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Evening star., 1961-11-08
Downes, Mortimer
Honored in Britain

LONDON, Nov. 8 (AP)-
Terry Downes, British middle
weight boxer who shares the
world title, and Angela Morti-
mer, Wimbledon women's lawn
tennis champion, yesterday
were named Britain's sports
man and sportswoman of the
year.
They were picked in a poll
by Britain's sports writer's.
Downes is the first boxer to
win the award since Randy
Turpin won the British Sports
Writers Association award in
1851. Miss Mortimer is the first
woman tennis player to get the
top place.
Evening star., 1961-11-08
By JOSEPH B. KELLY
Star Racing Editor

s@Only Venezuela's 5-year-old
Prenupcial was missing at
Laurel today from the field of
eight starters which will go to
the post in Saturdays 10th
Washington, D. c., Interna-
tional.
Latest arrival to be intro
duced to Laurel's surroundings
was the 3-year-old Irish filly,
Sail Cheoil. who checked in last
night after an overseas flight.
Sail Cheoil will fly the silks of
Ireland's President, Eamon de
Valera.
South American invaders of
Laurel haven't been taken
lightly since the upset victory
Of El Chama in 1855, when Ven-
ezuela gained its lone triumph
in the International series.
Consequently, there was more
than ordinary demand for a
glimpse of Enrique Rivera'S
Prenupcial, who was scheduled
to arrive today via New York
after a flight from Caracas.
Russians Confuse Observers
Like Ell Chama six years ago
Prenupcial is somewhat of a
mystery horse and will have
little more time than to Timber
up before taking on the two
American stars, Kelso and T. v
Lark. and the best horses that
could be corraled from Europe
Prenupcial won the Simon Boil
var classic in Caracas.
Zabeg and Irish. the Rus
sian horses, worked a mile or
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Price Set to Syndicate
Garry Back for Million

hand there and the syndication
could be effected at OcaA
After a brief stay at Ocala. the
Prices and their horses will
move on to Miami for the win
ter racing season.
OF Carry Backs future rae
ing, Price is definite only in
that the colt will go in the
100000 Widener at Hialeah in
February. Before that he might
travel to California and wind
up in the Santa Anita Ma
turity January 81 or stay in
Florida and run in the Tropical
Handicap January Is.
Won Final Race
Garry Backs sire, Saggy, once
upset the great Citation but
otherwise was undistinguished,
and his dam, the Price-owned
Joppy. never won a race. Fur
ther back, however. the colt has
some impressive ancestors
Equipose, Hyperion and Blen-
helm II among them.
Carry Back hit the jackpot
in the 1860 Garden State Stakes
as a 2-year-old and this year
scored victories at varying dis
tances on tracks ranging from
firm to sloppy. After triumph
ing in the Kentucky Derby and
Preakness, the stretch-running
star was odds-on to complete
the Triple Crown slam in the
Belmont June 3, but he injured
| a foot and finished seventh.
Garry Back came back August
26, won an allowance race at
Atlantic City. then followed up
with another of his dramatic
victories in the Jerome Handi-
cap at Belmont. After a seventh
in the United Nations at Allan
tic City and thirds in the
Woodward at Belmont and the
Lawrence Realization at Aquer
duct, he won his final race of
the year-the Trenton at Gar
den State october %.
Evening star., 1961-11-08
Amherst on Top
In Lambert Cup

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (AP).-
All-winning Amherst retained
its No. spot in the balloting
for the Lambert Cup, emblem
attic of Eastern small college
football supremacy, with con-
vincing 40-6 triumph over Tufts
last week.
The Lord Jeffs (6-O) gained
all but one of the first-place
ballots for a rating of 80.
Lehgih (5-2) captured the
runnerup spot with a rating of
8.9 after beating Colgate. 20-15.
The ratings:
/. Amherst (6-O). 90. 2. Jehigh
t52, SO. 3. Delaware (4-2). rs. 4,
Albright (5-0-D, 6.5. g. Bucknell
(5-2D, SO. 9. Hofstra (4-2). 3.3. z.
Maine god, 80. g. susquehRnna
10. West Chester (5-2). 10.
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George Mikon's S
Father Is Dead

