Evening star., 1961-02-10
SPOTLIGHT
SPORTS
A Club for the People
BY BILL FUCHS

THERE HASN'T BEEN as much frenzed activity up
Griffith Stadium way since plumbers bloworch and
strong wind coaborated to burn the place down so
ago.
The place is smoking hot again, but in figurative
sense Appropriately enough the son of one-tme fire
chief Is responsible.
ager is silver-haired dynamo who likes people who like
to work. "And we've got EN- he Burt Hawkins Joe
Burke, Hal Keller everybody We've been putting in
16 and 18 hours day But we've accomplished lot.
We've lined up organization"
For the fans Of Washington tired of the ethargy that
seemed to surround the old regime Dohery brings new
hope. There's old baseball saying: When lose it's
your club when you win it's the peoples club want the
people to own it all year, every year."
TO BUILD A WINNING ball club as quickly as pos
sibe Is Dohertys expressed goal The key, he says is
player development THE Yankees over the years devel
oped their own players he says They didn't depend on
drafts and trades Look at the Red Sox With all of their
unlimited they couldn't it. Tom Yawkey got
pennant in % years The clubs failures the big
gest disappointment Of his life"
Dohery is not working himself like guest in slave
labor camp just to be disappointed He and Farm Director
Hal Keller already have mapped the course they'll follow.
The ideal farm system he says "s made up of trpleA
team Class team or team, but not both, and
couple of clubs We will concentrate accelerated ad
vancement Of players
"WeT trade If improve the club but I'm no
Frank Lane
"You know, would never build a recreation room in
my basement don't like to be in the basement And
don't intend to stand still with this club" adds the
who probably doesn't stand still to shave
TOMORROW WILL BE special day for Doherty It
will be his 33d wedding anniversary But Ed and his Eileen
won't be celebrating together She in Florida recuperat
ing from a near-fatal illness
I'm going to pick her the goth and take her to
Pompano Beach," Ed says She's in Daytona, now She
hit with meningitis in November, 1859 The doctor
said she wouldn't live She in coma for II days,
but she out Of it, 1t left her totally deaf but nothing
get her down for long She's learned to read lips and
she can talk well ever"
And Doherty says his Mssus will have plenty to say
about the ball club Shes the greatest seconguesser who
lived used to tell her, You get the dinner and I'll
do the worrying She tell you how pitchers slider
is working or his changeup, what's wrong with bat
terS stance. She knows baseball"
Dohertys father former fire chief Of Providence, r.
who died at the Of 88, sports FAM too, and
boxer Ed has five brothers and sister and brother
Jim retired advertising manager for the Providence Jour-
nal, coincidentaly lives in Pompano Beach.
He was the only one that didn't go for sports" Ed
says He was tremendous advertising executive but
wouldn't know baseball from watermelon"
THE SPORTS WRITER'S covering the new club had
better check their facts AS secondguesers they're
open TO be by Dohert who for 6 years
sports writer and columnst
Wnen ne left the Providence Journal to join the Red
Sox as the major leagues first bona de public relations
director IN l94O he was assistant editor and makeup
editor as well as sports columnist.
But baseball always Eds favorite dish and he's
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