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MlA Credits NoIlit(cr to Studying Pictures Form Sandy Warns League Back in By RALPH BERNSTEIN Associated Pros! peril Writer ruiLADELPIIIA Sandy Koufax revealed Thursday night his nohitter against the Philadelphia Phillies was the result of a careful study of his pitching form that disclosed he has been making a mistake in his delivery Surrounded in the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse after his 3-0 triumph Koufax said: hate been study pictures in niagaines of my form and suddenly realized that I had been stepping to far to the left with the right foot across my body in the first few innings I concentrated on making an adjustment stepping more to the right It felt fine I had the old pitching rhythm back a matter of fact by the fifth inning I forgot all about it Everything was natural again I was throwing the wav I wanted to" Koufax his handsome unshaven fare a study in satisfaction said his job against the league-leading Fhillies was the best of his three no-hitters Speaking with the smooth confidence of a politician he recalled that in his 1962 no-hitter against the New York Mcts he walked five and last year when he blanked the San Francisco Giants he passed two and had more trouble with his control time I had my control" he said felt I had better stuff here than I did in the other two Thank good- ness it was the first time this season been able to put everything He said the fourth ball to Third Baseman Richie Allen In the fourth inning the only Philadelphia player to reach base was a low fast ball a funny he related Camilli catcher) called for a curve ball I shook him off for the fast ball Then while I was winding up I thought to myself right a curve ball would be better' But I think fast enough and instead of stepping off the rubber I went through with the fast ball and it was low no doubt of Someone asked why he change the pitch and Koufax replied: do that like stopping on the back sw ing in golf You just The 28-year-old Koufax confessed that he got just as big a thrill out of his third no-hitter as he did his first He said he knew all the way that the Phillies were hitless I know going on out he exclaimed have Although nobody said anything either on the Dodger or Philadelphia benches Koufax said he superstitious and believe in the tale that mentioning a nohitter is a jinx I pitched the one against the Mets Solly He-mus a coach reminded me of it every Koufax said Koufax has been having his difficulties In 1961 But he feels that from here on out be as as ever" Koufax and the other Dodgers agreed that the only real chance the Phillies had for a hit was in the seventh when Allen chopped one toward third and Junior Gilliam charged in grabbed it off the grass and rifled the runner out by a step Camilli and Koufax agreed that the 200-pound southpaw threw nothing but fast balls and curves all night and that Koufax shook off his signs no more than usual about a dozen times Camilli said pitchers like Koufax and Don Drysdale usually caE their owm game say Sandy did right he commented WTyly Koufax Pitches Third No-Hitter A i I I I I 1 Fri June 5 1964 Sec five-game winning streak and similarly a five-game winning streak Short held over the Dodgers The last loss to Los Angeles was on July 4 1962 and the winner on that day was Koufax Short pitched a sound game until the Dodgers explosion in the seventh He had a three-hit shutout going when Gilliam and Davis singled and Howard homered Ken McMullen followed with a single but was out trying to stretch it into a double Doug Camilli flied out and then Dick Tra-ceski doubled Fd Roebuck relieved Short and got Koufax to end the inning Ray Culp finished the game Koufax won the Cy Young Award last year as the best pitcher In the majors posting 25-5 record with 188 earned run average It was the first time in his career he had won 20 games The fireballer who began his major league career with the old Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955 now has 99 career victories The no-hitter was the second in the Natinal League this year Ken Johnson of Houston pitched the first one on April 23 losing to Cincinnati 1-0 Feller Expected It CLEVELAND AP) Bob Feller the former fireballer for the Cleveland Indians surprised Thursday night when he was told that Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers had tied his record of pitching three no-hitters the way this said Feller he may get three more of them before which Koufax failed to register a strikeout He cut down two in the first one in the second two in the third one In the fifth two in the sixth two in the eighth and two in the ninth The loss snapped a Callison flied out to right in the fourth Gus Triandos to center in tha fifth Cookie Rojas to left in the