WEDNESmV.' OCTOBER 5. 1955
HERALD ANTD NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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Podres Trips Yanks
As Brooks Win First
By JOE REICHLER
NEW YORK (fl Their long-cher-Ished
dream finally a reality, the
world champion Brooklyn Dodgers
loomed today as the team which
will represent the National League
In the 1956 World Series.
Walton Alston, first of 20 mana
gers dating back to 1890 to lead
the Brooklyn club to a world title,
modestly predicted his team would
be even stronger next year than
the one which whipped the New
York Yankees in the series 4
games to 3.
"Improved pitching will make us
stronger," the tail, taciturn former
Ohio schoolteacher said during a
lull In the Dodgers' riotous victory
celebration after their 2-0 triumph
In the final game.
"Johnny Podres (who was so
superb in his two victories over
the Yankees) should develop into
one of the game's greatest pitch
ers." Alston said. "He has all the
stuff to make a great one and he
may come into his own next year.
Those world series victories should
. give him the necessary confidence.
"Then we have Karl Spooner,
Roger Craig. Don Bessent and
Sandy Koufax. All are young,
strong and have shown tremendous
promise. And remember, we still
have our reliables such as Don
Newcombe, Carl Erskine, Billy
Loes. Clem Labine and others."
Alston did not mention such
standout stickmen as Duke Snider.
Roy Campanclla, Gil Hodges and
Carl Furillo. All undoubtedly will
be at the old stand next year, in
cluding the aging but still brilliant
Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robin
son. Junior Gilliam, Sandy Amoros,
Don Hoak and Don Zlmmer, rep
resenting the younger element, all
figure prominently In the Dodgers'
future plans.
World
Series
Notations
NEW YORK UPI "Well," sillied
Phil R i z z u t o, the New York
Yankee shortstop Wednesday, "it
was a long series.
"And do you know who was the
most troublesome guy to the
Yanks all through these series?
Peewee Reese."
This was the first series Rizzutto
hud lost and it made the deepest
impression on him.
"Reese is always dangerous at
the bat although he doesn't have a
real high average," said Little
Phil, "but what he can do 'to you
in the field is murder. He literally
is the man to beat.
"He hits when you can't stand
It and he walks and he steals.
Neither Roy Campanella nor Jack
ie Robinson had a good series
against us. And Duke Snider never
has been their sparkplug although
he was their power the last two
series." .
The Yanks lost the scries, but
their methods probably will have
a distinct bearing on the way
Brooklyn's National League oppo
nents handle Walt Alston's oper
atives next season.
The three games the Yanks won
were pitched by lefthanders.
Said Manager Mayo Smith of the
Philadelphia Phillies:
"Casey Stengel really showed
us National Leaguers something.
In our league we have started
southpaws against the Dodgers on
ly in desperation. But Whltey Ford
and Tommy Byrne have proved
that lefties can stop the Dodgers
especially those with breaking
stuff. More southpaws will stnrt
against the Brooks next year. You
can bet on that."
NEW YORK (tf Figuring the
series:
Brooklyn'3 victory gave the Na
tional League two World Series
winners in a row for the first time
since 1934 when the St. Louis Cards
dumped the Detroit Tigers on top
of the Giants' conquest of the
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There's no denying that all fig
ured prominently in the great
Dodger victory of 193S climaxed
by the pulse-pounding triumph at
Yankee Stadium before 63.464 spec
tators. Even the staunchest American
League die-hards could not be
grudge Brooklyn's finest hour as
they watched the 23-year-old
Podres become the first Brooklyn
pitcher to win two games In a
World Series. They saw the Dodg
ers make maximum use of their
five hits and marveled at the
brilliant Brooklyn defense that five
times turned the Yankees back
when It appeared they were about
to break through.
At the finish, when Reese, the
stonewall shortstop, threw out El
ston Howard, the big park rocked
with human emotion as the entire
Dodger team raced out on the field
to embrace the gritty young south
paw. ,
In one blazing, thrlll-packed
afternoon, after four decades of
trying, a Dodger team finally suc
ceeded in winning a world title,
and they won it from a team which
had humiliated them In five pre
vious series.
Never before had a team won a
seven-game series after dropping
the first two games. Another rec
ord that brought Joy to the victors
was the total net receipts of
S2.367.515.34. making it the richest
World Series ever.
BOTH RUNS
Brooklyn had to beat Tommy
Byrne, the veteran southpaw who
had given them a lot of trouble.
They managed to drive him from
the box In the sixth Inning with
the help of an error after scoring
both runs off him.
