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Yanks Ruled 7-5 Favorites To Win 1958 World Series Yankee Pilot Sees WORLD SERIES UMPIRES Umpires for the 1958 World Series relax in stands at Milwaukee County Stadium before the opening game. Left to Jackowski, Frank Umont, John Flaherty, Tom Gorman, Charley Berry and Al CHILLY WEATHER 1911 Series Lasted Oct.14ToOct.26 By JACK HAND (Associated Writer) MILWAUKEE (AP) Come cold, rain or high water, the 1958 World Series will have a tough time topping the 1911 marathon that ran from Oct. 14 to Oct. 26. The current series between the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees may have to struggle with chilly winds, topcoats and long underwear but the boys should be out of the trenches in time to enjoy the last half of the football season.

Back in 1911, the Philadelphia Athletics and the New York Giants played the longest series ever. For a while one week they played pinochle in a Philadelphia hotel lobby watching the rain down the front windows. After the third game it rained exactly a week before they could resume. The boys finally crawled home rn time for the rabbit season. ii it it The postponement that had the most serious effect on a series result came in 1951.

The Yankees and Giants were engaged in one COP Halfback May Rewrife Grid Records NEW YORK (AP)- If Richard Lee Bass, College of shifty halfback, keeps on running the way he has in his first two games, have to re-write college football records. The first release of the season from the NCAA Service Bureau for major colleges shows Bass in two games has carried the ball 427 yards in 41 rushes. No player ever opened the season at such a clip, the NCAA observed. In his opening game Bass romped for 215 yards as COP defeated California 24-20, and last Saturday he rushed 212 yards as his team downed Arizona State S4-16. Bass has completed his one pass attempt for 52 yards, but his ground gains put him at the top of the total offense list with 479 yards.

Gail Cogdill, Washington State end, caught seven passes against Northwestern Saturday for an all, time single game record of 252 yards. The former two-game record for rushing was 399 by I Johnny Papit in 1949. For pass receiving, the former mark was 306: yards by Joe Mc Claran of Drake in 1952. The leader in pass receiving; based on the number caught is Calvin Bird of Kentucky, with 13. Reece Whitley, Virginia co-captain, is leading in passing with 25 completions in 52 tosses for 343 yards.

The Virginia quarterback; also has rushed 80 yards and is second in total offense with 423 yards Bird also is the leading scorer 4th 32 points, and Cogdill is second with 26. Charles Milstead of Texas A. AM. leads the kickers with an av-: erage of 53.8 yards for five punts. of those old fashioned neighborhood duels.

After three games, the Giants led 2-1. More important, the Yankees already had used Albe Reynolds, Eddie Lopat and Vie Raschi. Casey Stengel was caught Ted Won't Talk About Next Year; Heads For Maine WASHINGTON (AP) -Ted Williams, who draws $125,000 a year for swinging a bat as few have never done, say whether be back next year for another try. wish I the Boston slugger said Sunday after capturing his sixth American League batting championship with a .328 average. not going to worry about that now.

going He took off immediately for Maine, stopping just long enough iii Boston to pick up equipment. The 40-year-old Williams said he was to have won another crown, his second straight. But his blazing finish was in the tradition of confident heroes. Hitting under .300 in June, he had edged up on the leaders and finally crept ahead of teammate Pete Runnels in the first game of a doubleheader last Friday night. Runnels, an ex-Senator, tied it in tne second game but could not stand up to pace Saturday and Sunday.

Going into the last game of the season, Williams was hitting .327 and Runnels .324 When it was over, Williams was still the champ with .328 and Runnels, hitless for the afternoon, was second with .322. I short with nobody for the fourth. Because Leo Durocher had gambled and won on Dave, Koslo rn the opener, the Giants had Sal Magbe ready for No. 4. It poured that Sunday morning and continued during the noon.

Commissioner Ford Frick viewed the field and finally had to call it off. ii it it Monday turned out to be a good day and they resumed. lie still was ready, perhaps over- ready, for he was bumped 6-2. Stengel now had Reynolds set with three days of rest. Albe won, and the Yanks took the next two for a 4-2 series victory.

Weather MILWAUKEE (AP) The thermometer should reach an 52 degrees by 2 p.m. (EST) today, the start of (gibe 1958 World Series between the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees. The weatherman said skies would be partly cloudy but no rain was in sight. He recommended perhaps a keep warm. Musial To Return To ST.

LOUIS Hemus, new manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. has announced going to put Stan Musial back rn the outfield. Hemus plans to put Joe Cunningham in the first sack spot. Musial took the move in strike.

get excited about such he said. WORLD SERIES Facts Figures (By The Associated Pressi -Milwaukee Braves (National Teague champions! vs. New York Yankees (American League Length of four of seven games. Schedule Today, Oft at Milwaukee: Thursday, Oct. 2.

at Milwaukee Friday, Oct. 3. open dav for travel: Saturday, Oct 4. at New York; Sunday, Ort. 5, at New York; Monday.

