Evening star., 1962-09-28
SIEGH Ar LARGE
Vernon, StengeI
Rote Marks, Too
By MORRIS sIEGEE

IN THIS PUNCTUATION PRONE baseball admins
raon which already has seen the exploits Roger Mars
and Maury Wills embazoned with Ford Frick's coat Of
arms the astersk why not at least exclamation point
for Mickey Vernon and Casey Stenge2
They the first managers in the history Of two
league expansion to pilot losers Of at least 100 games and
keep their jobs Stengels for astersk not
legitimate as Mckeys Caseys Nets easily lost their first
100 in the old regulation schedule Of 154 games took
Mckeys Senators little longer but there much
doubt as to their ability to make it.
Casey had experience going for him. He's managed
longer than Vernon His tutoring schedule also took him
70 Boston for spell, where the Braves botched it
badly that Casey finally paid not to manage Vernon
stin has that thrill to look forward to-
THIS WAS NOT AnCKEYs maiden venture in the
100oss class His 1861 squad also did It, Jagged for
awhile and didn't nail down No. 100 until the very day
Of the against Kansas City This required
talent With year Of knowhow under their BELTS the
Senators brought off the Tooth setback little earlier this
trip relieving the tension considerably. It also relieved
Ed Doherty of his job general manager.
In the past when were less compassionate and
fans interested it wasn't too to team lose
100 games But it indeed to lose that many
under the same fellow who started out as manager Ex
communication usually came long before.
The champion game-loser and Job keeper Of all time
the fellow who put together three straight
of at least 100 nckngs year He managed with
apparent strain with the Philadelphia Athletics Of 1919
2021 He retained his job however because the manager
Of the team and the of the team both had the
name. Connie Mack There's well-founded rumor they
also were the same man.
PHILADELPHIA ALWAYS HAS BEEN odd-ban
town anyway. One up therein l960-they had new
manager before the team had lost game Eddie
Sawyer after sizing up the Phies prospects In spring
training chckened out day before the opened
He didn't miss much The Phs finished eighth under the
new Just Sawyer reckoned they were destined to
do even with his applied genius.
Another time in Philadelphia with these same Phiies
~ Wav maj or
before year the also got canned That
1s4S when Bill Cox booted Bucky Harris out and got
the boot himself shortly thereafter when it discov
cred Mr. Cox guilty Of conduct not conducive to be-
coming executive Of the year.
Chuck Dresser probably is looking around at current
labor practices involving managers and asking what-n
the-hes-gong- Charles got right He lost his
1858 Brooklyn job after the Dodgers WON los games The
trouble they didn't beat the Yankees in the World
Series Some say 1t was because Chuck demanded two
year contract Don't buy it. The series licking is the real
story.
- DREsSEN WHO USUALLY MANAGES to be involved
in the spectacular cropper for the last time in the
majors in the middle Of last at Milwaukee He may
have deserved the gate but the timing awful-right
IN the middle Of sixgame winning streak. This
little tough for Chuck to understand Only week before
the Phlies-here they again-had given their man.
Gene Mauch vote of confidence in the 18th defeat Of
eventual 2S-game losing streak Logic that out.
Then there's the case of Rogers Hornsby and the 1925
Cardinals He managed and batted them to the world
championship, but he wasn't the manager in 1927 He
couldn't manage to keep his mouth shut at the proper
time and the Cardinals traded him to the Giants where
John McGraw kept him in restraint.
z The Boston Braves management Of 1905 and 1905
liberated one Fred Tenney for two Of triple fig
ed losses They dropped 103 1905 and dropped O2 the
next The Improvement failed to impress the front
office, which then dropped Manager Tenney.
But the story doesn't end here Five seasons later in
tp11 they rehred Tenney The layoff did him well The
Braves lost lot games under him in his comeback year He
had learned to lose so WELL fact that the didn't
hire him any more.
It's fellows like Vernon and stengel who make fellows
Ike Stevenson thinking they ought to have just
chance, too