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_. By PIUS CALLAGHAN

. The Generous Dodgers

SAN Francisco Giants are now in the world Series with New York Yankees and an the tears of Los Anaeies Dodgers and their Importers cannot change that-

» Giants won the crown the in ninth York Giants-did back in 1951. As much as we would have the National League in the world better. team won this post season chance to cop things easily in the palgn but blew sky high. Giants

lire themselves but the Los Angeles gang co-operated by winning oalyfiine of their final six games in once-friendly Dodgzer Stadium. 0 rniatfm how you look t.

tadts that shmved Los Angmcs to-’_the Giaints on a silver plain-r.

l PERSONALLY. we don't think that any team who can't win at deast two of their last six games at home deserves a pennant. Dddgers couldn't play this .333 ball required of them resuitthey wound up in a tie with their neighbours from San

Francisco. . They continued their horrible

SPORTS

inning of the final game. much the same as the New

RONT

hard way, battling from behind

liked to see Dodgers represent series, we must admit that the playoff. The Dodgers had their final week of the lcgular cam- were not exactly any ball of

you can’! avoid the cold hard Dodgers handing the pennant and as a

battling slump in the first game

of'the playoff but appeared cured when they thumped Giants in the second game. However just when Giants looked like runners- up. in that third contest, the Dodgers once again decided to start

handing things away. Alvin

Dark’s

boys got only two hits ir

that eventful ninth but walks and errors did the rest and gave

them four runs and the National

League flag.‘

Wills" Was Great

THINGS seemed to be going in the ninth. Giants were ready open in the sixth when they load

Dodgers’ way until that break to blow the whole affair wide ‘ed the oases with none out. In

came Ed Roebuck and he got the side retired without a runner crossing home plate. It was a great effort and big Ed looked

like the playoff hero ’ hen Maury

Roebuck’s great clutch pitching

mance went in vain. Dodgers couldn't hold the 4-2 ctlfle they

enjoyed entering the ninth.

The Second

THE second guessers had a whale of a time after this one fiinished Wednxesri-ay night. In the runner on second and the Dodgers leading 3-2. Alston ordered the utting the go-ahead run

batter walked. thereby got out_ot' the situation but we ti

indeed if the batter had doubled ainrl scored

Some were maintaining that pinch hitter for Roebuck in the el two_.out. As it turned out it would But Roebuck had been terrific up

holding a 4-2 lead. He stayed with his ace rcliefer and we didn't

blame him.

But his handling of his pitchers in the ninth and hislordering Wtlliaxns to walk the basses full. did-n‘t go down well with us. In a tense situation ( and it was a 4-4 ball game then) the chance of Williams forcing in a run was great. That‘; what happened and

the Giants were ahead to stay

Come On, Giants

Wills ran the Giants crasy. He got four hits. stole three bases, scored a pair leading the Dodgers into the series against the Yankees.

of runs and appeared to be But and Wills’s all-around perfor-

Guessers‘

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Giants‘ centrefielder Willie i Mays. left, and pitcher Billy ' Picrce are happy pair after

0 UI-LANT PAIR

San Francisco won the pen- nant at Los Angeles Wednes- day afternoon. Pierce put the

Dodgers down in order in the ninth and Maya snared the last two outs in the outfield.

lToronto «Hassle Threatens

By BILL MACDOUGALL

TORONTO (CP) The Na- tional Hockey League All-Star game. annual prelude to the pro- fcssional hoc key season, is turning into the focal point of a hassle between Toronto man- ager-coach Punch Imlach and the Maple Leaf players.

seventh. with two out and a

0:. base. I~lc iink he would have looked bad both base runners.

Alston should have sent in a ghth with the bases loaded and have been the real thing to do. to that time and Dodgers were

Golf Match

‘Goes Sat.

A men's two-ball foursome 'nati~li will be held at the Char- lottetown Golf Club this Satur- day. club pro Cecil ‘Bu-bby' Dowlirg announced last night.

