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By FRANCIS E. STANN
The 'Reluctant' Horses Often Win
The gentlemen who forecast horse racing odds are indicating
that Armed may be a 2-to-5 favorite in the $100,000 race with
Assault tomorrow at Belmont Park and one of the reasons has been
th* seeming reluctance of Trainer Max Hirsch to send the King
Ranch champion against Armed. But if you like
Assault don’t let Hirsch’s “reluctance” scare you
off. In the past, a study of similar big special
races shows, the reluctant stable frequently has
been the winner when the horses finally got to
gether.
There was the Alsab-Whirlaway “match race,’1
for example. (Incidentally, racing purists don’t
consider these specials match races. Only an event
in which the rival owners poet the purse qualifies
as a real match race.) Anyway, five years ago
this month Alsab, a 3-year-old, nosed out Whirl
away, the handicap champion, in one of the great
est of two-horse races at Narragansett.
Alsab’s was the reluctant stable in this case.
Franck e. stann. ^ week earlier, Alsab and Whirly were entered in
the Narragansett Special but shortly before post time Trainer Sarge
Swenke ordered Alsab scratched, saying he was not up to his best
race. Whirlaway ran sensationally, winning the mile and three-six
teenths in 1:56%.
Then Narragansett officials got busy, offered a $25,000 purse for a
meeting of the two champions, and the following Saturday it came
off. Alsab won by a nose in 1:56%, a fifth of a second slower than
Whirlaway’s time the week before when Whirly carried four more
pounds.
•
When Seabiscuit Won by Four Lengths
In the electrifying Seabiscult-War Admiral race at Pimlico on
Nor. 1, 1938, the winner, Seabiscuit, again was the reluctant steed.
Fans had been clamoring for the race for nearly 18 months.
They almost got their race in October, 1937, when both horses
war* llsted’in the overnight entries for the Washington Handicap at
Laurel, but shortly before noon Seablscut was scratched due to the
ofT track, and War Admiral won easily. Then, early in the fol
lowing year, Belmont Park announced a $100,000 “match race" be
tween the pair for Memorial Day and, after $25,000 had been spent
for publicity, tickets, etc., it was learned that Seabiscuit was not
working well. Two weeks btefore the race the Biscuit was examined
and found lacking in condition. The race was canceled.
Six weeks or so later the pair was listed in overnight entries
for the rich Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs but rain and
mud removed Seabiscuit, no mudder.
But that fall, after young Alfred Vanderbilt had pulled strings,
Pimlico matched them in the Special for a paltry $15,000 and Sea
biscuit won by four lengths after the two horses ran head-and
head for more than half a mile.
woy DOCK to IVLi . . . and Zev
Another two-horse race—this one goes back a few years—was
won by a reluctant stable when Zev nosed out In Memoriam. This
wag back in 1923 and it was nearly a match race, even in the eyes
of the purists, in that the owners posted $10,000 each, as did
Churchill Downs.
Before this race there had been considerable ill feeling because
Zev, owned by Harry Sinclair, was chosen as the American repre
sentative against Papyrus, the English Derby winner. Zev easily beat
Papyrus in the mud at Belmont, but about a month later In Me
moriam easily beat Zev in the mile-and-a-half Latonia championship.
Then it was that Carl Weidaman, owner of In Memoriam,
clamored for a match race with Zev, who was the reluctant horse in
this case. The match finally was made, however, when the Zev
stable became incensed at newspaper stories suggesting that Zev
was aftaid to meet In Memoriam. The race was held and Zev won
by a nose.
Incidentally, the long history of “match races"—there have been
about 150 in this country during the last century—shows that on
nearly every occasion' the horse that went to the front at the start
emerged as the winner. Zev was one of the exceptions. Thus, if
Rider Eddie Arcaro on Assault allows Armed to gef oft in front, as
Armed figures to do, history and precedent will be on the side of the
, gelding from the fabulous Calumet Farm.
Hurlers Shine as Dodgers Win;
Cards Clinch Second Money
By the Associated Press
The Brooklyn Dodger pitching
object of derision during the lasl
few weeks, is beginning to show
signs of rounding into form for the
World Series clash with the New
York Yankees.
