St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 22

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, PAGE 2C POST-DISPATCH, ranch1 Rickey Is Named President of Brooklyn Dodgers THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1942. Signs for Five Years Quits Cardinals After 25 Years; Originator Browns to Train in California Of the Farm System Washington and Arlington paru next season. HARRY SKL for three years understudy to Don Hutson, took his first work-out of the campaign with th" Green Bay Packers. STETL LING GEORGE MENDENHAu" nnp time natinnal tri 7 Breadon Wishes Rickey Luck, And Congratulates the Dodgers RED HORNER, who won the National Hockey Leagues "bad man" title so often he was given permanent possession, will be a big league referee this season.

The football Yale used to beat Dartmouth last Saturday won't go into the tro phy case. The Eli players auto graphed it and gave it to GARY ODELL, Coach Howie's ive- year-oia son, wno Ljt la laid nn with 'i a plaster cast on '(CSO'? jr an ailing leg HORXFR WEBB EVER- 1 A WWatK ETT. racing secretary at Wash ington Park's 1942 meeting, will both serve in this capacity at Jt When apprised of the naming of Rickey to the presidency of the Brooklyn club, President Sam Breadon of the Cardinals said: "I want to wish Branch all the luck in the world and to congratulate the Brooklyn club on obtaining his services." Asked about the Rickey contract which normally would have ended Dec. 31 of this year, Breadon gave it as his opinion that Branch would resign from the Cardinals as of Nov. 1 in order to Dodgers.

tart at once on his job with the By J. Roy Branch Rickey, who today was manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, or farm system in baseball, and the most astute figures in the national game. 'Commandos' to Start For Great Lakes in Game With Missouri BRANCH RICKEY "signed the papers" in Brooklyn today, accepting a five-year contract as president and general manager of the Dodgers. At left in the scene is VICE-PRESIDENT JOSEPH A. GILLEAUDEAU of the Brooklyn Club, then Rickey and GEORGE A.

BARNEWALL, treasurer of the Dodgers. Rickey's contract as vice-president and general manager of the Cardinals will be terminated Oct. 31, under arrangement with President Sam Breadon. The Browns will train at Ana heim, next spring instead of DeLand, their 1942 camp site, General Manager William DeWitt announced last night. DeWitt said the club had no complaints about DeLand, except that it waa off major transporta tion lines.

"Anaheim is only 30 miles from Los Angeles," he declared, "and interurban cars run there every hour, so we'll have no transporta tion worries." The Browns shifted to DeLand last year after training; for sev eral years at San Antonio, Tex. Hunk Anderson And Johnsos to Coach Pro Bears CHICAGO, Oct 29 (AP). Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos were appointed co-coaches of the Chi cago Bears today as George Halas, coach-owner of the National Foot ball League champions officially relinquished his duties to become a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve. 1 Anderson has been an assistant coach since 1940. Previously he held coaching positions at Notre Dame, his alma mater; North Car olina State, St Louis University, Michigan and Cincinnati University and was on the Detroit Lions staff one season.

Johnsos has been a player and coach with the Bears since his graduation from Northwestern in 1929. Paddy Driscoll, who will be the Bears' backfield coach and liasion man under the new setup, has been with the Bears since 194L He formerly coached at Marquette University. Halas will leave Friday to report at the Navy's Pre-Flight School at Norman, Sunday. A FULL page of pictures covering the highlights of the career of Branch Rickey, who has quit the Cardinals to become president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, will appear in PICTURES section of Sunday's Post-Dispatch. Missouri Has Gained 434 Yards A Game to Take Offensive Lead 1) Moving from the Browns to the Cardinals in 1917, when the club was purchased by a syndicate of men, he served as president, field manager and vice-president and general manager.