Entries will be accepted at the pro shop and the draw will be made this evening (Friday).

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BUT the Los Angeles' infield looked bad for the inst few

weeks. They crumpled completely lowed on and Cardinals to

in that last home stand and al- grab most of the wl..s. They ‘

0,“. lacked polish and all the heroics of Wills couldn't atone for these miscues. The Giants proved a steadier club and in that third game of the playoffs they refused to panic with dnieat sharing

them in the face in their last chance at bat The Dodgers can blame nobody but

themselves for their

blowing this penna't. They had things, all wrapped up but boot-

ed it away. Giants were ready

Angeles had pi"nty to hand out in the past few weeks.

And now it's the world series

to accept any favors and Los

Bombers Place End On Waivers

WINNIPEG (CP) — Winnipeg Blue ombers announced Thursday that offensive end Bob Deegan from the Univers- ity -of Minnesota had bee placed on waivers and picked up by Montreal Alouettes for the $350 waiver price.

The NHL brass is stepping ' to the tcene Friday with special meeting here, just 24 hours before the game.

NHL policy—-but not a regu- lation—has been that no un-

' player dons his skates for the game. if it is carried out, the Leafs, who as 1961-62 Stanley Cup champions earned the right to meet the all-stars, may ice a team of minor- leaguers.

Imlach and a substantial number of his players-—the club won't say how many—have not yet come to terms for this sea- son and the Toronto coach has said he'll borrow from Roches- ter Americans of the American Hockey League, a Leaf farm club, it’ that is necessary to ice a team

Reports are that Imlach, con- ducting Leafs through an exhi- bition tour of western Canada, has i been using the All-Star game as a b to help nail the Leafs into contracts. If you don't sign, you don't play, says Imlach

Estimates vary on the num- her of men Imlach has signed. most of them settling around five or six.

LEAFS PLACE THREE Toronto placed three men on the All-Star second team, de-

. Our Dodgers will not be there

us to cheer on but we can't leave the National League when

they're playing_the Yankees. Come on Giants. lets go.

Good Hunting Seen For N.S. Province

‘By IRA DRYSDALE

HALIFAX tCP)~—The weather in Nova Scotia this year has been good to deer, and hunters, iankeepers, guides and the gov- ernment are looking for good hunting this fall.

In recent years the lands and forests department has taken a

hard- look at what the annual'hunting is responsible

Oct. 15-No. 30 season means‘ to Nova Scotia. It big busi- ness. representing about $4.- 000,000 a .year.

Clarence Mason. director of wildlife conservation, says this‘ is the amount spent by hunters, on guns. guides, accommoda-, tions, licences, special clothing.l liquor and food and all the para-,‘ pheraalia involved in a hunting‘: ,cxcu on. ' ' A few more seasons like lastl fall'd'.tould spell trouble. how-I ever. The total kill—about 14,-! 000. This compared with an av- erage of about 30,000 a year for the previous three or four years and a record 46,000 in 1954.

IIBED OF WILL Guides and hunters found the

ihunting districts indicate deer are fat and fairly plentiful ,through not as plentiful as they lwerc 15 to 20 years ago. ‘ Wildlife experts are not wor- tried about a gradual decline in the province's deer population ;slnce the Second World War, ,and they don’t think heavy

They attribute it to a natural illaw of nature—that after an ‘animal is introduced to a new area he often multiplies faster }than is good for him for a few

,Schirro Loses Four Pounds During Flight

U.S.S. KEARSARGE (AP) - Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. lost only four pounds during his prolo ged voyage through space. A do for said it was “less than he would have lost playing a game of football.“

Dr. Richard Pollard of Jack- son, Mich., and Dr. Max J. Traumer of Springfield, Pa.. said Thursday a preliminary medical examination of Schirra turned up no ill effects as a re- sult of the nine-hour, 13-minute orbital flight Wednesday.

