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Bucs Bounce Yanks in Series Starter,
But Murtaugh Warns NY Not Yet on Run
Bill Virdon
' By MILTON RICHMAN
': Pittsburgh - (UPD - First It
was Lew Burdette and now
it's Bill Virdon, who appar
ently is picking the best-or
," the worst-possible time, to
come back and kick tjie New
Vork Yankees in the teeth.
"'. Burdette's timing was per
fect. Dealt away by the Yan
kees early in his baseball
career, he returned to haunt
them in, the 1957 World
Series by beating them three
times to help the Milwaukee
Braves to their first world
championship.
. Now it seems Virdon's turn,
and oh how that hurts ol'
Casey Stengel! -
The one - time. Yankee
owned center-fielder came up
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DIVE FAILS FOR YOGI Despite a head
long dive, Yogi Berra of the Yankees is
doubled off second base on Bobby Richard
son's liner to the Pirates' left fielder Bob
Skinner in second Inning of opening World
Base Running
Alters Script
' Pittsburgh (UPD The game
that this city has been await
ing for. 35 years turned out
' to be a happy-for the home
'- fans - combination of stout
' pitching by Vorn : Law and
Elroy Face, clutch hitting, and
some surprising baserunnlng,
Thus did the Pittsburgh PI
'S rates down the New York
? Yankees, 6-4, In the opening
game of the 1960 World
Series.
The Pirates had parlayed
pitching, clutch hitting and
; sterling defense play through-
out the season to win their
! first flag in 33 years.
But they made a slight al
teration for the Series opener
' -they ran more. There wasn't
any game during the regular
' season when the Pirates stole
: more than one base but they
pilfered two In the tfrst inning
to set the stage for a 3-1 lead.
Bill Virdon and Bob Skinner
each stole second. The Pirates
i; had stolen only 33 bases dur
, Ing the regular season-scarcely
noteworthy for a pennant
winning team.
Streets Empty
During Contest
Pittsburgh (UPD You couid
have shot a cannon ball down
Fifth avenue in downtown
Pittsburgh Wednesday after
noon and not have hit a soul.
It was one long lunch-hour
- for the thousands of down
1 town workers and shoppers
' during the opening game of
the World Series.
Everyone was watching the
. play on television. Depart-
menl stores had scores of TV
scls for their customers on all
floors. So did office build-
' infis.
Streets In the Golden Tri
angle wore never as deserted
during the mock. A-bomb at
tacks of Civil Defense exer
' cises.
LOOK WHAT DODGE HAS
Parsons
Comes Back To Haunt
with the "key play of the
game" Wednesday, according
to Pittsburgh manager Danny
Murtaugh, when he collared
Yogi Berra's extra base bid
up against the right center
field wall with two on in the
fourth inning.
Remembered
"You bet I remember him
when he was with us," Sten
gel said, referring to Virdon
before the Series began. "He
always could go get 'em in the
outfield. He had a little bat
ting trouble then, but I under
stand he's corrected It now
and he's a mighty fine player."
Casey then went on to
grumble that the bespect
acled, 29-year-old Virdon was
merely another onei of the
Series game. Umpire Bill JackoWskl calls
the play as Pirates' second sacker Bill
Mazeroski pulls his foot off the bag after
registering the out.
(UPI Telephoto)
Eagle Point
To Travel
To Glendale
ROQUS LEAGUE STANDINGS!
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Eagle Point 1 0 1.000
Glendale I 0 1.000
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Henley 0 1 .000
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Eagle Point-Fresh from a
28 to 0 triumph over Rogue
River last week end, the
Eagle Point high football
team has turned its attention
to another league- brush, this
time with Glendale.
The Eagles travel to Glen
dale this Friday night. Each
team Is 1-0 In the A-2 Rogue
loop.
Pass defense has had a lot
of attention this week. Coach
Vern Steward's Eagles will
try to stop the air threat of
Jack Berllne. The Pirate
thrower demonstrated his
ability when Glendale won
from Rogue River, also by a
26 to 0 count.
Three EP players are still
hobbled by Injuries. Center
Carl Johnson may be out for
the season because of an In
jured back. Also ailing are
end Dale Vaughn and tall-
back Elvln Hawkins.
On the brighter side is the
improvement, Don Pestka,
senior tackle, has shown dur
ing the course of the season.
Bill .Ayres, freshman, who
turned in a good performance
against Rogue River, is ex
pected to fill Johnson s shoes
again at center this week with
Gary Sheldon and Roy Moore
at guards, Marvin Cothrln
and Bill Hoefft at tackles and
Dick Wilson and- Charles
Pomcroy at ends.