Last night at Philadelphia Vic
Lombardi and Ralph Branca spar
kled. Lombardi hurled the lasl
three innings of last night’s com
pleted game of August 17 which hac
been halted at the end of innings
and allowed but one man to reach
base. The Dodgers won, 7-5.
In the second game, which the
Dodgers also won, 5-2, in 10 innings
21-game winner Branca held the
Phils to five hits and one run be
jfore retiring at the end of five
innings.
The St. Louis Cardinals clinched
l second place money by sweeping
both ends of a double header from
the Pittsburgh Pirates, 15-3 and 3-1
The Cards now have a four-game
lead oVer the Boston Braves, whc
lost, 3-1, to the New York Giants
! In the only other game in the
majors, the St. Louis Browns put
a dent in Cleveland’s bid for second
place in the American League by
defeating the Indians, 4-3, before
only 315 paying customers.
Big John Mize of the Giants
banged out his 51st home run of
: the season to tie Ralph Kiner ol
Pittsburgh for the major league lead.
Station WNBW to Televise
College and Pro Colts' Tilt:
Nine college football games am
eight of the Baltimore Colts’ profes
sional games this season will be seei
locally over WNBW television sta
tion, according to an announcemen
from Carleton D. Smith, genera
manager.
The collegiate schedule opens witl
tomorrow’s showing of the Army
Villanova tilt. The next pro garni
Is* Sunday’s Colts-Yankees tilt ii
Baltimore. The complete WNBV
schedule is:
Collage*: September 27. Army-Villanova
October 4. Navy-Columbia; 11. Army
Illinois; is. Penn-Columbla; November 1
Fenn-Prlnceton: 8. Navy-Oeorgia Tech: If
Navy-Penn State: 22. Dartmouth-Prince
ton: 27, Penn-Cornell.
Colts: September 28. Yankees: Octobe
R. San Francisco: IS. Los Angeles: Novem
her 2 Yankees; Ifi. Dodgers; 2S. Buffalo
."ft. Chicago Rockets: December 7. Cleve
land. _
Milwaukee Wins Playoff
i On 'Merriweir Home Run
By the Associated Press
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 26.—The big
11 bat of Berlin-born Heinz Becker
;won the seventh and deciding game
of the American- Association playoff
, for Milwaukee last night, and today
the Brewers head for Syracuse and
1 the Little World Series.
, Two were away in the seventh
1 inning and Louisville was leading,
: 4-2, when Becker hit a home run
over the left field wall scoring two
teammates ahead of him.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
Los Ar.geles. 21; Sacramento. 4.
San Diego, 2: San Francisco, flf.
Seattle. 3 0; Oakland. 5.
Hollywood, 7; Portland, fi.
EASTERN LEAGUE FINAL PLAYOFFS.
Utica, B; Albany. 2 (YTt.ica wins. 4-2t.
Major League Standings and Schedules
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1947.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
Phila. at Wash., rain.
St. Louis, 4: Cleveland, 1
Boston at New York, rail
Only games scheduled.
Games Today.
Phila. at Wash. (2), 6:0(
Detroit at Cleveland.
Boston at New York.
Only games scheduled.
Games Tomorrow.
Boston at Wash., 3:00.
Chicago at St. Louts (2).
Detroit at Cleveland.
Phila. at New York.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
New York, 3; Boston, 1.
St. L., 15—3; Pitts., 3—1
B'klyn, 7—5; Phila., 5—1
Only games scheduled.
Games Today.
New York at Boston.
St. Louis at Chicago.
Only games scheduled.
Games Tomorrow.
Brooklyn at Boston.
New York at Phila.
St. Louis at Chicago.
Only games scheduled.
