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...stories, sportwriters on Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker tend to forget about the class struggle. Last week this tendency to capitalist complacency got a pair of them into trouble. In reporting the Polo Grounds row between New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher and a fan named Fred Boysen (see SPORT), the Daily Worker sport page played it straight at first. Wrote Columnist Bill Mardo: "One wants to see the respective merits of this case, and nothing else, brought out in the open and aired properly . . ." And Columnist Lester Rodney chimed in: "I'm making no prejudgment here...
...things had turned out, hasty Happy Chandler seemed to be as much on the hook as Lippy Leo had appeared to be when Heckler Boysen caught up with him in short centerfield...
Cried Durocher: "I did not punch anybody. I did not jump or step on Fred Boysen ... If I had done any of those things ... I would have walked right up to Horace Stoneham and [resigned] . . . because I know that I would be through with 'baseball." Leo said he had merely given a shove to somebody who came up behind him and who, he thought, was trying to grab...
...surprising reception-and some good news-awaited The Lip at La Guardia Airport. Fred Boysen had been discharged from the hospital without even a bruise to back up his story. The press, scampering to the defense of Lippy, whom it ordinarily loves to ride, had found that Boysen had a police record as a street brawler. His first lawyer had withdrawn from the case. Morris Golding, the spectator who had helped to take Boysen to the hospital and called the lawyer, had revised his opinion: "I should have minded my own business. Boysen obviously wasn't hurt, but Durocher...
...love for Leo but felt that every man deserved a fairer deal than feckless Happy Chandler had dished out. Among the 100 affidavits collected for the defense of The Lip was one from George Cronk, a railroad fireman who swore that he, not Durocher, had accidentally tripped over Boysen and kicked...