seventh and Danny Caer to right in the eighth The fourth and the seventh innings were the only ones in By Herald Wire Service! PHILADELPHIA Sandy Koufax fireball fast and razor sharp with his curve ball pitched the third no-hitter of his career Thursday night hurling the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 3-0 victory over the league-leading Philade'phia Phillies The World Series hero also equalled the major league record of 10 or more strikeouts per game when he fanned 12 The career record of 10 or more strikeouts per game is 54 shared jointly with Rube Waddell of the old Philadelphia Athletics and Bob Feller of the more recent vintage Cleveland Indians His three no-hltters puts him on the same pedestal as Lawrence Corcoran of the Chicago National League club In 1880 1882 and 1881 Denton (Cy) Young of the Boston National and American League teams in 1897 1904 and 1908 and Feller in 1940 1946 and 1951 The sterling southpaw owed his winning runs to big Frank Howard who broke a Dodger string of 19 scoreless innings when he hit a three-run homer off lefty Chris Short in the seventh 14th homer of the season a prodigious blast high on 'the left center roof came on the first pitch after Jim Gilliam and Tommy Davis opened the seventh with singles But beyond Howard the show was all Koufax in his double record tying performance He faced only 27 batters and missed a possible perfect game by a single pitch when he walked rookie Richie Allen on a 8-2 pitch with two out in the fourth Koufax pitched his first no-hitter against the 1962 and his second against the San Franlsco Gauits on May 11 1963 Richie Allen the only Phil-lie to reach base was cut down stealing and then Koufax continued his three up three down performance until he ended the game striking out pinch-batter Bobby Wine The Phillies hit only four balls to the outfield Johnny LOS ANGELES PHILADELPHIA rtfhbl bl Dsvis cf 4 0 0 0 Rotas cf 3 0 0 0 Wills ss 4 0 10 Calii5on rf 3 00 0 Gilliam 3b 4 110 Allen 3b 2 0 0 0 Davis If 4 12 0 Cater If 3 0 0 0 Howard rf 3 113 Triando! 3 0 0 0 Fairly 1b 1 0 0 0 Stevers lb 3 0 0 0 McM'len lb 3 0 10 Taylor 2b 3 0 0 0 Parker rf 10 10 Amaro ss 3 0 0 0 Camilli 4 0 0 0 Short 2 0 0 0 Trace'skl 2b 3 0 10 Roebuck 0 0 0 0 Koufax 3 0 10 Culp 0 0 0 0 aWme 10 0 0 Totals 14 Totals 24 0 0 0 a Struck out for Culp tn 9th Press Wireototo li Koufax Henris Eajserlv to Tak of Pitching His 3rd No-Hitter View From Top: The Yanks Can Be Had I BOB FELLER 1940: Cleveland 1 Chicago 0 1940: Cleveland 1 New York 0 1351: Cleveland 2 Detroit 1 CY YOUNG 1897: Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 0 1304: Boston 3 Philadelphia 1383: Boston 8 New Tart 0 SANDY KOUFAX 1302: Los Angeles 5 New York 3 1303: los Angeles 8 San Francisco 0 1304: Las Angeles 3 Philadelphia 0 By Edwin Pope Assistant Sports Editor Miami-Dade Breezes To JC Crown 19-5 Spseibl to ths herald GRAND JUNCTION Colo Falcons romped through six pitchers for 20 hits Thursday night and ripped host Mesa College 19-5 to win the National Junior College baseball championship It was a tight game until the fifth inning when Dade leading 4-2 exploded for eight runs Home runs by Dave McCammon and relief pitcher Oscar Zam- mora who came on in the sixth inning for Gerry Greenside gave Dade five more runs in the eighth inning McCammon and Dave Mag-nole who set a tournament hitting record were named to the all-tournament outfield and McCammon was named by scouts as the player most likely to succeed in professional baseball The victory removed all the I Serrfitea? HP -S The reason nobody in Baltimore is ordering up early ba'ches of World Series tickets is that a year ago the Orioles looked just this good Then pow right in the kiser It was just about this time in 1963 that the Orioles started the fastest slide since To The Center Of The They were 1S'2 games behind when they hit bottom and it took a team of archeologists all winter to dig them out in recognizable form There is however one radical difference Even on top of the American League until June 8 1963 most of the Orioles were casting i horrified glances over their should ers They heard as do ve all the thundering hooves of the New York Yankees It was almost as if the Orioles knew thpy did not belong up there and they were merely waiting for the old Baltimore ox to fall in the ditch as usual But now the hooe of the old Yankee thoroughbreds are strangely muted They sound more like the placid clip-pety-ciop of mules The Orioles are not counting any Series checks but they definitely are not running seared think a lot of us began to feel this spring in Miami that the Yankees could be Milt Pappas was saying Thursday over the telephone from Kansas City just look like the old bombers I know everybody in the spring goes around dreaming the Yanks have had