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dotroit | 8i—110| 11 [11J15jl2{ 15j 82! 69| .543jl4
Mon | 8,12(—J. 9|10|16|ll!15j 811 70| ,536|15
Cleveland | 7; 8|13|—111|11|13|17| 80| 71|< .530|16_
dhil'phla | 811|12[111—111,10|13| 76| 74| .507|19<^
Chicago |10| 71 6!11|11|—114| 9| 681 83 .450i28
Wash'gton | 7 10 9| 5j5oj 8|—I 9| 62| 88| .413J33
St. Louis ! 7 7! 7| 5| 9 10; 13;—| 58| 93| .384|38
last ,5569,70;71!74|83,88!93| j j j
Standing
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Itsftt ;10 9(—112|13|13|12|14| 83; 681 ^50,10^
NtwYtrk i 8 13 9—, 9.15,15 11 80j 70| .53313
CbKiRMtt | 7| 8. 9] 13j—|10|13jl3| 73| 80; .477|21*^
Ckictft | 7| tfl 9: 7.12j—| 8 161 68 83 .450[25'^
>ittjkw|b | 7| 6 10, 7| 814j—I 9 61! 92! i99i33M
MIMtlpkli 8| 8 8 8 9| 6|13|—| 60| 91| .397 33%
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Aaanuijj. DniMM int muu—King Kancns Assault, all hoots off the ground, flies
over the muddy Belmont Park track In a mile workout for the scheduled $100,000 match race
with Armed tomorrow. Jockey Warren Mehrtens is in the saddle although Eddie Arcaro is
scheduled to pilot Assault in the big race. Most dockers caught Assault in 1:41%, but Trainer
Max Hirsch clocked him in slightly more than 1:40 for the muddy mile. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Season Edge Over A's
Nats' Goal in Pair
Of Tilts Tonight
The Nats’ only chance to display
an edge over any team in the Amer
ican League will materialize tonight
when they clash with the Philadel
phia Athletics in a twilight-night
double-header starting at -6 o’clock,
with Washington faced with the
task of capturing , both games to
achieve that modest ambition.
Thus far, the Nats and A’s have
split 20 games, and in an effort to
finish with a flourish against Phila
delphia, Manager Ossie Bluege will
dispatch Early Wynn and Ray Scar
borough to the mound at Griffith
Stadium, with Dick Fowler and Bill
McCahan likely to pitch for the
Athletics.
The Nats’ last glimpse of Mc
Cahan was embarrassing, for on that
occasion he pitched a no-hit, no
run game to beat Scarborough, 3-0,
at Philadelphia. Wynn will be
seeking his 18th victory in his final
start.
Idle last night when threatening
weather forced postponement of a
game with the A’s, the Nats will end
the season with a two-game series
with the Boston Red Sox, who in
vade for single games tomorrow
and Sunday. Tomorrow's 3 o’clock
game will be a ladies’ day affair.
Remaining interest in the Nats
is centered in the trim figure of Gil
Coan, the Chattanooga hot shot who
has wracked out 14 hits in 27 ap
pearances at the plate since being
imported from the Lookouts.
Less impressive have been other
nim 4-t#. --___HU
Televised Football
Listed by WMAL
Opening feature of WMAL-TV,
Washington’s newest television
station, will be the Fordham
Georgetown game on Friday
night, October 3, from Griffith
Stadium. That's the first col
legiate game of the season here.
It will come over Channel 7.
Microphone duties will be han
' died by Jim Gibbons, assisted by
Tom Dolan who also will broad
cast future home games for both
Georgetown and George Wash
ington Universities. In addition
WMAL-TV will handle all Wash
ington Redskins’ home games,
starting with the October 6
Steelers contest.'
Maryland Commissioi
Clears Horse Owner
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Sept. 26.—The sus
pension of Joseph E. Crider, Cham
bersburg (Pa.) horseman, has beei
lifted by the Maryland Racini
Commission aftefr a hearing oi
charges that he had knowledg
that a battery was used on one o
Swamp Fever Causes
47 Horse Executions
At Rockingham
By th« Associated Press
SALEM, N. H., Sept. 26.—Five
more horses, Incurable victims of a
crippling blood disease, go to the
executioner today at Rockingham
' Park, where five were destroyed
yesterday and 26 others died pre
viously of the. same dread swamp
fever.
