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Evening star., 1963-05-23

has been on the same team
with Hodges. Landrith was
with the Nets last yer.
Selkirk said he was tired of
a mound kicking, helmet
throwing" sign of Illustration
by the Senators and wanted a
manager who woud provide
more spirit ana hustle. TOO
many of them are more con-
cerned with their own base hits
than winning a ball game, "
Selkirk said.
The general manager said he
didn't blame Vernon for the
Senator'S status, but at the
same time he fired him be-
cause of the teams standing.
Mickey, one of Washington's
all-time favorites, was hired as
manager in November. 1860.
The Senators tied for ninth
and tenth in 1861, and finished
in the cellar last year.
Selkirk said he was disap-
pointed in his own efforts to
improve the Senators. But he
said the Senators are not a
last-place ball club, and he be-
lieves Hodges can pull them up
a few notches.
Hodges already has been in
formed, as If he didn't know,
that there are hitting problems
among the Senators infielders.
Evening star., 1963-05-23
Senators Face Orioles
After Losing 10th of II

The Senators, who contrib.
uted to the White Sox' share O.
the league lead for the las
three nights by dropping three
In a row to the Chicagoans
will see what keeps the Orioles
up there in Baltimore's Munich
pal Stadium tonight.
The Senators have a single
game scheduled against the
Orioles, who are tied for first,
before meeting the Yankees
four times over the week end
The Senators lost for the
10th time in II games last
night under Eddie Yos., man.
ager for the night. The White
Sox had been involved in six
consecutive one-run games on
their current trip, but they
broke the string by winning,
9-3.
Robin Roberts is scheduled to
pitch for the Orioles tonight,
and it is Claude Osteen's turn
in the Senators rotation. But
the Orioles have an ILL record
against lefthanders, and Os-
teen probably will be bypassed.
Gil Hodges, who watched last
nights game in civilian clothes.
said he thought Bennie Daniels
looked fairly sharp.
Bennie was off TO a shaky
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start when Nellie Fox singled
in the first and Pete Ward
hooked a home run into the
upper deck. He pitched four
shutout innings and then gave
up three more runs in the
sixth. Bennie also paved the
way for four White Sox runs
in the eighth. Art Quirk pitched
to four batters and gave up a
baSes-loaded triple to Pinch
hitter Jim Lands and two
singles.
Hodges saw some Of the Sem
ators' futility first-hand. The
White Sox led, 30, in the
fourth when the Senators put
men on second and third with
nobody out on Jim Kings sim
gle and Chuck Hinton's double.
The runners stuck fast as Bo
Osborne and Don Lock famed
and Ken Retzer bounced out.
Umpire Hank Soar threw Os-
borne out Of the game for toss
ing his bat after striking out.
Joel Horlen won his third
without a loss. but even with a
81 lead Manager AL Lopez went
to his bullpen when the Sena-
tors scored a pair in the eighth
on an error, Marv Breeding's
second double and Kings sim
gle. -WHITTLESEY.
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Selection Of Hodges Puts Se|kirk on Spot
WeI|-Liked New MANAGER
Lacks Familiarity With AL