JOLIET, Ill, Nov. 8 (AP) -
Joseph George Mikan, "a, father
of George Mikan, one of basket
balls greatest players, died yes
terday.
He had been a restaurant
operator in Joliet for As years
and also served as a justice of
the peace and a township
supervisor.
His son George gained fame
with the De Paul University
basketball team and later with
the Minneapolis Lakers of the
National Basketball Association.
Evening star., 1961-11-08

the dirt track. labeled good, /"
today. Zabeg, with Nikolai
Nasibov up was timed in 1:41,
handily. His fractions were
PAS, 1855, :49, 1902, 1:15b,
and 1:29.
Irish, with Aleksei Garmash
in the irons, was clocked the
distance in 1:433s handily.
Irtish's fractions were: :25,
:374s, :5O2s, 1903, 1:1635. and
1905.
Yevgeni Gottlieb, trainer of
the Russian horses. said that
they worked on the dirt because
he felt the turf course was too
hard but that they would work
on the grass on Friday.
Russian Rides Today
Nasibov, who is developing
into commuter to Laurel, hav-
ing ridden in the last three
Internationals, was warming up
under race conditions today.
The Russian riding ace was
scheduled to pilot Long Lance,
one of the favorites in today's
eighth race on the main track.
Nasibov also rode in a race in
advance of the International
two years ago.
In order to accommodate Nasi-
bows weight, Trainer H. M.
Trescher of the Turf and Pad
dock Stable did not claim
weight allowances available to
Long Lance in today's race.
Long Lance is scheduled to tote
100, but even that might pose
a problem for the lanky Rus
sian.
Also listed for a workout to-
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Alexandria Club
To Sponsor Game

The Armistice Day football
game sponsored by the Optimist
Club of Alexandria and pitting
the Arcadia Club of Baltimore
against the Vikings of Phila-
delphia will be held at 2 pm.
Saturday at the George Wash
ington Stadium in Alexandria.
Proceeds will go to the Boys
Club of Alexandria and the
Loeb Raven Optimist Club of
Baltimore.
Arcadia has been the anna
teur champion of Maryland for
the last Is years. The Vikings
are the tops in the Philadelphia
metropolitan area.
Evening star., 1961-11-08
Lost of 8 Horses Due 7 odoy
For Saturdays International

day was the Danish horse,
Wonderboy. Trainer Ivan
Larsen planned a 7-furlong
drill on the turf with Jockey
Bent Hansen in the irons.
Monday nights showers,
which soaked the grass course,
were welcomed by George H.
Brick Martin, Laurel's gen.
eral manager, who built and
nurses LaurelS truf.
Its just about the best
growth of grass we have ever
had for an International,
Martin said. The rain helped.
We could have used a little
more because the ground
soaked it up quickly"
Frances Misti, the 3-year-
old who finished third in the
Arc de Triomphe, breezed a
mile in l;43 yesterday, but his
trainer, George Bridgland, was
not satisfied.
He hasn't gotten used to
the surroundings yet, -
Bridgland said. IT don't think
the workout did him much good
as he seemed to be looking
around at everything"
Bridgland plans another drill
on the turf, probably tomorrow
Other arrivals slated today
at Laurel we're a pair of riders
heading from opposite direc-
tionS.
Michael Kennedy, an Irish
rider who will pilot Sail Cheoil,
was flying in from Dublin and
grandfather Johnny Longden,
who rides T. v. Lark. was due
from California.
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DAILY DOUBLE t9-8) $40
Garden State

BY the ASSoClateu PTeSS
lst-S3 800; cling; Ayr. a. up; fur
McPhee Blum 400 4.2O $3.50
Steve w. (ThOrnburE) $50 2.40
Gun Fire (KOrte) 11.2O
Hidden Gift, Pop Aber, I've Done 1t,
Ginny R.. Cartridge, Likely Miss,
Crystal Trail Time, 1;122s.
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Aoueduct

