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0 Tnr MrorosD (OREoom mail tribune Ward Alston Feels Should Continue in On Strength of Its Br LEO H. PETERSEN United Prei sSports Editor Brooklyn (UP.) Walt Alston, the man who was hired to "beat the Yankees" and did it, de clared today his world cham pion Brooklyn Dodgers should continue their domination the next few years on the strength of their brilliant young pitchers. "I'm very optimistic about the club's future," said Alston, who accomplished the job he was hired for when he led the Dodgers to their first world New York Jttl.R) Final facts and figures on the 1955 World Series: Final Standings: Brooklyn Dodgers win, four game to three. Game Scores: , ist Yankees 6. Dodgers 5. 2nd Yankees 4, Dodgers 2. 3rd Dodgers 8, Yankees 3. 4th Dodgers 8, Yankees 5. 5th Dodgers 5, Yankees 3. 6th Yankees 5, Dodgers 1. 7th Dodgers 2, Yankees 0. Total Attendance: 362,310. Total Net Receipts Wiihoui Television: $2,347,515.34. New series record. Commissioner's Share: $1,332, 034.15. Players' Share (players parti ciptate in receipts of only first four games): $655,523.59. 0 FT STEALS SECOND Yankee shortstop Phil Rizznto scoots intosecond on a steal as Billy Martin strikes out the 'sUdnmTDodgel second baseman Jim Gilliam takes Boy 0 G&panella's fete throw. Yankees won, five to one. : KICKING UP DUST, Yankees' Phil Rizzuto steals second as Billy Martin struck out in first inning. Gilliam got throw from Campanella shade too late. Rizzuto later scored first run for Yankees who defeated Dodgers, 5-1. (InUrnatwnaX) 0 SCORING THREE RUNS, here's fans', view of Skowron's homer in first inning that gave New York Yankees third victory, knotting World Series, 3-3. Skowron is trotting to first, Bauer rounds second and Berra is passing third. Yanks won by 5-1 score. (InUmatwmmQ championship m history Tues day. "We have so many fine young pitchers," Alston pointed out, "that I don't anticipate any seri ous trouble In that department for a long time to come." One of the youngsters he had in mind principally was Johnny Podres, the-steel-nerved 23-year- old southpaw who throttled .the vaunted Yankees, 2-0, on eight hits in the seventh and deciding game of the 1955 World Series before : 62.465 fans at Yankee Stadium Tuesday "Podres was magnificent," Al ston said. "He did everything anyone could ask of him and then some." -Thinking of Future , Thinking in terms of the fu ture, Alston said Podres will have such youthful running mates on the Brooklyn pitching staff as right-handers Roger Craig, Don Bessent and Ed Roe buck, along with left-handers Karl Spooner and Sandy Kou- fax. ' Craig, the "surprise starter" and winner of the fifth game of the World Series, is only 24, as are Bessent, Roebuck, and Spooner. Koufax, the bonus lefty who showed so well near the end of the National . League season but saw no action in the series, hasn't reached his 20th birthday yet Wednesday, October S. 195S Brooklyn Top Spot Hurlers ' Podres, who celebrated his 23rd birthday with his first se ries triumph over the Yankees in the third game of the classic, was mobbed by his hysterically happy, teammates after beating the Bronx Bombers in the wrap up again Tuesday. The victory by the Dodgers was history-making in many re spects. Not only had they licked the Yankees after five fruitless tries' previously but they also won the biggest box-office se ries ever. When the total net re ceipts were counted they came to $2,337,513.43, a new series record. Precadani Shatlerina Triumoh Brooklyn's comeback triumph was also precedent shattering in that the Dodgers became the first team in history ever to win a seven-game series after drop ping the first two contests. Southpaw Tommy Byrne, who won the second game of the se ries and started for the Yankees Tuesday, matched ciphers with Podres until the fourth inning when the Dodgers scored their first run on a double by Roy Campanella, an infield out and a single by Gil Hodges. A sacri fice fly by Hodges brought in Pee Wee Reese with an insur ance run in the sixth inning. Podres was in only two real tight spots but worked his way out of both of them. With two men on and none out in tne sivth. Yoei Berra hit a ball along the left field foul line that threatened to drop lor extra bases. But speedy Sandy Amoros, who had replaced Jun inr nilliam in left field during that samp frame, came from no where to grab the ball and relay it back