Oct. 6. at New York (if Tuesday Oct 7. open dav for travel: Wednesday, Oc- 8 at Milwaukee iif necessary Oct. 9 at Milwaukee (lf Tipie p.m.

at Milwaukee. Noon iEST New York except Sunday game at New York, I pm. (EST! Series 7 to 5. Opening game odds Even Opening day Warren Spahn 122 11 for Milwaukee and Whitey Ford for New York. Both lefthanders.

Probable opening day 47.300 Radio and television National Broadcasting Company. series standings American League 34. National League 20 last results Milwaukee (NL) 4 fames New York (AL! 3 Never Called Casey 'A Clown' Says Lefty Spahn MILWAUKEE (AP) Warren Spahn, starting Milwaukee pitcher in opening game of the World Series, insists he never used the term to describe Casey Stengel, manager of the New York Yankees. Spahn, in an interview Monday, said Stengel once observed that he never would be a good pitcher. Stengel managed Spahn when they were with the Boston Braves in 1942.

Asked to describe as manager with the Braves 16 years I ago, Spahn was quoted as saying: was nothing but a Disturbed by the published quotation Tuesday, Warren said, was misunderstood. What I actually said was that Casey, in those days, was alway clowning He located Stengel and apolo- I gi2ed personally. Stengel readily accepted the apology and told Spahn he re- I garded him as one of the finest gentlemen in baseball as well as one of the finest pitchers. Celtics' Candidate Lost For 3 Weeks BOSTON (AP) Dom Flora, one of five rookies battling for jobs with the Boston Celtics of I the National Basketball to- day appeared lost for three weeks because of a chipped bone in his right ankle. Flora, a 6-2 backcourt candidate from Washington and Lee, was rn- jured in rugged practice drills.

I In Opener Is Repeat By JOE REICHLER (AP Writer) MILWAUKEE (AP) Two of greatest Milwaukee's Warren Spahn and New York's Whitey Ford were expected to make the opener of the 1958 World Series a sizzling duel today. Despite the fact that the Series was opening in Milwaukee and Ford had not won a single of his five Series triumphs away from Yankee Stadium, the Yankees ruled 5ty-5 to win the first game and 7-5 to capture the Series. Precedent was against the Braves. No National League has been able to win two October classics in succession since the New York Giants whipped Miller Yankees in 1921 and 1922. Since then the Yankees have won 17 world championships in 21 I tries.

They bowed to the Braves, however, in the last one, in seven games. Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, still smarting from that loss, I blamed it on some bum advice he I had recieved from National League friends. He vowed this time to follow his own judgment. fellers sure gave me a bum he said Tuesday right. told me (Eddie) Mathews field and that he was just a fair runner.

They I said (Lew) Burdette couldn't beat I us. Well, you know what Lew did I against us last year and he won I 20 games this Earlier he had hinted strongly that Elston Howard would be in right field in place of Hank Bauer, who had a sore left wrist. Stengel then watched Bauer slam several line drives in batting practice and remarked, up to it it it Another factor in I change of mind could have been World Series record. He has hit safely in his last 14 Series games. Inserting Howard in left field and benching rookie Norm Siebem was a surprise.

Siebern has been one of the most consistent of Yankee hitters, finishing with a .300 average. Howard, of course, bats right- handed and Siebern left-handed. The Spahn-Ford duel was a rematch of last year's opener, won by the 29-year-old Yankee 3-1. he two meet again, although Spahn won his next start and Ford lost his, a 1-0 heartbreaker to Burdette. Stengel was doubly anxious to win this Series because another triumph would give him seven, tying him with Joe McCarthy, another Yankee with seven victories, a record.

Haney, however, was out to become the first National League manager to beat Stengel twice. it it it Haney, ordinarily a man who says little, has even less to say about the Series. think win, naturally, hut it going to be a tough strug- fcle all the way. I think as evenly matched as teams can be. Why, we even finished with the same won and lost record.

I look for breaks to decide it. Naturally, I hope the breaks fall our NEW YORK Hank Bauer, rf 268 GU McDougald. 2b 250 Mickey Mantle, cf .364 Elston Howard lf .314 Yogi 266 Andy Carey 3b .286 Tonv Kubek. .265 Whitey Ford, (14-7) Mil.WALKER Felix Mantilla, cf .221 Red Schoendienst 2b 351 Edd.e Mathews. 3b 251 Hank Aaron, rf 326 Joe Adcock, lb .275 Covington, lf .330 Dei Crandall, .272 Johnny Logan, ss .227 Warren Spahn.