1st-S4. 900; cling: 2-yo. mdns.: 6 fur
Pesty Mantle (C'bsD 400 T.1O l.3O
Little Sneak (ValenEla) $50 40
SleepleSs (ROtL) $40
Rose of Picardy Babu Bells, Sweet
Compulsion. Countess Nancy, Banquet.
Dolly Ann, Forty Years. Time, 1:133s.
2d-S3,S00 clmg.I 3-yrs.: fur.
Main Mark UeOnardD 1920 $50 2.10
Count DalmO (CombeSD 2.7O 2.30
Dunfield (Gustines) $50
Captain Lou Oolitic, Santolina.
Dorothy Buck. Quick Pay. Time,
1:124s.
DAILY DOUBLE (6-5) 5000
3d-S3. 500: cling; 2-yr.: fur.
Vermouth Cassis (B'Ia) 6.20 Z. 20 $3.50
Treasure Chant (W'dh'sel 7.IO 800
Scamandra (Ussery) $40
Main Deck, Red Nest, Melrose Silver.
Fern W, Elliptical, Mecca Rose, Secret
Port. Algernony, Lightness. Time,
1:122s.
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Racing Results


lst-S2 500; cling; 3-yr g. up; 6 fur.
Dollmaker I'd. French $50 $50 ESQ
Prince Prom tDeSpiritO) 5.2O $40
-Grand Blvd. CKratE) 4.4O
%Kamal Bey (DePalO) 400
Favor Meme, Ace Mar, Lollie B.
Rustic Billy, Sarah Ellen, Mason Road
Sea Tread, Seek No More. Time, 1:142s
dead heat for Sd.
2d-S2 800; cling: Ayr. & up; l mi.
CulpeDer (HinOjOsal $40 $50 $50
Big Bird (Addesal 500 $50
The Third Dream (Shuk) $50
Main Line Joe. Star Prince II, Pickle
Nick, Polygamist, Look Good, Pound
Sterling, Knockavoe, Eager Beaver.
Time, laos.
DAILY DOUBLE t9-8) $40
3d-S2 500; mdn. 2-yr. fillies; 8 fur.
Hard-a-Lee (DespirIto) 1900 6.4O6I.20
Double Agent (Kirkland) 500 $50
Peggy b. (EspinOsO) $50
island Woman, Valencia Lady, Cot
ton Pikin Gin, Liz Brooke, Weird,
Mein Greta. Benares, Blazing Thirst,
Bonnie Diavalo. Time, 1:14S.
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NINTH -RACE-Purse, $4,000: claiming $4,000; 8
year-Olds and up: flieS and mares; I mile

J. ". Rams6y-Mrs. z. r. hlrk entry.
WINDY FLIGHT is due for an improved effort and
won earlier In New Jersey for $500. SLIPPEROO II
has speed and miGht last. FEARFUL breaks fast and
rates a chance.
xApprentice allowance claimed.
Evening star., 1961-11-08

CAMDEN, N. j., Nov. 8 CAP)
Garry Back, a colt of un-
fashionable parentage who cost
his owners a mere s400, now
carries a 81 million-plus price
tag.
Jack Price said yesterday he
will try to syndicate the Ken
lucky Derby -Preakness winner
for a sum in excess of 81 mil
lion, retaining at least one-half
interest and selling shares for
the rest to what he called "a
few congenial sportsmen."
Price is the breeder-trainer
of the dark brown 3-year-old
and his wife, Katherine, is listed
as the official owner. Their
thoroughbred star, son of
Saggy-Joppy, cost them S400 in
stud fees and since has become
one of the biggest names in the
sport. Charging to a number
of impressive triumphs with
his heart-pounding come-from-
behind drives, Carry Back has
amassed 1851 ,468 in earnings in
two seasons of racing, making
him sixth on the all-tim roster
of money winners,
Cites Tax Standpoint
Price said taxes would eat up
most Of Carry Backs income
next year. which would make
syndication an attractive prop
osition from the tax standpoint.
The trainer added that he had
already started the ball rolling
toward Syndication in discus
sions with Joe O'Farrell of the
Ocala Stud Farm in Florida,
Carry Backs birthplace.
Garry Back is leaving Garden
State Park for Florida today
and will be honored with a
day" at the Ocala Stud later
this month. Price said many
potential investors will be on
Evening star., 1961-11-08
JOE KELLY,S SELECTIONS
Post Time 1 PM.