The physicians said they found:

1. No change in Schirra's con- dition from his last checkup at Cape Canaveral, Fla., just be- fore his space voyage.

2. No evidence of cosmic rays immediately detectabl

fenceman Carl Brewer, centre Dave Keon and left winger Franl. Mahovi' h. They'll line up with Leafs Saturday night. The first team consists Jacques Plaute of Montreal Ca- nadiens in goal. defencemen Jean Guy Tablot of Montreal and Doug Harvey of New York Rangers, centre Stan Mikita of Chicago Black Hawks, right

a York

NHL All-Star Game Sat.

winger Andy Bathgate of New and left winger Bobby Hull of Chicago.

Other members of the second

team are goaltender Glen Hall and defencemani Pierre Pilote of Chicago and right winger Gordie Howe of Detroit. Red Wings. Mikita won't be dressed. He suffered a sprained ankle in an exhibition g a m e Wednesday night at Hull. Que.. against Hull-Ottawa Canadiens of the Eastern Professional League and will be out of action for about 10 days.

Players have been drafted from other clubs to bolster the all-stars. They include Bernie Geoffrion, Ralph Backstrom and Claude Provost from Mont- real; Alex Delvecchlo and Norm Ullman from Detroit; Doug Moiins, Don Mclfenney and Leo Boivin from Boston Bruins, and Dean Prentice and goaltender Gumip Worsley from New York.

Races Staged At Fredericton

FREDERJCPOIN (CF) — rastway and Homestretch Linda posted dou-ble-dash wins in an eight-dash harness racing card at I-‘i-edericton Raceway Thurs- day night.

Single dash winners were Bank Song, Diamond Dillard. Flo Direct and Concrete King.

Homestretch Linda_ Diamond

‘ ard and Concrete Kin; shared fastest time of the night honors, with times of 2:11.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)- Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson was placed be- hind Eddie Machen in the list of heavyweight contenders the World Boxing Association

iur ay.

The WBA’s monthly ratings had Machen, of Portland, Ore., as the o. 1 contender to freshly crowned heavyweight

Patterson Drops In WBA

Ratings

3. Terry Downes, England.

Curvls. W es. _ Junior‘ welterweight; Cham- pion, Eddle Perldns, Chicago. Lightweight: Champion. Car- los Ortiz. New York. 1. Kenny Lane,‘ Muskegon.

By JACK RAND .

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)- Steadv Whitey Ford rose to the occasion once again Thursday,

settling own after a aky tart. and won his 10th World

the series opener at Candlestick

bander who has won more se-

s a w streak broken after 33 2-3 lags but calmly set down the Giants while scattering 10 hits along the way.

Only Willie Mays, his tormen-

‘ tor in all-star games. and Jose

Pagan gave Ford trouble eon- sistently. Each collected three

. singles. Against Ford in aikstar

and series play, Mays now has nine hits in 11 bats. The American League cham- pions. who have won 19 of 26 previous series. went about this in methodical fashion against the~Ginnts, who Wednesday fin- ished a wild best-of-three play- off with Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League pen- nant SNAPS TIE , Clete Boyer, the fielding mem- ber of the baseball family from Missouri. contributed the big hit, a 365-foot home run off loser Billy 0’Dell thatsnapped a 2-2 tie in the seventh.

Not content with that slender margin. the Yanks kept snap- ping and snarling at 0‘Dell. Don Larsen and S Miller until they had stretched their lead to four runs.

