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ME DODGED BOMB fRM3 'ILL Brooklyn Eleven O'Malley Offers Charlie Deadline Moves Ball Bui Not Over Goal To Change Mind Continued from Pag 1 Kingsmen Register Lots of First Downs In Losing Efforts 1 By BEX GOULD Several years ago an enter Dixie Walker. It might be II neither man. "Would you consider a play prising football man advocated i'ng manager?" O'Malley was the total of first downs as a asked. contributory factor in the final 'Let'f not talk about that result. The plan, needless to say, never materialized but the ciud president an THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1953 18 swered.

"Let's wait a while. I'm just ai surprised as anyone about this situation." Later, Walkers name was there's no doubt it would have won whole-nearted support at Brooklyn College this season. Two weeks ago, when the Kingsmen bowed to Hamilton, 7 0, they outrushed the np-Staters 10 to 8, In first downs. Last Saturday in bowing to Aggies, 27 14, Brooklyn made far more first downs, 15 to 6. It might be a good idea for mentioned in reference to the letter he once wrote saying he wouldn't play with Negro play nH.ifTK, ers.

i'-'y ft. "in -A A And O'Malley said, "If you Dressen Spurred by Pride, Not Anxiety think that knocks Dixie out of consideration from this job as the Maroon to forget about first downs end concentrate on manager, you've got another think coming." touchdowns when they go So confusion still reigns, as Dixie Walker Managerial PotMibttify it did yesterday when O'Malley against Adelphi Saturday at Garden City. Thus far, in three games, Brooklyn has made and Dressen detonated a morn ing press conference in the only two tallies, both going-to DEADLOCK The key to the estrangement and probable divorce of Charley Dressen and the Dodgers can be found in a statement attributed to Bossman Walter O'Malley in August. There was a mad rush at the time to thrust new contracts into the hands of managers who had been far less successful. Leo Durocher, whose Giants had collapsed, signed for two more years Eddie Stanky, whose Cardinals were struggling for third place, was signed for three years Charley Grimm, hopelessly attempting to get the Braves within shootinff Dodgers downtown offices.

the credit of Sam Ruello, managers for not managing than any team in basebalL Part of the confusion con stocky ball carrier. "The Dodgers paid off Casey cerned whether Dressen resigned or was fired. Lose Ball Carrier Stengel, Max Carey and Leo But Brooklyn's hopes for a Charley himself said, "I didn't Durocher when he wa im victory over Adelphi were resign, I never resigned from i rj IT a job in my life. dampened slightly when Ruello, who is also the team's leading pended. Sure, Charley ia a good manager but our policy la one But O'Malley said, "We were willing to give Charley a raise but not a longerm contract year at a time.

ground gainer, injured his clavicle in yesterday's scrimmage. X-rays were taken immediately and proved negative "We were not dissatisfied We wanted him to manage the BEDSIDE CONFERENCE Charley Dressen, who resigned as the Dodger manager yesterday, talks over contract troubles with his wife, Ruth, at the Long Island College Hospital. "We are in this thing together," said Charley after rejecting a one-year con- TracT- Cnlted Prea. Photo with Charley at a manager. In fact, just before the Tuesday Dodgers.

Is that a firing?" Anyway, Dressen and O'Mal but he may not be able to play. ley could not come to terms, al afternoon conference In which this whole situation developed. I was answering letters from Si MARCIANO SCOUTS TITLE THREAT fans and backing up the man Last season, when the Kings-men turned in a poor 0-6-1 record, they notched only seven touchdowns, being blanked in four games. This year's team appears to be a stronger unit and it shows signs of clicking. Baseball Waifs though Charley was due for a comtract calling for a raise from $32,500 to $40,000.

And. that's more than any player or executive In the Dodgers ager. 'I always back up the man was signed for three years. "What about Dressen?" O'Malley was asked in Cleveland, where the Dodgers were playing an exhibition game. "We'll i answered the Bossman.

"But, of course, I am unalterably opposed to contracts for more than one year. In fact, I sometimes feel opposed to contracts for managers for more than one week." Dressen didn't like that. He felt that two straight pennants entitled him to a satisfactory vote of confidence from the front of ager. I hope I always will. "It's not always the man Adelphi took the '52 verdict But O'Malley's stand is that Bucceroni's Victory Impresses Champ by 14 0 but Brooklyn is bank For Ruling by Supreme Court ager's fault when a ball game or a pennant or a World Seriei is lost.

the Dodgers don't give contracts for more than one year. ing on the return of its ace passer, Al Boyers, for an up-j "How many long-term con "But the fans alwayi think set. Boyers was hurt earlier tracts for managers have back in the campaign and he looked so. They never second-guess the players. They never second- St.