Tom Perdue Is probable
quarterback with Steve Geren
at tailback, Mike Palm at
wingback and Bill Skceters
at fullback. Perdue and Green
each scored once against
Rogue River and Mike Palm
touchdowncd twice.
Game time will be 8 p.m
Motor Co.
potential Yankee greats who
were plucked away by other
clubs. '
The cold truth of the mat
ter Is, however, . that there
was no place for a centerficld
candidate like Virdon as. long
as Mickey Mantle was with
the club.
The Yankees- can't kick
though. They got their
money's worth - and then
some - when they let Virrlon
go to the St. Louis Cardinals
on April 11, 1954.
.In return for Virdon, they
wanted someone who could
help them immediately and
they obtained precisely such
a man in Enos Country
Sloughter.
Chute Attempt
Proves Costly .
Pittsburgh - (UPD - Fireman
Jack Heatherington, 30, made
a pretty good stab at becom
ing the first baseball fan to
crash a World Series game
by way of a parachute leap.
He failed by a stone's
throw, landing on the roof of
a warehouse across the street
from Forbes Field just a few
minutes before the start of
Wednesday's Series opener.
The fans in crowded Forbes
gaped in disbelief as they saw
Heatherington leap from a
light plane, and watched his
pink parachute open and drift
across the ballpari: to the
rooftop across the street.
Heatherington, of nearby
McKeesport, Pa., a fireman
by profession and parachutist
by hobby, told police he had
bet that If the Pirates won
the pennant he would para
chute into the ballpark in a
World Series game. '
He lost the bet. He didn't
sec the game. . And It cost
him $100 to obtain his release
from police custody-the price
of the bbnd he posted for a
hearing tpday.
Sports Car Club
Meets Friday
Regular meeting of Siski
you Sports Car club will be
held at radio station KMED
on Friday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m.
Dash plaques won at the
Sept 18 gymkhana will be
given out. A rally will fol
low the meeting. '
FIGHTS
WEDNESDAY HOUT
Miami Beach. Fla (UPI1
Vlnce Martinez, ml, Miami llcach,
outpointed Basil Campbell, 147i,
Kingston, Jamaica (10). .
New York -flJPB- The bril
liant racing career of First
Landing, top money winning
juvenile in history, came to
an end Wednesday with the
announcement that the 4-year-old
colt had been retired to
stud.
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6-5 Choice
In Betting
Pittsburgh (L-t'l) Betting
on today's second game of
the World Series was a
"pick 'em" affair at even
money although the Piraltj
have become 6-5 favorites
to win the Series because
of Wednesday's opening
6-4 victory over the Ne-7
York Yankees.
For today's game, book
makers quoted "11-10 and
pick 'em," A bookie would
lay $10 against an $11 wa
ger on either the Pirates or
Yankees.
For the Series, the book
ies quoted a range of S'i
(5)6i2 (5), favoring Pitts
burgh. A bookie would lay
$5.50 on the Pirates against
$5.00 wagered on the
Yanks. But the same
bookie would insist that a
Pirate supporter put up
$6.50 against the bookie's
$5.00 on New York.
By LEO H. PETERSEN
UPI Sports Editor
Pittsburgh -IUP0- The brash
Buccaneers of Pitts burgh
hoped to. gain a stranglehold
on the New York Yankees to
day when they went into the
second game of the 1960
World Series.
Manager Danny Murtaugh,
who led the Pirates to their
first National league pennant
triumph in 33 years and end
ed . a 35-year World Series
drought for them with
Wednesday s 6-4 victory over
the Yankees, did not agree
with most of his players who
figured that they have the
Yanks on the run.
"They'll take a lot of beat
ing," Murtaugh predicted. "If
it hadn't been for that catch
by Bill Virdon they might
have beaten us yesterday."
The tobacco-chewing for
mer major league second
baseman said he definitely
had decided to start south
paw Vinegar Bend Mizell in
the third game Saturday. Fri
day will be an off day for
travel, i ; ... ..
The last-time the Pirates
won a World Series game was
back in lu25 when they beat
the Washington Senators and
Walter Johnson. They had
been in only one Series since
them, up to this year. That
was in 1927 when they
dropped four In a row to the
Yankees.
"Well, at least that can't
happen a g a 1 n," ' Murtaugh
grinned.
Murtaugh not only lauded
Virdon, but also the pitching
of Law, his 20-game winner,
and relief ace Elroy Face and
the play of shortstop Dick
Groat, the National League
batting champion, and second
baseman Bill Mazeroski.
Law held the Yankees to
eight hits and two runs be
fore he tired in the eighth.