to the infield for a double play. Struck Out Bauer Rerra came ud again with twn Tnn on and one out in the eighth but Podres induced him to hit to Carl Furillo in short risht field! then struck out Hank Bauer to end the Yankees' final threat. TSnth Alston and Yankee Man ager Casey Stengel agreed that Amoros catch of terra s smasn in the sixth inning was the key play of the game. Oddly Amoros entered the game only Decause Shuba had batted for Don Zimmer in the sixth and Gilliam moved to second base in nlare of Zimmer. Amoros. an amiable little t,u- han who is much more at ease in the field than he is with the English , language, got the mes sage across later tnat ne never made a better catch m nis me He said he was no more than : yard from the left field fence when he grabbed the ball. Stengel, a , gracious loser, nraised Podres' Ditching but said the four home runs by Duke Sni der during the series "hurt us the most. Mack Will Have Surgery on Hip Philadelphia (U.R) Connie Mack, 92-year-old former owner- manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, was to undergo an operation today to speed healing of his fractured right hip. Dr. Illarion Gopadze, Mack family physician, said the sur gery will be performed at Pres byterian hospital, where the grand old man of baseball is re ported in satisfactory condition, . Mack fractured the hip when he fell getting out of of bed from his usual afternoon nap at his apartment last Saturday. Fight Results By UNITED STATES Toledo. Ohio Jimmv Martinez. 160. Phoenix. Ariz., outpointed Pedro Gon zales, 101, amun, pa. (10). Detroit Yama Bahama. 151 , Ba hama Islands, knocked out Gene Par ker. 141, Indianapolis. Ind. (2). Read anrl TTs riflHfi.rf AHs The Community's Biggest Marketplace l&H0GjTRI3fJ9II its -r';Bn.;J, V JVi STREAKING HOME on Junior Gilliam's double, Sandy Amo ros, Dodger outfielder is called safe by Umpire Dascoli as Yankee catcher Yogi Berra gets peg too late. (International) Podres' Fast Ball Gets Job Done in Final (Editor's Note: Southpaw Johnny Podres pitched the Dodgers to their first world championship on Tuesday by beating the Yankees for fhe second time in the World Ser ies, 2-0. In the following dis patch, he tells how he did it.) By JOHNNY PODRES As Told To United Press New York (U.R) I'm glad there's no law against happiness because man, oh man, I'd sure be exceeding the legal limit. A numb feeling took hold of me as soon as Pee Wee Reese threw the ball to Gil Hodges for the final out and to tell you the truth, I'm still in some sort of a daze. . All of a sudden everybody was grabbing me after that last put out. Someone had my head, some one else had my leg and a third guy was grabbing my arm. Jeep- ers, I didn't know where I was. I don't want to sound like one of those know-it-alls, but I knew we were going to win the series all the time. Ask Pee Wee Reese. I told him we were going to win. Army Gridders Burned by Lime Ft. Lee, Va. (U.R) An Army spokesman at Ft. Lee re vealed Tuesday that 27 U. S. Army football ' players were burned by a mixture of rain and lime in a- football game here Friday night. Eleven of them were hospitalized with second degree burns. Among them was Johnny Latt ner, a former Notre Dame back who won the Heisman award as the nation's top football play er in 1953. Lowell Perry, All America candidate in 1952 at the University of 'Michigan, and six other former college players were also hospitalized. The lime apparently came from markers that were drench ed by rain during a football game between teams from Ft. Lee . and Boiling Field, Washing ton. The spokesman said the lime was of a type that will . burn the skin when mixed with wa ter. He promised a complete in vestigation of the incident. Giles Claims Series Ends Domination by Yanks AL New York U.R) National League President Warren Giles said x today that the Brooklyn Dodgers' World Series triumph over the Nsw York Yankee; "signalled the official end of more than two decades of domi nation by both the American league and the Yankees.' "We beat an American league team when the Giants defeated the Indians last year," Giles said. "But everybody said that you . don't beat the American league itself until you beat the Yankees." Giles pointed out that Tues day's National league victory marked ,the first time the cir cuit bad won two straight World Series since 1933 and 1934 when the Giants beat the Wash ington Senators and the famous "Gas House Gang" St. Louis Cardinals downed the Detroit Tigers. In addition, Giles pointed out, the National league has won three of the last four All-Star CONCRETE Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS s -rfc - w mst Series Fray My change-up was the pitch that beat the Yankees in the third game of the series but it was my fast ball that got the job done today. I wasn't espec ially worried when Mickey Mantle came up as a pinch hitter with one on in the seventh in ning. I simply kept the ball up on him and got him to pop the oaii up to .Fee wee. My curve ball wasn't especial ly good so I let my fast ball do most of the work. What did the skipper Walt Al ston say to me when Yogi Berra was up with two on and one out in the eighth? He told me Berra was going to go all out for the long ball and I told him I knew it. So I worked on him especial ly carefully. Sandy Amoros made the play of the game out in left field in the sixth inning when he grab bed Berra's shot near the left field foul line and turned it into a double play. That was the play that really saved the day. My dad came down special from our home in Witherbee, N.Y., to see me pitch today and I m glad I didn't disappoint him OSC-WSC Hassle Won't Be on TV Corvallis '(U.R) Athletic Di rector Spec Keene said today that Oregon State's homecoming football game with Washington State on Oct. 22 would not be telecast as planned earlier. Keene said he was notified that the California - Southern California game in Berkeley would replace the OSC-WSC telecast. Stable Gets Good Price In Sale of Yearlings Lexington, Ky. U.R) Wal lace Hall Farms sold 43 year lings for $197,100 Tuesday night for an average of $4,584, which is 25 per cent over last year's $3,627 average for the same number of head. In the four sessions so far of the Tattersalls Inc. annual year ling sales, 185 head have sold for $602,500, or an average of $3,205, topping the all time record aver age of $3,163 set in 1952. Thursday night, the Frost Hill Farm of Edinburgh, Ind., will sell a full sister to the great champion Scott Frost. games played between the two leagues. - "Theje should no longer be anv doubt that the National league is the stronger league,' he said. "The Dodgers' victory this year proved it. LEGAL NOTICES ' NOTICE OF HEARING ON ANNEXATION Notice is hereby given that a pub lic hearing will be held by and before the council of the City of Medford at the hour of 12 o'clock noon. October 20th. 1955. at the Council Chamber in the City Hall of the City of Med ford upon the question of annexation to the City of Medford of territory in Jackson County. Oregon, contiguous to the City of Medford and described as follows, to-wit: All of Block Six (8 of the EX TENSION OF SISKIYOU HEIGHTS ADDITION to the City of Med ford, Jackson County, Oregon, ac cording to the official plat there- ' of, now of record. The registered voters of the City of Medford may, at said hearing, appear and be heard by the Council on the question of the annexation of said territory to the City of Medford as aforesaid. By order of the Council of toe City of Medford. Neva Samueli. Recorder City of Medford Reese Find's Title Hard To Believe Brooklyn (U.R) Pee Wee Reese, a man who was beginning to believe the worm never would turn, pinched himself today to make sure that it really had. "Honest, I can still hardly be lieve it's true," smiled the vet eran 36-year-old shortstop who played on five World Series los ers with the Brooklyn Dodgers and looked like he was going to make it six until they beat the New York Yankees Tuesday for their first world title. "As the game went on and we were leading by two runs, I was afraid something was going to happen ... I didn't know exact ly what but I was sure it would be something bad." Reese had a right to feel ap prehensive. He joined the Dodg ers in 1940 and starting in 1941, he watched Brooklyn fritter away World Series after World Series in one manner or anoth er. Wanted BadlT "I never really thought I'd get another chance to be on a win ning World Series club- after that 1953 series," Reese admit ted. "And brother, how badly I wanted one of those World Series rings." The popular Dodger captain referred to the rings which are annually awarded to each mem ber of the world championship club from Baseball Commission er Ford Frick's office. Frick personally came over to congratulate Pee Wee in the Brooklyn dressing room Tues