Louis, Oct. 15 (U.R) Rocky Marciano, heavyweight fired?" said O'Malley. the Dodgers have paid off more Washington, Oct, 15 (U.R) Or champion of the world, today expressed his profound respect guess their heroes." good against the National Aggies during the brief period he saw action. Adelphl's big problem is simi Walter O'Malley for Dan Bucceronl, who may be his next opponent for the crown. ganized baseball today looked to the Supreme Court for a decision that could force great changes in the game's administrative structure.

Stengel Startled, Seeks More Facts lar to the one at Brooklyn- Marciano had a ringside view of Bucceroni's victory over Jimmy Slade last night. The Oklahoma City, Oct. 15 champion interrupted his vaca shortage of manpower. But the Garden City eleven has played only one game and B. C.

has engaged in three and as a re The Supreme Court, which completed hearings yesterday (U.R) Yankee manager Casey Stengel said yesterday that Charlie Dressen's failure tq sult the horo team has had Durocher Surprised Over Dressen's Ouster Tokyo, Oct. 15 U.R) Leo Durocher, manager of the Giants, said yesterday that the "ousting" of Dodger Manager Charlie Dressen "is a tremendous surprise to me." The usually voluable manager said he had no further comment to make on Dressen, but added, "I always had a one- tion at Hot Springs, to ac-j cept a refereeing assignment for the Charley Riley-Bobby Why fight on the card at the on three baseball cases, must more injuries. St. Louis Arena. "They're a couple of tough customers," he said after come to terms with the Dodgers was such a surprise that he wouldn't like to comment "until "I've heard more about it answer these questions: Is baseball just a sport? Or is it a big business in interstate commerce which may be violating the Federal antitrust laws? No decision by the high watching the close and furi Rangers Invade Montreal Tonight ous battle.

"That Bucceroni is year contract when I managed a mighty strong man." I know he was very suc Bucceroni had a 12-pound court is expected for several cessful. He's won two pennants," Stengel said. "I'm sorta the Dodgers except once when I had a two-year pact with Larry MacPhail. It was always one year only with Branch Rickey." By United Press The favored Montreal Cana- diens seek to gain undisputed urprlsed that It happened." weight advantage over Slade, technically a light heavyweight, when he came into the ring at 189 to Slade's 177. Down for Nine He dropped the New York possession of first place in the National Hockey League tonight when they meet the crip By Jeff Keate TIME OUT! pled New York Rangers.

Negro with a terrific right to New York, due to tne injuries en of wings Dean Prentice and! the jaw and the fight appeared to be all over as Slade wa3 still rolling on the canvas at the count of five. But the game Nick Mickowski, are. under-strength, while the fully weeks. Attorneys for two minor league ball players and a minor league team urged the court to rule that baseball Is a business, subject to the anti-trust laws. Such a derision would permit trials, in lower Federal courts, of three damage suits totaling $625,000.

Such a ruling would run contrary to a 1922 Supreme Court finding that baseball is a sport. It also would clear the way for a full scale legal assault on several controversial baseball regulations, notably: Reserve Clause Plaver contracts and the manned Canadiens will be on the friendly confines of their United PTeu Telephoto DAN BUCCERONI of Philadelphia is surrounded by fists as Jimmy Slade of New York charges in during the first round of their light-heavyweight clash at St. Louis last night. Bucceroni won a 10-round light-heavyweight grabbed the bottom rope to start himself up and reached his feet just as ref home rink. Mickowski, who plays the line with center Ra eree Dick Young counted nine.

Slade held off the eager Buc leigh and rookie wing Hilde- ceroni the rest of that round and fired his best. shots in the second half of the fight. fice. A $7,500 raise and a new contract for a year wasn't enough. That may be hard to understand, but not if you know Dressen, who cares as little about a buck or 7,500 of them, as any man you ever met.

Obviously, he has no fear of the future or whatever it may hold for him. He has superb faith in himself which his friends hope is justified. So it was pride rather than anxiety that caused him to insist upon a measure of job security which he felt he had earned but never had received in Brooklyn. THE POWDER KEG He felt that three years of sitting on top of a powder keg was enough. He knows that the onlv thing that saved his job when the Dodgers blew up in 1951 was the fact that the reasons for firing Burt Shotton before him were inadequate and that another shift at that time would' put the front 'office in a bad light.

