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4 B. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5 19S0 he :2A &?kili t W if; rAWv" , j MANAGERS VIEW FIELD New York Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, left, and Pittsburgh Pirates skipper Danny Murtaugh view Forbes Field at Pittsburgh, Pa., as their base ball teams go through workouts in preparation for World Series. (UPI Telephoto) MET)! LINK SIPCDDETS. Pie Traynor Thinks Pirates Can Do If By RUDY CERNKOVIC , Pittsburgh - (UPII - Pie Tray nor, who. managed the 1938 Pirate team which came with in a whisker of winning the pennant, believes the 1960 team can beat the Yankees in the World Series, but a Absolutely NO HUNTING Or Trespassing n the properties owned or :onrrolled by the following 'nd owners in the Southern lortion of fho Greensprlnqs nlr. AM are opposed to the Ircensprings unit doe sea on. - . ' Edward Baer ' Adrien Barats Austio Barron Barron Parker Ranch John H, Baxter Co. William J. Beagle James R. Bell John Bowman Corp Ranch A. N. Davis Ben Dawson John Dragor Ivan Farmer Garrii Flynn Robert Ford Ed Gelger W. C. Gibson Henry Lumber Co. ' Eimer Hopkins Vernon Hopkins Richard Howell Clyde Laird H. Laninl William Uonard A. J. Lorenzen James C. Miller Robert E. Miller Clifford Ross Orvllle R. Scholer Clyde Syll, Zinn Ranch Frank Stratton Triangle B Herman Wester The Wyant Ranch later pilot - Fred Haney picks the "hot team." i -'The. team that gets hot will win the Series." said Haney who guided the Pirates from 1953 through 1955. Traynor, who played on the 1925 and 1927 teams : which won the National league flag, thinks his "alma mater" can win in seven games. "The Pirates must win the first game for morale," Pie said gazing towards third base at Forbes Field where he held forth for 17 years. "Pittsburgh has the pitch ing and the open dates be tween the second and third games and the fifth and sixth definitely help the pitchers. I will give Bob Friend and Vernon Law a chance to rest and they likely will appear in four games. Large Park "The Yankees have power, of course, with Mantle, Maris and Bcrra able to hit the ball out of the park, but this is a large park." Haney also pointed to the power in the Yankee lineup- Mantle, Maris, Berra, Skow ron and Dale Long. "But the team that gets hot in the Scries will win," he said. "Both teams have better pitching than it appears, The Yanks had tremendous pitch ing over the last 25 games." Haney is familiar with the talents of Friend and Law. "Law has improved in the last five years. He gels his break ing stuff across and has bet ter control." Haney modestly admitted he had helped Friend several years ago. Bob used to show the ball but 1 got him to turn his body and he overcame the habit," he said. The Pirate pitching de mands respect. It has been consistent with the exception of a streak of several games when Friend and Law didn't finish." ' , ' KC Hires Joe Gordon Pittsburgh OIPD Jo Got don who resigned as man ager of the Dtlrolt Tlgert two days ago, today signed a two-year contract to men age the Kansas City Ath letics. ' The former star second baseman and University oi Oregon graduate agreed to terms with Athletic Gen eral Manager Park Carrol! her at the world series. Gordon had bean seeking three-year contract. Murtaugh Helped Up By Bragan of A A v Black xr Brown $1295 OrtN MONDAY NIGHTS UNTIL 9 P.M. Qa&t4tci and Stewa rt The Corner Sfte Store Main and Central Medford By JOHN CARROLL Pittsburgh -OIPD - Don't look now, but guess who helped Danny Murtaugh up the steps as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates? It was none other than brash Bobby Bragan, the man Murtaugh replaced as the field boss of the now-National league champions midway through the 1957 season. And if Danny boy gives an extra little twist to his Irish smile when the TV boys say Dan, you're on television," there's a good reason. It was an odd combination tantrums and television that landed Murtaugh the field manager's job here and Bragan figured in both ingredients. Back in 1956, "bad boy" Bobby had just been named manager of the Pittsburgh team. He was searching around for a coaching staff. One of the men he had of fered a job was Tommy Ta- tum, a fugitive from the old Brooklyn Dodgers organiza tion. But Tatum declined the offer politely, saying he was going into the television field a salesman In Oklahoma. 