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STATE ene oyer am On THE MORNING AFTER CI 1 V-i TRIBUNE SPORTS EDITOR Tom Yianfes Lose 4-3; Teams Stand 2-2 By TOMMY HOLMES N.Y. Herald Tribune News Service NEW YORK The resurgent Redbirds of old St. Louis were the men who got the big swing of the bat that decided the fourth game of the World Series yesterday. Ken Boycr, the largest and strongest member of the Missouri family of third basemen, put the muscle to a grand slam home run in the sixth inning. That ruined the lefthanded Al Downing for the day, beat the Yankees, 4 to 3, and made certain that how this Oranges and Football Teams Add college football to oranges, bathing beauties and sunshine as blue-ribbon products of the State of Florida.

Not in recollection have so many citizens been able to hold their heads so high, so deep into the grid season. Not ever have we had developing simultaneously at Tallahassee and Gainesville authentic national powers. Not ever have two state teams had such a Saturday as last, both scoring upsets, both with incredible ease, both over opponents of impressive reputation, both before big, enthusiastic home audiences, both to stay undefeated. Reference is, of course, to the Florida State upset of Kentucky by the improbable score of 48-6, and Florida's 30-14 insult of also-favored Mississippi. The biggest crowd in the south Saturday, 47,003 privileged saw that one, while 34,248 enjoyed the Tallahassee spectacle.

More, I believe, would have been both places if the two business offices would make their ticket situations better known to the public, day-to-day, week-to-week. Interestingly, Florida Coach Ray Graves confided to friends before the Mississippi game that he felt his Gatorswould win. "You get that feeling. You get that hunch," he confessed afterwards. He also, it can be told, quietly figured Florida State would get Kentucky.

At Tallahassee, soothsayer Bill Peterson emerged from the weekend with a 100 per cent average. He too thought his team would win, and he told a couple of quarterback clubs Florida would handle Mississippi. Both teams likely to advance into the Top Ten rankings, probably somewhere from sixth to 10th. Texas, Ala-bame, Ohio State, Notre Dame probably will outrank them, maybe Michigan. Not that it really matters.

The ranking won't help Florida play another good one this Saturday to beat troublesome South Carolina, nor Florida State against improving Georgia at Athens. A Grand Slam Pitch Ken Boyer, Cardinals third baseman, with the ball right in front of him, cuts at serving from Yankee hurler Al Downing and sends it into lower left field stands for a grand slam home run in sixth inning of fourth game of World Series. Catching is Elston Howard. (AP Wirephoto). Seminoles Just Starting-Pete Everybody Told You So Inexplicably, the Gator achievement had been predicted by thousands besides Graves and Peterson.

No one really knows why, but back during the summer months, perhaps as far back as the Sugar Bowl time when everyone saw Alabama do in the Rebels, the alumnus on the street, even the sometimes-fan Ys fri Ft; IV I The Tampa Tribune Tampa, Florida Monday Oct. 12, 1964 NEWS SECTION CLASSIFIED nothing unless you want to count a lonesome single by Cletis Boycr, kid brother of the hero of the day, in the fourth inning off Roger Lee Craig. ROGER LEE CRAIG? Yes sir, that's right. This was not the first World Scries victory foe the raw-boned Carolina righthander. As a rookie, he beat the Yankees for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955.

But that flower in Mr. Craig's garden of memories has been hidden from view by the weeds which flourished in his two amazing seasons as a charter member of New York's amazing Mets in which he amassed the amazing total of 46 defeats. And here at the mature age of 31, Craig popped up as a World Series winner again because he relieved the lefthanded Sadccki in the first inning and fanned eight as he held the Yankees through the fifth. Ron Taylor, a righthanded Canadian relief worker who pitched the last four innings was just as good from a practical point of view although he lacked the strikeout flourish. In the Cardinal clubhouse, Johnny Keane was asked whether his team had benefitted from better relief pitching this season.

"How could that be?" said the old sourdough. "These two were superb." The other imponderable Involved in the crash of the Yankees was a mix-up at second base just before Boycr's drive -sailed into the leftfield stands. FOR A FLEETING instant it appeared that Downing and the Yankees were out of the trouble that threatened their three-run lead. Then, all of a sudden, they were worse off than ever. The Cardinal rally started with Carl Warwick, a spare outfielder, batting for Craig.

