Show BAS BASEBALL BAlL By Bv PETE WASHINGTON March 25 Of the six American League clubs with new managers this interesting Interesting interesting inter Inter- year three are particularly esting to this writer Maybe only because of personal preferences or maybe because of more interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting circumstances it is felt that Baltimore Detroit and Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington are most likely to provide the big surprises in the junior league Its It's true that Boston may be as asgood asgood asgood good as any and that Chicago might well be better than any but that would be no surprise that being already expected Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City is an unknown town anc and ana team in the league and doesn't have a manager who stirs the interest interest interest in in- terest that Paul Richards Bucky Hans Haris and Chuck Dressen do Neither does Pinky Higgins at Boston who is a new manager Inthe in inthe inthe the Majors But Haris Hans piloted a winner back in 1947 1447 Dressen has had winners since then Richards Richards Rich Rich- ards has hils had two hot teams in two years and always manages to raise a rumpus in the league Of the three men Harris and Dressen have the best material It would appear Richards has a alot alot alot lot of 01 new faces faces' and plenty of 01 pep pcp and hustle He Ue will have to carry a load himself to get the Orioles moving and he has done doneit it before Dressen has several proven stars Vernon Porterfield Porter Porter- field McDermott Yost Busby Sievers etc But his bench may maybe maybe maybe be thin and he has an age problem lem lam though a fine hurling staff Haris Hans may have the best tal tal- ent He lie has youngsters coming up the ladder like Kuenn Tuttle Kaline Caline and House All AU can hit He lIe Helas has las fine young pitching and sev soy oral eral ral aces for the tough games The team is young having been rebuilt from the ground up by Freddie Hutchinson in the past two wo years Back a few decades Bucky Harris took such a young aggregation aggregation gation a aid d won It all aU They called his ils team In those days the Boy I Wonders Venders He might try the same sort ort of stuff this year and he might have the talent to make it go o. o But most observers think the Tigers igers are arc two or three years away yet Richards might surprise people with his unknown Orioles Dresen Dressen Dressen Dres- Dres sen en might charge up the Senators into nto the first division He couldn't do ilo better they say Anyhow all three teams will be Interesting to o watch in action with new managers managers man man- agers and new Ideas President Eisenhower wants a larger number of nationwide civil I defense tests held on a more real real- basic Civil Defense Admin Administrator Peterson recently asserted assert assert- ed |