During his regime the Cardinals won six pennants and four world championships and in the most recent triumph, the team's 1942 victory over the fabulous Yankees, virtually every man on the St. Louis squad was a product of the farm system which Rickey conceived and developed. Rickey's appointment as director of the Brooklyn property terminates the long-lived partnership with Sam Breadon, who has served as president of the Cardinals through the years of their prosperity. During those years, it is estimated, Rickey received more than $1,000,000 in salary and bonus money. His most recent five-year contract, which expires with the end of the year, called for a basic annual salary of $50,000 and a percentage of the profits.

For 1941 his share of the profits brought his income from the club to approximately $88,000. First intimation that a breach had developed in the Rickey-Brea-don relations came in the spring of 1941, when the Post-Dispatch disclosed exclusively, that Rickey had been informed that because of uncertain world economic conditions and the threat of war, the club did not deem it wise to renew his five-year contract. Coolness Develops. Neither Rickey nor Breadon has ever discussed the causes of the breach, but persons close to the club had noticed a coolness developing between president and general manager in recent years. It was a strange partnership always, with each having always a great respect for the ability of the other, while their personalities, habits and views of extra-curricular things were so diametrically opposed that there never was any etrong bond of friendship between the partners.

During the early days of Rickey's association with the Cardinals, the team was so poor that eld uniforms had to be patched to clothe the team in the spring, and as there was no money for trans- champion, died at Grants Ore. of a heart ailment Hi finished third in the Grand ican at Dayton, O. last summer CORNWALL'S Army entry urn yucuct ociuur xaocKey Laruj handed the Montral Canadiem 5-4 defeat in an exhibition em, The BOSTON BRUINS of th. National League defeated the R. A.

F. Flyers, 6-4. DANNY COOGAN, 66, former big lea, player died in a Philadelphia ho, pital after a nine-months' illness. At the age of 19, he signed with the Washington National! a catcher and later served shortstop and utility player. r.

bination. The No. 1 backfield, which Hinkle hopes will take can of a properly softened Missouri squad, will include Schneidman at quarter, Smith and Anderson at the halves and Sweiger at fullback. The Sailors say it will hi well for the Tigers to watch An derson, as that ball carrier has been averaging eight yardi a try at Great Lakes opponents. I 16 Former St.

Louis Players to Get Chance COLUMBIA, Oct. 29. Six- teen former St. Louis district high school players are certain to sec action with the Tigers in their game against Great Lakes Sato day at Sportsman's Park in St Louis. While Coach Don Fa rot hajdiw played his usual reticence in nouncing the starting lineup in ad vance, it is fairly certain to includt at least seven ex-St.

Louisang. Th Tiger squad includes 24 players from St. Louis district. If the Tiger coach wished, could start an all-St. Louis tear which wouldn't rank far in often sive or defensive power behind th 11 men who probably wul chosen.

Such a lineup would it elude Bob Sweeney, Soldan, Bob Callahan, Beaumont, at center: Mike Tarpoff, Granite City 111., and Mike Fitzgerald, Centri at guards; Bernard Pepper, Mt Bride, Ed Hodges, McKinley, Milla, McKinley, Don Ghrist, Pitt field. 111., or the injured Stank Schultz, Soldan, at tackles; Jac Lister, Normar-dy; Jack Mortorj East St. Louis, Marshall Shui-nas, Central, or John Moore, Rook- velt, at ends; Ed Gerker, cnait inade of Clayton, at quarterback Bob Steuber, C. B. at left half Wilbur Volz, Edwardaville, HI.

right half; and Jack Keith, Gi lespie, 111., at fullback. One Loyola Star Gains 800 Yards Rv James M. Gould" Some weeks, in preparation ford to stress either offense or I defense. WThat makes it tougniij the coaches is to have to ado I both departments are weatc trv two-clv bit of play-bolster inr TViat ohnllt S11TT1S UD ttl S1' uation this week at St. Louis 1I versitv where thev are expectitn a Sunday afternoon call from tlM 5 mio tt nf Ansel'5-1 Why, if school publicity may accepted, the Lions have in Vim Pacewic, a player who has myself gained some 800 yards tn-season.