There was no counting how much
the epidemic has cost horsemen who
came here for Rockingham’s fall
meeting August 11 and found them
| Selves stranded when the track was
quarantined two weeks later.
In all, 59 horses were infected,
and 31 now are dead. Sixteen- more
are slated for destruction today, to
morrow and Monday. The remain
■; ing dozen belong to owners who
■ afie unwilling to accept the $2,000
1 bounty offered by the Thoroughbred
> Racing Protective Bureau for each
1 mount destroyed.
! Foremost among these is H. Guy
Bedwell, Maryland, veteran, who
hns spvpti hnrspft in fVu» yniorpntimi
vw.vvvii<wuQUl upwitliVUD) nil/li X 11VU"
ers Bill Kennedy and Hal Toenes
being blasted In their only appear
ances and Second Baseman Eddie
Lyons and Outfielder Earl Wooten
failing to disturb the league's pitch
ing.
Charles H. Hughes Dies;
Trained Derby Winner
ly th* Associated Press
LEXINGTON. 'Ky„ Sept. 26 —
Charles H. (Trainer) Hughes, color
ful horse trainer and racing official,
died last night Ih a Lexington hotel
where he had been ill since the
Saratoga race meeting.
Trainer of Lt. Gibson, winner of
the 1900 Kentucky Derby, Hughes
had saddled several other starters
in the Churchill Downs classic. His
age was not known, but old-timers
in racing circles said he already had
his famed silver hair in 1900 and
they estimated he was near 100 at
the time of his death.
Hughes was a close friend of the
late Col. E. R. Bradley and for years
accompanied the master of Idle Hour
Farm to the annual yearling sales.;
He served as timer at Hialeah,
Laurel, Havre de Grace and Del
aware Park race tracks.
■ ■ A _ • M . MO
Stuart S. Janney, Jr., commissioi
chairman, said the racing grou]
was convinced that Crider did no
know a battery was used on Stroll
Lng Lee, which won the seventl
race at Hagerstown August 15.
The commission ruled Jocke:
Agent Daniel Mellott off Marylani
tracks for life in connection witl
the case. Jockey Phillip Kirkpat
rick, 27, Fort Fairfield, Me., pre
viously had been ruled off for lif
for using the battery on Strollim
Lee.
Kirkpatrick testified he had beei
using a battery for seven years an<
that Mellott had given him a bat
tery before Strolling Lee’s race
Mellott failed to appear at th
hearing.
The jockey, who demonstrate!
how he concealed the device in hi
sleeve to shock horses into runnini
faster, also testified that Cride
knew it was used. Crider deniei
knowledge of the battery, and sail
Kirkpatrick had threatened ti
“drag me into it" unless the horse
man paid him $250.
Boys'ClubGridmen Begir
Play in Three Leagues
Boys weighing from 80 to 14!
pounds will launch the 1947 Boys
Club of Washington Football Leagui
tomorrow as teams in five differen
weight classes collide on the Ellipse
Fairlawn will be the center o:
activity as the Metropolitan Polici
Boys’ Club gridders open the seasoi
in 'the 105, 120 and 140 poun<
leagues. The 90-pounders play Tues
day.
1 tent. Horsemen figure the seven
1 are worth well over $50,000. One of
k them Is the stake horse Prognosis,
■ insured for $40,000.
1 Bedwell told Spencer J. Drayton,
executive director of the Racing
’ Protective Bureau, he paid $7,000
1 for Insurance on his string only
1 a few days before the fall meeting
■ opened and he could not go along,
' therefore, with the $2,000 bounty
' plan.
’ Even when the mass execution
ends Monday and the 12 other fever
[ wracked horses are transferred to
1 a convalescent ranch 2 miles from
the track, the swamp fever siege
■ will not be over for the nearly 900
! other animals quarantined here
since August 23.
} Every thoroughbred exposed to
the infection—an equine anemia,
believed to be transmitted by in
sects, which leaves its victims list
less and droopy—must be tested be
1 fore it can be pronounced safe.
