Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 03, 1962, Image 21

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1962 SPORTS PARADE Sport Writer Unltrd Preis Los Anceles-d'PP - Johnny Podres managed a laugh when he saw it but there was a thinly-veiled bitterness in his tone. The carefully knotted hang man's noose dangled limply in his locker and he knew what it meant. . He had been racked up badly in his first nine starts. His record of no victories against four defeats was a burlesque of his long-proven abilities. "Some clown on the club." muttered the husky man with the blonde hair, "was suggest ing that maybe I should go hang myself." That was in May. But this is October and, in the months between, the 30-year-old southpaw from With erbee, N.Y., once again has become the bread(and butter man of the Los Angeles Dodg ers. Carries Dodger's Hopes The man who carried all their hopes of World Series lame and fortune on his shoulders when he stalked to (he mound in the Disneyland splendor of Dodger Stadium today for the absolutely last game of the National league pennant race. "Podres pitching" long has been a symbol of success for I he Dodgers, ever since he was a rookie who helped them to the 1053 pennant, won two games as they captured their first world championship in 3955, and scored another tri umph when they beat the White Sox in 1959. He is, this 190-pound six foater, a man who likes the bright lights. And yet he is a man of courage who for years has ignored the knife like pain of congenital back trouble to wind and twist his body as a winning pitcher. Podres proved his class this season when he came back to compile a record of 15 wins against 13 losses. And he raged like a tiger in the Los Angeles dressing room Sunday, in the final game of the regular season, when he was beaten, 1-0, by the St. Louis Cardinals to drop the Jiennant race into a tie with the San Francisco Giants. "Five hits I give up," he roared. "Five lousy hits and one lousy run -and we can't win." Break Streak Then Tuesday the Dodgers broke a fantastically miser rble strrak of 35 scoreless innings-which is just one f'endcr inning short of being shut out for four straight games - and came blazing buck to tie up their best-of-three playoff with the ancient arch-rivals knowns as the Gi ants. They whooped it up in the dressing room. Podres perched on a stool In front of his locker watch ing them with a whimsical expression. The slate - blue eyes could have been asking what were their reasons for celebrating. Sure, they still wore alive. But they still had (he big one to win.- KWMWWW" "'"'r''Wy''l'''''"""lIM'"l't1,'H' - f ( 4 .... , 4 . ' " l 1 f ITli ' -1'- IMilli lllffllll odgers, Giants Contend In Sudden Death attle For National League Championship B 7 DOUBLE PUTS DODGERS AHEAD Los Angeles Dodgers' Lee Walls doubles in the sixth inning at Los Angeles to score three runs in National league baseball playoff game and put LA ahead 6-5. At top, Walls swings as Giant catcher Tom Haller waits for ball. At center, Matty Alou, left, and Willie Mays gor for ball which got away from both momen tarily. At bottom, Walls goes into '.bird on Mays attempt to catch Larry Burright at the plate. Playing third on the play is Chuck Hiller. The umpire is Jocko Conlon. (UPI) Final Game Of Playoff On LA Field By LEO H. PETERSEN Los Angeles - illPU - The Dodgers and Hie Giants, after six months and 164 games of battling for the National league pennant, package all that time and effort into one perilous playoff game today. To the winner goes World Scries gold. To the loser-six months and 165 games of mis ery. This was it, and for the em battled Dodgers the issue was strictly up to hard-nosed John ny Podres, the 30-year-old southpaw who did it for them in 1955. And for the Giants, who hope to duplicate their feat of 1951 when Bobby Thomson's historic home run beat