The big Candlestick Park crowd of 43,852 seemed unusu- allv quiet for a city seeing its first World Series game. Appar- ently- they had celebrated so long into the wee small hours after Wednesday's victory in Los Angeles that they were all worn on

In sharp contrast to the tired Giants. who had to play 165 games to decide the pennant.

c Yanks were well rested. They clinched the flag Sept. 25 and did nothing but tune up for the series until the season ended Sunday They worked out Wed- nesday in Candlestick to famil- iarize themselves with the tricky yind currents. However, the wind-‘was not a factor Thurs-

8)? SHOWS YANKS’ POWER Roger Maris. the 61-homer hero of 1961 but a .256 batter this season, gave the Giants a quick taste of Yankee power with a long blast to the right field fence in the first.

the ball to the fence. Felipe Alou jumped high into the air and managed to keep the ball from going over the barrier for a homer but couldn't hold it. It

Yankees Favored I-n Second Game

' NEW YORK (AP)-New Yorl: Yankees were made 6‘/2-5 favorites Thursday to win the second game of the World Series over San Fran-

cisco today, when the Yanks’ Ralph Terry faces Jack Sanford

Broadway bookmakers es- blished the Yanks, 6-2 winners in the 0 her be- hind Whitey Ford, 13-5 fav- orites to capture the World

ries. .

The odds were 4-1 against the Yanks winning the next three you sweep the series you put up 31 to win .

The odds against San Francisco winning the next four straight were 20-1.

weary San Francisco Giants in with

ar. glc by Jim D The stocky 33-year-old left

nks Top 2

a two-run-gled with one out. 0’Dell » ml with I

bounced away for double.

If the Yanks had any ideas that the Giants would roll over and play dead after that first] loci-'. of their power, they had. another guess coming. l

he Giants scrambed back

a run the second 0 Mays‘ first single, another sin-| ' venport and a

Maya home I m - . Fordknew he was in for trou- ‘‘

‘in

came Mays

into centre that scored I-llller and tied the score at 2-2.

Ford and 0'Dell. the latter overworked in the Giants’ bitter pennant fight, struggled along until the seventh with Ford blunting Giant threats in the fourth, fifth and sixth. CLEARS FENCE

Boyer led off the Yankee sev- enth by rlding a_2-2 pitch over the wire fence in left about 365 eet away. It was the t World Series homer for Boyer’

10 games. Maris started the Yanks off again in the eighth when he sin-

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) “That guy's a pretty good pitcher. He's the one that beat us today," San Francisco man- ager Alvin Dark said in com- plimenting New York Yankees’ Whitey Ford for the 6-2 triumph in the World ‘Series opener.

Then with characteristic determination. D a r k added, “We'll get ‘em tomorrow. You can't throw two guys at us as good as he is." .

Dark appeared gloomy only

~ 2 Key Players

by Curtis Cokes. Dallas; 3. Brian

On McGi|l Team Play With Casts

MONTREAL V (CP)—Two key

FACTS, FIGURES

By THE ASSOCIATED rags? c .

New York (AL) 1 0 1.000

San Fran (NL) 0 1 .000

First Game, Thursday. Oct.

4, at San Francisco . New 200 000 121 - 6 ll 0 San Fran. 000- 2100

Bailey. Orsino (9). W-Ford 0‘Dell I-IR: Nyk-B yer.

Remaining Schedule

Second game, Friday, Oct. 5 at San Francisco

Third game, Sunday, Oct. 7 at

ew ork

Fourth game. Monday. Oct. 8 at New York

Fifth game (if necessary), Tuesday. Oct. 9 at New York

Sixth game‘ (if necessary) Thursday, Oct. 11 at San Fran-

cisco Seventh game (if necessary) Friday. Oct. 12 at San Fran- cisco. Financial Figures First Game Attendance-43,852. Net receipts-$355,838.48 Commissionerjs share - $53.- 37‘? 77

Players‘ share-$181,477.63 New York club's share-$30; M627

San Francisco club’: share- American League’: share -

National League‘: share-$30; 246.27

I’ . and he delivered another single Harv

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plnked pitch and manager Alvin Dark came t to converse with his tiring efty. _