The total St. Louis p. fense, running and passing, i yards. Billiken totals for the season i infer a clear explanation of the fou defeats in the five games play From running plays, oppos teams have collected 1138 yart the Billikens. 635.

From comPJ ed passes, opponents have net 635 yards, the Eillikens a erY Ofifi Tn fill R4. first downs B' been recorded for the opposij a.ii average a th psnmronv nvpmee is 7-4 a V7 tnt.l On pass defense, the St U. players also appear weak their five opponents have pleted 34 of 88 passes for npr rent rarnrrl find an of 16 yards per pass while tw home-team has clicked with ow. 18 of 61 passes for a scant 30 cent of completions and has a aged only 11.4 per pass. These figures not only expV the four defeats in five they also give the reason why i Billiken coaches have become pirin-addicts since the season re ly got under way.

And, when add inexperience to the 'tt there's really no reason to luinier ligni on wie far displayed. rv.Vi rhiford i seeking the lineup that should ol ei ate best against Loyola. Leagues Idea a Brainstorm i Stockton appointed president and general was father of the chain store long has been considered one of portation the athletes even trained in St. Louis one season. Finding it impossible to compete in the open market for play ers, Rickey conceived the idea of finding prospects when they were young and planting them on minor league clubs, or farms.

Rival baseball operators laughed at the idea, but it worked with golden magic. Players developed on those farm teams helped the club win its first pennant and world championship in 1926 and other pennants were won in 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934 and 1942. When the Cardinals won the 1942 pennant and then defeated the glamorous Yankees in the world series, Rickey said it was the happiest moment of his life, because it was a victory for his boys, young men who with only a few exceptions, were products of the now far-flung chain store system that Branch has fathered and de veloped. The same rival baseball operators who laughed at the Rickey farm system, since have paid him the compliment of following his lead and now virtually all major league clubs with the necessary means have established similar connections with minor league clubs. Rags to Riches.

At times the Cardinal organiza tion, under Rickey's direction, in eluded more than two dozen minor league affiliates, some owned out right, others controlled by work ing agreements. And from a poverty-stricken club in 1917, the Cardinals have grown to an organization appraised in the millions. Several years ago Lou Wentz, Oklahoma oil operator, offered and almost purchased the Cardinals for a little more than a million dol lars. It is doubtful if that figure would be attractive to Breadon today, if world conditions were nor mal. Besides the local property, the Cardinals own the Rochester club in the International League, Co lumbus in the American Associa tion, Sacramento in the Pacific Coast and Houston in the Texas League, each of these more important minor league holdings being worm, in normal times, more than $500,000.

St. Louis Clubs Rickey Notifies Breadon by Wire BRANCH RICKEY resigned in a telegram to Sam Breadon, president of the Cardinals. The telegram: Sam Breadon: Have just made five-year contract with Brooklyn. Will you please notify press relative to satisfactory termination of my A ou ixmis contract. (Signed) BRANCH RICKEY.

Rickey has joined us," said Leo Durocher, manager of the Dodgers, when he was reached by telephone at his home here. "It looked for a while as though he might go over to the American League, or even into military service, and I feel that we in baseball get a good break in holding onto a man of his caliber." Durocher said he does not contemplate any major changes in the Brooklyn policy, either with regard to the Dodgers or their farm clubs, because of Rickey's connection with the club. "The war will dictate what can be done with building up a farm organization," said Leo. "But you can be sure that the whole organization will be run in the best possible manner because it has at its head the biggest man in baseball. ties rollowing a man who did a wonderful job a wonderful lob: and he's stepping in when trouble is nottest, but he'll do us a lot of good, personally, I'm very happy about it" Will Be Home Saturday.

Sports editor John E. Wray received the following telegram from Rickey: "BROOKLYN, Ot. 29. Termination of St Louis contract has been satisfactorily arranged with Mr. Breadon.