'22-11) Umpires Baritrk (National) plate. Charlie Berry (American', first base, Tom Gorman 'National', aecond base; John Flaherty (American), third base: Bill Jackowski (National), right field foul line and Frank Umont (American', left field foul line. Pitchers' Series Wirephoto WHITEY FORD AND ARREN SPAHN Starting World Scries Pitchers for Yankees and Braves Npnftts ta Craw Srthunr 17 World Series Tilt Different-Gomez By ED WILKS (AP Sports Writer I MILWAUKEE (AP) Manager Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees figures the 1958 World Sones which opens here today will I be a series. Spahn wins 2ft games for nine years," said Casey, going to tell me how to beat him? Who knows how? man wins 2ft for nine years has to be a great pitcher and one who knows how to pitch to right- I handers and left-handers. So what good is it if you put in all right handed batters against him or it it ii Warren Spahn.

the ace who won 22 this season, matching Bob Friend for the National League high, was the Milwaukee starter today. Whitey Ford (14-7) was choice, making it an all southpaw opener. I a Burdette will start for the Braves in the second game. Stengel said. makes everybody but the manager wrong because he wins 20 games over in that league this year, and only lost three since the All Star Game.

lotta people tell you Burdette really a great pitcher Aquinas, Logan In 25th Football CASEY STENGEL and the way to beat him is put any left-handers against him. But his manager pitches him three times in the last Series, and who is it who beats us? Burdette. Beats us three times and we get beat. 'fir it it thase people tell me how Burdette can be beat, but I notice been able to do it yet over in that Stengel then touched on his Yankees, won the pennant because early in the season we get some rain and you think that might hurt us, but it helps us because I can pitch my two best, Ford and Turley, in almost ail of those early games. while at it, Turley is my pitcher tomorrow rn the ond game.

He won 21 for us and he was Bob Turley, a right-hander, was the only consistent pitcher the Yankees had, and he went into a la'e slump. Whitey Ford began strong but of late has been hampered by a sore elbow. it was the hitters, one or two men in slumps, or whether it was those pitchers with the arm trouble I don said Stengel, I was a little worried waiting to win the pennant. my pitchers (Ford, Turley and Don Larsen) are all right now and in pretty good condition, and now we have Ford against Spahn. intelligent men over in (he National League, all those I bright men over there, well they I haven't figured out how to beat Spahn yet either.

the won 20 games '(or nine DON'T WORRY Covington Set Duel Saturday Plsy Series By TED SMITS (AP Sports Writer) MILWAUKEE (AP) A World Series game is different. The strategy may be the same, the baseball may look like that played during the regular season, but the tension is on a different level altogether. The authority for this opinion is Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, one of baseball's greatest pitchers. He is the only man to have won six World Series games without any losses. it TV Series me the greatest thrill I ever got out of he said.

was just as nervous in my last game as I was in my Pitching for New York Yankees Sept. 29, 1932, he beat the Chicago Cubs 5-2 with Lon Warnecke on the mound. Gomez wound up his major league career with the Braves, then in Boston. Now a salesman for a sporting goods company, he is trim but looks more like a professor than an ex-big leaguer. it it it feel the Series gets you in a 1 different frame of mind than a Ron Steiner Returns To Badger Lineup MADISON (AP)-The University of Wisconsin football team concentrated on polishing its offensive tactics Tuesday in a rugged afternoon practice session.

Coach Milt Bruhn devoted part cf the time to Marquette Univer-j offensive and defensive patterns in preparation for Saturday's contest. Ron Steiner, out with a jammed toe Monday, was running at left halfback with only a trace of a limp. George Chryst, the only other injured man on the Badger team with a sore knee, is expected to be ready for action by Saturday when Marquette plays here. regular season he said. "I don't suppose you are any more careful in the Series than you are in a regular season game, but you don't have the whole season to make up a mistake just, seven Rames at the most.

You have to be extra careful because it I short. breaks any more a factor in the Series than normally. may act as if it is just another ball game, but a Series game just that. a most important one. Not only financially for everyone concerned, but in the matter of London Defeats Pastrano On 5th Round TKO LONDON (AP) things are happening to American heavyweight contenders on this side of the Atlantic.

Europe's big boys no longer hasten to horizontal positions at the sight of an American left hook. Willie Pastrano is the latest Yank to trip on his rating. The third-ranked contender from Miami Beach, lost on a fifth round technical knockout, because of a cut over his left eye, to British heavyweight champion Brian London Tuesday night. Only last Sept. 14, Biddie Marion, unbeaten and the No.

2 contender from Redding, was flattened in the first round by European champion lngemar Johansson of Sweden. Next to visit London will be Zora Folley, Uncle Sam's No. I contender from Chandler, Ariz. He fights Henry Cooper on Oct. 14.