it But this year we reaEy thought it was the time And we feel it even more right now I had to put my finger on one team most dangerous to us I think I'd have to name The Importance of Xornt Siebern MOST FANTASTIC STATISTIC of the Orioles is their 15 victories in 16 one-run games which Pappas underlines the one statistic you need more than aU the others put together" But others are almost as awesome "The kid pitcher Wally Bunker 6-0 now is jiM too much He picked us up when we needed it most when I throw right and Steve Barber was hurt too "All the guys just keep putting in that big play when we have to have it Hank Bauer ued Jerry Adair as lead-off man whn Jackie Brandt was hurt and now Adair is coming up ith two-three hits a game Powell got off slow but hitting those tape-measure shots again how about that Norm Siebern? I'm not knocking Jim Gentile because he is a great friend and a great ballplayer But getting Siebern for Gentile has turned out sting from Dade's only tournament defeat an 11-3 setback by the same Mesa team Wednesday night Greenside added his second tournament victory but was shaky and gave way when to Zamora after Mesa got to him for three runs in the fifth inning Zamora held Mesa hitless the rest of the way Magnole added three hits in six trips Thursday and wound up 14-for-23 for a 609 tournament batting average His 14 hits topped the previous record 12 set by Frank Coward of Wilmington NC in 1962 20 hits against Mesa tied the tournament record for most hits in one game set in 1962 by Trinidad Colorado Miami-Dade built its big inning on seven hits and two Mesa errors The losers made nine errors in all The Falcons were guilty of two errors The Falcons scored 56 runs against five opponents en-route to the championship beating New York Community 16-2 Phoenix 10-0 and Mesa twice 9-1 and 19-3 and losing to Mesa 11-3 Mlml-Deds 301 00 050-19 20 Mesa 000 2 JO 5 7 9 Greenside Zamora 6) and Yarnelt Berry (9) Kelly Schreiner (k) Lersr (5i Genbereeu (5) Moyer (7) Wnty LSI and Chick Florida State National League American League Sportt Editor Jimmy Burn is on vacation Ilis popular Spotlighting Sports column will be resumed upon his return great He's playing well defensively and really meeting the bad You know Kansas City has w-aiked him 15 times in six games and he hit into a ground double play the entire In this respect Pappas resembles a professional golfer who can detail not only every putt of his own career but those of most opponents as welL It Is often said that Pappas was not born but came out of a computing machine and he can calculate his own earned-run average to the most minute decimal point at any stage of any game your ERA right he was asked of 12 :35 pm he laughed 273 If we rained out tonight I'll be pitching and you can check me again after the first inning and I'll give you the up-to-date A Bandbox Full of Bombers FROM their current Kansas City sojourn the Orioles move tonight into the hostile crib of the Minnesota Twins a bandbox especially with those bombers of Pappas said with an aU but audible shudder More in character he added good pitching always offsets good The Orioles have a nice little prize awaiting them after the Minnesota series On Monday they will be permitted to fly to Aberdeen SD for an exhibition game ith an Oriole farm club grief like a barnstorming said Tap-pas too far from Minneapolis but it's a heck of a long way back to Chicago from there And that's where the shooting In parting Milton IBM Pappas mentioned that last June the Orioles lost 22 of 30 games a funny game and foolish to try to make he said going to try to reverse that figure this June Everybody else may be waiting for us to start falling all over ourselves but they don't know' the kind of morale we've got This is a ball-club to be taken RESULTS St Petersburg 1 Sarasota 0 Lakeland 12 Tampa 5 Fort Lauderdale 2 Miami 0 Daytona Beach 5 Orlando 4 GAMES rained out Only games scheduled TODAY'S GAMES Navy York (Terry 1-4) at Los (Belinsky 2-3) 10 Boston (Wilson 3 2) at Kansas City 'O'- St Louis (Hobble 0-3) at Cincinnati (Tsi-Donoghue 2-2) Ipiti touris 1-3) I 05 Baltimore (Barber 1-2) at Minnesota Los Angeles (Moeller 3-3) at New York (S'snge 1-5) I (Cisco 2 5) 7 Detroit (Lolich 4-4) at Chicago (Plzarro 5-Chicago (Slaubhter 1-01 at 21 I pm (Fischer 5 2) I pm Washington (Narum 4-3) at Cleveland Houston (Nottebart 0-7) at Pittsburgh (Ramos 2 3) 7 (Friend 4-5) 7 15 Milwaukee Lakeland at Sarasota St Petersburg at Tampa Fort Lauderdale rt Daytona I Beach Mlatn Ortand0 Busy Brown CLEVELAND (UPIl Jim Brown of the Cle eland Browns is the only player in National Foo'bnll League history to gain more than 2C3 yards in a single game morp than once Brown tifo dune it four dimes i Ptag Races Satuidav mte Masters Field 6 to 10 Adv i TS- 4 i 4 8.