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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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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."
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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.":'.-
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Stengel Says
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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
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