He knows that he would have been fired if the Dodgers had not won the pennant last year, or if they had not won the pennant this year. Should the Dodgers not win in 1954, he feels sure that he'd be out. For two solid seasons, he has been booed by the Flat-bush wolves whenever he walked out to change a pitcher, but Dressen is tough and continued to walk out. And for that length of time he has been savagely second-guessed all over town and the flame of criticism fanned by broadcast that followed ball games on the radio station the Dodgers used. He did not complain but he did hope that the Dodger front office would come throw gh with an expression of solid backing, but not a single member of the top Dodger brass showed up at the party friends tossed for Dressen after the World Series last week.

This should have been a tip-off that something was in the wind. But nobody tumbled because what happened yesterday was too incredible. THE BIG PARADE O'Malley said yesterday that ie appretiated Dressen's point of view. He used the wrong word. He may understand it, but if he appreciated it, he'd give iti on the point.

The ironbourid policy he announces for execinives doesn't stand up too well. He points out that he hasn't one nor have Buzzy Bavasi or Fresco Thompson. But no one can fire O'Malley and nobody i3 throwing rocks at Bavasi or Thompson. In effect, O'Malley maintains that he. isn't strong enough for Dressen to "gamble" on him for more than one year, although club owners' think nothing of gambling huge sums on untried bonus ball players and the Brooklyn club signed a seven-year television contract without stopping to think what it would do to attendance.

Probably, the front office isn't displeased by the turn of events. What to do for an encore after the Dodgers had such a great season in the National League was a problem. They cannot possibly win a World Series before October, which won't do the Ebbets Field gate during the season any good. But now they can have a new manager to whip up early interest and it will be June or maybe July before the wolves start chewing on him. while Dressen stalks out of the picture after Casey Stengel, Durocher and Barney Shotton and the others who were better than all right.

I don't know who the manager of the Dodgers will be in 1054. But I feel sorry for him already. In the eighth Slade, trapped on the ropes, bounced off to Shoemaker Resumes controversial "reserve" clause brand, suffered a bruised hip In Sunday's victory against cellared Chicago, and Prentice will be out for at least two more weeks, while recovering from a separated shoulder. A Canadien win would break an existing tie with the idle Detroit Red Wings. The best New York, now on the last leg of its road trip, could gain is a three- switch positions and launch a which bind a player for lifeJitle Quest Today two-fisted attack to Bucce roni's head.

to tne team witn wnicn ne Albany, Oct. 15 (U.R) first signs a contract and pro Dan's head waved back and vide that he must play for that team (or the team to which it sells or trades him) or not play way tie with Detroit and forth like a tennis match spectator's and he appeared groggy by the end of the round. The ninth round was fairly The Toronto Maple Leafs, who were eliminated from last even but blade opened once more In the tenth to cut Buc year's Stanley Cup playoffs, will Wee Willie Shoemaker, dangling on the brink of racing immortality, resumes his quest of world's record today, still needing two wins to crack Tony Despirito's all-time mark of 390 victories in a single season. He's booked solid with eight mounts for this afternoon's pro-1 gram at Golden Gate Fields. He had his last chance for a tie in the eighth, but he just in organized baseball at all.

Territorial rights which provide a "home territory" for each major and minor league baseball team nd carry with them the right to sell and restrict the sale of radio and television rights. Specifically, the three cases test unbeaten Boston tonight in ceroni alongside the right eye and to punish him at close a scrap that may further tight-; en the league standings. A Bos-! ton victory, coupled with a But the knockdown was the Ranger win, would result in a decisive factor as both Young and judge Howard Hess gave Bucceroni the fight 51-49 and Involve: four-way tie for first place, 1. George E. Toolson, a New judge Red Connell saw it 54-46 in the Philadelphia fighter's TV Sports Today didn't have enough horse under "A busted nose here, a laceration there, a slight concussion here I just couldn't, get going tonight!" tavor.

BOXIXG Laurel Gardens, York Yankee farm hand, who claims $375,000 treble damages because he was "blacklisted" in baseball after refusing to move from one farm club to another in a transfer dispute. Newark (13), 9 p.m. him as he finished a poor second aboard Carmel Bar. The winner was veteran Johnny Longden riding the favored Mithra. TROTTING Yonkers Race LITTLE WOMAN KNOWS BEST OR DOES SHE? way ill), p.m.