Selections Made for Past Track
FIRST RACE-Purse S25O0j claiming CSI-5O
500; 2-year-Olds; fuTlOnEs
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training well recently. COLONEL'S CHOICE earlier
in Canada. BOLD BULLYS last race at Monmouth
fair.
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VELVET BOWS is better than his and
rates another chance here. A HIT was impeded when
was second for $4,000.
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WAR COUNCIL finished third when favored at a
mile but has enough speed to this field SCARL
FEATHERS Is better than his effort the turf. BEN
earlier for $4,000.
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BY the Associated Press
EASTERN DIVISION
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BEST BET-LEAH H.

LEAH H. won earlier for $4,000 and faces weak
opposition here SOLUK drops from $1,000 and looks
like the to beat. ALDIE MISS should land
Evening star., 1961-11-08
SIXTH RACE-Purse, S2,7OO; claiming $4,000 TO
S45OOD; 3-year-OldS; fuFIonEs


81. DOLLH'S MOMENT was upset winner at Garden
state and seems to be in spot to repeat here
MAN o LOU won CARLY for $500 BRAVE SPARTAN
won earlier in New Jersey
Evening star., 1961-11-08

BLINDFOLD TEST is from the Alfred Vanderbilt
Stable and athOugh her record is hardly impressive
she figures to OutTun this lot. ALAPEPPI also
drops after racing at Garden State and to be
the principal rival ELBA is better than his last.
Evening star., 1961-11-08

PATRICK G;'s last was good and with slight i'm
prOvement should win here. RHYTHMIC LAW
ond for $4,000 and will he tough to beat. FINKIE is
due for top effort.
FIFTH RACE-Purss, S26OOi claiming ts5OOO); 2-year-
Evening star., 1961-11-08

LADY OF ACTION eonvincingly last week and
should make IL two in KATHY DARES turned
in creditable second in her last. PRECOCIOUS PET
Is due for Improvement.
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Another l-Run Victory
Cuts Reds Number to 4

the 2O0-hit mark and inched up
on PittSburgh's Robert Gle
mente, the league batting
leader with a 1854 average.
Pinson has a .342 mark.
The Reds scored first in the
second inning, getting a run on
consecutive singles by Post, Leo
Cardenas and Dick Gernert and
Darrell Johnson's sacrifice fly.
The Pirates moved in front
briefly with two in the eighth
on singles by Bill Mazeroski.
Bill Virdon, Dick Groat and
Dick Stuart.
The Dodgers, beaten two
nightSyin arrow by the seventh.
place Cubs, remained five
games behind the .first-place
Reds by pushing the winning
run across in the 18th 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 (18-1D went
the distance for the victory,
striking out Is 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
G-6). third Chicago pitcher,
was the loser.
Hank Aaron cracked a bases
loaded single in the seventh
inning that snapped a 3-3 tie
and ended the Braves eight
game losing streak. Lew Bur
dette (17-10l won it. although
Orlando Cepeda tagged him for
a double, triple and homer,
his 43d.
Clay Dalrymple and Ruben
Amaro drove in two runs each
against Ernie Broglio (9-l2)
for the Pills victory while Don
Ferrarese (5-10) checked the
Cards on seven hits.
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to Babe Ruth's so : homer
record Of 1927 az Maris, who
had hit No. 50 in the third
inning, failed in his final
chance to tie baseball's most
priced record under the 1884,
decision edict Of Commissioner
Ford Prick.
All eyes were on Maris while
he took his final shots at the
Babes mark in Baltimore,
where the Yankees went about
the job Of clinching their 26th
American League pennant by
whipping the Orioles, Az.
In the first inning, Maris
lined out to right and there
was hardly q stir in the crowd.
He tagged Milt PappaS for
No. 50 In the third, sending a
vicious line drive into the
rightfield seats over the 800
foot mark on q 2-1 pitch.
Maris came up in the fourth
and struck out against Believer
Dick Hall. then smashed q shot
in the seventh off Hall that
brought the crowd to its feet
as it flew down the rightfield
line. It went foul.
MariS got good wood on the
next pitch, sending q towering
fly to deep right-center that
chased rightfielder Earl Robin
son back before he grabbed it
for the out 20 feet short of the
wall. Then came the ninth
inning dribbler.
II wanted to get three good
swings whether I hit it or not, "
Maris said in the dressing room
while expressing regret over
his last time at bat. "The way it
turned out, I didn't get one. I
would have liked to have taken
a full swing"
Second to Hit So
Thus Maris joins long list
of homer hammerers who. have
come within range Of Ruth's
record, but failed. However.
Roger tied Ruth's mark Of SO
in 1921, and became only the.
second man in major league
history to hit that many. Jimmy
Foxx and Hank Greenberg each
hit So. Maris still has eight
games under the expanded
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BY the Associated Press

