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IN BASEBALL a letdown guy can't
stall for time. Koufax, holding his, slim
r
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BY FRANCIS sTANN

al lead, had to gather himself and dis
pose Of Hector Lopez, dangerous hitter
against lefthanded pitching. Lopez had
combed Johnny Podres for two doubles in
three times up in New York and yester-
day on his first trip he sent Willie Davis
a mile for drive.
That Koufax wound 1t up by making
Lopez hit softly to Wills was so much more
frosting on his cake. This is one of the
great modern pitchers, Koufax, although
he wasn't quiet as sharp as in the opener
and was winner because of a three-base
error.
But that's the kind of World Series
1t was all the way, a series of inches and
split seconds. 1t could have stretched out,
perhaps. Young Jim Bouton was beaten on
his own wild pitch and dubious infield
hit. And the only legitimate run by the
Dodgers yesterday came on Frank Towards
second-deck blast in the fifth inning.
What are the odds against an expert
gloveman like Joe Pepitone completely
losing hard-thrown peg-a strike from
Third Baseman Clete Boyer-against the
crowd background?
ALL SEASON-161 games of 1t for the
Yanks-Pepitone erred Just once on a
thrown ball But he lost the throw that
would have retired Gillian to open the
Dodgers seventh and the runner raced
all the way to third, from where he scored
the decisive run on a fly ball.
The moment threw the ball, sensed
that Joe couldn't see it," Boyer said later
in the quiet Yankee clubhouse. Pepitone,
the rookie first baseman, was properly
shook up and close to tears. "The ball hit
me on the wrist, forearm and shoulder"
Pepitone mourned.a Everywhere but in the
glove"
Tracewski, who looks younger than his
% years., and admittedly has been living
and playing in a world of unreality. also
found himself a well-interviewed figure
after the play that dramatically prolonged
the series.
"IF 1T TOOK two hops woulda had
1t" said the Polish boy with the Pennsyl-
van1a accent. But it was in the dirt and
never had it. heard Richardson sliding
before the ball got to me, and then Cor
man yelled, out And then Bobby began
w SSASoAAA DAOOOy mu0SL IAldG ne D6dG the
throw.
HE don't know I dropped it. Il
mean, never had it. I said to him, Bobby
don't get excited, don't argue. I don't have
the ball. I don't even know where it is"
Even in the clubhouse he seemed more
anxious to placate Richardson retroactively
then to dwell upon what might have hap
pened If Lopez had belted one Actually,
Tracewski shouldn't have drawn an error
on throw in the dirt. The play probably
should have been scored as a hit for
Howard. And if there had to be an error
it should have been charged to Wills.
But to repeat, that's the kind of series
1t was all the way, full of ifs and inches.
And Sandy Koufax
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was the first ball ever hit fair
into the corner Of the second
deck in left, a clout Of an
estimated $50 feet. It carried
into the eighth row.
Il think he was guessing, "
Whitley said later.
Towards line single to right
center in the second inning was
the only other Dodger hit, and
Towards three hits for the
Series in 10 times at bat all
were off Ford. With the Dodg-
ers holding a 81 lead in the
eighth. Ron Fairly replaced
Howard for defensive purposes.
Koufax actually pitched to
nine Yankees in the middle
innings yesterday without a
strikeout, but he regained the
touch late in the game against
his favorite victims. Clete Boyer
and Tom fresh. For the Series
each famed six times.
It was a setback for Yankee
performances Of past years to
watch fresh and Mantle take
tantalizing curves for called
third strikes In the ninth in
ming with Bobby Richardson on
first representing the tying
run.
Both made the mildest of
protests, but the pitches were
good-too good to be taking
in that situation. Koufax SIM
ply was their master.
The Yankees even had q last
chance when Dick Tracewski
bobbled Maury Wills throw of
Elston Towards grounder in
the ninth, and the Yankees had
two on and two out. But Wills
came in fast to pick up Lopez
slow hopper and the Dodgers
went berserk.
Walt Aston, the principal
target last year when the
Dodgers lost the playoff to the
Giants, and whose custer was
sought this year when the
Dodgers lost their big mid-sea-
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VIM LOSE OR DRAW
Koufox Gives Encore
In q Prolonged Drama

LOS ANGELES, Oct. SANDY Koufax
wasn't very happy about Bobby Richard
sons single that led off the Yankees ninth
inning. Especially since Sandy had two
strikes on the hitter Now Koufax was
reaching back for everything he had left.