He drove a ground single to left for his third straight pinch hit of this series, which ties a record. Curt Flood stroked a single to right and there were Red-birds on first and second. Lou Brock drove a fly to center for the first out. Dick Groat was the next hitter. The grounder he hit to the right of second base started out :4 nnA 1111 cuuugu anu (Continued on Page 2, Col.

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PO-A St. Louis 27-11, New York 27-9. 2R Linz, B. Richardson. dared whisper, "Florida is going to beat Ole Miss." They didn't say it about Alabama, nor Auburn, nor LSU, nor FSU, just Mississippi.

Always Gator Booster Tom Bryant of Lakeland said it for everybody in the Robert Meyer Hotel barber shop Friday afternoon, and he said the rest too, "but, I don't know why I feel that way." Somehow, if was a grass-roots ground-swell that included the football players and the coaches, who, besides the actual technique of performing, savor the additive of this intangible. When the Gators came onto Florida Field, the ovation was thundering. It continued all day. They applauded everyone, players they didn't, players they did, players not on the program, like Neal Snead, an end, No. 83, who caught a pass and panicked the press box.

They would have applauded, Saturday, a Gator fumble, I believe, just to show forgiveness. Out of this win came a booklet of little stories, backstage dramas, such as: Billy Kinard, the Florida secondary coach whose youngsters probably still lead the conference in pass defense. He's a brother to the great Bruiser Kinard, an Ole Miss coach, uncle of Frank, Ole Miss fullback. So intense is Billy Kinard that he declined to walk arm in arm to the scouting booth with brother Bruiser. "We're on different sides now," said brave Billy, maybe half the physical size of Bruiser.

This Ole Miss win, if it belongs to anyone in particular, is Billy Kinard's. Allen Trammell, team pepperpot, ball-holder for placements, defensive halfback who returned a punt 62 yards for the break-up-the-ball game touchdown. They call him the "mouth" in practice. The opportunity for Trammell's great run through the Rebel lines was a quirk. Usual safetyman, Jack Harper, had left the game with a banged-up wrist.

Trammel was a fill-in at the post. A Who's-He Halfback Don Knapp, the who's-he sophomore halfback from Pen-sacola. Knapp carried the football once Saturday. When he did, he carried it for about eight seconds on a 50-yard off right tackle to set up the third Gator touchdown. He went from the Florida 31 to the Ole Miss 19.

He carried the ball because quarterback Steve Spurrier checked off (changed the play) at the scrimmage line, while calling signals. As they lined up at the Florida 31 with a first down, Ole Miss overshifted to its right. On the sidelines assistant coach Fred Pancoast it and said to Coach Pepper Rodgers "They're making a mistake." Spurrier saw it too. He'd called a pass play. He changed It quickly and called on Knapp.

The 50-yard success followed. Then Spurrier, on his way to becoming sophomore of the year in the SEC, hit pass-receiver extraordinary, Charles Casey, in the end zone for the quick score. Charles Casey, the end who was offered a basketball scholarship to Auburn and Tennessee, but left his Atlanta home to catch football passes for Florida. He's second in (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) TEAMMATES W'ELCOME Cards third baseman Ken Boyer as he reaches home on sixth inning grand slam homer in fourth game of World Series against the Yankees.

Greeting him are Carl Warwick, Dick Groat and Curt Flood, all of whom were on base when he hit the homer. (AP Wirephoto). year's World Series player poolt of $730,414.43 is to be whacked up will be determined not in our own Yankee Stadium but in a rambling old baseball orchard in St. Louis. THE HOPE of the proud Yankees to bring about a quick end to the struggle for the baseball championship was thwarted by a number of interesting and unlookcd for developments as the Cardinals registered their second victory to draw even.

They the Yankees started veil. Their first five hitters in the opening inning delivered safe hits. The first three scored runs. Ray Sadeeki, the Cardinal starting pitcher, was knocked out of the box. And after that, a big fat ears Gabriel, appearing only in the last half, completed 14 of 33 tossed for 257 yards.

In the last minutes of the game, J.C. Caroline filched a Gabriel pitch and ran it back 79 yards to the Ram but passes by Wade for a TIJ were iuuie. Ram 0 3 7 7-17 1 l(r. 7 17 14 n. i kick) Chi KG 14 hi-Ditka re(0VPrfd fumhie in end I A-Fr' oocttki40k' Chi Ditka 2 pass from wade (Jenrks kirk) i Chi-Ditka 16 pass from Wade (Jenks kick) I LA-Pope 70 pass from Gabriel (Cos- hi-Morris 52 pass from Wade (Jencks kick) I.A-GahriH 2 run (Gossett kick) Attendance: 47.358.

