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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, October 11. 1957 eries Triumph by Milwaukee Braves Takes Baseball Story Wes 8 Burdette Emerges Hero; Yankee Defeat 3rd Strike Within Year For New York Nw York fL'.P) Final fart nd fisiirrs on Lie 1957 World Kial Milwaukee Brav Va rinnal l.rague s. Nfw ark Van krr AniPriran I.racut. Winnrr Braves. 4 tjamn to J. amr scores Nrw ork 3, Mil waukee 1 (1st); Milwaukee 4. New York t rind): New York 11, Mil waukee 3 (3rd): Milwaukee 7. New 9rk 5 (10 iii'iinss 4tli): Milwau kee I. New York 0 (Jthi: New York 9. Milwaukee fith); Milwaukee 5, f" ork 0 7th). All-time Series .standing!! Braves Aon 2, lost 1 (had l-l rerord as ston Braves); Yankees won 17, frst S. Series attendance 7 names 31' :'-- Net lereipts 7 games &r. -.: jk. i. Slavers" share s7 (in. 0:7. SI (plav tf share in first four games onlv). Commissioner's share $371,- 3t-;.K4. Aitifriran league share situ. ass.SJ. find. 3rd and 4:h place teams participate). National league share S14ft. C.'nd. 3rd and 4th place , tennis participatei. Braves share S1U.Jt8K.fi:: frluh's share in which plaers do not par ticipate). Yankees share S34S.XH8.S? club's share in which players do lut participate). By LEO H. PETERSEN Uniled Press Sports Editor New York !IF New York City mourned the blackest year in its sports history today while the rest of the nation hailed it as ; a year in which the National I r Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport G as The CLEANEST Rock and Sand Makes the STRONGEST CONCRETE And We H ave Both! READY MIX bv BEST BY 1 1 The 2 SUNDAYS - October 13 & 20 Qt TOP NOTCH CAFE 27 South Central, Medford Ham & Eggs Sour Hot All you can cat for $ Kids 75c Everyone invited! Non-hunters & Hunter's Widows, too, league went West and took the New York Yankees' scalp with it. "A great thing for baseball," said Commissioner Ford Frick after the Milwaukee Braves' dream came true with Thurs day's 5-0 Series clincher and Na tional League President Warren Giles echoed the thought with his comment, "A tremendous thing for the league and baseball as a whole." But to New York, the Yan kees" defeat was the final blow th . third strike in a year when the Giants elected to go to San Francisco and the Dodgers quit Erooklyn for Los Angeles. The '"Big City" was confident the Yankees could preserve a meas ure of its pride but even that was stripped away Thursday in the face of Lew Burdette's- amazing mastery over the club that dealt him off as an expendable farm hand in 1951. End Of An Era? The Braves' World Series vic tory means that baseball's story has gone West. The two franchise shifts started the trend and the Yankees' defeat was the clinch er as the pastern mnnnnnlv on World Series triumphs finally was broken. Burdette, of course, emerged as one of the greatest heroes in World Series history. No pitch er since Stan Coveleski in 1920 had started and won three games in the same Series and the 30-year-old Burdette's 2-runs-in-27 innings, capped by 24 13 con secutive scoreless frames, rivaled anything in Series competition since Christy Mathewson pitched three shutouts against the Phila delphia Athletics in 1905. The players who never are j supposed to tighten up commit ted three official errors and three others of omission in the decisive seventh game. Eddie Mathews won the fourth game with his 2-run, lOth-inning Always GOOD! li'l 0!e Re-washed LIHINGER'S TEST Phone: SPring 2-5336 SPring 2-5897 MUrdock 5-8121 "Rocky" Medford Lions Club Presents . . . HUNTERS BREAKFAST Dough Cakes Plenty Coffee 25 lirint i r Lmimiiiijm i mm .i A Vtfir AMtf&j&r THE NEW CHAMPS Milwaukee Braves pitching hero. Lew Burdette, gets a big buss from Manager Fred Haney after hurling the team to the World Series championship by SPORTS homer and it was Mathews who struck the 2-run double Thurs day that put the Braves on the glory road to stay. It ' kayoed Don (Perfect Game) Larsen and gave manager Fred Haney the lead. Mathew's double caused Yan kee manager Casey Stengel to remove Larsen and hits by Hank Aaron and Wes Covington plus an infield out enabled the Braves