Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-12
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAW By FRANCIS STANN
Welcoming Home the ProdiqoIs

IN THE MADISON ROOM at the sheraton-Park Hotel
the National BroadcaSting Co. honorng its dandy
little executive, Leo Dmoche prior to the Welcome Home
luncheon for the Senators 1t followed that as Californian
by choice Mr. Durocher opinion of major league ball
the West Coast should be sought.
IF the folks in Los Angeles handle it right" Leo
happy to say big league ball can't miss If it's good club
that out there-Brookyn for nstancehey1 break
all records for attendance"
it have to be good club?" guest asked What
about the Senator's"
We'll, thinking in terms of attendance records"
Durocher hedged Give Angeles club will finish
onetwo-three-a team in the pennant highland they'll
knock down the gates trying to get into the park.
But park-thats the rub They've got the real estate
happen to be pretty that Walter OMaley will
the Dodgers if the Los Angeles people tend to business
What they should do get OMaey into closed room and
say Are willing to move to the coast? so, what
should we do?
I'm willing to bet that if oMaley can get 99-year
lease piece of property he'll put up IS million to
a stadium of his own and finance the rest"
AS A CALIFORNIAN who has managed both the Giants
and Dodgers should whereof he speaks And he
saying that not only Los Angeles but San Francisco is
ripe for big league ball.
Assuming the Dodgers eventually Angeles"
asked what club could San Francisco hope get?"
That couldn't answer Durocher replied Personally
believe that Horace Soneham will have to be forced to
the Giants out of New York Horace belongs to New
It's his can't Stoneham moving for instance
to Minneapolis matter how big and nice they build park
Stoneham there will be York Giants He meant it.
but he could be forced if the Polo Grounds isn't
available him and the Yankees don't want the Giants
to share their stadium
But Horace Stoneham won't go to Minneapolis I'm
sure" Leo concluded IF he out of New York he'll
head for San Francisco After ALL that's like York
in lot of ways And, like said, stoneham the New
York type"
LATER DURoCHER WAS TO STAR as the principal
speaker at the luncheon tossed by the Touchdown Club
SO the head table.
The president of the Washington Gas Light Co. and his
wife the head table Ditto Miss Virginia Baou billed
as Senators No fan Also Miss Lewis house guest
Mrs Clark Griffith not to mention Ted Kuszewki and Roy
Mcmillan of the Cincinnati Reds.
But the biggest individual stakeholder in the Washing
ton Ball Club H. Gabriel Murphy didn't get an invitation
to sit the dais Nor did c. Leo Dorsey director who
talking when he should have been listening few weeks
ago Florida In fact Toasmaser Bob Wolff introduced
about 500 and doggone If he didn't forget both
Murphy and Dorsey.
It was Manager Birdie Tebbetts of the Reds who in
jected the of Murphy into the proceedings At the
cuson of his little address Tebbets threw in commercial
IF any of you want insurance., Birdie said there's bill
Werber in your town and sell it, too Let divide the
business"
He started to walk away and the imp in Tebbetts
prompted him to shout into the mike g" almost forgot
incidentally, there's Murphy too"
BIRDIE HAD BEEN TELLING how glad he was to speak
ahead Duroche Before Dresser gets
chance to tell you how good he is and before Leo tells
you how good he was, let tell you why named
of the year in 1855" Tebbetts said.
I'VE are playing the Senators few days ago and big
Jim Lemon is batting My pitcher Johnny Klppstein
of your hometown boys and Washington has
first and second bases.
"Klppstein stepped off the mound with Lemon at bat
That was all right I'm very patient guy Then he did it
second time When he did 1t third time called time and
walked out to the box.
"As approached my pitcher, little Roy Mcmillan, my
shortstop to and said will you get the hell out
mo wonder Klippsten stepping of the rubber He
didn't have the ball; Mcmillan ddl"
WHAT is A CAT RACE?' That is Dressenese for rat
race When the turn of the Senators genius speak
he told Of how his down-rated athletes beat Cleveland in
SIS and Boston in Sc with regularity
This year I'm concentrating the Yankees" Bold
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