Podres, who halls from Withcr
bec. N.Y., and Byrne, a resident
of Wake Forest, N.C., dueled on
even terms for three Innings but
in the fourth, Campanella crashed
a double to left and scored on a
two-out single by Gil Hodges.
A costly error by Yankee first
baseman Bill Skowron in the sixth
paved the way for the insurance
run. It forced the withdrawal of
Byrne although he had given up
only three hits.
Reese led off with a single. Sni
der sacrificed, but was safe at first
when Skowron took Byrne's throw
wide of the bag and dropped the
ball as he made a swipe at the
Duke. After Campanella had
moved the runners alins with an
other sacrifice bunt, Yankee Man
ager Casey Stengel allowed Byrne
to give Furillo an intentional pass
before taking him out. Bob Grim
took over on the mound and served
a long sacrifice fly to Hodges, who
thus drove in both Dodger runs.
It was a frustrating, fruitless
afternoon for the Yankees and
Stengel, who, in six World Series
as a manager, went down to de
feat for the first time. In every
inning but the first and ninth the
Yankees had threats loing but
cculd not break through.
SURPRISE
Tlie play of the game came m
the sixth. The Yankees had run
ners on first and second with no
body out when catcher Yogi Berra
came up. Billy Martin had opened
with a walk and had gone to sec
ond on Gil McDougald's surprise
bunt single.
Berra lashed at an outside fast
ball and sent it soaring into the
left field corner. It looked like a
certain hit, possibly a ground-rule
one-bounce double into the stands.
Amoros, who had replaced Gilliam
in left at the start of the inning
when Junior moved in to play sec
ond base, was far over in left cen
ter for the left-handed hitting
Bcrra.
Flashing a burst of speed, the
little Latin-American outfielder
caught up with the ball and caught
it with an outstretched glove, about
a foot or two from the stands. Then
Reese, who threw to Hodges. Mc
Dougald. who had rounded second,
was doubled up at first. After that.
Hank Bauer grounded out and near
ly everybody in the park could
sense that the Dodgers would not
be denied their greatest hour.
Podres finished in a blaze of
glory, getting right-handed hitters
Skowron. Cerv and Howard in
order to end the game.
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By WILL GRIMSLEY . dropping the first two games and
, , , . .... take the series a feat no team
, YORK Lft-Hcro of the 19o5 ever accomplished in, a seven-
World Series Is a brash. 23-year- gane 5etthiy were even longer
old mmer s son who holds Yankee ,na, tne mllln ptr, o( Job could
baseball power and prestige In a
disdam bordering on contempt.
I think I can whip 'em seven
times out of eight." Johnny Podres
said yesterday after he had pitched
the Brooklyn Dodgers la seventh
game 2-0 victory which brought
Flntbush its first wor d champion
ship. it was Podres who slopped
Casey Stengel's haughty New
Yorkers In the third game 8-3
after the Yankees had won the first
two games. It was Podres who
clinched the series yesterday with
a crafty eisht-hitter, cov.ing the
big Yankee bats in the clutch.
"I never once doubted I could
take 'em." the young left-hander
from Witherbee. N.Y., said. "Sure.
I was in a tijht spot once in a
while. But all I had to do was
bear down."
The Yankees left elsht men or.
base as Podres whistled his fast
ones past the ears of powerhouses
Yogi Berra, Hank Buer and
Mickey Mantle, the latter in a
pinch-hit role, and teased them
with curves and change-ups.
With two men on base in the
eighth and only one out. podrss
made Berra fly out to right field
and Bauer swing for a third strike
on a bad pitch high and outside.
ACCOMPLISHED
If the odds were long that the
Dodgers could come back after
Facts,
Figures
NEW YORK (UPi Final facts
and figures on the 1955 World Ser
ies: Final Standings: Brooklyn Dodg
ers win, four games to three.
Gime Scores:
1st Yan'.tees 6. Dodgers 5.
2nd Yankees 4. Dodgers 2.
3rd Dodners 8, Yankees 2. ,
4th Dodgers 8. Yankees 5.
5th Dodger3 5, Yankees 3.
6th Yankees 5, Dodgers 1.
7th Dnd','crs 2. Yankees 0.
Total Attendance: 362,310.
Total N e t Receipts (Without
Television): $2,347,515.34. (New
series record 1.
Commissioner's Share: $1,33!
034.45.
Players' Share (Players Partlcl
pate In Receipts Of Only First
Four linmrsi: ssDo.tiiJ.ou.
Brook Manaaer Walt Alston has
a one-year contract. It hasn't been
renewed officially..