to lead by 4-0 in the third inning. Burdette protected it the rest of the way with Del Crandall's eighth-inning homer simply put ting Stengel deeper into a stra tegical hole than he already was. It was an irony of the Yankee defeat that Casey's second-guess of himself contributed to the key play that opened the way for the Braves' winning rally. Casey Changes Strategy Originally, Stengel, had de cided to play this decisive game with defense paramount. The first lineup he posted in the Yankee dugout had Andy Carey, No. 1 defensively on his club, playing third and Joe Collins, his best defensive player at first, playing that position. Tony Ku bek was the center fielder in place of ailing Mickey Mantle. When Mantle told Casey he could play, the old man shifted to offense and sent Tony Kubek to third. Whether Carey would have played Johnny Logan's grounder perfectly into a double play will never be known. But the fact is that Kubek threw wide to sec ond base and the Braves had runners on first and second with one out instead of the Yankees being out of the inning. Mathews' double followed and the Yankees were on their way to defeat. To New York it was the final bitter blow to Milwaukee the dream of dreams come true and to the rest of the country the of ficial signal that the Golden West in the new capital of the baseball world. Paris HP) Russia will compete for the first time in his tory in Western automobile com petition next year, Leonid Afan asiev, the new Russian delegate to the International Automobile association, said Thursday. 4 A.M. UNTIL NOON Each Day Sport Parade New York (IP) Loose-armed Lew Burdette wore the World Series halo today and tearful Tony Kubek wore the horns. Somebody had to draw both items. For in a Scries such as this, the pain and the plaudits run side by side. That was the way it was as the Milwaukee Braves took the seventh and deciding game at Yankee stadium Thursday. It isn't pouring salt on an open wound to say that Kubek booted it. That's merely the facts, ma'am. It was his error which left an opening through which the inspired Braves drove four runs. There is no way to say, mean while, if the Yankees had man aged to get Don Larsen out of that inning as a double play by Kubek would have done in stead of leaving two men on base whether the perfect game pitcher of a year - ago would have been able to hold off Mil waukee. It would have been a sizeable chore, because the Yankees didn't get a run off Burdette throughout the nine innings, just as they had failed in 15 13 pre vious innings as they lost to him twice before. Burdette was only slightly less than magnificent as he hurled his way into the rec ord books alongside such triple winners as Christy Mathewson, Urban (Red) Faber, Babe Adams, Jack Coombs, Stan Coveleskie, WUNG EVERGREEN LEAGUE Standings: W. Tru Mix Construction Co. 13 Medford Steel Co 19 Picard's Jewelers 18 Chuck's Pump Service 18 Medford Plaza Apts 17 Singler's Auto Supply 17 Medford Corporation 16 Barco Supply Co 15 Medford Blowpipe Co 10 Seven Up Bottling Co ft Safewa Stores 5 "Big Y Market 2 9 ft 10 10 11 11 12 13 14 20 23 22 Results: Safewav 1 fNordquist 4701 2,203; Chuck's 3 (Wi throw 503 1 2.332. Tru Mix 1 iCummings 534) 2,380; Picard's 3 (Morgan 602 1 2.474. Plaza 3 (Gladen 501) 2,333; Jledco 1 (Hauaen 470i 2.222. Singler's 0 (Carr 563) 2,155; Med. Steel 4 (Hopkins 472 1 2.258. Seven Up 1 (Engelkes 491) 2,207; Barco 3 (Judy 551) 2.388. 'Big Y Mkt. and Medford Blowpipe will play Monday night. Roosevelt Scores Second Victory Roosevelt recorded its second city grade school football de cision yesterday by subduing Jefferson 13 to 0. Lincoln and Washington, who fought to a scoreless tie last Mon day, were victors in yesterday's other games. Washington whip ped Jackson 25 to 0 and Lincoln overcame Oak Grove 20 to 13. Logart Opposes Miceli Tonight Detroit HP) It will be a battle of speed against power to night when second-ranked Isaac Logart steps into the Olympia ring with Joe Miceli in a nationally-televised 10-round wel terweight bout. BO MUNTERS! Don't Get Tangled up in the Brush! Have your Hair cut at ROY PATTON'S BARBER SHOP , 1238 N. Riverside FREE PARKING topping the New York Yankees, 5-0, in the seventh game in New York. Lew started and won three games in the Series and is the first hurler to do so since 1920. 