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. By BOB MYERS’ - 48seciated Press Sports Writer

Los Angeles Dodgers familiar season-long tight-rope act finally ended when: t won the Na- tiona!- League pennant for the second straight - year.

‘It was the first time a team had won two consecutive league titles since Milwaukee Braves did it in 1957-58. aan Angeles was only 1%

és in front of Pittsburgh Pi- Sites when manager Walter Al- ston led the Dodgers to Chicago for the first of the last 11 games.

Tension is old stuff in Dodger history since they moved to Los Angeles. In 1965, the pennant was not decided until the day before-the season ended.

For Alston, this.was his fourth _ National Leag e crown since the club camerto Los Angeles in - 1958 and the sixth since he ‘took ~ Ghana of th the team” in Bronkiys

. GAINED LEAD SEPT. 11 The Dodgers took over the 11 when

Sandy Koufax pitched his 23rd

» Wictory. against Houston Astros.

Prospects were hardly bright

. when. Los Angeles came off its’

revious trip. They trailed the irates and San. Francisco

.. Giarits by three games Sept. 5.

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ae the Dodgers put together eight-game . winning streak, _thate longest of the season. In- cluded were the first two games _ in a battle at home with thé Pk

ee broke - the string in

the third game.

The Dodgers split four games with Philadelphia Phillies and Soe eee for foe, fia

It was a long and challenging | year for the Dodgers.

A two-prong problem quickly developed’ when the team gath- ered at Vero Beach Feb. 27 spring training. A couple of players were missing, and

~ would stay missing for a full - month. They were Koufax and » Don Drysdale.

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STAGED HOLDOUT

The pitching stars, who had won 49 games between them in 1965—Sandy had 26 and Don 23 —staged one of-the most -fa-

three years, to be split evenly, Finally, on March 30, Sandy, Don and vice-president Buzzie Bavasi_ sett'-** the _ matter, Sandy getting 125,000 and Drys- dale $110,000.

They joined the club 12 days before the season began.

Prior to gaining first place for good, Los Angeles crept to the top of the standings Aug. 7—by a percentage point and this lasted less than 24 hours when they blew a three-run lead the next day at Atlanta. .

But the Dodgers remained in contention most of the way. The low mark came May 13 at Houw- ston when they were fourth. seven games from the top.

start as a Dodger. It wasn't so much Don's pitching as the lack of runs his mates got for him. Veteran catcher John - Rose- bero-also-got-off-to_a_poor_start but hit a hot streak from June ft

_}to July 17 and raised his batting

average’from .233 to 506. INJURIES» HURT

Injuries, as usual, hart. Ron Fairly \had a ribcage injury that sidelined him a week or

Drysdale got—off to his worst‘

more. The Dodgers’ young rookie pitching find, Don Sutton, came up with a sore arm Sept.

the second game of the double- header at Chicago Sept. 23, which Los Angeles won to put a severe dent in. Pittsburgh's hopes.

But the most consistent ail- ment was shortstop Maury Wills’s bum knee. Maury, with his. right leg heavily taped. played mostly on courage. His base stealing and base running presented no great challenge to the opposition.

Then there was Sweet Lou Johnson for whom The Septem- ber Song must be a theme. Johnson was the spark on both offence and defence just as he was in the final phases of the 1965 stretch run’ ~ «& Drysdale also picked: up and Alston--made-.do--as_ ‘best__he could with- some of the lesser lights of his pitching staff.

It was when the lesser stars faltered that the Dodgers’. big strength—-the . bullpen—filled the gap.

The beliringer was. Phil Re- gan.

Juveniles Whip ‘Chatham 7-1

SUMMERSIDE —. When, the

best-of-three Juvenile. Maritime Final 6eries concludes here next

weekend, Summerside \. Boys Club Juvenile will have a. one game lead.

Jon Down pitched a two-hitter at Chatham Juveniles in the New Brunswick town Saturday afternoon as Summerside ‘won handily, -7-1. :

The local boys picked up 12 hits on their way to ae. as ‘Alvin Hackett whacked a homer and pitcher Down. had a triple.

Further trouble.may be brew- ing in this. mixed-up Maritime Championship round. Rumors are.that Chatham may not come to Summerside for completion of the series. Summerside had

joffered a guarantee but this was

turned down by Chatham, who apparently dropped into .the playoff picture from nowhere. Halifax Royals forfieted their

Before leaving on the last

Of.these they won 33-26 and 6 at home ane 7-11 away.