that the outfield is uncertain
and that the pitching appar-
emily has been vastly over
rated.
The Senators are one short
of the 25-player limit, but Gil
said 1t was very remote" that
he would return to player
status. Its my good leg that
is bad,' is the way he put 1t.
Impressive Career
Selkirk, who has said time
and again that he doesn't want
any "one-way" ball players,
has a manager who could do
everything as a player.
Primarily a first baseman.
Hodges had a turn at third
and in the outfield. He was
named to the National League
All-Star squad eight times and
was in six World Series with
the Dodgers. His lifetime bat
ting average is .273, including
$40 home runs. Jimmy Foxx is
the only righthanded hitter In
major league history with more
home runs (534.
O'Connell returns to the
Senators with an excellent rat
ing for his few weeks as man
ager of their York farm team
in the Eastern League. He
played third base for York and
was among the leading hitters
for a couple of weeks, but he
hit an 0-for-15 streak recently
and asked for help.
O'Connell replaces Case,
whose dismissal came as a sur
prise. Despite their last-place
standing, the Senators were
first and third in base stealing
for two years under Case, and
he was manager Of their Flori-
da Institutional League team
last year.
Hodges said his wife and four
children, Gillie, 13, Irene, IL,
Cyndy, 6. and Barbara, ~, will
join him in Washington after
school is out in Brooklyn.
One of the first acts after
Hodges took over was to move
the coaches lockers from a
private dressing room they
shared with Vernon to the big
room where the players dress.
In the clubhouse 1t was said
the move was dictated up
stairs"
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tonsl" he said. "The Braves
had zippers."
To some of the Senators.
notably Tom Cheney, Bennie
Daniels. Don Leppert, Jim
King, Chuck Cottier and Min
ME Minoso, their new pilot is
no stranger. All played in the
National League during Gil's
active career. All regretted the
firing Of Vernon, and all agreed
that Hodges also belonged In
the good guy" category.
The hitters King, Mi
noso, Leppert and Cottier
were outspoken in admiration
for the boss skill at the
plate. Cheney and Daniels ad-
mittedly feared Hodges at bat
Give him an inside pitch
and he'd murder you." Cheney
said.
He hit one off me In the
Los Angeles Coliseum Daniels
remembered. "All the way into
the centerfield seats - against
a white background"
Ever see Gil get mad?"
so. 'ebody on the Sox bench
asked Lopez.
Never" Al said, but I
don't want to be in his way
If he gets mad"
They say he did once"
Cooney said. Don Newcombe
acted up in the Dodger club
house and Hodges is supposed
to have flattened him with one
punch. ! also heard that no
fight took place"
In Jest, a. reporter asked
Hodges, do you think any Of
the Nets will rub off on the
Senators?"
Gil played it straight. II
hope So" he said. Not the
Nets Of the first two weeks of
this season, but from then on.
They really scrap and hustle" "l
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WON'T TAKE LONG
Lopez Says Gil Will Click

| PEE said last night at D. C.
Stadium after learning that
Mickey Vernon had been re-
placed. 1T won't take him long
Once around the league
maybe twice and he'll know
all he needs to know.
/ Meanwhile, he'll have Eddie
Yost and Sid Hudson to help
him, won't he?"
Like the Senators, members
of the White Sox praised both
Vernon and Hodges. The
phrase mice guy" was as thick
and impartial as a dense fog
in the Stadium.
Johnny Cooney, one Of the
Sox' coaches. opposed Hodges
for years in the National
League. Cooney, who managed
and coached the Boston (now
Milwaukee, Braves, said. "Gil
is one Of the finest gentlemen
I've ever encountered, and a
great ball player"
Cooney put in with Lopez as
to Hodges acumen. He al
ways played smart baseball, F."
Johnny said. II used to coach
at first base, and Gil played
the bag, Of course. We didn't
talk much he's not much
of a conversationalist. But he
was always looking to steal my
sign"
The one sign Hodges didn't
steal, Cooney revealed, was the
run" or steal" sign. If the
upper handle at the neck of
Cooney's shirt was up" it
meant for the baserunner to
take off. II it was down, hold.
He never picked up that one,"
Cooney grinned.
why are you giving 1t away
now?" he was asked.
Cooney pointed to the Sox
shirt he was wearing. But
Evening star., 1963-05-23

tKt THEY COME The Toers Pocers are wono at
ocewoy oTOn A Maryland these nights Post time $40 PM miles
from Capitol Hill racing rain shine and the Grondsond ond the
Clubhouse temperature drops below comfortable 7' exc
ing races nightly twin double parking for 5000 dining under
e o TOR 800 persons for reservations call Stevens
from Vr9no oke Woodrow Wilson Bridge Groy Line buses
leave oIo Eye St. NV and WIN Adepo from h and Penn NV
Evening star., 1963-05-23
By the Associated Press

