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President Eisenhower opened the American League season last week with an easy, overhand toss (see NEWS IN PICTURES), then grabbed his shoulder with his left hand and made a grimace of pain. His bursitis was acting up. Washington Senators Manager Charley Dressen suggested a vibrator, but Ike had a treatment of his own: eight days of golf in Augusta. Curiously enough, his bursitis seems both to be improved by golf and to improve his game. Golf's controlled, smooth motions help the presidential shoulder, and the controlled, smooth motions made necessary by bursitis subdue Ike's tendency...
...Cleveland Indians, and called up Michael Franklin ("Pinky") Higgins. A capable third baseman on the champion Red Sox of 1946, Pinky has been managing in the minors ever since. ¶ In Washington, the stumbling Senators turned loose Bucky Harris, a 30-year veteran of the managerial wars, hired Charley Dressen, who wrote himself out of a job last fall by asking for a three-year contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and spent a year in exile with the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League. ¶ In Detroit, the Tigers got rid of Fred Hutchinson, promptly sent for Bucky Harris...
...Washington, the sadly slumping Senators fired Manager Bucky Harris after five losing years, were reported ready to hire Chuck Dressen, who led the Brooklyn Dodgers to two successive National League pennants (1952-53) before being fired himself. In New York, after his first losing season in six years, Manager Casey Stengel was given a new, two-year contract by the Yankees (estimated salary...
...Brooklyn Dodgers will take the field in 1954 without former Manager Charley Dressen who: 1. Would not accept a one-year contract...
...last week, Charley Dressen learned an old baseball lesson that he should have known by heart: losers are expendable. O'Malley said all the right things-how Brooklyn would miss him, and how, if Charley changed his mind, he could have his job again, for a year. But by next day the front-office line had a fare-thee-well note to it. Said O'Malley: "It is inconceivable to me that Charley would humiliate himself and ask for a one-year contract at this point...