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0 Yanks Unfurl 26th Mojct iahgue Flag; Cincinnati Reds' ffljagit Number Nou Jour wm HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday, Srptember 21, 1961 & Page S-B Rookie Manager Triumphs By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Roger Maris strode to the plate in the top of the ninth, dug in and fouled the first pitch by knuckleball specialist Hoyt Wtl helm back of the plate. Wilhelm f wound up again, let go and Mans tried to check his swing. He couldn't. The ball trickled down the first base line. Thus Maris joins a long list of homer hammerers who have come within range of Ruth's rec ord, but failed. Roger, however, tied Ruth's mark of 59 in 1921. He became only the second man in major league baseball history to hit that many and still has eight games under the expanded schedule in which to match or surpass Ruth's total. The honor of clinching the Yanks Uth pennant in the last 13 years went to Ralph Terry (15-31 who got the job done for the sec ond year in a row with a four hitter that made Ralph Houk the first rookie manager in 15 years to win a major league flag. The last American League first year pilot to do it was Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers in 1934. NY 4, Baltimore 2 The Yankees wrapped it up with a three-run rally in the third started by Maris' homer off Milt Pappas ( 12-9). Yogi Berra then followed with a homer and a sin gle by .lohnny Blanchard Joey Jay Hits 20; LA Wins -"" - It.. 1Kb UAY BABE BELTED NO. SO Lou Gehrig, next up, was first to congratulate a beam ing Babe Ruth when he established the seasonal major league home run record at 80 by belting a Tom Zachary pitch half way up the right field bleachers at Yankee Stadium, Sept. 30, 1927. The batboy was next to extend his hand. The Washington catcher was Bennie Tatu, the umpire Bill Dineen. Note that players were not yet wearing numbers. 34- Year -Old Record Safe For At Least Another Year Elston Howard's double finished NEW YORK (UPD - It hap pened one September day 34 yeas ago, the year that Charles A. Lindbergh flew the "Spirit of Si. Louis" across the Atlantic Ocean alone. This was the vpar when Prpsi. ?n(j dent Calvin Coolidge sent 600 Ma rines into Nicaragua to protect on tne outDurst lor a 4-0 lead. U-S. property and a famous sing- IeW YOrK 013 UUO UUO- 4 10 1 n9ml Al Tl n.rH i . ........... ... WU...U,. urru,bu .,, the first "talking" motion picture. Baltimore 000 002 000 2 4 Terry (15-131 and Howard. Pam pas, Hall (3), Wilhelm (91 and Triandos. Loser Pappas ( 12-9). HRs Maris, Berra. Chicago 3, Boston 1 Chicago's Ray Herbert defeated Boston 3-1 wih a seven-hitter, and Bobby DelGrcco hit a two run homer in the ninth that gave Kansas City a 4-2 win over Cleve land in other games. Minnesota Washington was rained out. Boston 000 001 000 1 7 1 Chicago 010 001 10.x 3 9 2 Conley, Early (7) and Nixon. Herbert (11-12) and Carreon. Los-. er-Conley (11-13). KC 4, Cleveland 2 Kansas City 001 000 102 4 11 2 Cleveland 000 100 010 2 8 0 Bass (9-11) and Bryan. Latman. Allen (8), Schaffernoth (9) and Romano. Loser Allen' (3-2). HRs Dillard, Del Greco. But to many people the most important day in 1927 was Sept. 30. That was the day Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run. Since that day great baseba.l players have tried and failed to break that mighty record. Hank Greenberg, Jimmy Foxx and Hack Wilson all came close b'lt not close enough. Almost Docs It Wednesday night Roger Maris of the New York Yankees almost did it. But he didn't. He missed Los Angeles 000 002 001 3 7 1 Detroit 000 200 40x 6 10 1 Bowsfield. Chance 7 and Rodgers. Kline (8-8) and Brown. Loser Bowsfield (10-7). HRs Cash, G. Thomas. Minn, at Wash, ppd., rain Houk Leads Strange NY Celebration BALTIMORE (AP) - Manager Ralph Houk of the New York Yan. kecs wastes no time looking back. "We're not interested in home runs by Roger Maris or the rest of the schedule, he said only tieing the record by a few feet after hitting his 59th, the same number the Babe hit in 1921, at Baltimore in a game that won the 1961 pennant for the Yankees. Let's go back to that unforget table day in September. 