the Dodgers in the first of the four playoffs there have been for the National league flag, it was Juan Marichal, the right-hander from the Domin ican Republic. Neither manager - Walt Al ston of the Dodgers nor Alvin Dark of the Giants - had any other choice. Used Most They used most of their pitchers Tuesday in a wild battle which saw all kinds of records broken, as the Dod gers pulled it out, 8-7, in the Los Angeles Captures Second Game of Titular Runoff 8-7 On Sacrifice Fly By Fairly NATIONAL I.F.AnUK STANDINGS W. I.. Prl. GB x-S. Francisco ..102 62 x-Los Angeles .ao2 2 Cincinnati Bn B4 Pittsburgh fl.1 fiR Milwaukee R6 7fi St. Louis R4 7R Philadelphia .... Bl R0 Houston 64 06 ChicaRO SO 103 New York 40 120 x-Playoff. .622 .622 .605 3 .S7R Ti .531 IS .510 17 .503 10 'i .400 36 .364 42 .250 60 Tuesday's Playoff Result Los Angeles 8, San Francisco 7 BY NORMAN MILLER Los Angeles-IUi'll-You might call it perserverance, hustle or just plain luck, but what ever it was, the Los Angeles Dodgers felt they had it com ing to them. They had gone 35 frustrat ing innings without scoring a run and it looked like their fondest dreams of a World Series shot at the New York Yankees was dissipating in the sunshine and light haze that shrouded their second playoff game with the San Francisco Giants. Then a few breaks finally came their way Tuesday, aS they erupted with seven runs in the sixth inning, refused to lose heart when the Giants tied the score at 7-7 in the eighth, and finally won in the ninth, 8-7, when Ron Fairly hit a sacrifice fly that brought home fleet Maury Wills. Of curse, there were some "clutch" performances by the Dodgers, in addition to the breaks, in this 4-hour and 18 minute game that was the longest nine innings ever played in baseball history. Hits Pinch Double There was the pinch three run double by Lee Walls which highlighted the seven run explosion, and the im portant pinch single by young Doug Camilli which kept the rally alive earlier in that innings. There was the hitless 1 23 innings of relief pitching by big Stan Williams, who snuffed out the G i a n Is1 eighth-inning uprising and held them off in the ninth be fore the Dodgers won the game. Williams was credited ninth inning, coming up offjeept (hat they pledged they the ground to keep alive their hopes for the pennant they seemed to have won until just last Sunday. Now that Sunday could be come the day of infamy for cither the Dodgers or Giants, those old, ancient and hon ored rivals who used to be inter - borough rivals in New York and now are intra - stale rivals in California's baseball gold mine. They've battled down to the wire while the American league champions, the New York Yankees, wait impa tiently on the side-lines to see whom they will meet in the World Series starting Thursday. "This is it," said Alston, who doesn't talk very much cither. They had no secret plans ex- would go all out. 'We'll play them all if nec essary," said Alston, who used 19 players Tuesday, includ ing five arm-weary members Dodgers Choice Of Oddsmakers Las Vegas, Nev. - illPtl Oddsmakers have picked the Los Angeles Dodgers as slight favorites in today's decisive playoff game against the San Francisco Giants if Johnny Podres pitches. But the smart money oper ators figure tbe New York Yankees will be the only ones to benefit from the key game, since both the Giants and Dodgers will have used almost every pitcher for the three games. The Yankees were raised from 8-5 to 9-5 favorites to win the World Series regardless of who wins the National league pennant. If Podres pitched against Juan Marichal todav. the nod gers were 11-10 favorites. If; stealing thief, of his pitching staff. 