I have made five-year contract with Brooklyn club. "To you and to all the boys on the sports staff of the Post, I wish to express my appreciation of the Started as Catcher for Browns. Associated Press WIreptioto. from the lead to fifth place with 529 yards. Ray Evans of Kansas continued to hold the lead in pass completions with 59, good for 604 yards.

Governali had 49 completions but made them good for 869 yards to lead all throwers In distance gained. Lee Daniels of Texas had 47 completions for 504 yards, Otto Graham of Northwestern 45 for 635 yards, and Sinkwich 42 for 726 yards. Gene Dobbs of Tulsa, fourteenth in completions, had the best percentage with 25 out of 36 going good. McKay showed he can punt as well as run and pass for Texas as he took the lead in kicking with 21 boots averaging 46.38 yards. Cullen Rogers of Texas A.

M. stayed ahead in pass re ceiving with 24 catches, good for 271 yards, although his gains were far overshadowed by those of Sinkwich's mate, Davis. Split That "brainstorm" plan to split each major league into Eaatern and Western sections was a little too corny for the magnates The suggestion, anonymously fathered, was designed to save transportation costs during war times But the club owners have replied with a loud NO! Just another blowout While splitting the National and American League into East-West sections is a bit sudden we may even say radical there's a germ in the thought that might bear fruit if and when war ends and we return to normalcy. It seems evident that eoon or later, the rumblings of recent years about circuit changes may take form. After the war baseball agreements may have to be changed The existing territorial rights may have to be scrapped And something new in baseball could easily arise.

In that case how about forming Eastern and Western major leagues, in place of the National and American? Or, keep the old names but form one circuit of Western cities and the other of Eastern? That would cut down transportation costs, to say the least And might add a new sectional zest to the world series rivalry What's that? Oh, just another brainstorm, i it? Well, we're all entitled to have one of those things during a lifetime. The Pimlico Special needs plenty of tinkering before it will realize the "dream race" hopes of its originators. First thing Reeded is to take the "winner take all'' clause out of the conditions. That would prevent another Whirlaway walkover. In three of the six Pimlico Specials run since its inaugural only two horses started.

Yesterday only one went to the post. Obviously something is wrong. Hey There, Grandpa Here's Your Chance! PLAYERS in all professional sports able to carry on under war conditions next year probably be under or over ths age at which athletic peaks are possible. But after all the game's the thing, not ths high Lieut. Paul Hinkle, coach of the Great Lakes football team, has picked a Commando starting lineup to soften up the Missouri Tigers, he hopes, in Saturday's game at Sportsman's Park.

The athletes selected have never played together as a 'unit, but they are tough and sturdy and if every thing works out as planned, the Tigers will be more vulnerable when the Commando group retires in favor of the so-called No. 1 Sailor team. Hickey and Mulleneaux will be at the ends when the Commandos take the field, with Rossi and Nate Johnson at tackle, Bussler and Crawford the guards and Nelson at center. In the starting back-field will be Mucha at quarterback, Heffernan and Popov at the halves and Belichick at fullback. These hale and hearty sailors are being drilled to stress offensive maneuvers, and the only monkey wrench that might be thrown into the arrangements, would be for the Tigers to get possession of the ball and hold it too long.

However, Coach Hinkle is going to take that chance. When the Commandos have car ried through the softening up assignments, Preston and Brickey will take over the end jobs, with Hudson and Barber relieving the starting tackles and Radovich and Zarnas moving in as guards. Petry will be the center in the new com AAAX4A44AALia4M Blowout Opinions that professional sports of all sorts will surrender are frequently heard. All gates will be closed, is the gloom word. But that seems extreme at this time.

Last World War we started baseball campaigns in the second year of the fighting. The season was cut short a little but a world series was played. Horse-racihg never has been stronger than now. Even if Uncle Sam doesn't get a share of the mutuels, you can expect racing to continue. They might have to rob the cradle or the old folk's home for our jockeys.

