Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-11
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An AH-Out Effort

VERO BEACH, Mar. 1.-THE Dodgers have been so
successful for long they've almost forgotten how the
other half lives. But they're learning.
The naughty air is missing Duke Snider, who liked to
play submits gracefully to interviews Manager
Walt Aston longer is asked if he thinks he the
pennant Instead the query is Can you finish in the
first divsion?"
That seventh place finish in 1858, when the Dodgers
representing Los Angeles for the first time exposed
the old Brookyns old LA Dodgers The
of Illustration. There Jackie Robinson, no Roy
Campanela. Soon there Don Newcombe and no
Peewee Reese.
Gil Hodges had horrible season. In the Los Angeles
Coliseum, where home to letteld was mere matter
of $50 feet Hodges not only failed to break Babe Ruhs
home record but he also bated only 259 and drove
across only GA runs.
Snider started with bad knee and Sulked when he
saw the fence he had to clear in righed after
other AlstonS pitchers developed sore arms. All the
Dodgers did was make money, drawing record-Smash-
ing 1y845556 customers in the Coliseum alone
ASTON ASKED IF he intends to rebuild, shook his
head and replied:
I'm lust going to try to win as many games pos
sbe regardless of whether rockies or veterans An
can say is that everybody working hard, and that
makes optimistic. Snider, for example reported ~
pounds lighter, and saw him sweat as much as
he's doing
Before Billy Herman departed as coach he quipped,
mite bitterly What the Dodgers need TRANSMISSION
not transfer" Ex-Dodger Star Robinson criticized the
clubs power failure They depending too much on
pitching" Jackie charged.
Its true that we've been failing of in power, Aston
admitted We're not getting the long ball or oloh
last year We were out-homered in our own CollSeum
Hodges bad year was mystery to me- Maybe On
had SO many good he was entitled TO an on year.
WHEN THE DODGERS RETURN to Los Angeles, they
will find the rightfed has been Shortened notably
for the convenience of Snder and Catcher John Rose
boro Arthur Patterson assistant oracle 10 FreSoenS wal
ter OMalley thinks may sweeten Snders temperament
4 "Lefteld was too short and righteld was TOO long,
Patterson explained Poor old RUDE Walker! year ago.
when Campy got that accident RUDE got MS 1rst
shot at the catching job You know hes gone noW' re-
tired as an active player, but RUDE might nave STUCK
so many OF his good shots ghthed hadn't been caught
1T brutal Snder suffered and was unhappy with
his IS home runs You know what the enemy pitchers
doing to Duke and the other efthanded hitters
They pitching TO their strength They knew Snider
couldn't hit out of the park when he pulled, they
placed their outeders and let em catch the long
drives.
. With shorter fence in right they'll have to stop
pitching to their power. This season Snder stands
chance to hit few home to lefteld, too, he did
m Brooklyn"
# ASTON BLAMES NO individual for the Dodgers first
finish in the second division since way back in 1914 1T
was just an unexplainable year." Walt unused.
"One thing did talk perhaps too much about my
pitching You see we had fine staff In 1857 thought
our pitching would carry II didn't Our pitching went
from the top to the bottom Now don't care to talk about
it can only hope" u ~
se Don Bessent had sore arm and mere 10 record
Newcombe traded to Cincinnati Don Drysdae labeled
the best potential pitcher in the National League was
12-lS. Roger Craig down with arm and was
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