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SW AC SON O'S And the Yankees Win the World Championship in Six Games, 8-4 Tied a record by scoring four runs in one game. Jackson also finished with the highest batting average of the Series going 9 for 20. At the conclusion, then, it was foregone that Sport Magazine would give him its most Valuable Player award. Among other Yankee stars Tuesday night, Mike Torrez was probably foremost The big right-hander allowed nine hits (one more than the Yankees got) but gave up only two earned runs. He got his second victory of the Series, having picked up the first with a seven-hitter in Game 3.

It was a cool but not unpleasant evening at Yankee Stadium and had four homers in his last four swings. When they added it all up, it turned out Jackson had: Set an individual record for most home runs in one Series (5), even though this Series went only six games. Become the first man ever to hit three homers in a Series game in consecutive at-bats. Set a record by scoring 10 runs in one Series, again even though this one didn't go the distance. Set a record for most total bases in one Series (25).

Tied a record with 12 total bases in one game. maybe two dozen places, leaving at lease several bare areas the size of shotput circles. For a few minutes there early in the game, it looked as if the New York celebration might have to be postponed'at least a day. The Dodgers seemed intent on coming from near dead (which is where they were after losing three of the first four games) to dead even. They got two unearned runs in the first inning.

Bucky Dent, a usually reliable shortstop, was their benefactor. With two out, he went to his right and stopped, then dropped, a sharp bouncer by Reggie Smith. Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 BY CHARLES MAHER Tlmts Stiff Writer NEW YORK-There's no today. It's been canceled on account of Reggie Jackson, who had a game few if any have matched in the 74-year history of the World Series.

But it's not all that bad for the Dodgers. While they lost another one to the Yankees Tuesday night, they can take comfort in the knowledge it doesn't even count in the regular-season standings. So they lost no ground to the Cincinnati Reds, who were idle. New York's 8-4 victory does count, however, in the World Series standings, which show the Yankees won 407 turned out When it was over, there was the customary display of idiocy. Hundreds, maybe thousands, jumped over the rails and raced onto the field.

Jackson, who put on a helmet in the ninth inning to protect himself from possible bombardment, took off like a sprinter after the last out. First, he tried to cut across center field, perhaps aiming for the third-base dugout, but a mob cut him off. So he reversed his field and, swinging to scare off fans who tried to grab him, finally threw himself into the Yankee dugout behind first base. Before the field was finally cleared, fans had ripped up patches of grass in 'Sh. JIM MURRAY Reggie Renames House Ruth Built lo Sngrlrfii Cimes BUSINESS FINANCE CC PART III WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19,1977 II a Oj NEW YORK-Excuse me while I wipe up the bloodstains and carry off the wounded.

The Dodgers forgot to circle the wagons. Listen! You don't go into the woods with a bear. You don't go into a fog with Jack the Ripper. You don't get in a car with Al Ca-pone. You don't get on a ship with Morgan the Pirate.

You don't go into shark waters with a nosebleed. You don't wander into Little Big Horn with General Custer. And you don't come into Yankee Stadium needing a win to stay alive in a World Series. Not unless you have a note pinned to you. telling them where to send the remains.

If any. They told us these weren't the real Yankees. I mean, not like the genuine article of years gone past, the Murderers' Row Yankees, the Bronx Bombers. These were just a bunch of pussycats dressed up in gorilla costumes. These were Yankees who had "take" signs in the playbook.

These were Yankees who talked of "beating you with the glove." These were "hit-and-run Yankees," not the old kind who just stood there and hit balls into the stratosphere and played "hit and walk" baseball. That's what they told us. That's what the scouting report said. They said these Yankees weren't even speaking to each other. You wondered why they dared show up.

Years ago, oldtimers remembered, on the 1927 Yankees the right fielder in World Series used lo stand there and hit back-to-back home runs out of the park. Why, he hit three in one game in World Series tvAce Well, the 1977 Yankees' right fielder has just hit home runs on his last four consecutive official at-bats. And he became only the second player in history to hit three home runs in a game. He became the first player in history to hit five home runs in a single Series. You have the feeling the Dodger pitchers are longing to see four of the first six games.

