Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 7 October 1963 — Page 7

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Dodgers Sweep Series From Yankees, Koufax Hurls Second Victory

LOS ANGELES (UPI) — It was a baseball miracle, but the Los Angeles Dodgers puled it off to erase the last remaining vestiges of a choke-up stigma that had haunted them for nearly a year. They swept the Worlii Series from the once-proud-and-mighty New York Yankees in the face of odds that were 25-1 against them. But the oddsmakers didn’t figure on that gilt-edged Dodger pitching, timely hitting and a surprisingly prous Yankee defense which yielded a seventh-in-ning gift run that enabled the Dodgers to win the fourth game, 2-1 Sunday, with Sandy Koufax pitching another masterpiece. Actually, the Yankees’ Whitey Ford pitched better, yielding only two hits, but the highly-touted Yankee defense let him down. It was a bitter defeat for the Yankees — the first time they ever had been swept in the 28 Series in which they have played. To the Dodgers the victory was especially sweet for it wiped out the memory of their 1962 collapse when the lost the National League pennant after having it apparently wrapped up. Alston Was Surprised Manager Walter Alston of the Dodgers, whose job may have been in jeopardy had he not won the series, admitted he was as surprised as anyone by the Los Angeles sweep. “I never figured we’d do it in four,” said the happy Alston. “I never gave much thought about how many games it would take to win, but if someone had asked me I’d have said six or seven.” Manager Ralph Houk was surprised, too. Before the series he said he didn't look for either team to win it in four games "because we are so evenly matched.” ‘‘The Dodgers have a great club,” added Houk, who suffered his. first series defeat. “As soon as my players came into the dressing room after the game, I told them they have, nothing to be ashamed of* They're going to £ re w * nning f fc - He refused to single out any Yankee player for blame. “The things which happened to us in the field could have happened to anyone,” he reasoned. Excuses Pepitone’s Error Thus did he excuse the downcast Joe Pepitone’s failure to hold a throw from third basemen Clete Boyer which would have retired Jim Gilliam in the seventh inning. As it was, Pepitone lost

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the ball in the crowd background of the left field stands, and Gilliam raced all the way to third on the error. A few seconds later, Gilliam scored the winning run after Willie Davis flied deep to Mickey Maptie. As soon as he spoke to his players, Houk went into the Dodger clubhouse to congratulate Alston and the Dodgers. “If we had to lose,” said Houk, a champion in defeat, “I’m glad it was to a club like the Dodgers. I’m glad for Alston. After the frustrating season they had the year before if somebody else had to win I’m happy it was a club like the Dodgers that won.” Houk was nettled by whispers and even some opinions expressed right out that the Yankees did not belong in the same league as the Dodgers. "I wouldn’t mind if the Dodgers were in our league,” he said. “I’d like to play them all year. Some people might say they’d run us into the ground but I don’t think so." “A Lueky Mun” Alston, who refused to single out any Dodger players for spacjal praise, called himself “a very lucky man.” “This makes up for everything,” he said. “It was a real fine team effort.” There were Dodger heroes galore, but the Dodger players heaped most of their praise on the 27-year-old, dark-haired Koufax, the major league strikeout king. Koufax, a 25-game winner in the Dodger drive to the National League pennant, throttled the Yankee power in the first and fourth games of the series, each time beating Ford, the Yankees’ 24-game winner. Houk steadfastly refused to fault the Yankees in any way. “We didn’t hit and it’s a question of whether we were in a slump or that fine Dodger pitching just overpowered us,” he said. -,.«Alßto». with a smile, called his pitching “mighty good.” “I expected it to be because it has been fine - all Reason,” he added. , But he refused to be drawn into any controversy on the respective defensive and offensive merits of the two clubs. The Yankees were rated superior in both those departments before the series opened with the Dodgers given the edge in speed and pitching. It turned out that the Dodgers had the edge in everything and thus brought about their baseball miracle. First Draft Choice Dropped By Celtics BOSTON (UPI) — BiU Green, the first choice of the Boston Celtics in last season’s National Basketball Association draft, was dropped from the roster Sunday. Green’s cut marked the first time in 18 season that the Celtics’ top choice failed to make the team. High School Football Angola 33, Howe Military 0. South Bend Riley 28, Fort Wayne North 6. New Albany 19, Evansville Reitz 13. Evansville North 13, Evanville Memorial 6. Winchester 20, Cambridge City 0. Gary Andrean 33, Muncie South 12. Marion 27, Madison Heights 12.