'I'll do the same," said Dark, who used 23 players, including eight pitchers four of them in the ninth In ning. It was in that frame baseball's all - time base- Maury Wills, Pete Richcrt is used against Marichal, then the Giants were 5-4 favorites HORD TRADED Los Angeles llirn The Los Angeles Rams traded guard Roy Hord to the Philadelphia Eagles Tuesday to make room for Larry Hayes as offensive center. The Rams will get a player who has not been named from the Eagles. How ever, the immediate effect will permit the Rams to acti vate Hayes to replace the in jured Art Hunter. scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Ron Fairly, whom the Dodgers picked up from the University of South ern California campus for a fancy $80,000 bonus. Alston would not say def initely he would start Podres who hurled the Dodgers to their first world champion ship back in 1955 against the Yankees. "But I think so," he declar ed. "Otherwise it will be Lar ry Sherry." Sherry, like Podres, is a Dodger World Series hero. His relief pitching carried them to the world champion ship in 1959 against the Chi cago White Sox after they had beaten the Milwaukee Braves in a playoff for the National league pennant. Sherry, used strictly in re lief, has won seven games this season while losing but three. '' ' hi. ;'ri. " ' HUNTERS HUNTERS Mttsker'i Map of ch county how thoto hard to find roads, trails, lakes, cracks, tc. Got an up-to-dara one for your trip. $1.25 per county at all Sports and Stationary Stores or Mats ker Maps, Tacoma, Wash. THE GENERAL rrtxt t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 BRAKE RELIC3E SPECIAL Totals j FALL TUNE-UP 94 TUNE UP YOUR RAMBLER ENGINE NOW FOR EASY STARTING THIS WINTER Rambler American Tune Engine Sfi95 Rambler Classic 6 Tune Engine SJ95 Clean and Overhaul Carburetor on All Six Cylinder Ramblers .... $040 Rambler Ambassador and Rebel C Series Tune Engine NT Rambler Ambassador Clean and Overhaul Carburetor SH80 I LEA 5wa ' P I M o J MOTORS with his 14lh victory against 12 defeats. There was Wills, who stole his 101st base earlier in the game to no avail and then did some much more impor tant foot-racing when he scored the winning run. And there was Fairly, who managed to get enough wood on that final pilch from southpaw Mike McCormick for the sacrifice fly that de livered Wills from third base. But there were many among the 25,321 in Dodger Stadium who felt the Dodgers benefitted from a kiss by Lady Luck in beating the Giants. Tires Self Out The Dodgers biggest break came when Giants starter Jack Sanford tired himself out while running the bases during San Francisco's four run rally in the sixth. San ford a 24-game winner, had held the Dodgers to two hits during the first five innings. But he has had difficulty breathing this week because of a cold, and he had exerted himself ducking back to sec ond base after over-running the bag. And then he scur ried all the way home on Jim Davenport's single, making it with a hard slide for the third of the four tallies which gave the Giants a 5-0 bulge. When he walked Jim Gil liam to open the sixth, man ager Al Dark of the Giants Giants felt that it would be safer to call in a rested reliever. Be fore the inning ended. Dark had used four pitchers to quell that seven-run uprising. There was another Dodger break in the eighth when Willie Mays was thrown out at third base in a sprint .from first on pinch-hitter Ed Bai ley's run-producing single. It was a close play and the Giants beefed that umpire Jocko Conlan first had made the "safe" sign before calling Mays out. It was costly, too, for Ihe Giants continued their rally and tied the score al 7-7 on John Orsino's sacrifice fly. Biggest Break But the biggest break of all actually was a "rock" by Gaylord Perry, the Giants 24-year-olri relief pitcher, dur ing the ninth inning when the Dodgers won the game National LeaRtie playnff dories lip tween the Giants and the Dodders: San Francisco Hiller. ah f Nicman Bowman. 