Those amazing Cincinnati
Reds, a questionable product in
the National League race when
the season began, have gone
methodically about the bust
ness Of trying to nail down
their first pennant in 81 years
with a potent patent on win
ming one-run games.
The Reds did it again last
night, edging the Pittsburgh
Pirates, 80, on Wally Posts
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.
That gives the Reds a re-
markable .708 percentage IN the
close ones--a record unmatched
by any other National League
club in the last II years, or as
long rs records on that subject
are available from league head
quarters.
The victory went to right
handler joey Jay (21-S), the
only MI pitcher with 20 wins,
and reduced the Reds magic
pennant-clinching number to
four over second-place Los
Angeles. The Dodgers also won
by q single run. nipping Chi
cago, 80. in 10 innings.
Milwaukee beat San Fran
cisco, IA, and, Philadelphia
defeated st. Louis, 6-1, in other
games.
Posts goth homer, which
sailed into q parking lot across
the street from the ball park
came with Vada Pinson on base
via q walk and brought the
Reds from behind to beat the
Pirates and reliever Roy Face
(6-11).
Pinson, who was 1-for-3 or
the night, became the first
player in either league to reach
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schedule in which to match OF
Surpass Ruth's total.
The honor of clinching the
Yanks' 18th pennant in the last
Is years went to Ralph Terry
$3.50. who got the job done
for the second year in q row.
He did it with a four-hitter
that made Ralph Houk the first
rookie manager in is years to
win a major league flag.
Houk, who succeeded Casey
Stengel at the Yankee helm
this season, became the first
rookie field boss to win since
Ed Dyer took the National
League title with the 1916 st.
Louis Cardinals. The last
American League first-year
pilot to do it was Mickey Coch-
rane of the Detroit Tigers in
1884.
Berra Also H0mers
The Yankees wrapped it up
with a three-run rally in the
third started by MariS' shot off
Pappas Q2-9). Yogi Berra fol-
lowed with a homer and a single
by Johnny Blanchard and
ElSton Towards double fin
ished off the outburst for a
40 lead.
The Orioles were able to get
to Terry only in the sixth when
consecutive singles by Ron
Hansen, Hall and Brooks
Robinson scored one run. Hall
came around from second when
Bobby Richardson dropped the
ball after Jerry Adair hit into
a force out.
The Detroit Tigers remained
well ahead of the Orioles in
the battle for second place by
beating Los Angeles, 6-3, when
Chico Fernandez Stroked a
bases loaded double that
featured a four-run tie-break-
ing rally in the seventh inning.
Chicago's Ray Herbert de-
feated Boston, 81, with a
seven-hitter, and Bobby Del
Greco hit a two-run homer in
the ninth that gave Kansas
City a AZ victory over Cleye-
land in other games. Min
nesota- Washington was rained
out.
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Trailing by two home runs
with just one more game re-
naming. playing in a park
which had throttled him IN all
26 previous efforts, and facing
a pitcher who had yielded only
one home run to the entire
Yankee team. Mars not only
walloped his seth home run of
the season but came breath
lessly close to smashing two
more.
Had the two he barely missed
been fair instead of feet foul,
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the crew-cut blond from Ray
town, Mo-, would have achieved
the feat of the century.
Only two others had seriously
threatened that mark-Jimmy