Af r a short econaultatlnn. _ stay with

it handed ba mins next in Dale Long. who had re-

placed the aching Bill Skowron. to

gling into right field. scoring I Don Larsen, the Yanks’ per-

‘fect game pitcher of the 1956

series. came in to face his old mates under _series éonditlqns

- lifted a fly to abort shortstop Pagan collided with ey Kuenn. Pagan held the ball but was knocked off balance. His throw to the plate, trying to get the slow-moving Howard, came in on a bounce and catcher Ed Bailey couldn't handle_it. Ho- ward scored on the sacrifice fly. N0 ERROR ON PLAY .. 'It appeared Howard might have been out if Bailey held Pa- n's throw but there was no error scored on the play. st hungry for more rims with Ford always a question mark in the latejinnln s, the Yanks picked up a sixth run in the ninth. After Tresh singled

Giants Blame Ford For First Setback

when asked about his erstwhile power hitting first baseman Or-

lando Cepeda, who continues in K

the throes of a terrible slump. “He's swinging the way he always has," Dark declared. "Orlando has played 260 games this year and is worn out as far as I'm concerned. I'm not in favor of winter ball for fel- lows who play regularly in the majors." Cepeda plays winter ball in his native Puerto Rico. Today in the third inning, with the Gl- ants threatening to pull ahead, Cepeda bounced into "an easy double play ending the inning. The big fellow who led the Na- tional League in homers and runs batted in in 1961, didn't get the ball out of the infield Thursday. There was no air of dis- couragement ln the Giants’ dressing room as the losers calmly discussed the game. .Bllly 0'Dell, the losing pitcher, said he thought he had good stuff and wasn't red de- spite tour mound appearandea in the last wc_k. Dark was asked if the Giants were overly tired at the hec-

lFord RisesTo O.cc«a:sio’n"‘..ol g Giants -6-2

with one out, Dark called in Stu Miller to replace Larsen. Mic- key Mantle, who went hltless, flied out but Maris walked after Tresh stole econd. and Howard singled to - Tresh.’

Manager Ralph Honk of the Yanks nflmed Ralph Terry, 3

on both sides," said Honk. Honk reported Skowron did not feel right when’ the game started and had complained of a back ache. He said Skowron,

ron, who has a long tory of back ailments, suffered a slight injury in a workout Wednesday and aggravated it in the sixth inning Thursday.

“They can't threw two pitch- ‘crs like Ford at us in two straight‘ days." said Dark fol- 'lowing the game. “We'll be all right We bounced back many times and we'll do it again.”

Dark said he would send Wil- lie Mccovey to first base today and would play Matty Alou in left field. benching Orlando Ce- peda and Harvey Kuenn. Tom Halter, spiked in Tuesday's playoff game. will catch San- ford. as always.

The Giants’ biggest disap-

pcda, wh was hltless in five at bats.

BOX SCORE

SAN FRANCISCO

(AP)—The box scores of the first World & .

Blller and Cepeda; Boyer, Rich- ardson and Long. LOB-New York 10, San Francisco 8. 2b- Maris, Hiller. HR-Boyer. SB-

tic National League season Mantle. T"°‘h' sF'3°¥el‘- which ended only yesterday 11’ H R I33 when San Francisco rallied for Ford 910 2 2 four runs in the ninth and beat 0'Dell (L) 11-3 9 5 5 Los Angeles . Larsen 1 1 1- 1 He replied emphatically, “No. Miller . 2-8 1 0 0 No. Ford just pitched a real BB-Ford 2 (Davenport 2). good 9 e." 0'Dell 3 (Skowron, Mantle. A mlxup provided t.lr:'mYan- Bowajd). Larsen 1 (Ford). Mil- keeswithoneoftheir slnlei-1(Marla).S0-Fordo the eighth. t'Kuenn. Cepeda, Killer. 1'‘. Alan When Clete Boyer popped in 2, Maya). O'Deil 8 (Kubek. short fly into left. shortstop Mantle 2. Boyer, Ford 2, Maris. Jose Pagan drifted back and Skowron). HBP - a 0'DelI

left

made the catch while Kuenn tried to