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school," Norm said. HE wa
only 5-foot-3 and weighed l3i
pounds. But Larry made var
sity at Fairfax High in Lo'
Angeles as an int1elder. Tit
leading pitcher on the team
was Barry Latman, White Sol
highlander who saw no serie'
service.
Larry injured an ankle in his
senior year, and. since he wa!
awkward following the injury
his coach suggested that hi
turn to pitching. Larry nov
agrees it was a happy thought
Now a sturdy 1872 FOUNDER
who stands 6-foot-2, Sherry
has Gained down since hi.
violent-tempered days as a kic
when, Norm says, he'd break
a bat If he didn't like the way
the game was going" Larry
since has learned to channe
that fury into the heat of com.
petition.
Snider. Moon Homer
Against the White Sox yes.
terday Sherry arrived on the
scene when Chicago was threat
ening to surge back from ar
80 deficit. Duke Snider hac
smacked a two-run homer of
loser Early Wynn in the thirC
inning, and in the fourth thu
Dodgers cascaded six rum
across against Wynn and Dicl
donovan as Wally Moor
crashed another two-run homer
during a six-hit outburSt.
But with one out in TIT
fourth Johnny Podres hit jim
Lands on his protective he'll
met, walked Sherman Lollal
and was clipped for a mighty
homer off the facing of thu
second deck in rightfield By
burly Ted Kluszewski.
The partisan crowd was sens
ing that the White Sox nigh
get back in the game afte
PodreS walked AL Smith. Man
ager Walter Aston, who hat
the same idea, yanked Podre
and summoned Sherry.
Bubba Phillips welcomed hin
with a looping single to center
but Sherry famed pinch-hittte
Billy Goodman before walking
another pinch-hitter, Earl Tor.
geson, to jam the bases.
A hit at that point conceiv
ably could have panicked tn,
Dodgers, but Sherry disposed
Of Luis Aparicio on a pop fl!
to Shortstop Maury Wills. II
the remaining five innings tn
White Sox stirred up only three
hits.
Four Excellent Performances
That effort followed thret
other excellent performances b.
Sherry. In the second game h
allowed one run in three in
nings to preserve 4 4-3 triumph
for PodreS. In the third gamC
he pitched two hitless inning
to save a 81 decision for Dor
DrySdale. And in the 5-4 fourth
game he hurled two hitless in
nings and emerged the WHINE
on Gil Hodges homer.
In his last liza inning
against the White Sox, Sherr!
didn't allow a run and per
mitted only five hits. Hi
pitching figured more promi
nently in the Dodgers victorie
than the .391 hitting of Hodge
or the $40 stickwork of Char
ley Neal.
Kluszewski, also a .391 hit
ter, was the Sox standout. H
batted in 10 runs, belted tire
homers and tried to carry hi
team on his massive shoulder.
but the burden was too much
Record for Essegian
Chuck Essegian crashe,
games only in pinch-hittin
roles, but dubbed two homer
to get a series record. He pre-
scented the Dodgers their las
run yesterday with a shot int
the leftfeld seats of Ra
Moore, Chicago's sixth pitcher
BY that time, though, it mat
tered little. Snider had deal
White Sox hopes of carryin
the series to seven games
jolt in the third when h
drilled his homer into the lowe
deck in left-center after Wyn
walked Moon.
Then came disaster. Norl