1 By OSCAR FRALEY Sports Writer United Press and Harry (The Cat) Brecheen. They did everything they knew in an attempt to upset him. Hank Bauer slugged his opening pitch for a double. Ger ry Coleman led off with a hit in the seventh and, with the wiry infielder jittering around Burdette on second base and only one away, the Yankees be gan to yell "spitter" charges at the Mountain Man from West Virginia. His only reply was to strike out pinch-hitting Elston Howard and then retire the side. Then, when they loaded the bases on him in the ninth, he reared back and choked them off. St. Mary's Jacksonville Game Called Two District 5B football games scheduled for this week end have been called off. Coach Bill McKibbin of St. Mary's high of Medford an nounced yesterday that his team's game with Jacksonville has been postponed because of colds and flu among the Med ford players. It is the second postponement in a row for the Crusaders who were forced to call off their mix last week end with Sacred Heart of Klamath Fajls. Talent, also hit by sickness, was forced to postpone its Friday-slated brush with Malin. The SM-Jacksonville game was to have been on Saturday. McKibbin said that St. Mary's had no practice during the four school days prior to Tuesday. Only five players were on hand for a Tuesday workout and only six turned out on Wednesday. Jacksonville and St. Mary's have tentative dates with A-2 schools on the week end of Nov. 8 and may be able to cancel their respective Rogue River and Eagle Point tussles in order to play the B district game. HOCKEY By UNITED PRESS The New York Rangers and the defending Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens began their National Hockey League seasons with impressive victories Thursday night. The Rangers, who finished fourth last season, defeated the "new look" Detroit Red Wings, 3-2, and the Canadiens tallied three times in the final period to defeat the Chicago Black Hawks, 5-1. AARON TOP SERIES BATTER New York IIP1 Hang Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves, the National league's home run and runs batted in leader during the 1957 season, was the World Series' leading hitter in the three most important batting depart ment. The sleek outfielder hit the most home runs, three, batted in the most runs, 11, and had a .393 batting mark. He also handled 11 chances flawless ly in the field for a perfect 1.000 fielding average. New Baseball Capital Of World Goes Wild With Joy of Victory By RAY W. DOHERTY And RICHARD McFARLAND Milwaukee (IP) This new baseball capital of the world has gone wild with joy. Nearly half a million wildly cheering fans roared "Welcome Home" Thursday night when manager Fred Haney, pitching hero Lew Burdette and the oth er Yankee killers brought back Milwaukee's first World Series championship. It was the city's biggest cele bration since V-J Day. Pblice Chief Howard John son estimated conservatively that 400.000 fans whooped it up at the airport, along tne 4-Run Cushion Made Job Easy For Burdette Editor's Note: Lew Burdette brought Milwaukee its first World Series victory in his tory when he beat the Yan kees for the third time in the classic. 5-0, Thursday. He gives his impressions in the following dispatch.) By LEW BURDETTE As Told to the United Press New York UP) I've re ceived a number of good things in my lifetime but the best gift ever was that four-run cushion the boys gave me in the third inning. That made my job easy. Ask any pitcher what he wants most and he'll tell you it's a three or four-run lead in the early innings. That gives you quite a bit of margin for error. After those four runs, I never really worried. All I tried to do was get the ball over the plate and let them hit it. And as long as I had my control, I figured I'd have no trouble. Truthfully, the Yankees didn't bother me when they started getting on me from the dugout in the late innings. They had pulled that in the first game I pitched so I was more