But the show would go on. 40.68 in 50. i Boston College held its position as top defensive team against rush ing with an average yield of 25.5 yards, with Hardin-Simmons second with 32.3, followed by Vander- bilt's 36 and Detroit's 40. Figures on the first seven total offense leaders: Missouri, six games, 2023 yards by rushing, 582 by passing, 2605. total; Georgia, six games, 1480 yards by rushing, 1107 by passing, 2587 total; Tulsa, five games, 1049 yards by rushing, 1048 by passing, 2097 total; Ohio State, five games, 1646 yards by rushing, 424 by passing, 2070 total; Texas, six games, 1739 yards by rushing, 590 by passing, 2329 total; Vander-bilt, five games, 1347 yards by rushing, 559 by passing, 1906 total; Boston College, four games, 1021 yards by rushing, 379 by passing, 1400 total.

Sinkwich has put two field lengths between himself and Columbia's Paul Governali in their feud for ranking as 1942's leading ground gainer. Sinkwich has gained 1170 yards by passing and running in six games to take a commanding 200-yard margin over Governali, who has played in one less game. Lamarr Davis, the Georgia sprint star, who occasionally takes Sinkwich's passes, has gathered in 12 of them on plays covering 410 yards almost an unparalleled mark. Last Saturday against Cincinna ti two touchdowrQ passes from Sinkwich to Davis gained 80 and 89 yards, longest such performances of the year. As a result Sinkwich, who a week ago held a scant 17-yard edge over Governali, moved so far in front that it ap pears only injury or maybe Ala bama this week can put a stop to his rush.

Trailing Sinkwich and Gover nali were Missouri's Bob Steuber; 883 yards in six games; Arizona's Bob Ruman, 876 yards in five games, and Texas' Roy McKay, 823 yards in six games. Steuber's advance from fifth to third in total offense was made possible by 137 yards pf ground gained against Iowa State, and this vaulted the Missouri boy into the lead in individual rushing with 635 yards. Rudolph (Little Doc) Mobley of Hardin-Simmons came up from fifth to second in individual rushing with a 604-yard net Gene Fek-ete of Ohio State climbed from seventh to third with 550 vards. Ruman of Arizona dropped from second to fourth with 531 yards and Bob Margarita of Brown slid Year by Year With B.R.in St. Louis 1881 Born on farm near Portsmouth, O.

1905 Joined the St. Louis Browns as a catcher. 1906 Catcher on Browns, traded to New York. 1912 Joined the Browns as talent scout on Pacific Coast 1913 Moved into Browns' office as secretary. 1916 Appointed manager of the Browns.

1917 Became president and field manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. 1924 Became general manager of the Cardinals. 1925 (May) Gave over field managership to Rogers Wornsby, retained vice-presidency. 1934 Sold his stock in the Cardinals to Clarence Howard Jr.

1936 (May 20) Elected to Methodist-Episcopal Board of CHICAGO, Oct. 29 (AP). Col legiate football is streaking to new offensive heights this year on the backs of Missouri and Georgia. Missouri, paced by Bob Steuber, the nation's leading scorer, has averaged 434 yards a game for six contests. Georgia, led by Frankie Sinkwich, has rolled along at a 431 clip in the same number of encounters.

The American Football Statis tical Bureau, in releasing today's figures, said that it believed it had some imposing figures three years ago when Cornell, in six games averaged 409 yards before bumping into Dartmouth and Pennsylvania. But today Missouri and Georgia not only are far ahead of that pace but are being pushed by two other elevens. In five games, Tulsa has a 419 total offensive average and Ohio State 414. Tigers Ahead in Rushing. Missouri and Ohio State, inci dentally, are the two top running teams of the naticfn, Missouri having gained 2023 of its 2605 total yardage by rushing and Ohio State 1646 of its 2070.