1 Fireman ' That left an opening and the first man Bragan suggest- was the number one volun teer fireman from Chester. Daniel Edward Mur taugh. Danny boy answered the long distance call offering him the Job in the same man ner he d turn out for a three alarm fire. Alter all, it was only the year before that Murtaueh packed his bags and left the Charleston Senators of the American association because the club was on the financial rocks and frankly admitting it couldn t pay Danny his sal ary. He did catch on with Wil- llamsport of the Eastern league, but when the sum mons to the big time came, he hardly bothered to unpack. The Pirates, with Bragan calling the shots and Mur taugh coaching the third base line, ' did surprisingly - well early in the 1956 season, but then folded and finished seventh. The next year, everything went wrong and after several wild cutups on the field Bra gan was let go. Murtaugh was named as his "temporary suc cessor. , . But Danny came to stay and he's been here ever since. What he did with the club now is in the record books. Baseball Writers Poll Favors NY Yankees by 2-1 in Series By FRANK BERKOPEC Pittsburgh -OIPD - Baseball writers covering the World Series have, picked the New York Yankees by nearly a 2 to 1 margin to whip the Pitts burgh Pirates. Sixty-six writers picked the Yankees to win their 20th world championship while 36 favored the Pirates to win their third Series title, a sur vey by United Press Interna tional showed. . ' The Yankees have won the American league pennant 25 times. The Pirate have copped live National' league flags. ,? . , v The Yanks whipped the Pi rates in 1927 in four games, the last Series appearance for Pittsburgh. Three writers have picked the Yanks to-repeat their 1927 performance but four others selected the Pirates' in four straight. Those predicting a Pirate sweep were Oscar Fra ley, UPI New York; Scott Young, Toronto Canada Daily Mail; Chuck Feeney of the Long Island Star-Journal, and Stan Isaacs, New York News day. Will Grlmsley, New York AP; Jack Mann of Newsday, and Leonard Schechter of the New York Post believe the Yanks will pick up the win ner's share of the Series money Sunday night after the fourth game is ended. The majority of those favor ing the Yanks-36-believelhey, can take It all in six games and an equal number like them in seven. Mantle, Stuart Believe World Series Home Runs Possible at Forbes Field s right- OPPOSING PLAYERS The opposing first baseman in the World Series are both noted sluggers. Dick Stuart, left, will be at the initial sack for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Bill (Moose) Skowron will cover first for the New York Yankees. (UPI Telephoto) No. Pittsburgh - (DM - General manager John McHaie re vealed today that the Mil waukee Braves are bidding for Harvey Kuenn, and Frank Lane said "negotiations will continue" although Cleveland is asking for either Hank Aar on or Eddie Mathews. Boudreau Resigns as Cub Pilot Chicago- IUPD -Owner Phil lip K. Wrlgley of the Chicago Cubs looked forward today to a busy fall. He has to pick a new man ager for the Cubs before spring training begins, but be fore he can do that, he might have to pick another vice president for the team, its fourth. The complicated problem arose Tuesday when Lou Bou dreau sought a three-year con- tract to manage the team he directed since May of 1960, He was the third manager of the club in two seasons. The Cubs, Wrlgley said, could not afford such a long term commitment, so Boa dreau said he would return to radio station WGN, which already had him under con tract for 1061 to announce the "color" phase of Cubs games. STOP! Don't Buy Any Compact Car 'HI you sy Hie ALL new 1961 RAMBLER PAUL LEA RAMBLER 5th I Bartlett Phone SP 2-61 65 ' ' mm mm 'urn .sum DIMENSIONS SHOWN Diagrams here show the dimensions of Forbes Field at Pittsburgh where the World Series opened today and of Yankee Stadium at New York where the third game will be played on Saturday. Forbes field, has a 35,000 seating capacity and the Yankee stadium seats 67,000. (UPI telephoto) Milwaukee Braves Bid For Kuenn HOCKEY AMERICAN LEAGUE United Press International The American Hockey league opened its 25th season Tuesday night with the Cleve land Barons scoring three times in the last period to de feat the Quebec Aces, 4-2. NATIONAL LEAGUE The New York Rangers, who