or less used to it. Pitching with only two days rest didn't particularly disturb me at the start and I'm certainly not going to complain about it now. There was no strain on my arm at all. Sure, I felt a little tired at the end, but I'm only human. I'm no machine. Weiss Expected To Swing Axe New York (IP General Man ager George Weiss is expected to "swing the axe with a venge ance" in an effort to revamp the New York Yankees during the winter months. The Yankees' World Series loss to the Milwaukee Braves was seen as sure to result in a basic front-office concept: The team failed and Casey Stengel must share in the blame. Insiders pointed out that Stengel's reputation as an all victorious S100,000-a-year man ager has definitely been hurt by the fact that the Yankees have won only one world cham pionship in the last four years. Any other front office might consider this a fine record but the Yankees regard the world title as their personal right. GUARANTEED FINEST Vi MAJOR GASOLINE "Open 24 Hours IFHEIEIE IFODffi Oct. 30 Drive In For FREE FORD TICKETS I Here's More FIREPLACE GRATE 24" Regular $2.95 Value Guaranteed Finest Permanent, Ethylene Glycol Base. Braves' motorcade route and downtown. The celebration began with cheering, sirens, horn-blasting. bells, snake dances and confetti the minute the Braves beat the New York Yankees 5-0 to clinch the Series. It swelled to a tremendous climax when the Braves' plane landed from New York. About 100,000 to 200,000 fans down town blew horns, screamed, chanted, danced, shot off fire works, drank beer in the streets and threw bushels of paper and confetti. Crowds were so great .that more than 50 motorcycle escorts couldn't get the motorcade through for a planned parade on Wisconsin ave. and had to take a short-cut to County sta dium for the players to get their belongings. When the Braves plane land ed at Mitchell field .about 7:30 p.m. (CST) the roar of 12.000 persons on the observation deck was almost deafening. Downtown Milwaukee was a madhouse. Paper and confetti were ankle deep in the gutters. About a thousand teen-agers did war dances, chanted and shouted football yells. Young men jogged along the street carrying their girl friends piggy-back, police man tried to direct stalled traf fic with a tomahawk. Fans tore up signs along Wisconsin ave. They hugged and kissed each other. J Distilled llj 1 l lOKDOHDRVli ifj "5TUllOTntOMIMuir I I ! ' J On the threshold of perfect Gin drinks... Let your entree be Gordon's the one gin with uperb liqueur quality! Gordon's brings smooth perfection to Gin drinks . . . smooth pleasure to you. TTiere's no Gin like GORDONS 94.4 PROOF. 1 00; NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN, GORDON'S DRY GIN CO., LTD., LINDEN, N.L S. Riverside & S. Central "On the Point' " mi mi ? r ON Display ar Your Fortune Station Proof It Pays To Save TAKE AWAY PRICES McLoughlinWins At Central Point Central Point McLoughlin Junior high eighth grade of Medford tripped Central Point grade school footballers 6 to 0 here last night. Dan Coghill scored for Mc Loughlin in the first quarter on a reverse and 35 to 40-yard run. George Clearwater crossed the goal on the extra point try but the Bulldogs were offside. He failed to make it on the next attempt. The Pointers will play Eagle Point here on Thursday evening, Oct. 17. Doug Ash ma c4w Smt Memos Have vou ever wondered just what the Marquis of Queenberry rules are? . Thought I would check up on it and find that in 1872 at a tournament in London the firsfe fight was fought under above rule? Boxers wore gloves fought 3 minute rounds with wrestling, throwing, gouging barred . . . Thought it might he interesting to give you a reslime of the M. of Queenberry rules, so will devote this and next weeks column to them . . . 1 Stand up match in approx. 24 foot ring. 2 No wresting or hugging. 3 Round 3 minutes with 1 min ute between. 4 10 seconds allowed if man falls, must get up unassisted, other man retires to his cor ner . . . more rules next week. Copr. 1957 U.S.F. & Doug Ashman Doug Ashman's . FLYING A SERVICE 701 N. Central. Ph. 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