
worked with my managers.
my original agreement with Dresser that he could
make deal that would help U.S. he would contact for
approval 1t works both ways like trade that's
posed me- call my manager to If he likes it, too.
don't like excite the public by saying that we're going to
make whole lot Of trades :"
"But you're in trading mood?"
Wel, yes, but you've got to stick by what we've got
Yost :. Busby Vernon Porterfeld."
That isn't the way travelling with the Senators
interpreted It, apparently They under the impression
that contemplating trades involving anybody
including sacred And when this little item brought
to Gths attention the old gaers reply substantially
was:
"I don't quit easily team. But If this club doesn't
by July I'll be all in favor too, Of tearing THE WHOLE
DAMNED THING APART"
That's exactly what the man said