He caught Tom fresh looking at a
pitch that dipped and homed its way into
John Roseboro's mitt, squarely over the
plate for third strike. Now there was
Mickey Mantle, who two innings earlier
smote the 18th home run Of his World
Series career to tie Babe Ruth's record.
And Mantle, too, was mesmerized by
this mans Incompatible pitching When he
walked back TO the Yankee dugout the
drama of this unique series reached its
climax. Now only Elston Howard stood
between the Dodgers dream of wiping out
the Yankees in four straight.
Howard was the best Of the New York
hitters, the only Yank to hit more than
one homer in Chavez Ravine during the
regular season. He beat ball into the
ground toward shortstop and Maury Wills
gloved it to his right and made a whirling
peg to second base, into the dirt.
DICK MISUNDERSTANDING call
him Trixie-grabbed for the ball as
Richardson slid into the bag in a cloud
Of dust. Umpire Tom German thumb In
the air and the World Series apparently
was over, the Dodgers the new champions,
and the Yankees humbled as never in his
tory.
Koufax had eyes only for Germans
signal. The darkly handsome pitching
wizard leaped into the air, his bare fist
clenched in triumph, beatific smile on
his face. RoSeboro started toward him,
SO did Jim Gillian, the third baseman.
moment later Koufax' Joy turned
into incredulity. German flashed the safe
sign. Tracewsh didn't have the ball, and
now the Yankees had two runners on base.
To one eyewitnesses the abrupt, dra-
matte change of events instantly called up
the story told by the late Doc Kearns, who
managed Jack Dempsey to the heavy
weight title.
1T WAS TOLEDO in 1919 and Dempsey
was facing Jess Willard, who outweighed
him by 80 pounds. II bet $4,000 of our
purse at 10-to-1 that Dempsey would knock
him out in the first round" Kearns related.
And he did, but there was a louSe-up
on the bell and when Dempsey was out Of
the ring, walking back to the dressing
room, they called him back. One minute
we had first-round knockout and fast
100000, the next We were fighting again.
Il saw Jacks shoulders slump when
he climbed back in the ring. He coulda
been taken by Willard, he was so let down.
I told my guy, Jack, be careful. Don't
move in until the feeling goes away. Take
a round, two rounds, to pull yourself to-
gether.' Which he did, and then knocked
out Willard all over again"
HA
IN BASEBALL a letdown guy can't
stan for time. Koufax, holding his, slim
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enth inning with a high hopper
to third that Clete Boyer
speared with a leap. Because
Gillian is a speedster. Boyer
put a little something extra
on the throw to first.
Pepitone lost it in the white
shirted background back OF
third base. The temperature
was SO degrees, and this was
a crowd in summer attire.
Boyer said later that he
knew by Pepitone's reaction
that he was having trouble
picking up the ball in flight,
It glanced off Joe's wrist, ran
up his forearm, licked his
shoulder and scooted toward
the rightfield seats. There wa
no chance for Hector Lopez tt
back 1t up. When Pepitone re-
trieved the ball. Gillian had
third base made. He scored on
Willie Davis sacrifice fly to
Mantle.
Yankee scouting reports said
Frank Howard. the huge out
fielder who holds q bat as
though it was a ball-point pen,
could not hit a slow curve.
Ford had confirmed this with
pitching buddies Of his In
the National League.
Howard hit q pitch other
than a slow curve off Whitley
for the longest possible double
in Yankee Stadium in the
opening game, 460-feet from
the plate. On q slow curve,
Howard hit a dribbler back to
Ford.
Whitley tried to slip a slow
curve past the 255-pound, g.
foot-7 giant in the fifth inning
yesterday, and the result set
a Dodger Stadium record. It
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Los ANGELES. Oct. t.
Manager Ralph Houk defendet
the Yankees defense after tn
Dodgers swept the World serie
yesterday. and said he though
three plays were magnified on
of proportion because it wa
World Series play.
II didn't think our defense
was bad" Houk said.
He was referring to the dou-
bic that Roger Maris lost in
the second game, the single of
Bobby Richardson's shins that
decided the third game and
Joe Pepitone's error that cost
yesterdays game.
ut was a bad hop-a couple
OF balls lost in the background
They all happened at crucial
times"
Houk said he wished the
Dodgers were in the American
League so the Yankees could
play them IL times. He said
1t should be a good rivalry.
A Washingtonian said the
Senator's would gladly exchange
their franchise for the Dodgers
Houk laughed.