Georgia, thirteenth in rushing, is making up its difference in passing where it continues to run third behind Columbia and Tulsa. Columbia has averaged' 212 yards a game, Tulsa 209 and Georgia 184, with Maryland right behind at 182. Allround honors, however, go to little Tulsa, undefeated in five games. In addition to being third in total offense and second in passing, the Golden Hurricanes are first in total defense (allowing opponents an average of 84 yards a game), first in pass defense (permitting 25 yards a game), third in punting and eleventh in rushing. A Real Pass Defense.

Tulsa's pass defense has been so good that the Hurricanes have intercepted more aerials (11) than their foes have completed (10) Harvard, in the last six years prob ably the nation's most consistently strong team against forwards, also has yielded only 25 yards, but the percentage or enemy pass completions has been greater (.314 to In total defense, Detroit trails Tulsa with 95.5 average yield; Van-derbilt has given up 96.6 and Alabama and William and Mary each 108. Texas came all the way from eleventh place to take over the punting leadership from Tulsa. Texas in six games has averaged 41.55 yards in 31 kicks; Tennessee 41.44 in 43, Tulsa 41.26 in 23, Rice 40.73 in 37, and North- Carolina fair and indeed generous consideration you have all accorded to me for many years. "Expect to return to St. Louis Saturday forenoon.

"BRANCH RICKEY." NO SUCCESSOR FOR THE PRESENT No one will be appointed immediately to succeed Rickey, President Breadon said, and the club will not know until after the December meetings where the minor league clubs stand. "That will throw a lot of work on your shoulders, won't it?" Breadon was asked, and he replied Maybe for a while." Asked if anyone would be brought In from the minor league organization to help out he said no. As to Rickey's salary, Breadon said that would end on Oct 31, but that his bonus would be paid on the basis of the entire year's earnings, to be determined by an audit at the end of the year. Managed Both Moving to Brooklyn, where he will succeed the fiery and colorful Larry MacPhail, now a lieutenant colonel In the Army and in his early baseball days a protege of Rickey, Branch will find a setup drastically different from the one he is leaving in St. Louis.

With the Cardinals, in a city of less than a million population, it was customary and allegedly necessary, to sell players each year, to balance the budget and put substantial profits on the books. In Brooklyn, under the MacPhail regime, it has been the custom to buy players MacPhail, in fact, was one of Rickey's best customers. It was to Brooklyn that Rickey sold Joe Medwick, Curt Davis, Mickey Owen, Don Padgett and others. Baseball conditions have changed radically, too, since Rickey found a new idea and turned it into a for tune for Cardinal stockholders. Competition in the farm system has become keen, and especially under war conditions, the scouting business is poor, with the armed forces having first call on the young men who in normal times would be prospects for baseball talent hunters.

Rickey's baseball career in St. Louis started as a catcher with the Browns, who in that year 1906 were known as the Ravens. He returned to the St. Louis American League club in 1913, as secretary, and became manager the following season. He was still manager in 1917, when a syndicate, headed by J.

C. Jones, purchased the Cardinals, then playing at Robison Field, Vandeventer and Natural Bridge, from Mrs. Helene Hathaway Brit-ton. With the Cardinals Rickey served as president, and later as manager. In late May of 1925, Breadon appointed Rogers Horns-by to replace Rickey as field manager, and Branch moved to the front office as- vice-president and general manager.

Another power that may be applied to playing it. Most military, air and naval authorities Gene Tunney excepted seem to think that athletic games help develop condition and fighting power in young fellows. For that reason all sports probably will be encouraged. Our guess now is that most major professional sports will at least start their campaigns next year. Europe's experience in this, the third year of World War No.

2. indicates this country will not fold up its recreation promotions in 1943. "Hell Do Us a Lot of Good," Durocher Says. "I think baseball generally and the Brooklyn ball club in particular are very fortunate that Mr..