Mickey Mantle's hero Is his
fellow Oklahoman, Astronaut
Gordon Cooper.
Mantle was watching tele-
vision yesterday as Cooper was
honored by a Manhattan
ticker-tape parade for his 22-
orbit flight, Then last night
Mickey almost launched his
own space missile.
He crashed a letter-high fast
ball thrown by Kansas City's
Bill Fischer against the facade
Of the rightfield roof in Yam
kee Stadium, lit feet up and
500 feet away. 1t was the closest
any man ever has come to hit
ting a fair ball out of Yankee
Stadium. ~
Evening star., 1963-05-23
NXK LOSE OR DRAW
SeIkirk Had His Eve
On Gil for 3 Years

ONLY GEORGE SELKIRK knows when
his discomfort with the Senators urged
him to look for new field manager. And
Selklrk isn't talking. To be specific: 'Td
rather not discuss that part of it."
1t began to get sticky for Mickey Vernon
In late April. When the Senators deplaned
In Detroit little more than three weeks
ago Vernon read an open-letter type Of
article in newspaper, Dear Mickey" it
began, you are still manager OF the Sena-
tors. :"
AT yesterdays press conference announc-
ing the signing of Gil Hodges as the new
pilot, Selkirk remembered that Vernon had
telephoned him from Detroit. Mickey" !"
the general manager had said, IF I make
change you'll hear about it from me first,
not from newspaper"
1T MAY HAVE STARTED at that time.
Or earlier. Or later sometime during
the current slump In any event, this is
how 1t went when the die was cast:
selkirk had decided on Hodges "I've had
him In mind for three years." George ex-
planned when Joe Gordon was managing
Kansas City (Selkirk was in an administra-
tive capacity with that club we began to
screen potential successors. My Job was to
report on Hodges. liked everything I
found out about the fellow"
on Tuesday afternoon selkirk tele-
phoned Casey Stengel of the Nets in Cali
fornia TO ask permission to talk TO Hodges,
who had been on the disabled list. Stengel
granted 1t. But clear 1t with (George)
Weiss" he said.
Weiss was called in New York. Permis-
sion granted. (There is a consideration"
involved, but Selkirk won't talk about III. a..
Weiss telephoned his aide, George Murphy
to outline the offer TO Hodges, who was at
his home in Brooklyn.
Talk about musical chairs. Gil went TO
New York TO confer with Murphy, who
then phoned Selkirk. Call Hodges" Muir
ply said. Hes interested" selkirk tele-
phoned Gil, now back In Brooklyn. "IIl fly
up In the morning to talk" selkirk told his
nominee.
GEORGE WAS ON the 8 am. flight.
They sealed the deal over breakfast. I'VE
went TO my bowling alley in Brooklyn"
Hodges said, because selkirk wanted 10
make some phone calls in privacy" To-
gether they left Brooklyn for the 2 pm.
plane TO Washington. At 4:30 they we're 10
meet the press, radio and Tv people.
And where was Vermont Here &. and in
the dark. He woke up yesterday morning
thinking he was manager Of the Washing
ton club. He attended a luncheon con-
cerning other matters at the d. @. Armory,
across the street from the Stadium, with
Evening star., 1963-05-23
BY FRANCIS STANN
Star Staff Writer

The jury is out as to whether
Gil Hodges is severely handi-
capped in his new Job as Sen
ator manager by his unfamili-
arity with the America n
League.
Some people say you'd better
believe it. A distinguished dis
senter is AL Lopez, manager
Of the White Sox.
Hodges is q smart baseball
man as well as q nice guy" Lo-
Evening star., 1963-05-23
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Star Staff Writer

