The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 40

Lakers Win --It's a 7-Game Series PORT Forty WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1966 HAROLD KAESE seven-minute mark, 57 to 42. The Celtics could score only three floor goals in the first seven minutes. In that spurt the Lakers outscored the Celtics 16 to 6, with Rudy Larusso and Jerry West connecting on three points plays. The Celtics pecked away at the lead and with K. C.

Jones hitting a three-point play, they cut the lead to eight points, but little Gail Goodrich threw in a jumper from the left and the Lakers took a 10-point lead off the court at halftime, 68 to 58. Early in the third period the Celtics began nibbling at the Lakers lead and cut the deficit to five 'points. Sanders hit a set shot, Sam Jones scored from the corner and Sanders threw in two free throws to reduce the margin to six points. The Lakers, on baskets by Baylor, Goodrich and West put their lead back to nine points, but a stuff by Russell, a foul shot by Havlicek and a beautiful hoop by Sanders on a pass from Havlicek put the Celtics within four points of the Lakers. CELTICS Page 43 lessness on the part of the Celtics but for Los Angeles it was Goodrich.

This deadpan youngster seemed to be everywhere on the court and everywhere was the right place. Not only was the ball coming at him, but he knew what to do with it. He scored 28 points, driving the lane, throwing his left-handed jumper from the foul line and even twice getting fouled by Bill Russell on drives. Both these plays ended with Goodrich scoring and converting the foul shot. Jerry West had 32 points.

He was deadly again. The deadliest shooter for the Lakers was Rudy Larusso, the Dartmouth big man, with 20 points. His shooting was uncanny. In the fourth period two hoops by Goodrich gave the Lakers a 96 to 93 lead and they kept adding to it after that until they had reached that 107 to 96 bulge. In that spurt West had three baskets, Larusso two and the Lakers, with an 11-point lead and 6:21 to play were not going to be caught.

Outshooting the Celtics and harrassing them on defense the Lakers streaked away in the middle of the second period running up a 15-point margin at By FRANCIS ROSA LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Lakers behind the steady shooting of Jerry West and Rudy Larusso and the magnificent work of little Gail Goodrich, sent the N.B.A. championship series back to Boston for a seventh game. The Lakers defeated the Celtics 123 to 115 before, a stand-up and cheer crowd of 15,069 at the Sports Arena Tuesday night. The victory evened the series and the seventh game will be played at the Boston Garden Thursday night at 8:15. Tickets will go on sale this morning at the Garden's North Station ticket offices at 10.

The Celtics had rallied from an early 16-point deficit to take a one-point lead at the end of the third period. Then the Lakers broke the game open through the middle stages of the last period with West and Larusso setting the scoring pace to run up a 107 to 96 lead. That put the handwriting on the wall, for the Celtics could never get closer than nine points after that. The story of this game was another one of care Sox Passing Up Bet in MacLeod The Red Sox desperately need some left-handed pitching. They are like a plane trying to fly without any engines on the portside.

It was one reason why they crashed to a 7 to 6 defeat in Yankee Stadium that was enough to take the heart out of a Spartan. A It will be the reason why Sox Score 4 in Ninth; Yanks Get 3, Win, 7-6 the Red Sox will lose more games this season. Occasions when the situation screams for a left-handed pitcher to face a left-handed hitter occur repeatedly in close ball oamee Then wae a shrill It iS srrpam in tip ninth Inninff Tiipsfiav By will Mcdonough Staff Reporter NEW YORK Joe Pepitone, bedded with the flu the day before, came back Tuesday to cause trouble for the Red Sox. With two out and the score tied in the Pepitone singled home the winning run to give the Yankees a 7 to 6 victory over the Sox before 9457 in Yankee Stadium. MacLEOD Where are the Red Sox to get this left-handed pitching? Dennis Bennett, who is no longer on their roster, will have his arm operated on Friday.

Guido Grilli, the lone lefty on their staff, has flunked two of three relief assignments. He may have Yankee Stadium history. The ning on the mound by walk- ing Lu Clinton and giving up a single to Bobby Richardson before departing in favor of arive lanaea the upper deck in leftfield some 420 feet from the plate and 60 feet above the field. Conigliaro had a triple, double and single and should have been the standout. Ken Sanders.

Sanders could have gotten out of it with any kind of luck. In the top of the ninth with The Yanks at this point the Sox trailing, 4 to 3, Tony to have Roy White sac rifice bunt Clinton to third feiwm i iiir iiriirT wii nwrt Si came to the plate with bases loaded And two out. L. possibilities, but was passed by as the Yankees scored three runs in the ninth. Through trades? Reliable southpaws are scarce, valuable, hard to get.

What about the farm teams? Now, here is a nice irony. At Toronto, the Red Sox have a pitcher whose record must be the best in the country. He has won his last 21 games 18 last season for Pittsfield, three this season for Toronto. He pitched a four-hit shutout Monday night for his third victory. And he is left-handed.