surprised even them selves by going unbeaten 11 exhibition games, and the zippy Chicago Black Hawks will be the host teams Wed nesday night when the Na- tional Hockey league stages its earliest opening in its 43- year history. The Rangers will face off against the Boston Bruins at Madison Square Garden and the Black Hawks will enter tain the McHaie, Lane and Milwau kee manager Chuck Dressen paved the way for a possible inter-league deal when they conferred at length Tuesday regarding the 29 - year - old Kuenn, who led the American league in hitting with a .353 average last year and batted .308 this year. While on the subject of Kuenn, McHaie took the op portunity to deny a report that the Braves offered the Chicago Cubs six players for shortstop Ernie Banks. Interested in Tempi McHaie also admitted he would be Interested in acquir ing second baseman Johnny Temple along with Kuenn who came to Cleveland from Detroit for Rocky Colavito this year. The Braves plan to convert second baseman Chuck Cot- DODGERS GET FARM Greenville, S.C. - IUPD - The Los Angeles Dodgers will op erate the Greenville, S.C. club in the class A South Atlantic league in 1961. Greenville has been out of organized baseball since the class B Tri- Detrolt Red Wings State league folded five years at Chicago Stadium. ' ago. tier, into a shortstop and if they can swing the deal with Cleveland, Temple would play second base for Milwaukee and Kuenn undoubtedly would be in left field. Although Lane opened the trade talk with a pitch for Aaron or Mathews, he prob ably would settle for less. McHaie did not disclose the players he would be. willing to give up, but the Braves would part with 16-game win ner Bob Buhl if they had to, and such others as shortstop Johnny Logan and pitchers Carlton Willey and Joey Jay also are available. Wena tehee Inks Pact With Cubs Wenatchee -IUPD- The Wen atchee Chiefs baseball club of the Northwest league Tuesday announced it has reached a formal agreement with the Chicago Cubs and will field a team in the 1961 season. Club President Fred Bur nett said that although the agreement with the Cubs was not a full agreement, the terms were more generous than a previous arrangement with the Cincinnati Reds. If it's worth driving it's wortii u s worm m7m DU PONT KGiar-FIRST& Om MCUkTD nDJiiii Aim. rDrr7r o summer COOLANT Only Du Pont 'Telar" never needs draining In a properly operating cooling system. It goes in for keepsl It's a summer coolant, too. It rust-proofs every englr metal with chemical armor. 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The homer Mantle referred to was a blow that traveled more than 500 feet. He hit it during an exhibition game against the Pirates in 1957 and is one of six men, includ ing Ruth, ever to have cleared the right field roof at Forbes Field. . Stuart, Pittsburg handed stronz boy. said he wasn't interested in getting Kan., tana moflcill-a IVin. test" with Mantle although he who can hit home runs, too." feels the fences aren't too far away to faze him either. . "I got my share of homers this year (23) and I can tell you that no one ever gets any cheap ones liere," Stuart said. "Sure, I know Mantle led the American league in hom- i ers with 40, but we got a cou ple of guys besides myseli Antonelli On Block For Trade Pittsburgh -IUPD- If Tom Sheehan still has anything to say, Johnny Antonelli has pitched his last game for the ban Francisco Giants. ' Sheehan, who finished out the 196 Oseason as San Fran cisco manager and reportedly on the way out himself said today that Antonelli, once the pride of the Giant staff, is on the block and will be traded "for whatever we can get in iiKe value. Antonelli, .. who won 19 games for the Giants in 1959, slipped to 6-7 with only 112 Innings of work this year. Most of his performances were mediocre as Bill Rigney, let out in July, and Sheehan both soured on the lefthander. The 30-year-old Antonelli who has won. 108 games and lost 84 in seven seasons with the Giants, first got in Rig- ney's "doghouse" late in . the 1959 season when he refused to serve in relief with the Giants battling for the Na tional league pennant. He hurt his arm during spring .training this year and got off to a late start. When he finally was able to pitch, he lacked his old time zip and was relegated to the bullpen. 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