Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1938 — Page 31

Lippy Leo Is Type to Fire Fan Interest

MacPhail Had Tough Choice To Make and Selected Peppy Shortstop.

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Oct. 14—We feel that Leo the Lip as the gabby Mr. Durocher is known in the dugouts, will make the Brooklyns a good manager, He isn’t a fat head or a crackpot. He is young, aggressive, baseball smart and not without per-

sonality. It seems to us he is just the type of fellow who will fit in neatly with a growing organization, and the Brooklyns, long torn by executive strife and economic daffiness, are

now starting from scratch agair. i

The Lip is sympathetic with and

appreciative of the problems that |

face the new management.

The Brooklyns have just finished & their first season under the business |

direction of Larry MacPhail with - spectacular box office results. The attendance was upped by approximately a quarter million. True, night baseball and circusy didoes formed part of the stimulus, But the important thing is the customers started coming back to the ark. pee Fresh Money Needed { It is practically impossible to put “a winning team on the field in one

year and the situation in Flatbush |s

was such that a certain amount of

Coach Wells

Logansport Mentor Featured!

Times Special

:|Cliff Wells of Logansport High . |School is to be guest instructor at

i [net coaches and their players from

¥ |will put some of his Indiana State 3 |varsity and. frosh netters through

¢ | program. : | held here two weeks ago with Coach i [John Adams of Vincennes as instructor. Following tomorrow’s ses-|

: |the Indiana State-Hanover football game.

| Bulldog Marvin

| matman from Oklahoma, will make

Directs Class

At Basketball School.

TERRE HAUTE, Oct. 14.—Coach

the Glenn Curtis basketball coaching school tomorrow morning at Indiang State Teachers College. Many

throughout the state are expected to attend. Instructions tomorrow will mark the second half session of the clinic. Coach Wells will use some of his own players to demonstrate his famous “figure eight” offense. Curtis

their paces during other parts of the

The first session of the school was

sions, the entire school will attend

Back in Action

After an absence of more than a year, Tom (Bulldog): Marvin, 220, a two-fisted and tricky veteran

his appearance on the Armory wrestling bill next Tuesday night.

Marvin has sent word to Matchmaker Lloyd Carter to “get any-

Basketball A team in the 16 to 18-year-old class wants games with squads having gym facilities. Call or write Paul Brown, 660 N. Beville, Ch. 1232-W.

The Smith -Hassler All-Star Girls’ League is to open its sixth season of play Nov. 19 at the Deaborn Gym. For further information call Walter ‘Lohman, LI. 1200.

The West Side Merchants senior class team is looking for a league berth and also for games with teams within a 40-mile radius o Indianapolis. Write - Russ Seller, 906 Moreland Ave.

The Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co. is to display a Basketball Game Directory at the store to assist teams in scheduling games. City or state teams may enter the list by mail. Address Everett Babb at Em-Roe’s, 209 W. Washington St.

not you have a gym.

Em-Roe Girls Big Six League, which is to play at the Hoosier Ath-

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ning Nov. 4, will hold a meeting Monday at 8 p. m. at Em-Roe’s.

Girls’ teams desiring to enter a league phone Mrs, Wilson, CH. 3479-M.

Signify| nights you can play and whether or |-

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in the National League. We like to remember that Mr. MacPhail after a similar gaudy start with Cincinnati soon had that club up near the to There were three men seriously considered for the Brooklyn post, The Lip, Jimmy Wilson, who resigned this year as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, and Frank Frisch, who likewise resigned from the St. Louis Cardinals. Mr. MacPhail said he finally decided on The Lip because practically all the players and the other club executives liked him. “Even Burleigh Grimes, the fellow we are letting go, came to me and said Durocher would be our best bet,” he added.

Explains Frisch Situation

A number of persons thought that when Frisch quit suddenly in St. Louis he had an understanding he would move into Brooklyn. “Frisch talked to me about that,” admitted Mr. MacPhail, “and I told him frankly that if I took him on 1 would have to let Durocher go and I had no intention of doing that.” As teammates in St. Louis, Frisch and Durocher saw fist to fist rather than eye to eye on certain matters and in an angry showdown Durocher was fired from the club. There has been criticism in some quarters that Frisch is not a good developer of young material, this being based on the fact that, next to the Yankees farm system, the Cardinal farm system annually brings in the best young players in baseball, and that Frisch wasn’t able to make any notable progress with the raw material. ; “I don't know anything about that,” commented Mr. MacPhail. “All I know is that I had no intention of letting a man like Durocher go, and if I brought Frisch in I would have.no alternative.”