1927, when the Bambino walked up to the plate in the eighth inning of a game with the Washington Sen ators. Tom Zachary, a great left-hand er, was on the mound. 'There were two out, the score was 1-1 and men on first and sec ond, Zachary recalled many years later. "I had to pitch to him. I couldn't put the winning1 run on third. It was mighty hot and the count was 3 and 2. I had to get it over with something on it. What To Throw? As Ruth clenched the bat han dle, Zachary was in a sweat Should he try to fog a fast ball past the Babe? "I guess I could have thrown him one of my fast balls, but I didn't want him to get hold of one of those," Zachary said. Zachary made his decision a curve ball. "I threw him a good curve ball. the best I had, but it wasn't good enough." There was a loud crack of the bat and the historic ball started its journey down the right field line. It curved fair, high in the bleachers, and the crowd in Yan kee Stadium on that eay went wild. "He hit it a mile," Zachary said. Zachary stood on the mound calling himself names as he watched the Babe make his fa miliar trot around the bases for the 60th time. It was a day that lone will be remembered in baseball. Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Those amazing Cincinnati Reds, a questionable product in the Na lonal League race when the sea son began, have gone methodical ly about the business of trying to nail down their first pennant 21 years with a potent patent on winning one-run games. The Reds did it again Wednes day night, edging the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 on Wally Post's two- run homer in the eighth inning for their eighth victory in the last nine games and a 34-14 won-lost record in one-run games. The victory went to right-hander Joey Jay (21-8), the only NL pitcher with 20 wins, and reduced the Reds' magic pennant-clinching number to four over second-place Los Angeles. The Dodgers also won by a single run, nipping Chi cago 3-2 in 13 innings. Milwaukee beat San Francisco 7-4 and Philadelphia defeated St. Louis 6-1 in other games. Reds 3, Pirates 2 Post's 20th homer came with Vada Pinson on base via a walk and brought the Reds from behind to beat the Pirates and reliever EIRoy Face (6-11). Pinson, who was l-for-3 on the night, became the first player in either league to reach the 200-hit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American League W. L. Pet. G.B. 104 50 .675 93 59 .612 10 89 65 .582 15 84 70 .545 20 74 79 .484 29'i 73 81 .474 31 67 83 .447 35 66 86 .434 37 57 95 .375 46 56 95 .371 46ls x-Clinched pennant Wednesday Results New York 4, Baltimore 2 Chicago 3. Boston 1 Kansas City 4. Cleveland 2 Detroit 6, Los Angeles 3 Minnesota at Washington, post poned, rain I x-New York Octroi Baltimore . 'Chicago ... (Cleveland i Boston i Minnesota . Los Angeles I Kansas City Washington Maris Misses In Big Try; Long Fouls, Dribbler Hurt BALTIMORE, Md. (API Roger threatened that mark Jimmy an 0-2 count, Roger wliacked a Maris' relentless assault on Babe Foxx and Hank Greenberg. j liner which landed in the stands. National League W. 1.. Pet. G.B, 57 61 65 69 69 75 86 90 84 80 77 77 69 .612 .579 .552 .527 .527 .479 .415 Cincinnati . . . Los Angeles . San Francisco St. Louts Milwaukee . . . Pittsburgh ... Chicago 61 Philadelphia . 45 101 Wednesday Results Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2 Los Angeles 3, Chicago 2 ( 13 in nings I Philadelphia 6, St. Louis. 1 Milwaukee 7, San Francisco 4 12". 