2h .... Davenport, 3h .. Mays, cf McCovev, If .... Miller, p O'Dell. p Larscn. p K Bailey h Boles Bolin. p LeMay. p Perry, p McCormick, p Cepeda. In F. Alou. rt Haller. c Orsino, e PaKan. ss SHnford. p M. Alou. If e Kucnii'.j If . AR a II Rill 'fr . ', - 4 WINNING RUN Maury Wills slides across the plate in the ninth mning with the winning run for Los Angeles Dodgers, easily avoiding the attempted tag by catcher Johnny Orsino. The run gave LA an 8-7 nod over the San Francisco Giants to tie the playoff for the National league baseball flag at one game each. (UPI) FORD, CHEVROLET, PLYMOUTH Similar Savings on All Makes and Models FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY All Brako Relins Jobs GUARANTEED 30,000 Miles or 1 Year on Pro-rata Basis irar ms On oli Jl Tires and II GENERAL TIRE SERVICE of Msdlord U12 Court Phono 773-82SS r Tonight, when the pace finally slackens, let the sure and satisfying smoothness of Seagram s 7 Crown help the long day to unwind. in t.ns AiiRelpi , AR Wills, ss ...... :.. 4 Gilliam, 2b-3b 3 Snider, Jf .1 j Spencer 0 T. Davis, 3b-c( 3 Moon, lb 2 Fairly, lb 1 Howard, rf 3 nofteboro. c 2 A Camilli. c 2 W. Davis, cf 2 h Carey 0 c Burright, 2b fl Dr.VBdale, p 2 Roebuck, p fl d Walls t Perrantwki, p 0 Smith, p 0 Williams, p 1 Total 23 n Sinsled for Rosehoro in fiih; b Hit by pitched ball for W. Davis In fith; c Ran for CHrey in Hth; d Doubled for Roebuck in filh; e Hit into force out for M. Almi in 7th; f Flied out for Hiller in 7th; R Sinsled for Larscn in Rth; h Boles ran for Bailey in nth; J Sacraficed lor Snider In flth. Olfl 004 0207 DodRers 000 007 001 0 E Drysdale. Haller. Howard. PO-A San Francisco 2fi-f) ilwn out. when winning run scored in 9th). Los AnRelrs 27-8. LOB San Francisco 13. Los Angeles 7. 2H F. Alou. PaRan, Snider, Walls. SB Wills. S Spencer. SF-T. Davis, Orsino. Fairly. er hh no I I'llrhlnx tp Sanford 5 Miller O'Dell 0 Larsen i'. Bolin IL) I LeMay 0 n 0 f) l 0 Perrv 0 0 0 f) n McCormick 'i 0 Oft 1 0 Drvsdale 5l3 7 S 3 4 4 Roebuck 23 1 ft 0 0 0 Perranoiki 1 4 I I 0 ft Smith 1 3 1 1 ft 0 0 Williami fWl . Pj fl 0 0 I 2 tSanTord pitchrd to one hatler in Rth; O'Dell pitched tn three bat ters In flth; Pcrranoski pitched lo two hntters In Rth; Smith pitched lo two hatters in 8th. Bolin pitched to one hatter In 9th; l,eMav pttrhed to one batter in ftlh; Perry pitched to one batter in !Mh. HBP Hy Drysdalr (Hilleri. by O'Dell (Careyi. II Bar lick, plate. Hnfcgestt. IB; Donalelli. 2B; Conlan, 3B. T 4:18. A 25.321. Perry had entered the game ' Jim Sitiyard Suffers From Injury Received In OSU Loss to Iowa Corvallis - OJPD - Wingback .Tim Sinvarrl 1 aiiffprtntf frnin In handinj? thp ball 1"; a shoulder separation received to face pinch hitter Daryl Spencer afler his predeces sors, Bob Bolin and Dick Le May, each had walked bat ter with one out. 5th and BARRETT Your RAMBLER Dealer Phone 772-6185 Perry, Dark specifically told him lo anticipate a bunt and look for a force play at third base. Spencer bunted, Perry fielded the ball, look one frenzied look at Wills streak ing for third base, and decid ed to throw to first Instead. Tnat forced Mike McCor mick. who followed Perry and became the eighth San Francisco pitcher, to walk Tommy Davis intentionally, loading the bases for Fairly's climactic sacrifice fly. j Anr.' rt'PI- Thp h n x fnr nt lim oron! im fit th in Oregon Slate's 28-8 loss to Iowa Saturday. Coach Tommy Prnthro watched films of the Beavers' defeat. He singled out left halfback Leroy Whittle and end Paul Scale for the best performances. JOIN ALL-STAH TEAM New York-Wli-The College All-Stars have added John Havlicek of Ohio Stale and Colgate's Bob Duffy for the benefit basketball game against the New York Knick erbockers at Madison Sn'iare SAY SEAGRAM'S &2 AND BE SURE ft Tte yj I Ns'"'''' ""' Jmm JLm Stem -. , , i scaflmtui 7c XT h tVsv -ssr sty ' L- f".. i .'jf tk 1 -i- ..,. ,.f wm oismuxs comply, nm im cut, MNoto whiskiy, ee proof. m grm niutrhi sphih Garden on Oct. 12.