Murtaugh took him out after
he yielded singles to Hector
Lopez and Roger Maris.
That's when Face took
over, and although touched
for a two-run homer by
pinch-hitter Elston Howard
In the ninth inning, managed
to close the door on the Yan
kees bid f6r a come-from-be-hlnd
triumph.
Virdon Saves Law
Virdon had saved Law In
the fourth when with Maris,
who had singled and Mickey
Mantle, who had walked on
base, he went against the
right center field wall to
haul down a drive by catcher
Yogi Berra.
Virdon not only made that
catch but started the Pirates
off on their first inning at
tack. He walked, stole sec
ond and went to third when
Berra's throw sailed into centerficld.-
Originally the offi
cial scorers charged Berra
with an error, but an hour
after the game changed their
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Friend Planned
No Alteration
Pittsburgh -IUPB- Bob
Friend, dean of the Pittsburgh
Pirates mound staff, said he
would not alter his regular
pitching style' against t h e
New York Yankees in today's
second game of the 1960
World Series. It was his first
start in the big show.
"We have a ' book on the
Yankees we can use, but I
plan to use my own style," he
said. "If that doesn't work
I'll try something else." His
"own style" won 18 games
this season. He lost 12:
The well built righthander
was reminded about the
Yankees' power. But he said
he felt "Milwaukee was as
strong.''
Face, Law
Get Praise
By FRANK BERKOPEC
Pittsburgh - (UPD - The New
York Yankees, whose long
ball hitters have been known
to give opposing pitchers the
jitters, today praised Pitts
burgh's Vernon Law and El
roy Face.
The Yanks had nothing but
accolades for Law and Face
despite the fact that between
them they gave up 13 hits to
the American league cham
pions in the opening Series
game.
Law gave up 10 of the hits
in the seven innings plus he
worked, including a homer
to Roger Maris in the first,
while Face gave up three hits,
one a homer to Elston How
ard in the ninth.
Mickey Mantle whose 40
homers were tops in the AL
during the regular season,
said Law was "near perfect"
with his control, "at least
when he pitched to me."
He kept the ball low
where it was hard to get at,"
Mantle said as he relaxed in
the dressing room after the
opener.
Mantle was surprised by
Roy Face, who struck him out
in the eighth inning.
"He's quicker, than I
thought," Mantle said. "That
fork ball of Ilia is good. So is
his curve."
minds and gave the error to
shortstop Tony Kubek, who
admitted he should have cov
ered the bag.
After that came a double
by Groat, a single by Bob
Skinner and then after Dick
Stuart filed out, a single by
Clemento. That finished Dit
mar who in 9 23 innings of
previous World Series hurl
ing had not permitted a run.
Mazeroski hit a two-run
homer off Coates in the
fourth inning and that turned
out to be the crusher which
broke a 15-game Yankee win
ning streak. The Yankees, in
their drive to the American
League pennant, had won
their last 15 games of the
regular season.
Mazeroski also closed It
out for Face for after How
ard's homer in the ninth with
one out, Kubek singled. But
Face got Lopez to hit a sharp
grounder to Mazeroski who
turned It Into a game ending
double play.
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KEY PLAY OF GAME Bespectacled Pirates' centerfielder
Bill Virdon, above,- on- the property of the New York
Yankees, relaxes in dosing room after Pittsburgh's 6-4
opening. World Series victory over the Yanks. Virdon came
up with "the key play of the game," according to Pirate
Manager Danny Murtaugh, when the outfielder collared
Yogi Berra's bid for extra bases against the right-center out
field Wall with two runners on base for the Yanks In the
fourth inning. (UPI Telephoto)
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Pirate Outfielders Catch
Most Enjoyed in Career
By RUDY CERNKOVIC
Pittsburgh - (UPD - Bill Vir
don said "it was not my great
est catch but it certainly was
the most enjoyable."
Pirate Manager Danny
Murtaugh said Virdon's tre
mendous catch of Yogi
Berra's 425-foot fly ball to
right center in the fourth in
ning was the key play in
Pittsburgh's 6-4 victory over
the Yankees in the opener of
the 1960 World Series. . .
"Yogi whaled the daylight
out of that ball," said Mur
taugh. "But Bill got us out
of a big inning." )
Virdon, once Yankee prop
erty, took off when Berra
smacked a pitch from Vernon
Law with two men on. Ro
berto Clemente "accompan
ied" Virdon and they collided
just as Virdon made a one
handed catch. .
"I had a bead on the ball
all the way and yelled to Cle
mente, Bill said. "If I hadn t
got it I knew Clemente could
have."
Virdon said he suffered a
slight spike wound on the
right leg in the collision.