12fe 19b 29 4-t', Ruth's hallowed home run record ended in defeat Wednesday night, but in no way could it be inter preted as a failure. The left-handed slugger; bat tling against almost impossible odds, missed matching the immor tal Bambino's 60 homers in a 154 game season by the narrowest of margins just one. Trailing by two home runs with just one more game remaining. playing in a park which had throttled him in all 26 previous efforts, Maris not only walloped his 59th home run of the season but came breathlessly close to smashing two more. Had the two he barely missed been fair instead of feet foul, the crew-cut blond from Raytown Mo would have achieved the feat of the century. Only two others had seriously devoted to Ruth, a native Balti more., gave Maris, 27, a stand ing ovation after he had sent a dribbler down the first base line. I didn't quite make it, but I tried." And how Maris tried. The crowd of 21,032, naturally about eight feet foul and some 15 feet short of the right field bleachers. Many in the crowd, on his side by that time, groaned. ; Again, in the seventh. Maris flirted with fame when he hit, a long drive deep into the right field KlnnUA. TUL. ....... .1 . n In the first inning, facing Mtlt , " Pappas, Baltimore's ace right hander, he drove a screaming liner to Earl Robinson in deep right. In the third inning, with Pappas still on the mound, he smashed a 2-1 pilch, a sort of high liner, into the right field bleachers, about 390 feet from the plate. The hom-i er electrified the audience, which realized he still had at least two more cracks at homer No. 60. Dick Hall, another right-hander, was on the mound when Maris came to bat in the fourh. With Now it was the ninth. There were two out, Hoyt Wilhelm was on the mound. "Just one good swing." Maris muttered grimly to himself. "Just one good swing. Thats all I want." He never got that "one good swing." The ball struck the bat and dribbled down the first bass line. Wilhelm fielded the ball himself and lagged the dejected Maris just off first base. : Today's Sport Parade Roger Remains Impassive; It's Champagne, Not Tears By OSCAR FRALEY BALTIMORE (UPD Roger Maris had just hit No. 59, a blow which put him second in baseball annals only to the immortal Babe Ruth, and he was as impassive as someone living in a vacuum. He was a man with the cold poise of a Mississippi steam boat gambler holding a royal flush. The face was as expressionless as those cut into the unyielding rock of Mount Rushmore. His deep-set eyes gazed forth on a watching world with the flinty, unwavering stare of a house de tective checking a spurious credit card. The voice was the flat, level monotone of a train announcer reading a part in Othello. How did he feel now that he had hit one less than Ruth and one more than any other man in base ball history in the 154-game limit imposed by Commissioner! minutes after clinching the 1961 1 r" .... ... . American League pennant He shrugged, still without crack Wednesday night in his first sea- mg the veneer. . r, La,,, manner 1 tried and all I got was one. "Cincinnati, or whoever it is in I m ""PPX and lucky to get what it,, uwm crt'u n.vi u-m-.H gt. I'm relieved, too. or relieved. You'd see more ex pression on the fish who stole your bait, the lady who won 20 cents on her two-buck ticket on the favorite to show, on the guy whose wife didn't pick his pocket of the poker winnings. What about the Frick ruling? "He makes the rules." And another shrug. This is not a new facade manu factured for protective coloration. Maris is noted as a quiet man, albeit one ever prepared to sneak up with unyielding firmness when he is displeased. There is about him the withdrawn manner of a pick-pocket at a police convention, a characteristic which never has made him a roaring favorite among his mates. Throughout the latter stages of his Canaveral-like canter among the stars he has read the news papers with the critical eye of an editor suffering from ulcers. He has had what is' known as who had been affronted by an im moral manuscript. Fan Snags Ball After his 59th home run in the third inning Wednesday night, reporter pursued the ball into the right field bleachers. It had been snatched by an unemployed ma chinist as if it were the Kohinoor diamond and he clutched it irm ly in his hands as he was led down between innings to