Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-03

Now Really, Ed,
Was 1t That Bad?
By MORRIS SIEGEE

UNTIL ED ROEBUCK cut loose with his wild pitch
you would have thought playing ball for the Dodgers or
even the Nets was about nice way to get out of work
exists.
pick up 1900 900 for about weeks work
in the World Series they play in basebalS Tai Mahal
they travel first class in their private plane Hollywood
stars adore them and they play most Of the
in Los Angeles at night they've got all day to lon at
Malibu Santa Monica
Besides this they get paid for it, and paid well No
body makes less than $780, It's against the law In the
of pitchers like Roebuck don't even have TO work
every day.
If fellow who's got all of that plus manye bene
fits going for him doesn't think he's got it made I'm going
to dump my analyst.
BUT RoEBUCK LEFT THE impression it isn't at all
like that That manager Walter Aston is some kind of
tan Roebucks estimation Therefore playing for the
Dodgers next to doing time at Devils Island.
"It's like getting out of prison-getting away from
Aston Roebuck declared after the Dodgers told him they
would try win the pennant without him and were ship
ping him off to the Senator's
Taking Roebuck at his word that must be lovely
jail Warden Walt out there in Dodgerland
Now, don't know too much about Aston except that
somebody up there in the Dodgers front office likes him.
They brought him to manage the Dodgers in 1854 and
nobody thought he'd last beyond Mothers Day. but he's
still there and for very good reason He's won three
remnants and finished out of the first division only
That one shouldn't count 1t came in 1858 when the
Dodgers first moved to Los Angeles happens to every
body who visits fairyand the first time You just can't
get adjusted Immediately and the first thing know
you in seventh place. which precisely where Atons
58 Dodgers wound up.
They rebounded pretty nicely the next year, winning
the pennant and the World Series, which is all team
can win in any else they'll put the biggest
aserisk you've beside its in Ford Tricks
diary
ASTON HAS HAD A LOT to contend with besides the
bidding remarks by Roebuck From time to time he's had
Durocher and Charlie Dresser his coaches at the
same time you think that's nothing to worry about you
are not very familiar with the ambitions Of Durocher and
Dresser, who has since caught on with the Tigers.
It's like having somebody Snitch look at your hole
card table-stake stud poker game 1t is annoying I'm
saying Dresson and Durocher were wishing Aston any
bad luck but II he got canned don't think you'd rnd
either Leo or Charlie wearing black arm bands
They didn't exactuly dislike him. They Just disliked
what he was doing They wanted to do It, But Walter
oMaey, too busy trying to duck the cost OF installing
drinking fountains in his baseball palace couldn't care less
who managed and BuZy Bava who sort OF runs the snow
for oMaey liked Aston. Consequently Aston has re-
manned top banana
WITH MANY BALLPLAYERs, gripping is their best
game Simply because they've got little more muscle and
little speed and whole lot less brains than most
people they think they special breed Of untouchabes
who should be idoized catered TO- watched uncrt
cized codded and spoonfed from the very moment they
put their first pair Of spikes which is about the only
thing they have to pay for
n Well Samson had lot more muscles than they have
and nobody made real big TODD over him, especially
not his barber Baseball players have 1t made Not that
all Of 'em are cranks They tell Roebuck isn't one,
either but that still wasn't nice thing for him to say
Aston got in only one major league game in his life
and he struck his only time at ba-bu I'd take my
chances him running my team That's no bad record
he's run up Roebuck felt he in solitary confinement
and going stir crazy why didn't he say when he was with
the Dodgersp
know lot Of guys who'd like to be in that kind Of
a prison. Some Of EN- in Wet Nam.