Thigh Taped ,
Despite the handicap of
having his right thigh heav
ily taped because of an in
jury, Virdon also turned in
the first Pirate run with his
speed. The leadoff batter
drew a walk in the first in
ning, stole second, took third
on Tony Kubek's error and
scored on Dick Groat's
double.
"It was a delayed steal,"
Bill said. "I went after the
motion of the pitcher, Art
Ditmar."
Groat, who had two hits,
said Elroy Face's relief pitch
ing, Virdon's scratch and Bill
Mazeroski's two-run homer
were the high points of the
game. Law allowed back-to-back
singles to Hector Lopez
and Roger Maris with none
out In the eighth. When Face
came in from the bullpen
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with Mickey Mantle waiting.
at the plate Elroy struck out
the famed Yankee hitter with
a fork ball and got Berra out
on a fly to right. .
.Murtaugh walked to the
mound after Moose Skowron
came up to bat. "Danny told
me to strike out Skowron,"
Face said. "So I got him
swinging out on a high fast
ball."
Face threw only 14 pitches
in the eighth inning.
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The Buffalo Bisons " and
Hershey Bears, both of whom
failed to make the playoffs
last season, have gained fast
starts in the new American
Hockey League campaigns.
The Bisons staved off continu
ous threats from last year's
Calder Cup finalists, the Ro
chester Americans, to outlast
them, 6-4, and Hershey ap
plied steady pressure to while
wash the Providence Reds,
7-0, in the opening game for
all four teams Wednesday
night. '
National League
Len Ronson, a rookie up
from Fort Wayne, Ind. .of the
International league, earned
his varsity letter with the
New York Rangers In his first
National Hockey League
game.
The 24-ycar-old, dark-haired
left wing tipped in a long
shot by defenseman Jim Mor
rison to give the Rangers a
2-1 victory over the Boston
Bruins Wednesday night in
their season opener at Mad
ison Square Garden.
Parker MacDonald's third
period goal earned the De
troit Red Wings a 1-1 tie with
the Black Hawks at Chicago
in another opener.
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New York Yankees
Sound Rally Call
By JOHN CARROLL
Pittsburgh - IWD-The New,
York Yankees, down one
game to the Pittsburgh Pi
rates in the World Series,
sounded the rallying call "beat
'em here today and then get
'em good in the Yankee Sta
dium." i -.
Elston Howard, who gave
manager Casey Stengel some
solace by hitting a two-run
pinch homer in the ninth
inning of Wednesday's opener,
predicted1 the Pirates would
have a lot more trouble hitting
in the Bronx ball park than
they do in Forbes Field.
"The background here is
great for hitting," Howard
said in the quiet confines of
the New York clubhouse after
the Yanks had lost 6-4. "Yan
kee Stadium, will be a lot
tougher on the Pirates. Those
shadows kill you."
Bobby Richardson, who
along with shortstop Tony
Kubek figured in Wednesday's
"who's covering second" inci
dent that helped Pittsburgh
to a three-run first inning,
was happy the "bad" game
was over.
Streak Over
"So our 15-game winning
streak is over .. . . we'll start
a. new one with the second
Series game," he said confi
dently. ,v
He admitted he and Kubek
"got our signals mixed up"
on the costly first inning play
that came on a delayed steal
by Pirate . centerfielder Bill
Virdon. Virdon wound up on
third, the Pirates wound up
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Pullman,. Wash. -fliPD- "We
would like to- be affiliated
with the proposed new con
ference," Washington ' State
university Athletic Director
Stan Bates said today.-
Bates said, in answer to re
ports that members of the
former Pacific Coast confer
ence had cooled off toward a
proposal to form a new eight
school loop, "our interest in
the conference has not
changed."
He added that even if the
proposed new conference does
not materialize, "we feel we
should maintain our relations
with Oregon and Oregon
State." The three former PCC
members, along with five oth
er schools which are members
of the Border and Skyline
conferences, voted at Salt
Lake Monday to refer the
problem of setting up the new
league to top administrative
officials of the institutions. .
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with three runs and the Yan
kee catcher Yogi Berra nearly
wound up the goat.
The official scorekeepers
first charged Berra with an
error, but an hour after the
game made a correction and
pinned the tag on Kubek.'
"I just threw at the bag'pn
that one. It's up to the infield
to cover. I don't know what
happened. You'd better ask
someone else," Yogi said. '
The interrogation shifted to
Richardson and he was willing
to share the blame with
Kubek.
"I guess both of us (he and
Kubek) thought the other
would take the bag," he said.
"Something like that doesn't
happen very often."
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