FTER all these years we finally have '!">•' v^"a^ |-riib,ii)ly u-i- :,i-t nici'Im;: v.! ,. •n.iv •v\ant til !)(_• a nianagei so bariix :,.)i(i Ijysehai! learned why those talent-rich Boston l;iiT.,-iusi- t.'\'(_•!•>'bod>• ..irnii'isUxid hiri,, Th^jl i- pia\-ers nsuall.'>' do." A Red Sox never won the American e\'(T\ !)od\ I'Ut .\o\"iko*1 Lii;. p.cvci '.indc - Tiie Beast is a lealist: lie admits tie's not League pennant. The source of our informa­ slMid^ anxlhi!!^ Tin- '..'•' tm.i at:'.li()V\ hai! the player he was. If it weren't for the tion is none other than James Emory Foxx. '0\:V 0( lllr tirSt M;!I1^S Gl i.'lUl Idld US Wil'- wai. lie wouldn't be playing toda.^•. He came who is known in most circles—including one th;i! !ic expeclcd cvcrvhodN- to be m \\\s roonj back because he wanted to manage some day. divorce court—as the Beast b.v inidir;alit He warned us il oinybod.\- was "If 1 ever do become a manager," he con- The Beast is no longer connectt'd with the oaush' (lid a iter K. he would be fined linued. "I hope I can be as successful as "' Red Sox and therefore is free to roll out his $r>0 Then hv Uiineti in 'i^ou and said 'Nov:- . Hc^ was the best; he knew his soap box and speak his piece any time he koH. I'll bet you anothei .TO \OU will be the men and he knew how to handle them. pleases. When Tom Yawkey began unloading til St one 1 catch ' Suie enough, the veiy next There's one incident between Mr. Mack and his million-dollar ball club a few years ago, nif^hl Grimm caught Lou out of his room at me that still stands out in my memory. Ma.\'- *.-/_• he sold Foxx outright to the . I 'M) in the morning. He was sitting in the be It will show you what I mean After a dismal season with the Cubs in 1942. hotel iobb\' listening to thi' radio and had "We were playing the "Yankees, and it was Foxx retired from , supposedly for forgotten what tinii' it was." a tight game. I was leading ofif in the nmth keeps, and went into the oil business. But the Novikofi is always a good subject, so we mmng. so I asked Mr. Mack what he wanted wartime manpower shortage brought him kicked him around for a while. me to do. He looked at me coldly and said' back, and now he is a part-time third base­ "The trouble with Lou." the Beast e.'^- •.limmy. what have you been drinking?' 1 man and catcher for the Cubs as well as a plained. "is that he is a bufl ball hittei. In was speechless for a minute. I hadn't been full-time authority on the . the minoi leagues he could atlord to hit bad drinking and I couldn't understand why Mr. The Beast didn't come right out and vol­ balls all da\' long, because he probabl.\' Mack should think .so. Finally I said: 'Noth­ unteer his information on the Red Sox. Some­ wouldn't look at one good a week. Up ing but water. Mr, Mack.' how or other the conversation swung around here it's ditlerent. He's looking at good pitch­ " All right, then.' he answered, go up to Connie Mack and Joe Cronin. and we ers ever>- day. Theie's only one way to pla.\ there and use your own judgment ' I worried asked why it was that Cronin, after buying Novikoff. .Just stick him in the outfield and abput this all the way to St. Louis, and the up virtually all of Connie Mack's great stars, leave him alone. Either he will wake up and next morning I told Mr, Mack: T don't under­ couldn't win a pennant. learn something or he will be a minor-league stand that remark you made in Philadelphia. "The difference." the Beast said, "is that player the rest of his life." You knowT haven't been drinking' one manager knew what he was doing and The Beast sounded almost like a manage; " 'I know it.' Mr. Mack said, 'but there the other didn't. Cronin didn't. If he had himself. He paused for a moment, then were others listening, and some of them had. handled our properly we might have laughed: 1 wanted to let them know 1 would as soon won several pennants. Our hitting was al­ •'I guess I do at that. Maybe its because I bawl vou out for drinking as anybody." " ways good, but the pitching didn't hold up. It wasn't the fault of the pitchers, either. They could have won if Cronin had used more judgment in picking their spots. Didn't every one of them turn out to be winners il. after they got away from Boston?" t: Since the Beast turned out to be such a w- convincing authority on the Red Sox, we wondered if he wouldn't spare us a few

• ^: words about his present employers, the Chi­ .-Hr. cago Cubs, We asked why Jimmy Wilson was '^° given the opportunity to resign, and if it was ~trne ^hat itie Cubs were rehiring all of their old managers until they got Joe McCarthy back. I • "Wilson was a good, -sound baseball man, and make no mistake about that," the Beast said, "But he was too easy-going for a man­ ager. He would argue with his players in- t'ft stead of telling them off. Now, Charlie Grimm K» » is difTerent. When he took over the team he -• called us together for a meeting and told u.s he was boss and that his word would be law. cpoR^^*'^*^" rso..DANPOUBy sg* « _ -

It. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, played on the same football team at West Point in 1915. . . . Lt. Comdr. George Earnshaw, the old Athletic pitcher, was wounded in a naval engagetnent in the South Pacific. He commands a gun crew on an aircraft carrier. , . This probably isn't news to any­ NE of the first Americans to land in France- body in the , but Lt. Comdr. was Lt. Bob Halperin, an ex-Brooklyn Mickey Cochrane says A/S Virgil (Fire) Trucks, ODodger footballer, who went ashore with the former Detroit pitcher, can throw as fast as Navy and marked the beaches for the assault­ Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean, ing infantry. . . . When Lt. Col. Wallace Wade, the Commissioned: Bill Dickey, veteran Yankee Duke football , was recovering from a catcher, as a lieutenant in the Navy; Glenn Dobbs, broken leg last winter he complained bitterly passing star of last year's powerful Randolph about being cooped jp and wanted to be sent Field Flyers, as a second lieutenant in the AAF, overseas or else given a CDD. Wade got his wish . , , Discharged: Pat Fllley, Notre Dame football and was shipped to England to command a field- captain, and Wilbur Moore, former Minnesota- artillery battery for the invasion. . . . Ben Jones' Washington Redskin back, from the Marines son Jimmy, who helped his father train Lawrin, with CDDs; Sgt, Ray Robinson, uncrowned wel­ Whirlaway and Pensive, has been commissioned terweight champion, from the Arrny. with a a lieutenant in the Coast Guard and is stationed CDD. , , . Ordered /or induction; Calvin Coolidge in Charleston, S. C. . . . According to Capf. Steve McLish, Dodgers" schoolboy pitcher, by the Navy: Hamas, who ought to know about such things, Mark Christman, third baseman of Browns, by the best looking boxing prospect in the ETO is the Army: George Caster, Browns' pitcher, by Pfc. Tut (King) Tobor, a sharp-punching middle­ the Navy. . , , Rejected: Ron Northey, Phillies" weight from Oakland, Calif., who wears glasses , because of high blood pressure: in- and looks like Tommy Dorsey. . , . The two top fielder and outfielder Leon Culberson invasion chiefs. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and of the Red Sox, because of knee injuries.

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