’ This involves injecting a sample of
1 its blood into a horse known to be
free of the disease and then waiting
a 21-day incubation period to see
I if swamp fever develops.
Two racing areas slammed their
doors in the faces of Rockingham's
horses yesterday. Maryland forbade
i importation of exposed horses. The
' Fair Grounds at New Orleans or
! dered a similar ban.
; Yesterday’s victims were Star
. Quiz, owned by Lyle Phillipps; True
' Call, by Frank Keene; Peace Light,
: by George Seabo; Port Orford, by
. Neal and Phillips, and Idelevere, by
W. W. Waters. The executions were
supervised by Dr. Harold M. Lewis,
track veterinarian.
Trainer Twice
Had Asked to
Put Off Match
Kleberg Horse Walks
Soundly Day After
Painful Injury
By Sid Feder
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Tomor
row’s $100,000 match race Involv
ing Armed and Assault officially
was declared on again today after
Robert J. Kleberg, jr., owner of
Assault, made an examination of his
thoroughbred who developed lame
ness after yesterday’s workout.
Kleberg came here from Pennsyl
vania and made his announcement
after inspecting Assault in the
presence of a veterinarian and
Trainer Max Hirsch, who twice this
week has said he did not want to
run the race because the colt was
not in peak condition.
Hirsch, on Monday and again yes
terday, said he did not want Assault
to compete because of poor condition
although the Texas Terror worked
well yesterday morning.
Armed Fast in Workout.
It was after Assault cooled out
from touring a muddy mile that
vrntnrt A rrmiU'. $ ^ i_
the left foreleg. The horse has
been troubled with a splint.
Meanwhile, Armed completed his
preparations for the Hi-mile event
at Belmont tomorrow by doing a
sparkling five-eights of a mile in
1:01, pulling up at the 6-furlong
mark in 1:14 >4. The track still was
off from recent rains.
Kleberg, in his statement, said
that Assault’s splint trouble was
discovered for the first time on
Monday and before yesterday’s
workout it had been treated by
Hirsch. After the drill the colt dis
played lameness and pain but that
Assault walked soundly this morn
ing.
Kleberg Is Considerate.
“In an ordinary stake race I doubt
that I should start him but in a
special race of this kind, where
there would be no race if we
scratched, we have decided to run
and it may be, as we hope, that
Assault will run as well as he worked
yesterday,” Kleberg added.
In yesterday's workout Assault did
a muddy mile in 1:41% although
Trainer Hirsch clocked him in
1:40% for the distance.
uixie irio, une Yank
Left in Women's Golf i
By «ht Astociated Press
DETROIT, Sept. 26.—It was a
Southern gang-up today in the 1947
semifinals of the women's National
Amateur golf championship.
Two Georgia crackers and a tar
heel from North Carolina marshaled
foroes against a lone surviving Con
necticut Yankee—20-year-old Grace
Lenczyk—and the form chart gave
the North another good chance to
win an argument with the Rebels.
| One of the southerners was cer
tain to be on the sidelines when they
play the 36-hole championship finals
: tomorrow, for down in the lower
bracket it was Dorothy Kirby of
Georgia against Mrs. Estelle Lawson
Page of North Carolina.
The other semifinal match sent
j Medalist Louise Suggs of Georgia, a
j favorite from the start, matching
Strokes with the youthful Miss
i Lenczyk.
Entries in Boxer Show
May Be Made Sunday
Entries in the Potomac Bbxer
Club's sanctioned match on Sunday
may be made up to 2 o’clock the day
of the show or in advance with Mrs.
Prank Adams, Warfield 3318.
The match will be held, starting
at 2 o’clock, at the Fairfax High
| School field. Judge will be Mrs.
j Donald Russell of Wappingers Falls.
N. Y. Trophies will be awarded in
all classes and ribbons also go to the
first four dogs in each class.
Te'iaan's After Dates
Telman’s Restaurant 160-pound
footbr 1 team wants Sunday games.