12. He didn’t pitch again until |’

trip, the Dodgers. had been in- |: {volved in 50° one-run _decisions.

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PHILADELPHIA Angeles Dodgers clinched their second consecutive Na- tional League. pennant Sunday, beating Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 as Sandy Koufax, pitching for the first time this. season with only two days Tea scattered seven’ hits, z

- Manager Walter Tre- luctantly called upon bril- liant left-hander to save the day after the Dodgers blew the first game of a doubleheader 43 on

mous holdouts in baseball his- |round after negotiations had pro- |, throwing ‘.errors in the SOMOS She anecae cal ollcials ee contiient [eighth inning.” parr. com betes fre Co With the second-place’ San tes ae oO Yand dh Easwill be; ironed. out lrranciseo Giants winning 7-3 in jand that the series will wind Wp |i1 innings over Pittsburgh ro. Footh« i m An advance Dodgers had .to win : * Paleo tickets ‘has: already $0 tne second game ot send. the : SUNDAY. et +a -Up 08. thé |reguiar season into an extra re National e etles between Halifax /4, for the second time in base- "= Louis 41 Philadelp and. . Summerside, which ‘never ball history ' Green Bay 23 Detroit 14" got off the ground. The nw Ginats had a postponed Sees | Halifax Juniors akan tee ee as) sburgh -1 = wo cago mesota 10 De - s and ope Dallas < Atlanta 14 é feat Laval. foe for San Francisco to tle merican League race. New York 24 Boston 24 HALIFAX ACR) = Led by There was little suspense tn ~ Biiffalo 29 Kansas City 14--__~-|rookie- ithe — however, espe- Denver 40 Houston 38 Junior * uens gcores i two ex- jelally after the dramatics of the San Diego 44 Miami 10 hibition ern ies over |first game. Ba be National League Laval Saints “the” Montreal What little suspense there "Eastern Conlarence Metropolitan Junior A League|was came in the ninth inn oe WLT F A_ Pet /bere during the weekend. Koufax went into the inning “tea, 5-8 Sie sa tbee [trom Weyl, Mass, scored [ties ad feet te s- *~ 3°60 0127. 381,000 Mass., es fr or . runs Phila. 2.2.0 81 84 .500 |three goals Saturday night when |and had Bill ‘White at second Cleveland 22 one 76.500 oe Canadiens ‘defeated. Laval |with a no-out-two-run double. ash. - 220 98° 500 |/-4. + STRIKES 4 : Pitts. 1 21 88,98 333| Sheehsa also’ picked up three Koufax, povtiaed bore down New York © 8 1 65149 .000 |assists.in the two and: struck out Bob Uecker, got |to ae op Oy 0) I ate foe much pinch hitter Wine to Western erence E Geen "Bay 400 02,301,060 |(ook an early lead vbelore 4 Brandt for’ his 0th strikeout of Los Angeles 3 1 0 97 58 .570|crowd of 2,775. Halifax led 20 the game : . Baltimore "2 1 0 77 61 .667 |after the first period and 5-0 go- |", iringine ‘his record te 9? — Detroit. 2°2°0-59 53 .500|ing Into the third. victiten GHAt-al hie career ter 28S Js rnd" ones, outax” di - : - 5 Standing Ss: cated his feat of last year when, = Mr Atorices Leagtaca 009 working on just two days rest, Eastern Division. =. (2 “THE nsiten PRESS |he pitched a four-hitter as the’ a WLT F Av Pett National League * {Dodgers beat Milwaukee on the = New York 3 0 1118°581.0001. Final Standings. . next-to-last day of the season Bulfalo” 3-2 0168S W L Pet. GBL and clinched the pennant. Houston 23 sana Se act Pils e S x ars The Dodgers’. championship Mam! * 04 0 e244 oop (EUCSbUrEN 9270 S83 A a ee onto i Western Divisha (Philadelphia = 87 75. 537" 8 eran “Ghhitté dice Ga Ban Diego: -4-.0°0 124 374.000 (Atanta 5/7 See eee da i in 1067 and” 1968, Kansas City $3 10133 83 .667|%, Lous 83°79 512 13 iow ns en WE een ity + 6 oe tok aay |cincianadl 76 84 .475 1g |. Alston, who now has won s tc we 1 s6 ane aes Houston 72 90 444 23 pennants in 18 years with nve) : “ New_ York 66-95..410. 28% Dodgers, had hoped t- By THE CANADIAN PRESS (Chicago 59103 .364 $6 |hander®Don Drysdale would win ee et rg ae re ee ~ Bask 7 4 1262 203 15 Lie W L Pet. GBL |the opening of the World Series Winnipeg | 5 5 1 177 148 11 |Baltimore 97 63 606 — |against the American League ~ Edmonton 5 6 1 181 243 11 |Minnesota 8973 .549 9 |champion~ Baltimore Orioles in ~ Calgary 4 7 1 128 184 9 | Detroit 88 74 .543 10 |Los Angeles Wednesday. IC: 2 8 0 164 198 4 |Chicago 83 79 512 15 But the Phillies forced his ‘ Eastern Confererce Cleveland 81 81 .500 17. |hand, and Koufax, if he is Al- - WL F A Pts (California 80 82 .494 18 j|ston’s choice for the series’ Ottawa 9 120610218 |Kansas City 74 86 .463 28 opener, again will have to work ~ Hamilton 7 2192 9414 |Washington : 71 88 .447 25%|with two days rest instead of Montreak 5 5 106 16410 |Boston . 72-90 444 26 ~\his regular three days __ Toronto 2 8119219 4 'New York 70 89 440 26% PHILADELPHIA (AP)