His name: Billy MacLeod, formerly of Gloucester, now of Lakeland, Fla. MacLeod won 18 games last season, lost none, and was not even with the Red Sox in Florida was not even on their 40-man roster was not even protected from the draft last Winter. And get this although he was open to the draft, 19 other clubs confirmed the Red Sox judgment and refused to grab him. Why? Because they say, the Red Sox say, the scouts say he does not have enough stuff. What he lacks wiArfKr i'c a ennA foct hall wine with rnnninfl And 'give' is the proper term to describe the win that snapped a Yankee losing streak at seven, and a Sox win streak at one.

In the ninth, both sides tried to give it away with the Sox finally succeeding, thanks to some questionable infield defense. The Yankees scored three runs in their ninth to win it, after they had helped the Sox score four runs in the top of the ninth inning to take a 6 to 4 lead with three outs to go. But the third never came although it could have a couple of times. Twice, in the fatal ninth, Yankee base runners beat throws to first base that would have bailed the Sox out of trouble. High spots of the day for the Sox were delivered by George Scott and Tony Conig-liaro.

Scott, in the third, hit one of the longest home runs in and Richardson to second. This brought Roger Maris to the plate with one out. Maris hit the ball to the right of Dalton Jones, who played second base in the ninth because George Smith had been lifted for a pinch-hitter. Jones fielded the ball, but his off-balance throw to first wasn't in time to get Maris. So instead of two outs, the Yanks had only one.

Yet, the Sox had another chance at escaping. Roger Repoz, the next batter, hit a ground "ball to second which RED SOX Page 42 If he's snuffed out. the game is over and the Yanks are winners. However, on the first pitch from Yank reliever Horace "Dooly" Womack, Conig dumped a single into short right centerfield scoring two runs and putting the Sox in front. And Womack was just upset enough to unload wild pitch on his very next pitch, allowing another Boston run.

But the Boston bullpen and infield couldn't make the 64 lead hold up. Dan Osinski started the in- ville. Story, Page 45. (Paul Connell Photo) HEAVE-HO Ed Peterson flings discus 118 feet, 1 inch for Chelsea High in Greater Boston League meet at Somer- Underrated Wings Upset Canadiens, 5-2, to Take 2-0 Lead game to receive the accolate as the No. 1 star was the little netminder, Roger Crozier.

Adjectives tend to get tossed around liberally in these classics, but for Roger you'd have to dredge up something like "sensational," at the very least. He was beaten for the game's first goal by defense-man J. C. Tremblay on a power play but stood off the Montreal shooters until past the halfway mark of the third when diminutive Yvan Cournoyer banged in his own rebound. Roger made many outstanding saves as did rival Gump Worsley but the most vital ones were in the early minutes of the last period preceding the MacGregor goal that broke the tie existing since an early exchange of power play goals by Tremblay and Bathgate.

Even the edgy Montreal fans totaling more than 14,000 and apprehensive of a letdown, extended a great ovation when Crozier came far out to block off Claude Provost on a solo burst. The customers didn't ex pect the fellow would come up with an immediate encore. He did just that, though, picking off a quick, sniping try by Jean Beliveau on a 2-1 break with Provost. His colleagues didn't let Roger's larcenous contributions go to waste. In very short order, at 1:55, MacGregor drilled one from well out on the left side into the far corner, after Worsley made a good stop on Paul Henderson.

In less than a minute, McDonald bounced an attempted pass to the front off the stick of defenseman Tremblay after Worsley had come out of the cage to stop Bill Gadsby. Little Cournoyer provided an opportunity for some cheering at the 12-minute mark but this was shushed by the subsequent goals by Smith and Prentice. CRACKED ICE Bryan Watson, the troublesome young forward who played defense for the Canadiens a year ago, provoked a few angry moments as Detroit STANLEY CUP Page 46 By TOM FITZGERALD SUK Reporter MONTREAL The Hockey zealots of this town filed sadly out of the Forum Tuesday nifiht, haunted by the nagging suspicion that they may have been saying a seasonal "au revoir" to their championship hockey team. The dread possibility was established when the upstart Detroit Red Wings, fourth place finishers in the regular season, broke out for four goals in the final period to dump the first place Cana-diens, 5-2, in the second gams of their final Stanley Cup series. curves, change of pace and a deceptive motion.

MacLeod is not a bit more impressive than Stu Miller of Baltimore. Nobody would be dumb enough to bring Stu Miller up from the minors, even though he is now one of the best relief pitchers in the majors. Miller? He doesn't have enough stuff. MacLeod? He hasn't got a thing. He has won 21 in a row, but what else has he done? Once a winner when he was an underhanded lefty, MacLeod no longer looks as though he escaped from a circus sideshow.