General Manager George Sell
kirk, whose sweeping changes
in the Senator'S personnel
failed to lift them from last
place, has put himself on the
spot by hiring Gil Hodges to
replace Mickey Vernon as man.
ager.
Hodges inherits a team that
has lost 10 Of its last IL games
and is in the cellar by two
games as 1t plays the Orioles
in Baltimore tonight. Tomor-
row night the Senator's open a
four-game weekend series in
Yankee Stadium.
When Vernon's job was re-
ported in jeopardy, rumor had
1t that Selkirk was looking for
a tough, experienced manager
with an American League back
ground. Instead he hired q
mice guy" who is a lifetime
National Lacquer without man.
agerial experience.
O'COnnell Replaces Case
Selkirk, with carte-blanche
authority from President James
M. Johnston and the other Of
ficers, also fired Coach George
Case, Vernon's close friend, and
replaced him with Danny
O'Connell, who will be the new
first-base coach.
Vernon has been offered a
front-office Job with the Sem
ators as long as Johnston and
Selkirk are with the club, but
with an adjustment In salary
after this year. Case has ac-
cepted a scouting job with the
Senators. Vernon has agreed to
remain with the club at the
present time.
Hodges will wear No. IA as
he puts on a Washington uni
form for tonight's game with
the Orioles. That has been his
number since he started with
the Dodgers in l943.
Sid Hudson, Eddie YoSt and
George Susce assume they will
remain as coaches, although
the only notice from Selkirk
was that Case would not be re-
tained. Hodges said he would
\ look to the holdover coaches
for guidance.
Evening star., 1963-05-23
GORDO'S GLORY
SHARED BY NETS

NEW YORK, May %
CAP. When Astronaut
Gordon Cooper made his
triumphant ticker-tape pa
rade down Broadway yes
terday he encountered one
man bearing a sign pro-
Tossing divided affections.
The sign read:
I'VE love you Gordo, but
we also love the Nets"
Evening star., 1963-05-23
Winning Run Forced In

Lee Thomas, Los Angeles
first basemen who is having
trouble getting his hits, got hit
with a pitch thrown by Cleve-
lands Gary Bell in the llth
inning to force in the winning
run. The Angels had blown a
60 lead.
Southpaw Jim Kaat threw a
seven-hitter against the Red
Sox for the Twins, who won
their sixth game in their last
seven.
Two Twins runs resulted
from extra-base hits that ca
romed off the gloves of Boston
fielderS. Kaat singled home the
other one himself.
Lou Clinton's homer ruined his
! lshutout.
Evening star., 1963-05-23
Mantle 'Moonshot'
Wrecks As Bid

. Mantle's homer, his ninth Of
the season and third in two
days, was the second he las hit
against the rightfield facade.
He is the only one to perform
that feat in the house that
Babe Ruth built.
His previous facade homer
was off Washington's Pete
Ramos on May 80, 1856, but 1t
was a high fly that hit on the
way down. The blow off Fischer
was still rising and would have
sailed out of the stadium II
1t hadn't hit the concrete and
dropped into the third deck.
The Yankees chased starter
Ted Bowsfield, who had given
UP only one run In the previous
l8 innings, in a seven-run Sec
ond inning. The uprising fea-
tured two singles by Joe Pepi-
tone and some erratic fielding
by the Athletics.
The Yankees returned the
compliment when the AS
erupted for six runs in the
eighth, as they made their first
errors in six games. A two-run
homer by Gino Cimoli started
the scoring for the AS, who
had been held to three hits for
seven innings. Ed Charles tied
the score with a two-out ninth
inning homer.
The victory was the eighth
for the Yankees in their last
nine.
Barber. a 24-year-old left
handler, failed to finish for the
first time in eight starts. Yves
Stock replaced him after Bar
Der had issued his eighth walk
to open the seventh. Stock
tanned the Tigers the rest of
the way.
Evening star., 1963-05-23
Selection a Surprise