2. Walter J. KowalskI, a Brooklyn farm hand, who SECOND-GUESSED BY MISSUS claims $150,000 in treble dam BALTIMORE MIGHT. SWITCH TO DRESSEN ages on grounds that the farm operations of the Dodgers pre vented mm from earning a You Be The Quarterback ANSWER Where does Charley I)res-sen go from here? Nobody seems to know. Not even Charley himself.

for a check-up on Intestinal disorders. Which is why Charley didn't leave for his California home on Tuesday as scheduled. reasonable wage. 3. The El Paso (Texas) Base Other Long Pacts, Advice of Friends Influenced Dressen There are no open niana- ball Club which claims treble damage of $300,000 because it The letter is back in Dress en's possession.

"No copy was made of the was 'not permitted under a "secret" agreement between baeball officials in the United Charley Dressen's ailing wife, Ruth, and the two and three- letter in our office," said O'Mal-j States and Mexico to use four You Be the Quarterback By Warren Gaer Head Football Coach, Drake University. Louis Cardinals tied for third. "All my friends were after me," said Dressen. "They'd say to me, 'Well, what's the matter with you. You win the pennant iind these guys get the contracts'." Fresco Thompson, the Dodges' vice president, expressed the club's viewpoint on the long-term contracts.

"The Dodger owners and stockholders Mr. O'Malley, Mrs. Mulvey and Mrs. Smith are not wealthy people. Baseball isn't a hobby to them.

"Not like it is to Lou Perinl Mexican baseball players who year contracts recently signed by rival managers Contributed to his shocking refusal to lead the Dodgers next season. I were "reserved' to Mexican Iclubs. Dressen and his wife composed a letter to Walter O'Mal Gorgia Tech leads Auburn, with the closest Auburn players ley "and if Charley has it himself there'll be no unfortunate leaks Unless he wants to give it out himself." O'Malley said later, "When you want to hire a manager, you hire the manager. Not his wife." Dressen is particularly ley about a month ago in which he explained why he wanted 140. at the start of the second10 'ards away- half nut iJip Tpph trinlp threat! As the Tech back, rate these Bucs Buy Hurler Pittsburgh, Oct.

15 (U.R) The Pittsburgh Pirates have an 4. Kirk the ball bark. Auburn would have the ball, probably in Tech territory. A score and they'd be back in the game. 3.

Cut for the sideline. You give ground running this way and the tacklers are too close. i. Start down middle. You get more distance this way, assuming the blocking pattern is set, but it's hard to get out to the 20 with opponents 15 yards away from you already.

1. (iron nd the ball. You've got a lead so you don't have to take chance. And although yon can't think about that rib, tacklers have a lot of momentum on the kickoff. It's not wise to take the chance here.

gerial Jobs in the major leagues except possibly at Baltimore, where the new owners might pay off Marty Marion if they could get a man like Dressen. Bark to the Pacific Coast League, where he managed at Oakland before coming to the Dodgers in 1951? Possibly, if there are any openings. Lost In the shuffle was Walter O'Malley's ark that Dressen came Kast in the Fall of thinking he might be given a job as eoarh with the Dodgers. "He had no Idea that we wanted him as manager," said the Dodger president, "and neither did Brick Laws, the owner at Oakland." D. A.

a contract for more than one decisions 1, 2, 3 and 1 for this star, who has just received the nounced the purchase of right-. year. situation: Kirk the ball hark to Au burn. Charley said part of the let kkkoff behind his goal line, has a bad rib which has been and his friend, Fred Miller, in hander George ODonnell who won 20 games and lost 12 with peeved at the two-year contract jiuwauKee. ur wr.

Busch Gronnd the ball behind the the pennant-winning Holly-I given to Leo Durocher forfet. Louis, all of whom' have ter read, "I'm not interested in a contract for just one year. "And I said to my wife 'Is that the way you want it, too' guiding the Giants to a fifth- plenty of money. taped at the half. The Tech kickoff returns have not been long this year, but the team powerful defensively and defensive alert wood Stars of the Pacific Coast League the past season.

In exchange for O'Donnell, the Pirates gave up an undisclosed Nor is our situation like tnat of Horace Stoneham's. who and she said goal line. Cut for the sideline Immediately. Start straight down the middle. (Answer will be found in "I couldn't second-guess her," place finish, 35 games behind the Dodgers.

Charley Grimm, who led the Milwaukee Braves to second place, signed a three-year pact said Dressen. amount of cash plus the con-j ness has resulted in both first half touchdowns. The Yellow felt that' he had to sign Durocher in order to make the fans believe he was doing something." D. A. tract of veteran catcher Joe Mrs.

Dressen is confined to Long Island College Hospital Rossi. jacket gets the long kickoffj column of this page.) as did Eddie Stanky, whose St..