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qaeTa-i wrarrra- 2-I Sunday. Oct. 8. '68 DETROIT FREE PRESS WORLD 1 PREMIERE Second Shot at Gibson niaiHRjjiu.MiiMj ENGAGEMENT I Kaline: 'Can't Think We'll Lose Stuart I Millar presents PAP EH 1.1CM" Technicolor ADAMS BIRMINGHAM W0 1-8524 Ml 4-3533 cut across about half the distance from home to the mound and it's hard picking up the ball. The weather wasn't a factor, the way it looked like it would be.

It was as good as you can expect for this time of the year in Detroit. And the field was in perfect condition; I've never seen it any better here. Now we've got to get better. We came from behind all season and our guys even amazed me. We believed in spring training we were going to win the pennant and didn't feel differently at any time in the season.

Now we've just got to show that we can do it one more time for the big one and I believe we can do it. to lose; that's not the way to play this game and we haven't played it that way all year. AND LOU BROCK I wish he'd catch a cold or something. I've never seen anyone disrupt a game the way he does. I get a pretty good shot at him from right field and I've never seen anyone with so much speed on the first step.

I think Bert Campaneris of Oakland in our league is as fast and maybe faster but he doesn't have as good a first step as Brock. And Canpy plays on club that's down so he isn't going to disrupt a game the way Brock can. Brock has a strong Eneup behind him to take advantage of his stealing. I expect Brock to steal everytime he gets on base. As a matter of fact, I was surprised he didn't go for third, too.

Even though Earl Wilson was in trouble in each inning Saturday, the game was going our way until the fifth. I hit a hanging curveball for my home run in the third. I knew it was gone when I hit it I hit it real good. I REALLY appreciated that standing ovation from the fans in right and center. I've never had an ovation like that in my 16 years in Detroit.

It made me feel great. We had trouble with Joe Hoerner. He was hitting the corners and the shadows don't help. The shadows from the light standards BY AL KALINE There's no question about it. We're not in real great shape having to go against Bob Gibson Sunday and being down in the series two games to one.

Gibson is one of the greatest pitchers I've ever seen. I think we probably were a little awed in the opening game, what with it being our first time in the Series and then Bob was right on his game and right on the corners all day in getting those 17 strikeouts. But we've got to come to the park expecting to beat him. You can't think you're going GATEWAY i DEARBORN 10 1-3450 MAIKAI KE 4-8400 CO 4-0210. ROYAL UN 4-8800 WYANDOTTE -MAIN 5-1413 WOODS.

"YOU GO IN WE 7 Mac Offers Advice for Tiger Hurlers BY JACK BERRY The World Series TV sponsor gave all the Tigers a road race game Saturday. That's what they need to catch Lou Brock race cars. "I just wish these guys would concentrate more on the hitters than on Brock," Tiger second baseman Dick McAuliffe said after Brock swiped three more bases and completely threw off the Tigers. It's McAuliffe's opinion, and most others, that the Tiger pitching staff gets so rattled by Brock that it's easy prey for the following hitters. "EVERYTHING has to be perfect to get him," McAuliffe said.

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Studs sold only wher permiueo. Earl Wilson sat a few feet away, shirt, jacket and stockings still on. His baseball pants were off, though, and an Ace bandage was wrapped around an ice bag on CwJir if the back part of his leg, just above the knee. Wilson "pulled something" while Curt Flood was at bat in the fifth inning. Brock was on second after his single and a steal.

Did Brock get to him? Was he changing style be cause of Brock? Wilson said no. lX SSS-JU I v- TV "I WAS MORE interested in getting good stuff on the pitch to the plate. He's going to steal 90 percent of the time anyway so you can't worry about him. You've got to avoid making a mistake on the guy behind him." Wilson said. Wilson made mistakes, though.

Twice when Brock reached base against him and stole second Wilson lost cold, he couldn't grip the ball properly, he said. Wilson injured a leg muscle and was pulled from the game in the fifth inning. A TROUBLE-FILLED DAY ends in pain for Tiger pitcher Earl Wilson, who sits disconsolately at his locker, his thigh bandaged; explaining his lack of control on the mound. Because of the Free Press Photo Here's Why Those Refunds On Tickets Move Slowly vi 1 Your Purchase Monthly Payment $55 $5 $150 $10 $20Q I $13 Use Generals AUTO-CHARGE PLAN No money down, easy monthly payments You'd think all the ticket problems would be solved by now. Or at least forgotten in the fever of these games.