day, shaking Reese's hand and saying "You waited so long that maybe you ought to get two dia monds in your ring instead of one." Taylor Selected Mentor of Week By United Press By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer Stanford, Calif . (U.R) He's the greatest exponent of posi tive thinking in the coaching business and he confidently ex' pects his team to win every game. The fact they are outmanned at every position doesn't even occur to him. And more often than not his philosophy results in a victory. That's the way it goes for the United Press Coach of the Week, "Lucky" Chuck Taylor of the Stanford Indians. Have a Chance "I never go into a game ex pecting to lose," said Taylor. "I think we have a chance to win every game." With that line of reasoning, he set up the young season's greatest upset last Saturday when his Indians turned back Hopalong Cassady and the Ohio State Scarlet Scourge, 6-0. "I said all along Ohio State could be had," he declared. "And I figured we had a defense to stop Cassady. We let the rest take care of itself." In Kentucky, the Bourbon Capital because;;. Kentucklans who produce and enjoy the world's finest whisky know it's the best whisky made. because;;: If s bottled at the peak of perfection . . . enjoyed at the peak of flavor. because.;; Ifs every ounce a man's whisky ...the whisky that made Kentucky whiskies famous. Omw. c t. m. m. ' KENTUCKY STUISHT I0UM0N WHISKY - ;v-; vi , ;-"ri MARTIN UPSET Dodger's Gil Hodges upsets Billy Martin (right) as he slides into second in the second inning of the sixth game of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. Martin, however, made the force on Hodges and then threw to first to double up Jackie Rohmson, who started the play by grounding to Gil McDougald at third base. Dodgertown Whirls Like Carrousel Brooklyn (U.R) ' Brooklyn home of the "Bums" who became world champions after 55 years, is spinning like a merry-go- round at Coney Island today. The celebration of the "next year" that finally came may go right on until next year. A howl of joy split the air from "Greenpernt" to Coney. and wildly tooting auto horns joined in the uproar. Business firms gave1 up work they had to, because their employees were too busy celebrating. . Everyone Goes Crazy One storekeeper on Flatbush "Avenoo" went stark, scream ing crazy and started selling everything at 10 per cent off. "What goes on here?" demand ed an irate truck driver of a beaming cop as the crowds caus ed a traffic jam in the down town business district "The Dodgers win the series and everybody goes crazy." "What's wrong with that?" grinned the cop and the traffic stayed jammed. .' ; . Dummies labeled "Yankees' were quickly strung up to some of those famous trees that grow in Brooklyn. Everybody ran to telephones. The Phone company reported that from 3:44 to 4:01 all circuits in the city were jammed and one official said it probably was due to "Dodger fans arranging celebrations.":'.- Courtesy Chevrolet Urges You to Support th United Medford Crusade as their own personal choice I f 1 1 f8 tm mm TUB I I msmjjmwTMMKN III asacur vmtsuu umm I MS III! nuuimiV Jam - I ZSSmmmmimmmm I ,10 pinr N PBOOF EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY Stengel Says He Game Wrong New York (U.R) Casey Stengel, a losing manager in World Series for the first time, was a sadder and a wiser man today. All through the night the 65- year old manager, who led the New York . Yankees to five World Championships and six ' American League titles in seven yejkj-s, was his own greatest "sec ond guesser." "I played the game wrong," Stengel said, following Tues day's 2-0 loss to the Brooklyn. Dodgfts. "I had my hitters tak ing' on Johnny Podres and I shoulda had 'em hitting. Should Have Been Swinging "I knew the kid hadn't pitched a complete game in his league since mid-July," Stengel ex plained. "So, I figured he couldn't last and I had our hit ters faking the pitches. But he did last and I was wrong they should : have tfn up there swinging from the first inning on." "' . Casey, who said he'd be back next year to "try to make the Yankees - world champions again," picked Duke Snider, the Dodgers' slugging center fielder as the man who hurt the Yankees the mfst. "He hit four home runs against me," Stengel said, "and you gotta say anybody who does that hurt you the most." f" of the World mm BtUllII ' f Ml 4 80 45 qt. COMPANY LOWSVILkE 1; KENTUCKY) WW
