Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-07

Yunks Can Make
No Wrong Moves
BY MORRIS SIEcEL

ALPHABETICALLY SPEAKING, the Orioles still have
chance to gun down the Yankees, but Lee MacPhail
their president, isn't counting on it.
He aims to spend the rest of this waning season and
all winter, too, analyzng what must be done to stop
their annual runaway There isn't nearly enough time
and nobody knows it better than MacPhal He worked
Tor the Yankees for 10 before switching Baltimore
where he now works against them.
They can do no wrong" he YEARLY told Baltimore
luncheon audience yesterday, and proved it. He recalled
game several years ago which the Yankees had to
win" to maintain slim lead in mid-September They
led by only one in the ninth inning when their
opponents loaded the bases with only one out
Virgil Trucks and Johnny KuckS were laboring in the
bullpen for Casey Stengel He called for Kucks The
bulpen coach misunderstood and sent Trucks out When
the potbeied former Detroit star popped into view
Stenge was outraged but powerleSS do anything
about it.
Trucks was announced officially and had to face at
least one batter Virgil threw pitch 1t was promptly
hit into game ending double play The next day the
papers gave Stengel credit for being great manager"
MacPha said eloquently illustrating his theory about
Yankee invinciblity no matter what
IN HIS THIRD YEAR of residency in Washington,
Jim Camp has to the realistic conclusion that this
is Redskins town"
The George Washington coach admits it sadly be-
cause it's experience for him. AS player at North
Carolina was indeed Saturday that didn't see
kenan Stadium jam-packed Camp was teammate of
Charlie Justice.
Later, assistant coach at Minnesota he became
accustomed to even bigger crowds which filled the Mime
apos stadium Saturday after Saturday. year after year.
for Gopher home games. 1t impossible to buy a
ticket, no matter who you were Camp remembered
1T didn't make any difference how influential you
were" Camp said there just weren't any tickets There
was one out there who helped us recruit He did
1t for kicks He was $65000ayear president of some
industrial company. He bought season tickets for years
but they in the end zone We couldn't help him."
The other day Camp received phone call from his
wealthy Minneapolis friend II finally made It," he
shouted over the phone If the millennium had arrived
Il just got my tickets for this year whatP They're
the 5-yard line"
FOR GOOD TIME CHARLIE DRESSER these are good
times indeed He's the most popular model in Detroit
this year Under plucky Chuck the Tigers have moved
from ninth place, where he inherited them to fifth.
Dresser has become something Of a hero in Detroit
The other morning when the Tigers paned in from Kansas
City an airport crowd Of about 500 greeted their return
In June before Dresser moved in the Tigers playing
so horribly that they afraid to come home.
The Red Sox were in the kind of rut severa
years earlier. On midseason Western trip they lost
everything except the franchise blowing doubleheade
getaway day in Cleveland.
AS their chartered plane TAXED to halt at Bosont
Logan Airport Frank Sullivan pitcher built along the
lines Of the Washington Monument thought best tc
caution the players before they deplaned.
Noting sparse, hoste-lookng crowd gathered al
the entrance Of the terminal Sullivan warned hi,
teammates:
Walk out singe-file, men. That way they can't gel
us all with one burst"