Hodges, his wife and two
friends who accompanied her
from their Brooklyn home, Sell
kirk, O'Connell and Farm Di-
rector Walter Brock watched
last nights game from Sell
kinks box.
Three weeks ago Selkirk re-
fused to give Vernon a vote OF
confidence, saying he didn't be-
lieve in them. Yesterday he
surprised everybody by his Sc
lection Of Hodges, who was on
the Nets disabled list at the
time.
The fact that Vernon would
be replaced had been a daily
rumor as the Senator's defeats
mounted. However, Mickey said
the actual move caught him
by surprise. Selkirk hired
Hodges and told his publicity
staff to announce a late after
noon press conference before
he informed Vernon he had
been fired as manager. At the
time Mickey was attending a
Senators function in the Ma
tional Guard Armory, across
the street from the stadium.
Hodges intended to meet the
players last night, but he be-
came involved in phone calls
and interviews and will not
meet the squad until just be-
fore 1t boards a bus for Balti-
more this afternoon.
Gil said he would play 1t by
ear for a while, depending on
his assistants for evaluation Of
A m erican League players.
Catcher Hobie Landrith is the
only Washington player who
Evening star., 1963-05-22
Peace Corps Mission

May the beleaguered par
ents Of Montgomery County
humbly beseech the Peace
Corps to send us 200 volun-
teers to help in the current
teacher shortage emergency?
We also will need IL physical
education instructors to pre-
vent a further deterioration
in physical fitness for our
children.
We need this aid, not be-
cause we are now a back
ward area, but soon we will
be.
Also, will the Peace Corps
please stand by to render
further assistance when our
junior college is closed?
This aid will be needed I'M
til reason returns to the ma
jority members of the
school board and county
council.
What do these people have
against our children?
Mrs. Irving SchlOssenberg.
Evening star., 1963-05-22
We Want AL Schucht

We hope AL Schacht remembers us
when he makes his anniversary tour this
summer. There are all kinds of ami
verSarieS, but 1t is hard to recall an
other celebrating so years Of baseball
clowning. Al, Of course, started it all
right here, and though there have been
many funny happenings on the local
diamond since he left, not many were
meant to be comical.
And this is shame, as no less an
expert than Joe Cronin recently admit
ted Mr., Cronin has made it to the top
Of the American League (as president),
status rarely enjoyed by Washington
teams since he, also, left our city. At the
risk Of being run out of very deadpan
profession, Mr.. Cronin suggested that
baseball is taking itself too seriously
these days. He would be happy to see
a few gimmicks promoted by the owners.
So would we. 1t is deadly enough to
have team eternally languishing in or
near the cellar without trying to be
serious about it. We would like to have
some Altrocks and Schachts, or any,
thing else, to furnish few laughs along
with the losing scores. We would like to
have whatever it is that is making the
New York Nets fill the park with SO $3.50
fans, all Of them deliriously happy
whether they win or lose.
Evening star., 1963-05-22
WEDNESDAY, MAY Y, 1868

to incur the disappointment and damage
to the Nations prestige" that would re-
suit from cancellation Of world good
will tour. And, the Secretary empha-
sized, they are men mostly under 80
years Of age, who, after training at pub
lie expense, last year pulled down from
$4,000 to $4,000 in annual pay.
Now the Savannah is faced with a
long term of idleness while another
crew is trained, and another agent found
to operate her. Meanwhile, the bill keeps
rolling up on an investment that al
ready has exceeded $50 million. 1t is
now up to the Government to straighten
out this sorry mess and, in the words Of
Commerce UnderSecretary Roosevelt, see
to it that there will not be any repeti-
ton of this experience"
Evening star., 1963-05-22
Serenodes Joe Younu