That means that Game 7, if necessary, isn't So the Yankees have won the Series for the first time in 15 years and the American League has won it five times in the last eight years. But about Jackson: He hit three home runs in consecutive at-bats, drove in five runs and scored four. But his home run string is even more improbable than that makes it appear. He homered his last time up in Game 5 and walked on four pitches his first time up Tuesday. In each of his next three at-bats, he homered on the first pitch.

So, at game's end, he Babe Ruth step in there. He might be a welcome relief. "If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me," boasted Reggie Jackson before the season started. They may name an entire chocolate factory after him now. Once again these were the Yanks who had your back to the wall when you were ahead only 2-0.

Once again they were head-hunters. If they were fighters they'd never go to the body. Once again, they're a bunch of guys who go for the railroad yards in bombing runs or shell Paris with railroad guns. These are the Yankees who let you store up runs like a squirrel putting nuts in his cheek. When you get them all neatly piled up, the Yankees come along and pile up more with two swings of a bat.

These Yanks are store-bought. They're not homemade like a proper ballclub should be, stitched at home with tender, loving care. George Steinbrenner just went out and ordered them like a new car. Expense was no object. It didn't matter.

With George, it was either a question of buying a ball club or buying Rhode Island. There's an old familiar smell in the Yankee locker room fermenting grapes. The wine of victory spreads across the floor, the water fall of success. Where Ruth or Gehrig once dribbled champagne across their chins, Reggie Jackson does now. The reporters are 10-deep around Jackson's locker in this the House That Ruth Built.

It is Jackson's Yankees now. "Mr. October." The most dangerous World Series hitter since Ruth used to call his shots. No one has ever seen more devastating homeruns than Reggie Jackson ripped out of Yankee Stadium Tuesday night Two were on so-so fastballs but the third was a knuckler down and away. "He hit a helluva pitch," Da Manager Tom Lasorda confessed later, still in some shock.

The pitchers' union is not Please Turn to Page 7, Col. 2 4 3. TAKING A BOW Reggie Jackson doffs his cap to acknowledge cheers from crowd upon return to outfield after hitting second homer Tuesday night. Jackson later hit third homer. AP Wirephoto Dodgers Explain Defeat With One Word Reggie By JOHN HALL Tlmti Stiff Writtr 'ROOM SERVICE' Inside Pitches Provide Feast for Jackson BY ROSS NEWHAN TlnratStiH Writer NEW YORK-Mike Torrez, the pivotal pitcher of a World Series that now belonged to his Yankees, stood under a champagne shower Tuesday night and said: "Now I believe him.

Now I know why he calls himself Mr. October." Mr. October, of course, is Reggie Jackson, who had just reawakened the ghosts of former Yankee immortals with three home runs and five RBI in the 8-4 victory that made it Possible for the best team money can uy to indeed be known as the best team money can buy. Jackson was bought for $2.9 million over five years and he made the biggest return yet on that investment against a Los Angeles team that refused to meet those terms last winter and which, according to Jackson, refused to change its pitching pattern against him. "You've got to pitch me in," he said, surrounded by reporters in a packed clubhouse, "but you can't just live there.

"The Dodgers tried to do it all Series and it was like ordering room service." Jackson grew fat on the inside offerings. Five home runs. Eight RBI. A 9 for 20 that earned him recognition as the Series MVP and the keys to a sports car that he said he would give to his 29-year-old sister Tina. "A great feeling, what a great feel-Please Turn to Page 7, Col.

1 Jabbar Scores KO Over Benson Laker Ace Ejected Early in 117-1 12 Loss BY TED GREEN Tlmts Stiff Writtr MILWAUKEE-The National Basketball Assn. season had barely gotten off the ground Tuesday night when Kent Benson, the Milwaukee Bucks' rookie center from Indiana and the first collegian drafted last June, was on the ground. Laker center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar put him there with one powerful punch. It happened, swiftly and unexpectedly, only two minutes into the first quarter of the Lakers' first game of 1977-78, a game they lost, 117-112, without the league's Most Valuable Player. Abdul-Jabbar was ejected.

Just minutes after he lost his cool, a composed Abdul-Jabbar said the punch which put Benson down for five minutes, blackened and cut his eye and sent him to the hospital with a mild concussion was retaliatory. Abdul-Jabbar said Benson, out of view of the referees, swung an elbow jnto his stomach and knocked the wind out of him. "It was a sneak attack," Abdul-Jabbar said. "I was standing there tryingjto get position and he elbowed me the gut. It was totally uncalled for.