PP K Contest At Worthman Field Tuesday The third annual Punt, Pass & Kick contest, co-sponsored by the Schwartz Ford Co., and the Decatur high school Booster club, will be held Tuesday evening at Worthman Field. Competition will begin at 7 o’clock Tuesday night, with four age groups of boys competing. Bob Worthman, Decatur high school athletic director, is competition director for the affair, and will be assisted by Schwartz Ford and Booster club representatives in running the contest tomorrow night. Any boy who has not registered as yet for the contest, may do so yet this evening at the Schwartz Ford Co., located west of Decatur on U. S. 224. A parent or guardian must accompany the boy registering. There will be no registering Tuesday, the day of the contest. A large number of local boys are expected to complete, due to the success of the program in the past two years. 12 Prizes Given Three prizes will be awarded in each of the four age groups, a total of 12 prizes in all. First prize in each group will be a Chicago Bear warm-up jacket, with second prize a Bear helmet and third prize an official National Football League ball autographed by some o fthe league's top stars. There is no charge to enter the competition, and no special equipment will be needed Tuesday evening. Entrants are not allowed to wear regulation football shoes, just regular “"street shoes or sneakers. Each boy will pass, punt and then kick from a "kickirrß - tee? 'BfcSj! j tances will be measured, and points will be subtracted for inaccurate kicks or passes. (. Series Facts LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Final facts and figures on the 1963 World Series: Final standings—Dodgers won, 4-0. First game score — Dodgers 5 Yankees 2; second game score— Dodgers 4, Yankees 1; third game score—Dodgers 1, Yankees 0; fourth game score—Dodgers 2, Yankees 1. Fourth game attendance — 55, 912. Total attendance —247,279. Fourth game financial figures — Receipts, $511,790.09; players share, $261,012.95; commissioner’s share, $76,768.51; clubs and league’s share $43,502.16. Total financial figures — Receipts, $1,995,189.09; players’ share $1,017,546.43 (70 per cent to the Yankees and Dodgers, 30 per cent to the second, third and fourth {dace teams in each league.); commissioner’s share $229,278.37; clubs and league’s shares $169,591.09. Approximate players’ individual shares — Dodgers, $12,000 each; Yankees, SB,OOO each (both records.) Pro Football National League Cleveland 35, Pittsburgh 23. Philadelphia 24, Dallas 21. New York 24, Washington 14. Chicago 3, Baltimore 3. Green Bay 42, Los Angeles 10. Detroit 26, San Francisco 3. St.. Louis 56, Minnesota 14. American League New York 31, Boston 24. Bluffton 12, Oakland 0. Denver 50, San Diego 34. Kansas City 28, Houston 7.

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li Um BIG BLAST — Cannoneer John Isch fires the victory shot after a Decatur score during the 50-0 win over Bluffton Friday night. —•Photo by Mac Lean)

Bears, Browns Slay Unbeaten In NFL Play By NORMAN MILLER UPI Sports Writer Take it from the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles, whether it’s football or baseball, there's nothing like having a good man in the bullpen. Rudy Bukich of the Bears and King Hill of the Eagles, a pair oi journeyman quarterbacks who have been knocking around the Natioaal Football League, came off the bench Sunday and turned in winning performances as impressive as Bart Star, Y. A. Tittle, Frank Ryan and Charlie Johnson. The Bears came from behind to beat the Baltimore Colts, 10-3, Sunday and the Cleveland Browns defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 35-23, Saturday night to extend their spotless records to 4-0. Starr, Tittle and Johnson each threw three touchdowns passes Sunday to keep the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals closely in contention with 3-1 records. The Packers drubbed the Los Angeles Rams, 42-10: the Giants whipped the Washington Redskins, 24-14; and the Cards walloped the Minnesota Vikings, 49-14. Lions Downed 49ers Hill’s passes helped the Eagles score their first victory of the season as they sent the Dallas Cowboys down to their fourth straight defeat, 24-21, and the Detroit Lions ruined the head coaching debut of the San Francisco Forty Niners' Jack Christiansen with a 26-3 shellacking. The Browns face the Giants next Sunday in an Eastern Division showdown, but it looks like theve'll by no stopping the Bears for a few weeks. They next travel to the West Coast for successive meetings with the Rams and Forty Niners, neither of whom has won a game. Bukich, who previously played for Los Angeles and Pittsburgh during his nine-year NFL career, was summoned from the bench late in the third period after the Bears were unable to overcome a 3-0 Baltimore lead with Billy Wade at quarterback. Bukich completed six straight passes, mixing the first three with some effective Chicago rushing during an 80-yard touchdown drive. Hill Led Eagles Hill, another vagabond quarter; back playing in** his sixth NFL season, replaced injured Sonny Jurgensen and got the Eagles off winging with an 80-yard touchdown hookup with Timmy Brown. Hill also completed a six-yard TD to,ss to Clarence Peaks and, set up a third touchdown and a Philadelphia field goal. Herb Adderly, Green Bay’s ailleague defensive back, raced 98 yards with the opening kickoff and Starr subsequently completed touchdown passes of 27 yards to Jim Taylor, 53 yards to Max McGee and 19 yards to Ron Kramer in the romp against the Rams. Tittle engineered a 98 - yard touchdown drive in the final per-

iod, throwing 27 yards to Joe Walton for the score that clinched the game for the Giants. • The Redskins narrowed New York’s lead to 17-14 at halftime when Norm Snead’s passing and the rushing of Billy Barnes and Don Bosseler produced two sec-ond-period touchdowns. Johnson’s passes gained a total of 301 yards for the Cards against the Vikings. Sonny Randle caught TD passes of 21 and 68 yards from Johnson and another of 11 yards from Btiddy Humphrey. Bill Triplett scored twice, on an eight-yard run and on a fi,ve-yard pass from Johnson.

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< iwwMM ML...•« i f ■■477 1 „1 VJ itV ■|| - jf M ■ ■«■■ FOLLOWING THE SCENT— Decatur’s Max Elliott, his helmet jammed over his ey<?« after being slammed by a Bluffton defender, evidently does pretty well picking up yardage by just following his nose. He gained 112 yards and averaged 12.3 yards per carry in Friday's 50-0 touchdown festival (Photo by Mac Lean)

t' Xi /A THE SWEETNESS OF VICTORY— Coach Wally Yeoman Ls carried from the field by jubilant members of tho Yellow Jacket squad. Left to right. Gary Kr ueekeberg, Dave Smith,-Dave Anspaugh, Yeoman, Tom Macklin and Buster Melchi.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

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