Houk kept the press out of
the Yankees clubhouse for only
a few moments. He told the
players they had nothing to be
ashamed of.
Frank Howard, whose mighty
homer off Whitley Ford In the
fifth inning broke up the shut
out, would not say it was his
biggest thrill and refused to
believe 1t was the first home
run into the upper deck in left.
The big guy minimized both
featS. Howard doesn't say
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son lead, emerged with his
third World Series triumph, ty-
ing John McGraw in the Ma
tional League.
Aston is anything but a pop
off. He said he thought the
series would go six or seven
games, and that Koufax did not
have the stuff he had last
Wednesday. He was happy in
his fashion. not a showoff.
The Ohio farmer, who once
challenged anybody on his
team to fight him if he didn't
like the way he was running
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the second game against Joh-
ny Podres.
1t was past mid-September
before the Dodgers turned back
the Cardinals in a crucial
three-game series for the right
to represent the National
League. What q shame It
would have been II this superb
pitching staff had not made
the series-Koufax. Podres and
Don Drysdale, whose three-hit
shutout of Saturday was the
masterpiece.
Strange Series
In a sense it was a strange
series. Nobody In his right
mind picked the Dodgers to win
four in q row. Their bullpen
and their speed got t hem
through the tight spots in the
National League race. But
Ron Perranoski, the super re-
lever. pitched to only three
batters In the series. The
Dodgers attempted three steals,
made good on two.
In the reams written on pre-
series comparisons, the edge
went to the Yankee defense
every time.
However, a two-run double
that Roger Maris should have
gave the Dodgers the !,
quick two-run lead in the sec
ond game. A shot off Bobby
Richardson's shin sent the
run home in Drys-
dale's 10 triumph Of Satur-
day. And Joe Pepitone's CREW.
Gus error in the seventh inning
yesterday set UP the decisive
run.
1t was the only Yankee error
Of the series. but 1t was one
Pepitone never will forget. It
was his first World Series
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and also the first series APP
pearances for Al Downing and
Jim Bouton, the Yankee
pitchers who lost a game each.
Ford lost two.
In the top Of the seventh
yesterday Mantle lifted the
Yankees into a IL tie as he
tagged Koufax for a line drive
homer into the leftfield stands.
1t was Mickey's 18th in series
competition. tying Babe Ruth's
record.
Jim Gillian led off the sew
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as well. but we couldn't give
them any help"
That capsule comment tells
the story Of the 60th World
Series. Behind pitching I'M
equalled in World Series his
tory. the Dodgers wrapped it
up in four games.
Sandy Koufax. a lefthander
who had dazzled the National
League with his newly gained
control as an asset, beat the
Yankees. 2-l, yesterday in
Dodger Stadium before another
full house Of 55.912. the exact
crowd for the second straight
day.
Emerges as Greatest
Koufax. q 27-year-old SOUTH
paw. emerged as the greatest
picher in baseball today. He
added eight more strikeouts,
making it % in two series
victories. He has struck out
more men per game than any
pitcher in the record book, and
his ambition. as he said in the
clubhouse, is to win more
games in his career than any
other pitcher.
However, Koufax won the
clincher on a day when he was
outpitched by Whitley Ford and
his one-inning relief man, Hal
Reniff. The Dodgers had two
hits, the Yankees six, but for
the third time in four games
a Yankee fielding misplay set
up the winning run.
In 81 previous appearances,
the 20-time world champion
Yankees never had been beaten
four straight. But four runs
were their total output in the
series, two on a homer by Tom
fresh in the opener, one on
Mantle's homer yesterday, and
a run in the ninth inning of
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things, took the victory in
stride. He was the biggest man
in the Dodger organization
when they lost the playoff last
year. He was a big man when
they won.
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Yankee Defense
Upheld by Houk

much. He actually was shy IN
his role of co-star with Sandy
koufax. He had the only two
hits off Ford.
Mickey Mantle said he con-
sidered the 1860 loss to the
Pirates bigger blow to Yam
kee prestige, because the Yam
KEGS outplayed the Pirates An
that series.
IF we had beaten the
Dodgers four in a row not
much would have been said
about it," Mickey said. II still
think we're as good as they
are"
The Dodgers dressing room
was not one Of spontaneous
hilarity. despite what Won
might have seen on television.
In fact. the televisiori pro-
ducers had to encourage thu
Dodgers to whoop 1t up
80
They led cheers for Moose
Skowron, who obviously Is one
OF the most popular players on
the club. They did the old
Mickey Mouse bit. M-o-o-s-e,
in a chant.