Call Larry Conway at Emerson 7593.
neavy Acnon jrarrs lomorrow
Leahy Thinks Navy Eleven Is Too Strong for California;
Picks Georgia, Rice and Ga. Tech in South's Big Games
Ru Frank I enhv ! - ■ — won onlv two eames in the entire
Notre Dame University Coach
College football starts grinding;
fact from fiction this week. A fetfj
topflight teams limbered up last j
week, but heavy action really begins
tomorrow. Three j
make - or - break
games take place
in the deep
South, with an
other highly im
portant contest
, slated for sunny
'California.
Down at
Chapel Hill,
North Carolina
faces Georgia.
This colorful
struggle holds
all the drama of
a Hollywood
Fr»nk Leahy. script. Georgia’s
20-10 victory over the Tar Heels in
jlast season’s Sugar Bowl game was
, followed by shrill protest from fans
in tobacco land. They claimed poor
officiating, not Charley Trippi, cost
them victory. They also claim j
Charley (Choo Chpoi Justice and
his angry' Carolina mates will prove
this accusation. Quite a Donny
brook an? way you look at it . .. and
a dangerous but vital spot to start
;my career as a prognosticator,
i However, I like Georgia to repeat
its Sugar Bowl triumph. Trippi has
departed, but in my friend, Wally
, Butts. Georgia has one of the
soundest and most brilliant coaches
jin the game.
Butts employs the T formation,
Leahy's Selections
*
Winner. Loser. Winner. Loser.
Arizona Wyoming Rice L. S. U.
Arkansas Tex. (No.) State Michigan Mich. State
Army Villanova Minnesota Washington ,
Navy California Indiana Nebraska
Columbia Rutgers Georgia North Carolina
Duke N. C. State Ohio State Missouri
Florida Mississippi Texas Oregon
Georgia Tech Tennessee S. Methodist U. Santa Clara
Harvard Western Md. Stanford Idaho
Holy Cross Dartmouth Texas Christian Okla. A. & M.*
Illinois Pittsburgh Tulane Alabama
Colorado Iowa State Wisconsin Purdue
Kentucky Cincinnati Yale Kings Point
another reason I like his chances.
Carl Snavely, the Tar Heel coach,
is a fine tactician, but I believe
Butts and his men will outlast their
worthy opponents. Butts not only
has the T formation; he has Johnny
Rauch to direct it—a smooth com
bination. Defeat, however, should
make a stronger, more dangerous
team of the Tar Heels.
In the other important Dixieland
offerings, my selection is Rice over:
Louisiana and Georgia Tech to beat!
a tough Tennessee. It is always
dangerous to pick against a Bemie
Moore-coached eleven, but I believe
Jess Neely has enough stuff at Rice
to turn the trick. An extra point
could easily decide this one.
The records also prove that pick
ing against a team tutored by Bob
Neyland is dangerous, indeed. Never
theless, 1 think Bobby Dodd’s flashy
outfit will outspeed Tennessee.
Before proceeding to the Navy
California battle, I'd like to retur
just a moment to this year’s Georgi
;eam. *
Their last period, 13-7, decisio
last week over little Forman mus
have been a sluggish performanci
from all reports. But it goes to sho’
the psychological as well as th
physical problems facing a coacl
Getting a team, no matter how goo
the material, keyed for its openin
performance, stripping 'the stars c
overconfidence and likewise indue
ing confidence in new players, is
dark task that brings white hair t
every coach.
In this respect Lynn Waldorf ha
an advantage over Tom Hamiltor
Waldorf’s California Bears chewe
up Santa Clara by a decisive 33-tc
7 margin. Waldorf, who came 1
California from Mid wee tern, ha
reason to be pleased since the Beat
season last year.
Despite California's scintillating j
j getaway, I think Navy carries too
many guns. Hamilton is back in j
| college circles after a brilliant war j
| career and he is one of the test. His
j team is on the upsurge, so much so
j that our meeting with Navy in |
; Cleveland on November* 1 looms as
a gigantic test.
Army faces a stern test in Villan
ova, according to reports, but the
i Cadets handle those tough tests in
1 stride. At any rate the game should
answer a lot of questions.
j (McNaught Syndicate.)
