Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-26 | Page 15 | Browns Tell Gabby They Will Get New Manager next Year

Browns Tell Gabby They Will Get New Next Year YearBy V Manager I By PAUL DEC IX United Press Tress Sports Writer ST. ST T. T LOUIS Sept 26 UP UP-St. UP St St. Louis Brown officials thumbed through baseballs baseball's Who Vho today searching for a new manager manager man man- ager to replace Charles CharIes E. E Gabby Street man 1 Admitting g that the Old Sarge had served the club faithfully and had done doze as well as anyone else could have with the material at hand General Manager Donald L. L Barnes Issued a that the Browns Browns' would have a new pilot In 1939 News of ot Gabby's Cabby's forthcoming dismissal dismissal dis dis- dis- dis missal followed by two weeks the discharge of ot Frankie Frisch as manager manager manager man man- ager of the St. St Louis Cardinals and followers immediately be began began began be- be gan speculating as to whether Frisch might get the Browns Browns' va Va- cancy Barnes said club officials had no other manager in mind He Re said that Street had come into the office yesterday after fter the Browns Browns' had w won wan n a header double-header from Chicago and asked about his status fore for next year I 1 advised him the club did not expect to renew his contract for 1939 Barnes said He Be has served the he club faithfully and I believe he has done as es well with it as anyone could have but I believe it is necessary necessary necessary sary to engage a new manager Street will finish out the season Barnes refused to give a hint as to who his successor might be It n will be a considerable time after the he season is closed before a new leader eader Is selected he said r t Gabby Street Club Improves improves im fm- Im- Im proves pro under his leadership but buthe buthe buthe he will wili be released nevertheless Frankie's Friends Friend's Say Hes He's Not I Interested in Joi Joining ning Browns Sources close to Frisch denied he I Iwas was vas interested in the job He would not have it one said Something better than managing the Browns is s sure to turn up for him It would not be surprising to see him with the he Giants or the Dodgers next year Street who once caught a ball thrown off the Washington monument monument monument ment to establish a height record that hat was wes broken this year at Cleveand Cleveland Cleveland Cleve- Cleve land and came to the Browns as a coach last ast year under Jim Bottomley made acting manager following the dismissal of Rogers Hornsby Dur Dur- ing Bottomley's ill illness s toward the end of the season Gabby was at t the helm Although Street was given only a year one-year contract news of his dismissal dis dis- dis- dis missal came as a surprise With virtually virtually virtually vir vir- vir- vir no player improvement he raised the club a notch notch from from eighth to seventh seventh seventh-in in the standings this year and he was believed to be in solid for Jor at least one more term Street who will be 56 this week began his baseball career in 1900 and played for 29 years before he laid aside his mask and mitt He caught Walter Johnson for four years