U.S., Japan Seek To Make Baseball An Olympic Sport TOKYO dV) Amateur base ball players from the United States and Japan put on a dem- onstration of their game yester- riav in honps that it nil nnn day be accepted as sport. an Olympic Because the players could not take part in the impressive Olympic opening ceremonies Saturday, they staged their own just before the game. Thorn wac flan riitinrt ntav. mere was nag raising, piay- ing of national anthems, speeches, presentation of flow- nrs in fart iust ahnnt pvcrv- thing in the Olympic ceremony except the emperor and the Olympic Torch. Top Ten at Glance Here's how the Top Ten teams in The Associated Press college football poll fared Saturday: 1.

Teias, t-0, best Oklahoma K-7. Illinois. M. Inl to Ohio State Alabama. 4-0.

beat N. State 4. Ohio St.te. H-0, brat Illinois 5. Kentucky 3-1, lost to Florida Mate IH-.

6. Notre Dame, 3-0, beat Air Force 31-1. t. Michigan beat Mirhifan State 11-10. t.

Nebraska, 4-4. beat South Carolina t. Michigan State, 1 lost la Mlrhlean U-IO. 9. Tie, Arkansas 10, beat Baylor 11-4.

ber i i 1 Avery Sumner, Jack Shin-holser, Bill McDowell and Frank Pennie, among others. But this great victory places the Seminoles squarely in the same position Kentucky found itself when it came here. LIKE Florida high. KENTUCKY State is now was, sky "It's tough to get a team as ready two weeks in a row as we were Saturday," Peterson agreed. "I have no doubt but that this was a problem Kentucky had.

They played two great games against Mississippi and Auburn. They were mentally tired and playing away from home. We got two quick touchdowns against them and now they're having to scramble to come back." Just how did the Seminoles get up? Fans here think they could have whipped any team in the country Saturday. "The whole basis is that somehow or other, Kentucky has a good football team," Peterson began. "Somehow they beat Mississippi and Auburn to give us the opportunity we have been waiting for for five years.

"WE TOLD OUR players what they had to do." Peterson told them another story. He likes to tell stories, believes in giving his men some new thought or idea every day. The other night, the story goes, Mrs. Peterson (Marjorie) ate some sandwiches and couldn't go to sleep. Finally she dozed off and she dreamed that a mother of a football player came to her and said "Wasn't that a great victory." She had the impression it was a Seminole's mother and she remarked about the score, but she didn't remember that.

WELL, PETERSON told this story just oeio. mo i. took the field Saturday. But this football team believes in itself, has all year. Kentucky found itself having to spread its defenses all over the field trying some how to stop FSU's wide-open attack.

Head offensive coach Bill Crutchfield came up with the idea of moving Biletnikoff, the great pass-catching flanker back, to the opposite side as a weak side end and putting both ends Don Floyd (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) Wade Wakes From NFL Slum Statistics By JIM SELMAN Assistant Sports Editor TALLAHASSEE The football season, almost half complete, is just beginning for the undefeated Florida State Seminoles, contends coach Bill Peterson. By his reasoning, it begins Saturday afternoon in Athens, where the Seminoles try for their fifth victory at the expense of the Georgia Bulldogs. This is so, he says, because the 48-6 victory over nationally-fifth-ranked Kentucky here Saturday makes the Seminoles the team being chased by others. "THAT'S THE price you have to pay," he said yesterday.

"The season's just beginning for us. Things are going to be tough for us from here on." Funny how the turn of events have transformed these Seminoles. Unranked, though unbeaten and unscored on before Saturday, they are certain to move into the nation's top 10 for the first time in history of the school this week. Two Orange Bowl representatives, here for an early look at Kentucky previously a winner over Detroit, Mississippi and Auburn went away, instead, thinking about the Seminoles and men like Steve Tensi, Fred Biletnikoff, Ed Pritchett, Lee Narramore, Phil Spooner, Dick Herman, Russians Win Medal A bantamweight weight-lifter from Russia won the first gold medal of Tokyo Olympics. Story, Page 4-C.