I'm not out there to take a beating. And when someone deliberately tries to hurt you, when it's not inadvertent, that's something you can't take." And then Abdul-Jabbar walked the mile back to his hotel room, where he Please Ton to Page 10, CoL 1 DETENTE COMES TO THE BRONX: MARTIN STAYS BY ROSS NEWHAN Tlmtt Stiff Writtr NEW YORK-The Yankees held a press conference Tuesday to announce they are not going to fire manager Billy Martin. Denying it was a vote of confidence vote of confidence is a kiss of death and I'm not about to kiss club president Gabe Paul said that the final two years of Martin's contract will definitely be honored and in recognition of "the fine job he has done" Martin will receive "a substantial bonus." Part of that bonus is a Lincoln Continental. "Blue," Martin said, "to match my eyes." He also will receive cash estimated at between $20,000 and $50,000. "Billy has two years left on his Please Turn to Page 5, Col.

1 NEW YORK-Well. the Big Dodger In The Sky finally went out to lunch blown right out of his heavens by a Reggie Jackson attack like never ever. "What was it? I'll tell you what it was," said Lee Lacy, the Dodger utility ace, Tuesday night. "Reggie Jackson Reggie Jackson. Jackson." Who could say anything otherwise? The controversial Yankee right fielder broke all the fences and all the Dodger hearts with his three home runs off Burt Hooton, Elias Sosa and Charlie Hough in the 8-4 sixth game burial of the Dodgers in the 1977 World Series.

"I think he was able to release all his emotional tension of the entire season in this one game," Steve Gar- vey said. "It was just a tremendous performance." Although in a state of silent shock in the gloom room that is any losing clubhouse after a classic confrontation, all the Dodgers were quick to praise Reggie Reggie Reggie. "He's the MVP. you bet. and his most impressive move all night was the broken field run he made to get back to the dugout and escape those crazies at the end of the game," innocent bystander Don Sutton said.

Hough was trying to explain what he threw Jackson. He was sitting on a trunk in the clubhouse, looking more like a broken prize fighter than a butterfly artist and trying to cheer himself up when Lacy, who ended it all Please Turn to Page 8, Col. 1 V-r- I ft 'V i-r Kr is it AFTER THE MUTINY: RED MILLER The Broncos Are Riding High With Their New Coach BY BOB OATES, Times Staff Writer DENVER When the Denver Broncos offered Bob (Red) Miller a job last winter he turned them down. At that time he was a New England assistant coach who didn't want to make a lateral move to an assistant's job here. Two weeks later the Broncos solved their problem, and Miller's by offering him another job as head coach.

His acceptance was the beginning of a new era in Denver, an era that reached an unexpected landmark the other day when the Broncos upset the Oakland Raiders. It wasn't just an upset, it was a smashing. The seemingly invincible Raiders, whose 17-game winning streak had included a rout over Minnesota last January in Super Bowl XL were overwhelmed, 30-7, as Denver intercepted Kenny Stabler seven times. Was it a fluke? Nobody in the Raider organization thinks so. And nobody thinks so here.

The undefeated Broncos were winning their fifth straight game that day. and, although their schedule this year is one of the most difficult in the National Football League, they appeared to have the resources to contend indefinitely. These resources include a powerful, veteran defensive team which has had the same coordinator (Joe Collier) under Denver's last three head coaches; a new quarterback, 34-year-old Craig Morton, and a bright new leader, Miller, whose approach to his work blends everything that's solid and time-tested in football with a bit of gimmickry. The decisive play of the Oakland game was a fake field goal in which the gimmick was a forward pass to the placekicker. After pretending to kick the ball, Jim Turner sneaked out and caught a touchdown throw.

"That was the gas-blower," says Denver's defensive end Lyle Alzado. "It took all the gas out of Oakland." "Every week." says Miller, "we toss two or three special plays of that kind into the game plan. I've Please Tun to Page 12, CoL 1 THE PRICE OF STARDOM Reggie Jackson pays the price of being a superstar as he tries to get off the field after World Series Tuesday night. An unidentified fan is about to be sent head over heels. AP Wirtphoto.