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Houk Ponders Pitching Problems! For Yankees; Dark Selects Pierce I SECTION' D PAf.FS 1 to 8 Washington Stale Games Will Count Medford,. ilii Tribune By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sporti Editor San Francisco - il!Pli - Man ajcr Ralph Houk, needing only one more World Series victory over the San Fran cisco Giants to clinch the New York Yankee's 20th World Championship, today pondered a pitching problem for Friday's sixth game. Would it be Whitey Ford, who has won more World Series games than any pitcher in baseball history? Would it be sore-legged Bill Stafford, or would it be a second-line pitcher like Bud Daley or Jim Coates? As the Series returned to Candlestick Park in San Fran cisco, with the Yankees lead ing three games to two, the pitching plans of Giants man ager Al Dark were clearly outlined. It would be cagey, 35-year-old Billy Pierce on Friday, and if he were success ful, the Giants planned to stake everything Saturday on lefthander Billy O'Dell. "It'll go seven games," Dark Insisted, "Whoever takes the seventh takes it all." Beams With Confidence Houk puffed on a cigar and beamed all the confidence of a man in the driver's scat W e d n e s day following his Yankees' 5-3 victory in Yan kee stadium, won by rookie Tom Trcsh's three-run homer in the eighth inning. But he cpoke words of caution. "I remember the Milwau kee Braves of 1958." Houk re called. "They were up on us three games to one and still lost, remember? Naturally, we have the advantage but there's still time left for any thing to happen. D e spite Houk's cautious analysis, the odds makers made the Yankees 7 to 2 favorites to win the Scries. The man-to-man price for Fri day's sixth game was even money. "We all feel fine and I still believe we'll win," Dark told reporters who met the Giants at San Francisco airport Wednesday night. A small crowd of about 100 persons was also on hand to greet the team. - Willie Mays echoed the manager's statement and de clared, "We're ready for two games and we'll send New York home a loser." Arrive Unobtrusively The Yankees, who arrived a few minute later, stepped unobtrusively into a waiting bus and only a few people recognized them as they sped away toward the city. Both the Yankees and the Giants planned brief work outs at windy Candlestick Park today, weather permit ting. Houk. who announced after Wednesday's game that his sixth-game pitcher would be "Ford, or somebody," said he would know more about his pitching plans after today's workout. This was Houk's dilemma, if it might be called such. Ford, who beat the Giants in the opening game, 6-2, and i then was taken out in Mon day's game with the score tied at 2-2 in the sixth inning, will have the normal interval of three days' rest by Friday. However, Ford, approach ing 34, has worked better this season with an extra day of rest in between starts. Houk thus contemplated the idea of starting another pitcher Fri day, so that if the Series were extended to Saturday, the Yankees would have their pitching ace well rested for the deciding game. Stafford Hobbled The problem might never have come up had it not been for the batted ball that hit Stafford in the shin while he was pitching the Yankees to s 3-2 victory on Sunday. After being hit by Felipe Alou's line drive in the eighth in- San Francisco -ilTH- Giimcs played by Washington State University will count in I he Big Six standings, according to Executive Director Tom tcrminiiiK the league chai'.ii). Hamilton. The Cougars are not cligi- He r e p o r I c d Wednesday ble for the liig Six champion- that a poll of (cam members resulted in unanimous agree ment that games against Hit Cougars should count in ic- ship, however, because they only play two league foes Washington and Stanloid Hamilton said that the Rose Bowl representative will be chosen by vote and added that Washington State would be considered on the basis of its overall record. Sport Parade A By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International New York - OTIi - The bur ly, heavy-set man blinked his eyes rapidly to keep back the tears of happiness. "This," said Mike Tresh, "is the proudest moment of my life." One big arm, the one that used to make the throw to second base for the Chicago White Sox a decade and more ago, tightened convulsively around the tall, lean young man standing laughingly at his side. "I never had any great mo ments myself," confessed the chunky man with the broad, flat face. "My greatest thrill was just being in the major leagues." It was easy to understand the emotions which battled in side the 43-year-old former While Sox catcher as he stood there with his arm around his 24-year-old son, Tom. A short while earlier, Mike's kid had walloped a three - run homer for th e New York Yankees w h i c h beat the San Francisco Giants, 5-3, to give the Yanks a t iree to two game edge in the World Series. Knew It Was Gone "I was sitting behind home plate and I jumped straight up out of my seat," said Mike, now a security guard at an automobile plant near Detroit. "I knew it was gone the mo ment he hit