Skowron and Tommy Davis
were the leading Dodger hit
tiers, Skowron s. for I3 and
Tommy 6-for-15. Elston How
and led the Yankees with
5-for-15.
There was lengthy discussion
In the press box on whether
Bobby Richardson's pop fly to
short center should have been
a hit or error in the fourth.
1t was the first hit off Koufax
and was important. because he
looked like q no-hit threat al
most every time out.
But the Dodgers said It
should have been q hit. Cen
terfielder Willie Davis lost 1t
IN the bright sun and yelled,
Can't see it. can't see It,"
Wills made a belated
grab for 1t, but missed.
-WHITTLESEY.
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Unprecedented Pitching Sweeps Yanks
Koufax Wins I'd
With Aid of Error
By MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Star staff Writer

Los ANGELES. October Mickey Mantle summed it up
as well as anybody.
There never have been four better pitched games
In our league their league league you mention
ITS shame couldn't have runs for our
pitchers" the Yankee sugger added They pitched almost
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DODGERS, q;
YANKEES, I

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7
AP).-The box score of
the fourth game Of the
1868 World Series:
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his American citizenship, but
failed to get permission from
the Soviet Union. Aline MoSby,
then OF UPI's Moscow staff, In
terviewed Oswald and from
that talk emerged the same
pattern Of defiance: Capital
ism will disappear as feudal-
ism disappeared. It's the fash
ion to hate people in the United
States"
If, on his return TO the United
States, Oswald wanted TO or
ganize a group opposing the
government he went about 1t In
a strange fashion. Mrs. Lena
Garner, who was his landlady
in New Orleans for a time, re-
ported: HE wouldn't speak to
anyone. When he passed me or
my husband in the yard he
wouldn't say anything"
1t is this consistent pattern Of
being a defiant loner, fighting q
single-handed battle against au-
thority everywhere it brushed
his daily life, that persuaded
Dallas police to the opinion
that Oswald conceived the as
saSsination Of Kennedy solely
in his own mind and performed
the deed alone.
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Plan Legislation

SENATOBIA, Miss. CUPID =
The board Of trustees, admins
traitors and faculty Of Northwest
Mississippi Junior College will
be briefed here Thursday on
proposed legislation for
the states junior colleges.
Legislators and members Of
the boards of supervisors of 10
counties have been invited ia
the meeting.
Counties which support North
west with tax levieS include
Tate, DeSoto, Pamela, Tunica,
Quitman, Marshall, Benton, Yal.
obuSha, Tallahatchie and La.
fayette.
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Of Rumor Forms
Over Grave Of Oswald

for an investigation ordered by
President Johnson.
Until the President makes the
facts public, the rumors and
suspicious probably will persist
despite the lack of any support.
ing evidence. They are coming
in all sizes and shapes but they
fall basically into three cate
gories:
THAT Oswald had a still.
uncaptured and unknown &C.
complete or a~ccomplices,
Says Oswald USED"
That Oswald, who pro-
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claimed himself a Marxist, was
fused" for a murder assign
ment by extremists who were
enraged by Kennedy's liberal
ism. This is the line taken by
the Russian press and radio.
That when Oswald killed the
President, he acted as a politi-
cal zealot-as a hater of the
American system of government
which Oswald did in fact fire.
quently and violently denounce
in his role Of Marxist and de-
fender Of Fidel Castro.
There is absolutely no basis
to any of these charges, specu.
lation and rumors on the basis
of the evidence as it Is avail.
able today. Until the FBI I'm.
covers some dramatic new ev.
idence, this form Of speculation
remains in the realm Of fiction
and fantasy.
The available evidence In fact
tells a far different story. II
points very strongly to Oswald
as the Presidents killer. (The
fact that he never confessed
before he himself was slain is
unquestionably encouraging ru-
NOR more than anything else).
And it points to a plot con-
ceived and executed by a single
man who was socially misfit,
emotionally unstable, political
ly naive-a man with an OBJ
sessive hatred Of constituted
authority, be it a superior In
the Marine Corps or the PreSi-
dent Of the United States.
Doubts From Europe
Most of the doubts a n d
rumorS about the Oswald case
come from Europe. To Euro
peans, organized attempts to
seize power by assassinating
cars and kings are as old as
history. Therefore, to them, ii
is difficult to believe that there
weren't people behind Oswald
using him as a trigger man In
a plot against the entire federal
government.