Is there anyone around who
thinks he has any worles about
his job?
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be turned in by the hard-luck
southpaw who finished the season
with a lack-lustre 8-10 mark.
Plagued by chronic back ail
ment for years, he hadn't com
pleted a pitching assignment from
Jure 14 until the end of the cam
paign. He started 13 games in that
span, wa. knocked to the showers
In all.
Proudest man in Yankee Stadi
um after the clinching game was
not young Podres but a leathery
miner of iron ore from a small
upstate Milage five miles from
Lake Placid.
'I've always dreamed some
thing like this would happen," said
Joseph Podres, with Johnny's
husky uncle beaming at his side.
"I ahvujs wanted Johnny to be
a champ and he Is."
Johnny is the oldest of Joe
Podres' five children, consisting of
a sister, 15, and three other broth
ers. 17 7 utid 6 years old.
"Dad was a great pitcher hlin.
self." Johnny said. "He had a
better curve than Carl Erskine."
'Aw, it wasn't much." modestlv
deniurred the. father. "I played a
lot of baseball, though, around
home. There were some pretty
good leagues up there. Not blur
time, but semlpro ball and pretty
good.'
NEIGHBORING
The father said he started John.
ny pitching when the lad was 5.
Johnny won his first semlpro base-
Dan game while still In high school
at tin age of 15, pitching for
Mipesvllle, N.Y., against a neigh
boring team.
At 18 ho struck out 228 men in
200 Innincs for Hazard. Ky., In
the Class D Mountain State
League. He was with Montreal In
inn and has been with the Dodz-
er since 1953.
He seemed completely unawed
Dy an uie attention suddenly lav
ished upon him.
You re a hero now." a team
mate, yelled at him, "You're the
talk of th'e country. They'll be
aucr you ior television appear.
ances ano speecnes. '
"Okay, for a thousand bucks a
throw," Podres said, displaying a
familiar mercenary touch.
Agents swarmed around John
ny's locker, trying to get his sig
nature on contracts for TV ap
pearances and endorsements.
"Not now fellows," Podres said.
"I'm dead tired and too confused
to think. There's nothing I'd like
more now than to go to sleep and
then tomorrow go Ilshlng.
with more
good taste
86 PROOF
(
TIME OUT
IRES
"I really like this college. I think
when my playing days are over,
I'll come here and go to schooll"
KNOWING Freddie Zelaney,
5, gets one of Casey f tengel's
famous winks and an autograph.
Among us Yankees, thi World
Series wasn't close.
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MOSCOW iffi An obituary no
tice in Pravda Wednesday was
signed by Nikolai M. Shvernlk. It
marked ' the reappearance of the
former president of the Soviet Un
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In the Moscow Press for months.
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After Mound Triumph
Edltor'i Note: Southpaw
Johnny Podrei pitched the
, Dodgers to their first world
championship Tuesday by
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second tine In the World Ser
ies, t-O. In the following dis
patch, be tells how be did It.
By JOHNNY PODRES
As Told To The United Preai
NEW YORK (UP) I'm glad
there's no law against happiness
because man, oh man, I'd sure be
exceeding the legal limit.
A numb feeling took hold of me
as soon as Pee Wee Reese threw
the ball to Oil Hodges for the
final out and to tell you the truth,
I'm still In some sort of a daze.
All of a sudden everybody was
grabbing me after that last put
out. Somebody had my head, some
one else had my leg and a third
guy was grabbing my arm. Jeep-
ers, I dldn t know where I was.
I don't want to sound like one
of those know-it-alls, but I knew
we were going to win the series
all the time. Ask Pee Wee. I told
him we were going to win.
My change-up was the pitch that
beat the Yankees In the 1 third
game of the series but it was my
fast ball that got the Job done
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today. I wasn't especially worried
when Mickey Mantle camo up as
a pinch hitter with one on in the
seventh inning. I simply kept the
ball up on him and got him to
pop the ball up to Pee Wee.
My curve ball wasn't especially
good so I let my fast ball do most
of the work. ,
What did the skipper (Walt Al
ston) say to me when Yogi Berra
was up with two on and one out
in the eighth? He told me Berra
was going to go all out for the
long ball and I told htm I knew
It. So I worked on hint especially
carefully.
Sandy Amoros made the play of
the game out In left field in the
sixth Inning when he grabbed Ber
ra's shot near the left field foul
line and turned it into a double
play. That was the play that really
aaved the day.
My dad came down special from
our home in Witherbee, N.Y., to
see me pitch tsday and I'm glad
I didn't disappoint him.
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