Foxx and Hank Greenherg. AS
it was, the sad-eyed sIugger,
who only six years ago was
wondering If he'd ever make
the big leagues, came closer
than anyone else in baseball
history to Ruth's 1927 record.
The crowd Of 21,032, natur-
ally devoted to Ruth. a native
Baltimorean, gave the gallant
challenger a standing ovation
after he had sent a drihbler
down the first base line on a
checked swing in his last try.
Il tried" he said later. II
didn't quite make it, but I
tried" And how Maris tried.
In the first inning, facing Milt
Pappas, Baltimore's ace right
handler, he drove a screaming
liner to Earl Robinson in deep
right.
Electrifies Crowd
In the third inning, with
Pappas still on the mound, he
smashed a 81 pitch, q sort of
high liner, into the rightfield
bleachers, about 800 feet from
the plate. The homer electrified
the crowd, which realized he
still had at least two more
cracks at homer No. so.
Dick Hall. another right
handler, was on the mound
when Maris came to bat in the
fourth. With an ,0-2 count.
Roger whacked a liner which
landed in the stands. about
10 feet foul and some Is
feet short of the rightfield
bleachers. Many in the crowd,
on his side by that time.
groaned.
| Again the seventh. Maris
| flirted with fame when he hit
a long drive deep into the right
field bleachers. This one was
about 20 to Is feet foul.
Now it was the ninth. There
were two out. Hoyt Wilhelm
was on the mound. The crafty
knuckleball artist had faced
Maris in a strikingly similar
role only the night before and
had struck him out on four
pitches.
"Just one good swing Maris
lmuttered grinly ito himself.
Just one good swing. That's
all I want"
He never. got that "one good
swing"
Glad It's Over
The ball struck the bat and
dribbled down the first base
line. Wilhelm fielded the ball
himself and tagged the detected
Maris just off first base.
I'm glad it's all over" Maris|
said later. Its a great relief.
But I'm disappointed 1t had to
end this way. If I wasn't going
to make it, at least I wanted to
go down swinging. The way it
turned out, I didn't get one
good swing.
But I'm not taking any
thing away from Wilhelm. He
got me to go for his pitch"
1t was a different MariS in
the clubhouse last night.
Naturally. I would have liked
to have gotten that 60th," he
said, but now that it's over.
I'm happy. I'm lucky, too. /
never dreamed I'd come this
close. At the start Of the sea-
son, 1 would have settled for
40. one more than I hit last
year. So every one I got after
that was Just that much I
hadn't counted on"
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GAME BREATHLEssLY CLOSE TO. RECORD
Moris Miss Hardly Failure

BALTIMORE, Sept. 81 (AP),
Roger Maris' relentless as
sault on Babe Rllth's hallowed
home run record ended in de-
feat last night, but in no way
could it be interpreted as a
failure. e
The 2T.year-old lefthanded
slugger, battling against almost
impossible odds. missed match
ing the immortal Bambino's so
homers in q 154-game season
by the nafrowest of margins
just one. &
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Most Serious Run at Ruth Mark
Falls Short as Maris Hits 5Qth
Roger Gives 1t Big Try
AS Yunks CIinch Pennont
\, thu Associatsd presa

Roger Mars strobe to the plate in the top of the NINTH
and fouled the first pitch by knuckeba specialist
Hcyt Wilhelm back of the plate Wilhelm up again,
and MariS tried to check his swing He couldn't and
the ball trickled down the first base line ~
that note last night ended the serious threat