Here are a few of the suspi-
cions and accusations that have
been flowing in from Europe:
The newspaper Corriere Lom-
bardo of Milan, Italy, said the
Italian Carcano rifle that killed
Kennedy could not have been
fired three times In such a
short space of time. There were
three bullets fired and hence
there had to be more than one
man. Sheriff Bill Decker in
Dallas replied that three shots
could have been fired by one
man in 20 seconds.)
Russian newspapers, without
offering factual support,
blamed Kennedy's death on the
"ultra-right hysteria in Texas"
Suspicious Aroused
The Dutch newspaper Alge-
meen Dagblad said that when
was shot to death Sus-
picions were raised immediate
ly that "Kennedy's assassina-
ton was a gang plot" The Ber-
liner MorgenpoSt in West Ber-
lin said that lit is possible that
Jack Ruby silenced Oswald to
cover the men behind the plot"
Die Welt Of Hamburg spoke
of "a forest of question
marks"
Dallas and Texas came I'M
der heavy fire from the Euro
pean press-"The City of AS
sassination," "City of Oil, Cat
tie and Violent Death" High
Heeled Boots and Broad d.
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A cloud Of rurnor has formed
over the grave of Lee H. o.
wald.
As Is the case with rurnor,
these are being whispered or
elaborated largely by people
farthest from the scene or least
familiar with the evidence.
Many come from Europe.
The Dallas Police Department
says it has conclusive evidence
that Oswald killed John F. Ken
nedy and that he did 1t without
assistance. II has turned all
this evidence over to the FIJI
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Brimmed Hats Never Again
viii Seem Funny"
Against this wave OF rurnor
and criticism, the Dallas police
earlier turned over to the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation
evidence they had collected
against Oswald, including:
-Oswald's palm print on the
butt of the murder rifle.
-Oswald's palm print on a
box In the room from which
the assassin shot Kennedy.
-Paraffin tests revealing Os-
wald had recently fired a rifle.
Witnesses placing Oswald
in the building from which Ken
nedy was shot before the shoot
ing and Immediately afterward.
Employed In Building
-Oswald's employment In the
building.
Witnesses who saw him
shoot policeman j. d. Tippit.
less than an hour after the as
sassination.
"Photos showing Oswald with
the rifle believed to have killed
Kennedy and the pistol that
killed Tippit.
-Oswald's wife's admission
that he owned such a rifle. II
was missing. Oswald admitted
he owned the pistol.
Oswald was an expert
marksman.
The rifle. ordered by mail
from Klein's Sporting Goods
Store. The name on the order
blank was "A. Hydell" but the
handwriting was Oswald's.
When tracked down In a
movie after Tippit's death, Os-
wald tried to shoot another po-
liceman but his gun damned.
"A neighbor drove Oswald to
work the day of the assassina-
ton and Oswald was carrying
an oblong package he said con.
tanned window shades. Police
said it was the rifle.
Wrote Threatening Letter
Oswald once wrote a threat
ening letter to Gov. John Con-
nally, wounded with Kennedy,
saying he would employ any
means" to get even for a
wrong he believed done to him
as a Marine. Connally was
Kennedy's first secretary Of the
Navy.
Almost every person who
knew Oswald said he had a re-
sentiment against authority. II
started as early as the 18th
grade when his football coach
told him not to take a drink of
water. Oswald took the wa
ter" said a Dallas policeman
who was a classmate. "Then
he yelled at the coach that this
was a free country" In junior
high school, in New Orleans,
Oswald was a ''loner" and con-
Stantly getting into fights, his
classmates recalled.
This threat of defiance and
quick anger ran all through his
career in the Marine Corps as
Donald Goodwin, one of his
sergeants, recalls: HE was
such a hothead / was glad
when he was shipped out for
radar training. He was always
having beefs with the boys in
the barracks, just to get into a
fight and vent his emotions, /
suppose"
Court-M artialed Twice
After the Marines transferred
him to Japan, Oswald was
~court-martialed twice. The first
time was for carrying an I'M
registered pistol and the second
time for swearing at a super
ior officer. He obtained his dis
charge on the grounds that he
had to support his mother.
He went to Russia, got a Job
in a factory, married a Rus
sian girl and tried 10 renounce
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A thought for the day-Eng-
lish statesman William Pitt
said: Unlimited power is apt
to corrupt the minds of those
who possess it."
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A man may fall many times.
But, he won't be a failure until
he says somebody pushed him.