La Crosse Aquinas and Logan meet, for the 25th time in the intra-city series Saturday at Memorial Field. time is p.m. Coach John Blu- golds won in 1956 by 25-0 and last year by 12-7. The R-angers defeated Aquinas in 1955, 13-0. Logan holds a 15-8 bulge in the series with the 1948 tect ending in a 13-13 deadlock.

Aquinas has won five and Logan four during past IO seasons. Logan won the first five games of the series. A Ranger win Saturday night would give the North Side high school twice as many victories as the Blu- total. Covington 1934 193519,16 19381940- 19411942- 19431944 19451946 19471948 19491950- 19511952- 19531954 19551956 1057- TOT AL: ana Logan 25, Aquinas 6 Logan 34. Aquinas 14 Logan 6 Aquinas 0 Logan 26, Aquinas 0 Logan 19.

Aquinas 18 Aquinas 14, Logan 13 Logan 8 Aquinas 6 Logan 16 Aquinas 7 Aquinas 13, Logan 12 Logan 8, Aquinas 0 Logan 13, Aquinas 7 Logan 15. Aquinas 7 20. Logan 6 Logan 20. Aquinas Logan 13, Aquinas 13 Aquinas 27, Logan 7 Aquinas 20 Logan 0 Logan 27, Aquinas 12 Logan 20, Aquinas 14 Logan 14 Aquinas 7 Aquinas 26. Logan 7 Logan 13, Aquinas 0 Aquinas 25.

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(AP) Butch Woods, Springfield High School back, leaped high into the air, snagged a Walsh pass and ran 47 yards into his own end zone Thursday night. He also scored three touchdowns und added an extra point for I Springfield but his wrong-way i terception run gave Walsh a safety. The game ended 53-2. The two points are all that have I been scored against Springfield High this season as the Longhorns ran their scoring to 166 points in winning four games in a row. The average daily attendance dur- i leg the 1958 Monmouht Park meeting i was 20 605 1959 RAMBLER Now at COMMUNITY MOTORS $05 So.

4th Scalpers Please Note: He Gave Ticket Away MILWAUKEE (AP) Scalpers note: one Milwaukee man won a World Series ticket and then gave I it away. William G. Conrad, head of the trust accounting department at a local bank was one of eight winners in a drawing for World Series tickets among bank ployes. Conrad gave it to Oliver E. Sindorf, an auditor at the bank, explaining Sindorf is an ardent fan and would get more enjoyment from the series.

Bv JOE REICHLER (AP Writer) MILWAUKEE (AP) worry about Wes Covington. He came to play. The crippled Milwaukee Brave I slugger declared i Tuesday he would be in the opening I day lineup Wednesday, bad legs and all. He spoke as if he already had gotten the word. Furthermore Covington said.

he intends to play in every game of the World Series against the New York I it goes four or seven. Manager Fred Haney steadfastly has refused to his opening day line-up because he insists he know until just before game time whether Covington will be available. All Haney has to do is ask Covington. Wes is to go. it it up to said Covington, he knows ready.

Heck, I ve been this way, and even worse, all year and I played I Why stop now? not everybody who can play in a World Series. I've been waiting for this all year You think I'm going to stay out it if I can help Covington has been plagued ai! season with a wrenched left He hurt it in a spring exhibition game with the Los Angeles Dodg ers. He slid into home plate and his knee banged into one of catcher Rube shinguards. Chri top of that, the 26-year-old left fielder pulled a muscle in his right thigh three weeks ago in a game I with Pittsburgh. Despite his handicap, the Laurinburg, N.C., strongboy was a powerful factor in the successful defense of their National League title.

He not only paced the club hitters with a .330 batting average but he drove in the spec tacular total of 75 runs on only 97! hits. averaging nearly one RBI per hit. Wes also clubbed 24 home runs, third only to Eddie 31 on the Braves. it ii it For a time it seemed there would be no final workouts at spic and span County Stadium. It rained during the night and there were occasional showers in the morning.

The Braves held a long clubhouse meeting with the doors locked and the hallway cleared i and sat around half dressed until it was decided to roll back the infield cover for batting practice. Spahn closed out a fine 22-11 season with a six-inning tune-up against Cincinnati last Saturday. Want Ads Harold's Men's Wear Famous LANEROSSI SPORT SHIRTS by "Game and Lake" Smart olors and Patterns SEE THESE AT IS WF AR AMAAA a a 526 Main Dial 2-2836 prestige Look for the dealer who displays this sign! He gives you the new Double Guarantee Plan: combines the famous anti-freeze product guarantee with his own personal guarantee in writing! anti-freeze has always been guaranteed by the maker. Now. the dealer who displays the sign (shown here) is prepared to add his personal guarantee, in writing, on replacement of brand anti-freeze lost as a result of mechanical leakage.

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