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RECEIVES TROPHY

Hamilton Douglas, the chair- man of the Provincial Legion 6port Committee, looks on as

Earl MacFarlane, the winner of the P.E.I,_. Legion Golf Championship, feceives the

Dodgers

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—Throwing errors -in'.the eighth inning by: pitcher Bob .Miller and third baseman Ducky. Scho- field enabled Philadelphia Phil- lies to score two runs and beat Loa Angeles Dodgers 43 Sun- day in the first game of a doubleheader, and keep_ the Dodgers from clinching the Na- tional League pennant.

Los Angeles, needing only a single victory to wrap up its second straight pennant, led 32 as the Phillies came to bat in the eighth.

all\the way to third when Miller scooped. up Bill White’s sacrifice t and threw into centre field | tional an ‘error: White wound up | gele at second. ,That finished

“Regan Sealy ‘walked Dick Groat, {oading the bases, He got Cookie Rojas to tap a grounder Schofield at

pop into short centre field un-

-|der which five Los . Angeles

fielders converged, but the ball fell safely for a single, scoring White withthe winning run. Regan, who has had 17 saves in a_ spectacular year, of relief pitching, struck out Chris Short og retired the next two: hitters end the inning, Flog Oe dami- age was. already done

CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Jay capped an eighth-inn rally with. a two-run double Sun- day as Atlanta Braves wound up the season with a-42 victory over Cincinnati Reds.

The victory gave the Braves a fifth-place finish while the Reds wound up seventh—their worst final standing since 1949.: CHICAGO (AP)—Al Downing we oe Dooley Womack gave ‘up York Yankees to a 2-0 victory over Chicago White Sox Sun- day.

By THE CANADIAN PRESS San Diego Chargers and New York Jets kept their unbeaten streaks, alive in the American Football League Sunday while Kansas City Chiefs had theirs broken at three games by de- fending —champion— Buffalo Bi- sons. i : Steven Tensi, playing before a hometown crowd at San Diego, tossed four .touchdown passes to give the Chargers a 44-10 victory over the winless Mi Dolphins.

falo, led‘ by a great defen- sive unit and with quarterback Jack Kemp back in the groove after a slump, downed Chiefs 29-14 before a record Kansas City ‘crowd of 43,885 who were

O’Keefe trophy from Chair- |

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/P.E.1. Champs” HOYT, N.B. (CP) — Hoyt edged Borshaw, P.E.I., 10-9

Saturday to win a best-of-three playoff series and advance to the Maritime Intermediate ‘‘D’’ softball final aginst the Nova Scotia champion. By innings:

Bonshaw 031 001 400—9 12 2

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BREEZIN’ ALONG

NEW YORK three hits,

the New York Mets 8-2 and completed a sweep of their doubleheader. Sunday. -

Chris Zachary pitched a five- hitter and~Chuck . Harrison drove .in thre@.runs . and Lee Maye two as the> “Astros took the opener 6-1. we

