Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
WIN, LOSE OR
DkAW By FRANCIS s1ANN
The Moqic Touch Was AIston's
BY FRANCIS STANN

AL LOPEZ OF THE WHITE sox and Walt Aston
of the Dodgers quite properly have been voted the
of the year. Plotting pennant winner doesn't
automatically assure dugout genius of the accolade
but it helps
Alstons feat of winning the World Series with Los
Angeles however becomes the gtterng achievement
in light of the 1859 al-Sar teams chosen by 173
berS of the Baseball Writers Association of America Not
single Dodger made the mythical No. team Nor,
for that matter, the No. 2 outfit.
In the World Series with the White Sox the Dodgers
looked pretty sharp, sharp winner can look
when it shut out twice Charlie Neal the second
baseman, a hot article. The youngSter, Larry
Sherry wonderful in relief.
But Nellie Fox of Chicago and Johnny Temple of
Cincinnati 1-2 among the second basemen and the
top pitchers Johnny Antoneli of the Giants Early
Wynn of the Sox, Warren SPAIN of the Braves and Sam
Jones of the Giants
ACTUALLY, THE BASEBALL WRITERS Association of
America isn't too much to blame The scribes
of 154 games yardSck They set store too by the
batting average every player the first allstar team
except Catcher Sherman Lollar batted 3OO)
What the voting writer's can't and hence
rate is the flash potential of, say fellows like Neal
and Sherry They reached unexpected peaks in the series
So did their manager, Aston. He's long way from
the time, few years ago when he announced as
manager of the old Brooklyn Dodgers fans asked who's
hep"
Aston, when you look back the whole thing,
aged nearly perfect series. He was making moves
against Lopez another manager who wasn't making any
such stars Fox, Luis Aparicio, Lollar and Wynn
and wasn't getting what he expected.
Aston rolled in luck and clairvoyance He saw
guy like Neal perhaps Guido himself even outpayed
Fox, who enjoyed great series. Aston his short
STOP minor Lacquer until few months earlier outplay
the fabulous Aparicio Maury Wills his
And Sherry another minor Lacquer not so many
weeks before the SERIES
49,
ASTON is NOT what you might call dynamic man.
In his early days manager the newspaper visitors
to the dugout called him dull, He cautious to the
point that if the shining brightly he would,
perhaps, venture that might be clear afternoon.
But in the World Series the time Ohio schoomaser
came into his He the hot shooter. Las Vegas
hotter Walt both played the book and
played against the book. For instance:
Walt had been clobbered, 11-O in the opening game
He faced the necessity of regroupng his forces Duke
Snder and Carl Furillo gmpy. Don Drysdae wasn't
winning the important game So what does do?
Answer: He makes with what he's got.
There is no need to dwell on the mans lunches and
how they paid off, there was this Sunday afternoon
in Los Angees-and could have been the key game
when the Dodgers had the bases loaded with two out
and Gerry Staley had in the game to relieve Dick
Donovan for Chicago
THE PERCENTAGE CALLED for Aston to send up
Duke snider, since he had the opportunity to
pinch hitter Duke can't run much any more but he bats
lefthanded Snider Staley it figured
But Aston crossed up everybody by lingering Furilo
who gimpier than Snider and righthanded
batter too. Furllo hit ball that danced toward
base and into centerfeld winning the Normally
or at least seemed to press box inhabitants whove
watched Aparico-the White Sox shortstop would have
made routine play of it.
He didn't. Aparco having horrible series; Aston
wonderful one
one more point There a crucial time in that same
game when Billy Goodman, handy lefthanded swinger
was at the plate 1t the eighth inning and the White
Sox had runners first and second bases nobody out
The Dodger pitcher who Drysdae obviously had had
it,
THE BOOK" MANAGER-and this is the wav Alston
had been pegged for brought up Sandy
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