1t is a pleasure to con-
gratulate The Star and Jo-
seph Young for the Federal
Spotlight" one Of the finest
columns in the United
States.
Government workers in
Washington read the Spot
light" first before turning to
other pages, Just like New
York theatre lovers read the
reviews Of first-night per-
formances. Joe's column, be-
sides being interesting and
timely, serves a very useful
purpose in pointing out the
follies within Government
agencies. "Civil Service Com
mission Denies Story Of Pro-
Employe Attitude" was excel
lent.
AS Jhe poet, ROBERT Burns
said:
"Oh tDdd some power the
oittie Ole us
To see ourSels as Others see
usl
1t Ddd trde monte a blunder
free us. An foolish
notion"
Joe Young serves a useful
purpose in the community, as
well as keeping us awake.
Donald ii. Dalton.
Evening star., 1963-05-22
Sorry Ship Savannah

So far, the nuclear ship Savannah,
designed to carry the atoms-for-p peace
idea around the world, has achieved
only one thing. It's money-hungry crew
finally has driven the Government to
the point where it fired everybody con-
cerned, including the shipping line that
was supposed to be operating her. AS
party to the involved labor contracts,
the shipping line was discharged so that
new negotiations might start from
scratch.
That leaves the Savannah where she
usually has been found since her ILL
fated launching-high and dry, with no
crew, no operating agent, no immediate
hope Of getting on with her Job. The
Government lowered the boom only
after giving the engineers and deck
officers every chance to settle an inter-
union wrangle that Commerce Secretary
Hodges accurately called "deplorable
and disgraceful."
Secretary Hodges was so burned up
by the on-agaln, off-again, strike-inter-
spersed agreements that he refused
last-minute settlement offer by the en-
gineers. These men, he said, had dared
Evening star., 1963-05-22

assurance against its misuse in the fur
therance Of system we abhor.
I'VE believe that sharing the ad-
venture Of exploring space can provide
inspiration and sense Of national unity
not normally experienced in time Of
peace; and that the achievement Of our
goals is essential not only to these ma
tional purposes, but to world leadership
ana prestige.
I'VE believe that we can be first on
the moon, although this we cannot
guarantee.
Finally, there is one thing we know.
II we do not make these efforts, we will
not be first on the moon, we will not
be first In space and, one day soon, we
will not be first on earth.
with the support of the American
people, and with the help Of God we
will not be second" From recent
address by D. BRAiNERD HOLMES. DEPUTY
Associate Administrator and Director OF
Manned Space Flight National Aeronauttcs
and Space Administration.
Evening star., 1963-05-22
Move In on Welfare!

During his investigation Of ineffi-
cheney and cheating in the District pub
lie relief program last year, Senator
Byrd of West Virginia gave the Welfare
Department a one-year ultimatum.
Clean up the program, he said. And
come back next year with proof of pos
tive Improvement
Since then the department has been
thoroughly shaken up. In the normal
course Of events, the results would be
up for review when the welfare budget
comes before the Senate District Appro-
priations Subcommittee.
We think, however, that Senator
Byrd should not wait until the entire
District budget clears the House and is
sent to his subcommittee before moving
in on the non-budgetary aspects of the
welfare situation. 1t will surely be July
before the regular Senate budget hear
ings begin. And when that time arrives,
Senator Byrd and his colleagues will
have much more than the Welfare De-
partment to worry about. The Senator
already has indicated that he wants to
OAS ACCP4J AAlbO oCNC1 al OIIlCl lOCdl dS6Il-
cieS this year-the Health Department
included.
A preliminary set of hearings on
welfare would get great deal of the
routine out of the way. 1t also would
throw some much-needed light on what
kind Of Job Donald D. Brewer-who
wants to be the new welfare director
has been doing in his present capacity
as acting chief. Furthermore we suspect
that in the discussions which logically
would follow, Mr.. Brewer would prove
to be more nearly palatable to both the
Senator and the Commissioners than
anyone else whose name has come up
thus far. And agreement on this point
is important. The Commissioners make
the valid claim that they have the
basic responsibility to appoint the new
director. In the current climate of
DiStric t. congressional relations, how
ever, they would be most unwise to
make a selection which the Senator
from West Virginia opposed.