it." "Holy Smoke," Mike add ed, his voice rising excitedly at the thought of that mo ment, "imagine, I hit only two home runs in my whole major league career, only two in i3 years, and the boy not only hit 20 this season but now he wins a scries game with another." Mike can deprecate h I s own years when he wore the catcher's garb, but there is no denying the part he played in preparing his strapping son for this hour of triumph. "I only hit .249 in my ma jor league career." said big Mike, "and 1 figur-d out early that if Tom wanted to be a ball player he'd be a lot better off as a switch-hitter; that it would give him an edge I never had." So it was that, when Tom, the latest pride of the Yan kees and undoubtedly the rookie of the year, was a toddler of three, the old man began to teach him to swing a bat from either side. "He was a natural right hander." the father remem bered. "But I kept him at it and when he got to be about seven or eight years old I really made him concentrate on it." That was toward the end of Mike's tenure with the White Sox, where he played from 1938 through 1949. Aft er that, Mike managed Day tona Beach in 1951, where Rocky Colavito was on his team, and at Wausau, Wis., in 1952. By that time, young Tom already had made up his mind that he wanted to become a ball player. "I never pushed the boy," Mike asserted. "He wanted it and he had a natural talent and I just did everything I could to help him." Teach ing him to switch hit was a great part of that tutoring. Because it was as a left hander that young Tom de livered that winning home run Wednesday in Yankee Stadium. "So I feel," grinned Mike with another fond look at his son, "that I had a little part in this scries. "Never even came close myself," he said. "One year we 'thought we had a chance, but that was the year Monte Stratton shot himself in the leg and it had to be ampu tated. That ended our hopes. "But this." he laughed, "is even better." Bowling ZEPHYR LEAGUE Modern Tile Co. I1S-SI 0. Wil nia Logan 412: Lanrlis Studio 115-5) 4. Gloria Taylor 455. Burks Awnings 111-31 3. Lois Cochlll 421; Team Five (7-131 1, Ellen Wade 341. Wainseotl's Drucs (fl-121 3. Al ice Fields 4112; Burelson's (8-12) 1. 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Ruth Carlson 352. Wapitis (12-12) 3. Gladys Messal 443; Ten Pinns (12-12) 1, Jan Bam forlh 373. Gladys Mrssal 188. LaVctle Ricks 173. Margaret Sutton 168; Wapitis 1518. ning, Stafford finished the game, but he has walked stiff lcgccd since. The 24-year-old righthander has been taking sonic treat ment for the severe bruise and insists "I'll pitch." But if not 100 per cent fit, Stafford, too, would be a gamble. That would leave it up to Daley, the soft -curve south paw who was credited with the Yankees' final-game vic tory in the 1961 Scries against the Cincinnati Reds, or Coates, an in-and-out right handed fircballcr. .MAJORETTE SCRATCH Kim's (14-6) 3. Del Chrislianson 545; Oregon Veneer (12-81 1, Ann Taylor 554. Southern Oregon Trophy (14-fil 3. Dorothy Ncase 552: Brown's Trucking (2-18) 1, Ginnie Brown 460. Bruce's Richfield (14-6) 4. Ruth Pruilt 520; Team Six 112-81 0. Helene Culy 517. Classic Studio (6-141 0, Etsie Baker 508; Barco Supply (6-14) 4. Dotty Wolff 357. 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"We have a great record in our own park." said 05-year-old lefthander Billv Pierce, who'll pitch the sixth game when the World Series returns to San Francisco Fri day with the New York Yank cos leading in victories 3-2. "We still have a good chance to win it." P i c r c e lost the game at New York last Thursday but he II have four days of rest before his next start and he vows he'll be ready to prevent the Yankees from with one out in the eighth and championship. He has won 12 games while losing only one in that park. Sanford Gloomy In the Giant clubhouse aft er Wednesday's 5-3 defeat on an eighth inning homer by Tom Tresh good for three runs off Jack Sanford, most of the losers still were full of fight. But not Sanford. "This is the one we want ed to win, the big one," he said in a barely audible voice. But after holding the Yank ees to two runs on three hits for seven innings, Sanford gave up singles to Tony Ku bek and Bobby Richardson withone out in the eighth and then Tresh homered to wrap up the victory. Dark Disgusted "I tried for a strike on the outside corner but it was a fast ball right up the mid dle and that was it," Sanford said. "I was trying to strike him out with two men on and Mickey Mantle coming up next. "It was the worst game we have played in a long time." Dark said, but he refused to elaborate except to parry a question with, "What kind oC a first inning do you Coil that?" Second baseman Chuck Hillcr and first baseman Wil lie McCovey both made er rors in the inning although the Yankees didn't score. San ford bailed himself out with a double play after catching a liner by Tresh and throw ing to first to double Rich ardson. McCovey tried to turn it into a triple play by throwing to second in ail ef fort to trap Kubck but Tony got back safely. j MEDFORD. 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