Gators By TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Editor GAINESVILLE Charles Hinton, a Mississippi Rebel center who was very tired late Saturday afternoon, sucked in his breath and turned it into these words: "Number sixty-eight is really tough and Number 1 is fast and tricky and that Number thirty-five is hard to bring down. You all have a real good football team." Not long after that, comfortable without shoes, with a great win history, a cigar and a new din, Florida Coach Ray Graves said the same thing in another way: "What is so wonderful CHICAGO Bill hurled four touchdown Wade passes, two each to Johnny Morris and Mike Ditka, as the Chicago Bears snapped from a two-game losing slump and walloped the Los Angeles Rams 38-17 yesterday. The National Football League defending champions, now 2-3 for the campaign, turned three of four Bill Munson pass interceptions into scores in the first half for a 24-3 lead. IN THE PERIOD, Wade hit Morris on a two-yard Scoring; pnen to ena a a-yara drive and speared Ditka lor the the Bears' coal, yardage after Roosevelt Taylor's Roman Gabriel bombed Bucky pass interception. jpopc on a 70-yard TD play and Bob Jencks, who booted five! later piloted an 80-yard thrust Rim, II SI IK-IK (t 6-17 Br ar n-n Xst7Tr.

I'ansrng yardage PaftsM FaKSFs (nterrfptfd by Punts Kumhlffl lost Yards pmallzrd 6 margin to 33-10 in the third as Wade shot a 16-yard pdstiu uuu dim mici mi ris in the flat that was good for 1 i i uu a 52-yard touchdown play. Bruce Gossett kicked a An yard field goal fo rtliC Rams in, the second quarter, but it was jn the third before they that he capped in the opening minute of the fourth on a three-yard roll-out. WADE MADE good on 31 of 45 passes for 249 yards. Morris snared 11 of them for 147 and Ditka six of 81. heard of, John Preston, went in there and played a great game." He was right.

Preston is a 6-3, 235 -pound sophomore from Columbus, Ga. He'd played almost none until he went against Ole Miss, an impressive baptizcr. Rodgers lauded the signal-calling of both Shannon and Spurrier, as well as their passing and Spurrier's clutch running. "One thing, important," pointing the stem of his pipe, "in this game, we got the third down yards for the first down." He was right again, and important on these (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3) Play 'by the Numbers' extra points, added a 14-yard field goal that stemmed from a stolen aerial.

Ditka also scored by recovering Morris' fumble of a catch that rolled into the end zone. THE BEARS ballooned their a whale of a game. His No. 35 was Capt. Larry Dupree, backfield workhorse.

Had Hinton been a defensive back, he'd have surely mentioned No. 89, end Charles Casey, who caught two touchdown passes, and quarterbacks Tom Shannon and Steve Spurrier, a one-two QB punch that may be unmatched in the land, in versatility. But, for Graves' no-star theory, offensive Coach Pepper Rodgers, a happy, happy pipe-smoking man Saturday night, pointed out, did you notice when our vtTy good blocking tackle John Whatley was injured on one of tho first plays, a boy you never Hit Boyer. PITCHING Sl'MMARY IP II ER BB SO Sadeckl '-4 4 3 2 0 0 Craig (W) 4i 2 0 0 3 Taylor 4 0 0 0 1 2 Downing (L) 4 4 3 2 4 Mikkclsen 1 0 0 0 0 1 Terrv 2 2 0 0 0 3 X-Faced 1 man in 7th. 2:18.

A 66,312. i about all this is that we didn't have any real stars out there today. This is a team without rcnl stsrs SUCH A FLAT estimate is disputable, but the theory that the nature of the implausible margin of victory (30-14) over Mississippi did indeed require the services of almost four dozen football players, at least one not on the program. Charles Hinton's No. 68 was middle Bill Richbourg, probably the most under-rated lineman in the Southeastern Conference who clearly outplayed Ole Miss' touted Stan Hindman.

His No. 1 is line-backing Lilliputian Jack Card, a darting half-pint who played Spartans 'At Worst' Story, Page 5-C EYES WEREN'T enough Saturday for this sports fan watching the Gators upset Ole Miss at Gainesville. With one transistor radio tuned into FSU-Kentucky drama and the other to World Series, C. Wr. Staggs of Jacksonville catches all the excitement.

(Staff Photo by Vernon Barchard).

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