PITTSBURGH (AP i San Francisco Giants whipped. Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 Sunday four-run outburst in the lith inlay but lost their bid for a tie for teane Place in the Na-

when Los

- When the Dodgers lost the first’ game of their “double- header 48 and San Francisco won on- Willie McCovey’s two- run homer and Tito Fuentes’ two-run double, the Giants ‘had a chance to tie for the pennant. For that to happen, the Dodg- ers had ‘to lose their second game-and the Giants would have

in a make-up game to- playoff would have fe-

ay the Dodgers ended that SanFrancisco hope by beating the Phillies behind the pitching of Sandy Koufax, wae won his 27th game. The victory. erased the need for the. Giant-Red game today and left San Fran- cisco in second place, feishing 1% games out. _

BALTIMORE (AP), — ine Perry, with relief help, hurled

ing a four-hitter and drove in the.

game’s only run with an eighth- inning single as Minnesota.

and gained a split of Sunday’s doubleheader with the Ameri can .League champion Baltl- more Orioles. _

The Orioles wom the opener 6- 2 as Curt Blefary drove in two runs and two more scored on wild pitches.

Frank Robinson won the tri- ple crown of batting.

Robinson, who had one hit in

Chargers And Jets. Remain Undefeated

watching their team’s home opener.

Joe Namath fired two fourth-

quarter touchdown passes then set up Jim Turtier for a field goal with 382 seconds left in rallying New York to a 24-24 tie with Boston Patriots in one of the two cliffhangers of the day. KICKS FIELD GOAL Gary Kroner kicked a 46-yard field goal with 27 seconds left. to give.Denver Broncos a sen- sational 49-38 victory over Hous- ton Oilers in the day’s other game. ie The upstart Dolphiris kept San Diego off balance for.the first half, taking a 10-6 lead. Then Tens! replaced veteran John Had! at quarterback and pulled his team in, front, At} New York Namath was held in check for most of three periods. He exploded in the fourth quarter after Patriots had taken a 21-7 lead with a pair of second-half touchdowns. Kansas City's defeat was the worst this -vear. The Chiefs had not been held below 31 points in winning -four exhibition and two ‘contests.

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VANCOUVER (CP) Massengale of Jacksboro, Tex., won the Canadian open _ golf tournament and $20,000 Sunday. with a spine-tingling 45-yard chip’ shot for an eagle on the 16th.

The cheque was Massengale's |" largest. in six years as a pro- fessional. © -

Massengale's total for 72 holes

-|in the $100,000 tournament was

a four-under par : Third-round leader* Chi Chi Rodriguez fought valiantly after losing —his., lead to _Massengale early in the fourth round. He pulled back into a tie .on the 15th when the Texan went one over on each of two successive holes, but the eagle three ended the contest.

Rodriguez, the only other of

\ National League : SUNDAY . Chicago 000 000 000— 0 20 St. Louis 000 200 00x— 2 60 Ellsworth, (8-22)Nye (6), Nor- man (8) and Hundley; Cosman (1-0 and McCarver.

First

Los Angeles 000 003 000— 3 53 Phila. 200 000 02x— 4 80 Drysdale, Perranoski (3) Mil- (4-2) (5) Regan (8) and Roseboro; Jackson, Knowles (7) Short (20-10). (8) and Dal- rymple. HRs: LA—Fairly (14.) Phila—Briggs’ (10).

Second :

Los Angeles. “as 100 e11-— 6 93| Baltimore

Phila. 000 000 003— 3 73 Koufax (27-9) and Roseboro; Bunning. (1914) Wise (6)

Knowlse (9) and Uecker. HR: LA—W. Davis (11).

Cincinnati

BASEBALL RESULTS

000 000 130— 4 76 000 000 002— 3 76 Reed (1-1) Jay (7) and Sadow- Ellis (12-19) Nuxhall (8)

002 000 001 04— 7123 012 000 000 00— 3142

Don 74 pros te feeak par for 72- holes on the sprawling Shaugh- nessy, Golf and Country Club course, finished’ second with 283 and won $12,000.

Six pros tied for third place. They were Randy Glover of Florence, S.C., Lou Graham of Nashville, Tenn., Rod 5 ae of Spokane, Wash., R. H. Sikes of Jacksonville, ° ea . Tom

Massengale Wins Can Open In The Final Round

tion lst of top 50 money win- ners pits him to play is any tournament.next year with. out having to qualify.