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0 MPVPwvvmTtfi
SURPRISED, BILLY?—Billy Herman, retiring pilot of Pirates,
registers bewilderment following two-hour session which ended
yesterday in Pittsburgh with the field leader resigning after one
year as manager of the Bucs. Herman is shown with General
Manager Roy Harney after Harney and three co-owners agreed
to disagree. The Pirates dropped to last place Just before
Herman quit. —AP Wirephoto.
Herman's Successor
Very Much in Doubt;
Durocher Mentioned
t By th« Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26.—Billy
Herman has “resigned” as manager
of the Pittsburgh Pirates, but he can
collect approximately $25,000 for the
balance of his two-year contract by
twiddling his thumbs if he so de
sires.
President Prank McKinney called
a special news conference last week
to announce Herman's resignation
after the Pirates dropped a twin bill
to the St. Louis Cardinals. Three
of the other club owners were pres
ent and so was Herman, who came
to the Pirates this year after Mc
Kinney and his associates purchased
the club.
Herman calmly smoked a cigarette
during the conference, smiled at the
newsmen and offered no comment.
An Amiable Gathering.
It was such an amiable gathering
that sports writers were caught bj
surprise when McKinney, after pref
acing his remarks on the poor
showing of the last-place Pirates
said:
"We have talked to Billy at some
length. We are not criticizing him
for the showing of our team but
WC ICit LUttb MMUC UlilllgM BllUUiU
be made. Bill felt, too, it would be
to the best interests of all concerned
if he resigned. We are not parting
company. He is welcome to remain
in the organization. We have the
greatest respect for his ability and
his managerial strategy.”
Billy left the front office imme
diately, after telling a reporter:
“It's too early to say whether I
will remain with the Pirates next
year. The offer is there if I want
to accept it. I have nothing defi
nitely in mind. I’ll just have to
wait awhile before I decide.”
General Manager H. Roy Harney
said Herman was signed last spring
to a two-year contract “at approx
imately $25,000 a season” and in
sisted Herman can collect his pay
next year even if he remains out
of baseball.
"We wouldn’t try to duck that,”
he declared emphatically.
- Leo Durocher Mentioned.
McKinney said the “field is wide
open” for Herman's successor and
that no thought had been given to
Billy leaving until a few days ago.
Asked to comment on the fact
that Leo Durocher, suspended man
ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, will
be eligible to re-enter baseball after
the World Series—and whether he
could be considered a candidate to
succeed Herman—McKinny said:
“I believe any man who has been
convicted and paid the penalty
should be given another chance.”
He did not amplify.
Western Choice to Nip
Wilson in School Title
Opener Tomorrow
Western Is favored to defeat Wil
son tomorrow when both start their
District public high football series
schedule with a game at Central
Stadium at 2:30 p.m. Both dropped
their openers last week, the Red
Raiders bowing to Washington-Lee
High while Wilson was blanked by
Staunton Military Academy.
The series was to get under way
today with two games, Anacostia at
Central and Coolidge at Eastern.
The other two teams in the race,
| Tech and Roosevelt, don’t take the
j field until Monday at Central
Stadium.
Western has a fairly heavy line,
| behind which such backs as Norm
j Wacker, Dale Summerbell and
[George Holmes operate successfully.
Wacker is the driving back, Sum
merbell is the tiny scatback and
Holmes the triple-threater. Much
of Wilson's strength is in the back
i field, where Pat O’Neill is the run
J ning, passing and kicking star.
■Other experienced backs are Julian
[Self and Bill Voigt.
Action also starts in the Mont
gomery County League this week
| end. Sherwood is playing at
'Bethesda today, while Rockville is
!at Blair tomorrow. This is only
j the second year of football for
i Sherwood, but it has 11 leyermen
back from last year's team and
I plans to improve 'on last year'a
record of losing all five of its games.
Uurocner in New York,
Hopes to Clear Up Status
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Leo- Du
; rocher is beck in town to see the
World Series—and Branch Rickey.
Talking freely, the former Dodger
manager said he hoped to return ai
Brooklyn skipper in 1948.
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