He throws now with a more orthodox three-quarters delivery and still gets the hitters out. If he can win another 21 in a row, maybe the Red Sox will see if the scouts are wrong if he can win in Fenway Park if he can come in and keep a Ken Sanders from facing five left-handed Yankee batters in succession with a ball game dribbling away. As for Dennis Bennett, forget about him for this season. Arnold Bennett, the novelist, will do the Sox more good. Bennett will be operated on for a calcium deposit In his left shoulder girdle Friday at Sancta Maria Hospital.

"X-rays show that the calcium deposit he had last season has increased in size," said Dr. Thomas M. Tierney, Red Sox team surgeon. "Cortisonne was tried, but didn't help." Given a sound arm, Bennett last season looked as though he could help the Red Sox. But he does not have the sound arm.

Billy MacLeod does. The likelihood of the relatively undistinguished De-troiters coming in here and grabbing two straight from the haughty Habs on their own home pond was something no expert of comparatively sound mind ever would have contemplated. Now, the series goes back to Detroit for games Thursdays and next Sunday (on TV), and the odds which so heavily favored Montreal, will have to' be adjusted or perhaps reversed. Detroit won this not especially thrilling game because it had the essential ingredients of a hard working and balanced lineup to go with its superb goaltender. The Wings' scoring was dtsirbuted among Andy Bathgate, Bruce MacGregor, Ab McDonald.

Floyd Smith and Dean Prentice. But the man who made the triumphal skate across the ice for the second successive Veranis Found Self Too Late Suffolk Mutuels 1267 Races $122.60 1-3357 Races $143.00 7 Races $219.20 Three Races $86.80 Five Races $167.40 Seven Races $219.20 BUD COLLINS ft" i i 1 Old Thompson Is wed in the-wood. It's the only whiskey we know of that goes back into barrels after blendinp, to smooth out the taste. It ukes extra time, but it's worth it. Added smoothness is what makes Old Thompson the Quiet Blend.

And we've added smoothness without adding to its soft spoken price. I j1 1 .1 (,,. Tf A -T i. r': 1 Ttt r. is I 3 Old Thompson passed out and woke up on the seventh floor of City Hospital.

But he did wake up. "We thought we lost him then, it was eight years ago," his mother said. "But he was strong. Now he's gone and I'll be gone soon. This'll kill me." Last September Veranis was back in Room three on the seventh floor at City, visiting another fighter, Willie Pineapple Stevenson, who didn't wake up from his brain injury.

"I looked at Pineapple lying there and I saw me;" Tony said. "For the first time I really appreciate what I was like. I appreciate what it is to walk out of City Hospital today." We were having coffee in a South Boston delicatessen after visiting Pineapple. I hadn't seen Veranis since he'd come out of his own coma in June of 1958. "I didn't appreciate how lucky I was when I was 19.

I thought," Tony said, "my life was over when I couldn't fight any more. I was filled with self pity, I started drinking and I got in trouble again." Father John Fitzgerald of St. Jude's in Norfolk remembers Tony as an altar boy at prison masses. "He wanted to get straightened out, and I think he did," the priest said. "He was a wonderful boy who'd run with a bad crowd.

He frequently stopped in to see me and Father Peter Hart after he got out, and everything seemed to be all right. He took me to the fights, and he was with respectable fellows." Veranis got a construction job and he was bringing home money. His father can't work. COLLINS rue 43 "They called me at work, but they didn't know how to tell me. There was trouble at home they said.

I thought it was him," Theresa Veranis said, pointing at her husband. "He has a bad heart. But it was Junior She began to cry again, a short woman with gray hair pulled back, her eyes puffed from crying. "I don't know why this would happen. He was doing so good Her son Tony Veranis, who used to be a prize-fichter, was beaten, then shot to death.

His body was dumped in the Blue Hills off Route 28, and found Tuesday morning. "It was a real professional job," said Dr. Frederic Tudor, the medical examiner, Theresa Veranis had cried often for Tony, who would have been 23 in June. He had been in trouble, but he had made comebacks, as they say in boxing. Three of them.

It looked as though he would be all right. "Boxing got me out of trouble it does that for a lot of kids," Tony said a few months ago. Clem Crowley, who manages fighters, saw Tony in bouts at Lyman correctional school and put him in the amateurs when he was released. In 1957 he turned pro at 18, a game, good looking welterweight, and he was unbeaten in 26 matches. He was quiet, polite and anxious to do well.

Once he fought a guy named Gunboat Steevcs in Holyoke. He should have knocked Stecves out, but didn't. Somebody asked him why. "Gee," Tony said, "Gunboat gave me a ride up here I wouldn't want to hurt him. The decision was good enough." "When I boxed Joe Devlin St.

Patty's night in '58." Veranis later recalled. "I got hit so many punches I thought I wes fighting the crowd." Tony had he iJ-aches before that f.ght, and they became worse, lit is the Quiet Blend I Nutrtl Sr.t CAner 6 M. iwv4ll. Kr. vi i I ii i J- 1 T-i-i i iir a in 1.