He now is 47th with officia) winnings of more than-$19,000. PLAY CONSISTENT

Massengale said he has-been playing “‘very consistently this. _ year — winning about $1,000 a week.” ;

Aaron _ of Calloway Gardens, Ga., and Homero Blancas of Houston, Tex., winner -of last week’s Seattle-Everett Open.

Massengale has won Only one other major tournament as a pro—the Crosby International in ‘}Califérnia this .year.

The win assured the 29-year- old Massengale a finish in the Professional Golfers’ Associa-

American League

New “York — 001 001 000— 2 40 Chicago 000-000 -000— 6-2-2 Downing © (10-4) Womack (8) and Bryan; Bollo (-1) John (5) Lamabe (7) Buzhardt (9)

and Josephson. First

Minnesota 000 200 000— 2 52 Baltimore 103 002 00x— 6 91 Kaat (25-13) Worthington (6) Cimino (7) and Zimmerman; Barber, Bertaina (2-5) (2) R. Hall (6). Drabowsky (8) and Etchebarren: = * ;

Second

prea ied ps teen 1 40|very 000 000— 6 4 Perry (11-7) Wertainaiog (8) and Nixon; Bunker, Watt (97) er. Brabender (9) and Roznov-

Cleveland 00 000 000-— 6 56 California ~—— 000 000 O2x— 8 40 Tiant (12-11) and Azcue; Ru- bio (9), Bs Kansas City 106 000 000— 7102 Detroit: 100 001 003— 5 102 Hunter (9-11) Lindblad (9) and Roof; Podres (4-5) Pena (3)

(21) and Egan, Satriano|ing.

Rain Postpones Softball Game

SUMMERSIDE Wei grounds here Sunday afternoon caused postponement of the se- cond game of the best-of-three Maritime Intermediate “A” se- an baseball series. : second game and third it necessary, both scheduled- here Sunday, have been re-scheduled for the Canadian Forces Base field. next weekend. : Springhill _Fencebusters- took the opening game over the Sum- merside R.C.A.F. team, 13-7, Saturday. afternoon in a eontin- uous rain at Springhill. Springhill scored five in the first, one in the second, and cap- ped their first game with anoth- er five-run uprising in the fourth frame. Harold Martin’ s-two three-run homers was the highlight of the losing Airmen batting. Jack Pate started on the mound; with Clair Puchniak relieving in the very first inning. Puchniak pit- ched the rest of the game. Red Matheson started for the Nova Scotia: champion Spring- hill team, but when arm trouble got the best of him, Dave Mac- Manaman took over and finish ed__the_ game: -Matheson came, out of the game in the first inn-

Playing conditions — because of the rain — were reported as being very poor, with base run- ning -being curtailed. ‘Five dow

has been accomplished only 11 times previously by nine differ- ent players, Mickey Mantle was the. last to do it, in 1956. »

Gladding (4),

Perry, McDaniel (10-5) (8) a= (8)

and Barton, Haller (7) Virgil|Sparm (9); Veale, Blass (11-7) Face (11) .and Gonder, Paglia-

ANAHEIM (AP) Bobb Knoop’s two-run triple off the centre field-wall propelled the California’ Angels to a 20 vic- tory over \ Cleveland Indians Sunday. —

defeated Phe. 1 ea

Miller ies, Dagar fet and wa | their second straight pennant.

Detroit Tigers Sunday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — ~Right- hander Jim. Cosman, making: first appearance in the ma leagues, allowed only two hits and pitched St. Louis Cardinals

tt |Raymond (8) and Heath, Ad-

y \roni (11), HRs: SF—Mays (37), |(32).

McCovey (36).

First :

Houston 203 100 000— 6 126

New York 000 000 100— 1 40 Zachary. (3-5) Coombs (8)

lesh (3); Shaw (12-14) McGraw (3) Hamilton (4) Rusteck (5) Hepler (8) and Goossen.’

Second Houston : 013 202 000— 8 141]: New York 000 000 020—— 2 90

Giusti (15-14) Raymond. (9) {and Bateman, Brand. (6); Gard- ner (48) Selma (4), Sutherland (6), ‘Terry, (8) and Grote. HRs: Hou—Mantilla (6). NY¥—Krane-

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Graham (6), and McFarlane,

year old. vein old:

ble plays. — including three by Springhill — were executed. The winners of the current

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