The Wilson Angle

Originally Wilson was considered because of his reputation as a developer of pitchers, Year after year Wilson would come up with at least one winning pitcher with the miserable last-place Phillies. “When I got to thinking this over,” said Mr. MacPhail, “I wasn’t so sure Wilson would have the same success with us. He wasn’t expected to win with the Phillies -and as a result he could ‘take three or four pitchers and work them all the time and if they had anything at all he was able to make winners of them. At least of some of them.” . It seemed to be Mr. MacPhail’s notion that the way to make a winner of a pitcher was to give him plenty of work. . . . “Yes, I think that's right. But unless you have a team like the Phillies you can’t afford to lose too many games producing your winner. “We didn’t have the best team in the world last year, but we were expected to win as many games as we could, we couldn't just stick a guy in there and ignore all consequences just in the hope that by September he might he a winner. We had to manipulate our staff as best we could and hope for a break.” : Process of Elimination

This then was the process of elimination which ultimately bestowed the job on The Lip. Naming Frisch would have instigated dissension; naming Wilson would have been gambling on a reputation which in part may have been built up by peculiar conditions. Babe Ruth was never considered at any time. “We made that plain when we hired s coach last summer,” said Mf. MacPhail. “Nobody knew better than the Babe himself that he was not to figure in our 1939 plans. Our understanding. with him on this point was as positive as anything could be.”

TURNESA, FISHER USE WOODEN CLUBS

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (NEA).— Willie Turnesa, U. S. Amateur champion, and Johnny Fischer are among the few remaining top-notch golfers who continue to use woods en-shaft clubs.

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By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct: 14 —The Old Warrior has gathered anocher wound stripe. Time scarcely heals one scar before he gets another. Just to see him, just to meet him for the first time, you wouldn’t know how often he’s been hurt.” The Old Warrior doesn’t wear his heart on his sleeve—and that’s where his wounds are. It’s Babe Ruth I'm writing of—Babe Ruth, who, yesterday, perned

another of his brave and pathelic® little letters to the press; letters whose between-the-lines message: 1s one of disappointment but not of despair, fading hope but not of surrender. This last letter said: “A new Brooklyn manager and his assistants has been announced and my newspaper friends insist that I make some comment. Well, here it is: “Good luck to the Dodgers and my best wishes for a successful season to every member of the team.

Place in His Memory

“But, more important, to the fans of Brooklyn, the welcome and encouragement they gave me during the past three months would make any player happy, and for that reason 1938 will always have a special place in my memory. “Finally, let me say this: No matter what the ,uture holds in store, my heart will always be in, and with, the great game of baseball.” This letter tells the story of Ruth's latest heartbreak, but by no means his first one. There's no telling when his first one came, because he grew up an unwanted little waif in an orphanage. But we know about the later ones, and strangely enough they too came from being unwanted. There was that day when Joe McCarthy was named manager of the New York Yankees and the Babe was passed over. During his years of greatness, when baseball itself rested squarely on his big shoulders, he dreamed of the time he would manage the Yankees in the giant pile of steel and stone that his feats built. Spurned by his own ball club, the others spurned him. There must be a hurt in his heart for every day, every week, every month, every year that he stood, willing but unwanted,

Exploited by Boston

At last his pride gave way, beaten down, perhaps, by his love for baseball, and he went to Boston in the National League and took a job which he didn’t really want and one for which he wasn’t suited. Not a manager's job, mind you, but one

that simply exploited him for the great man he had been. This soon ended and—still willing but still unwanted—he appeared to have passed out of baseball forever,

town fans. Lansdowne “sold himself” in his first appearance on Oct. 4 when he drew with Buck in a short bout. Their second meeting is for two falls out of three.

to have become just two or three pages in the record book. Then Brooklyn, with a rag and. bobtail team which in itself wasn’t | capable of drawing crowds, decided to use circus methods to lure the paying customers. Games were played at night. Bands gave concerts. Players ran foot races and threw at targets for cash prizes. Finally someone decided that the presence of Babe Ruth on the coaching lines would be good box office. Ze So he was offered a contract and Babe, still unable to stay away from the game that had been his life, accepted, to huff and puff on the sidelines for the gratification of the crowd. He took his menial job in the hope that it would eventually lead to a manager's job. That hope was in vain. Just as all his other hopes had been since the thunder in his bat was silenced. And when Leo Durocher named his assistants Ruth’s name was not among them. The new manager exPlaine that Ruth was not availae. That must have been news to Old Warrior.

GAME ASSOCIATION TO HOLD FISH FRY

The Marion County Fish and Game Association will hold its annual stag fish fry tonight at 6:30 o'clock at the Riviera Club. A battle royal among five boxers, musical and tap dance numbers are included on the program. James Flynn, Emil DeLuse and William Reinert are in charge.

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