pose for pictures with Mans. There was a discussion of its worth in a trade. There was the offer of two new balls in ex change; of two tickets to the first game of the World Series; of flat J25. It wasn't enough to the unemployed one. "You gonna keep it?" Maris: asked. "Yep." "Well, good luck to you," Maris said icily, and walked back to the dugout. mark and inched up on Pitts- burghs Roberto Clemcnte, the league batting leader wih a .354 average. Pinson has a .342 mark. Pittsburgh 000 000 020 2 7 0 Cincinnati 010 000 02x 3 10 0 Gibbon, Face (8), Haddix (8) and Burgess. Jay (21-81 and D. Johnson. Loser Face (6-11). HR Post. Bums 3, Cubs 2 The Dodgers, beaten two nights in a row by the seventh-place Cubs, remained five games be-' hind the first-place Reds by push ing the winning run across in the 13th when Wally Moon singled, reached second on a ground out moved to third on a passed ball and scored on Ron Fairly's two-, out single. Sandy Koufax (18-11) went the distance for the victory, striking out 15 for a 259 total this season. and moved within eight of tying the modern league record of 267 by Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants in 1903. Barney Schultz (7-6), third Chicago pitch er, was the loser. (13 innings) Chicago 000 200 000 000 0 2 7 0 L. A. 010 000 010 000 1 3 11 0 Ellsworth. Elston (9), Schul.z (12) and Barragan, Bertell (3). Koufax (18-11) and N. Sherry. Loser Schultz (7-6). HRs Santo, N. Sherry. Braves 7, SF 4 Hank Aaron cracked a bases- loaded single in the seventh in ning that snapped a 3-3 tie and ended the Braves' eight-game los ing streak. Lew Burdette (17-101, won it. Mike McCormick (12-16), took the loss. Milwaukee 001 200 202 7 10 1 San Fran. 011 100 001 4 9 1 Burdette (17-10) and White. Mc Cormick, Miller (7) and Bailey. Loser McCormick (12-16). HRs Cepeda, Adcock. Eagle Point Player Earns Prep Honor; By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i The Associated Press' Oregon high school football player of the week is Steve Geeren, 165-pound Eagje Point speedster who scored all of his team's points in a 33-0 rout of Cave Junction's Illinois Valley. Geeren returned a kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown, ran with1 an Intercepted pass for another score and tallied from scrimmage on runs of 80, 20 and 3 yards. He made all of Eagle Point's conversions. There were other heavy scorers during the weekend. Glenn Fortune registered 19 points for Glide, Don Elston 18 for Sweet Home, Marv Himmel 18 for West- fir, and Tim Casey made three touchdowns for, Jesuit of Beaver- ton. There also were some standout defensive performances. Don Causey, an end, was in on 12 tackles, intercepted a pass, forced a fumble and blocked an extra point try as his North Salem team shaded Klamath Falls, 13- 12. Grants Pass coaches credited John Ripper of North Bend with preserving a 7-0 victory over their team. He batted down two passes that could have gone for touch downs and tackled several Grants Pass runners who were about to score. Koscourgs Mike Flury was brilliant both ways in a 7-6 win over Springfield. He gained 95 yards on 23 carries, contributing some key runs in a touchdown drive. He also participated in 11 tackles and intercepted a pass. t ullback Gary Collctle was North Salem's offensive star in the Klamath Falls game. He cracked the line 29 times for 136 yards and scored one touchdown. Wy'East is heavily Indebted to another fullback, Mike Goe, for the first victory it ever has scored over The Dalles. In the 34-0 triumph Goe reeled off a 21-yard touchdown run, averaged 4 yards per carry and was in on 11 tackles. Phils 6, Cards 1 Clay '. Dalrymple and Ruben Amaro drove in two runs each against Ernie Broglio (9-12), for the Phils' victory while Don Fer rarese (5-D) checked the Cards on seven hits. T.atf- in VinLna Jracinn DI.;UJntnl,i. AHA 1ATI IVIA It 7 A Buu "'""iroom long accustomed to pennant St. Louis 000 001 000- 1 7 0 of the reviews of his ef oris were,winning ceicbrations 1 Ferrarase ,5.9, and Dalrympl;. encouraging and complimentary. chamcaly wcre going th h he;Broglio. Washburn (5) and Olivet.. et he has an occasion, ocenjgpjgj ritual of drinking cham Loser Broglio (9-12). HR Oliver. "In the meantime, we're going to have fun tonight." This was in a Yankee dressir,! room where champagne had been iced in advance and poured freely by one player over another. When the champagne ran out, beer shampoos were in order. In a way, it was a strange cele- hratinn 'pu-men virtna Iv nnrH Hm.lt In mnveriw on Marts dive in Memorial Stadium Wedncs- No Expression quick to criticize as if he were He didn't look happy, or sad, la publisher of children's books Unemployed Ball Fan Nabs Ball -And Won't Give It Up SETS WORLD RECORD LONDON (UPD Tamara Press, of Russia set a world's record for the women's discus throw with a toss of 193 feet, 6 inches Wednesday while leading a Rus sian women's team to a 75-43 vic tory over an English women's track and field team. The U.S.S.R. men's team also whipped its English counterparts, 122-102. pagne from paper cups and dous- ing beer on the heads of the younger and less blase members. One, who was watching, noticed a wet spot on Maris' check. "Are they tears?" he was asked. "No." he replied with the barest hint of lifted eyebrows. "Just who missed bv one homer Babe day night for a baseball that may Ruth's 34-veariid record of 60. j become a collector's item.- Or just I Alone in a side room attired ina conversation piece, street clothes was Mickey Man- Bob Reiz. an unemployed ma tle. for years the best-known Yan-1 chine operaor. outhustled dozens kce hitter. This season he had to of other right-field bleacher fans take a back scat to Maris after to nab the ball which Roger Maris reaching .53 homers. In the pen-lot the New York Yankees slugged nant-winning victory over the into the seats for his 59th homer Baltimore Orioles he was side- 'of the season, lined with a cold. The homer came in New York's But when-newsmen finally got ! 154th team decision of the season around to congratulating Houk he the limit which Commissioner reminded them the 26th Yankee i FortP Frick imposed on anyone nenimnt and 11th in 13 seasons taking a crack at Babe BALTIMORE (API A 32-vear-'and if Maris his another homer old Baltimorcan made a head-long I the market value of the ball j champagne. owned by Reitz will diminish con- lnose w travel witn tne cluD siderably. could have told you that, even Soon alter running down the j though after all thed. hectic elusive ball. Reitz indicated ne,wecK ""7 still try:ng to get inside him. But one thing is for sure. He Isn't the crying kind, RACING would be happy to exchange the ball for two World Series tickets and an all-expenses-paid trip to all series games in New York. Maris, who met Reitz under the stands between innings, nixed the By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS offer personally, and the fan re- NEW YORK Black Thumper turned to his seal. ($28.20) won the 128.550 Stymie "Maris shook my hand and Handicap at Belmont Park by 3'4 AJVU IUI pillUICS. JlCll MJIU iuik"3 a gt newsmen. Then ne called lor LnlLAOO He s Ruth's someone in the clubhouse to brine scored in the OO.OOO Brevity Han- u, i riim eniirelv to Maris and: home run record of 60 set in 1927. out another ball. I knew what heidicap at Hawthorne. Mantle. I But the Yanks save eight more wanted to do autograph anotheri SAN MATEO, Calif. Ella "Thu was definitely a team ef-igames to play under the expanded one in exchange for mine. I said Knock 8 20) won the feature at fort," he said. lfi2game schedule this season. I 'never mind' and kept the ball."y Meadows. 1 1 . 11 .9 if ' 2 M MEET Ernie Schmidt LUBE EXPERT We're very fortunate to offer the services ef Ernie Schmidt n our lube department. Ernie knows the lubrication requirtmenti of all makci of can. He brings almoit 14 years of experience to this de partment. Makt? sura your cor is lubed right. Ask bfor tVnie. . 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