You think wrong. THE TIGERS still have 100 bags of unopened mail repeat, 100 bags and it's going to take them at least three more weeks to return all the dough. That's because John Fetzer is being so finicky. He insists that each rejection get a letter of regret so there Norm Otto sits with his 24 helpers slicing open envelope after en- BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Editor What's Willie Horton so unhappy about? So Mayo Smith yanked him out of leftfield. So what? Willie's luckier than every other player on the Tigers.

In fact, he's luckier than most of the people town. He wrote away for two tickets from the Tigers and got them! That gave him 22 for the Series, two more than any of his teammates, and only 58 less than Jerry Cavanagh. Besides, Mary Beck loves him. the battle with following batter. He walked Flood in the first and surrendered a double to him in the Cards' big four-run fifth inning.

Wilson was lifted after walking Roger Maris in the fifth and it isn't known yet whether he'll be able to pitch Wednesday if the series goes that far. Manager Mayo Smith said Joe Sparma will take Wilson's place in the rotation if Earl can't go. The atmosphere in the Tiger dressing room wasn't exactly funeral but it sure wasn't Mardi Gras. "I thought today would be the key game to our success," McAuliffe said. "Now we've really got to bear down.

If we'd won it would've made it easy for us. Now we've got to beat (Bob) Gibson. We've got to get a well-pitched game because you know he isn't going to give up many runs. "We'll have to get a couple hits, a walk bunch them, like they did in the first game in St. Louis," McAuliffe said.

"IT'S NOT OVER," manager Mayo Smith said vehemently when asked if the Tigers' chances weren't dim, going against Gibson Sunday and trailing 2-1 in the series. "He's not superman, you know," Mayo said. "He's gotta get beat sometime." Of Wilson's shaky performance, Smith said "He had his stuff but not his control and you've got to be a real good pitcher in this ballpark." "I just couldn't get the ball over the plate," Wilson said quietly. "To me it was a ball game like any other ball game the crowd didn't bother me; I like big crowds. "I had trouble gripping the ball because of the cold.

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velope and saying so sorry, please. Otto, the ticket manager of the Tigers, operates two crews of 13 people each. He starts in at nine o'clock in the morning and is still at it at eleven o'clock at night. He took care of 45,000 requests two tickets apiece, tickets in all. He is proud of that fact but he also knows that something like 450,000 ap plications must be returned.

THEY CAME from every state, including Hawaii and Alaska. He got them from Puerto Rico and South America. He even got one from the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. The fans used all sorts of persuasions to wheedle tickets out of Otto. One sent him an autographed baseball of the 1950 Tigers, proving he has been a long-time Tiger fan and had suffered through the lean years.

Another said: "I met my wife at a Tiger game 20 years ago and I would love to take her to a World Series game this year. You see, she is sick now and this woujd be perfect therapy for her. Please find enclosed a doctor's certificate attesting to her illness." ANOTHER WROTE: "I understand some people are getting double sets of tickets. If I don't get one set, we will stage a demonstration outside of Tiger Stadium a white demonstration!" Otto played no favorites. He took a letter from this bag, then that bag.

It was strictly a random harvest. But as neutral as he tried to be, Otto had a special place in his heart for the man in Bowling Green, Ohio, who wrote to him and said: "Dear Mr. Otto: Thank you for sending me these two World Series tickets. But there jnust be some mistakes. I did not order any World Series So I am returning them to you so that they may be forwarded to their proper owner." MOST STD.

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I do that all the time but usually I do it with the left hand." It caused momentary problems but Wilson got out of the inning on a doubleplay and infield grounder. The troubles kept piling though and then Earl's leg went and then the Tigers. Buy now at big savings! ANTI FREEZE SALE Get Precision Front End WHEEL ALIGNMENT Correct caster, camber toe-in, toe-out angles to factory FREE WINDSHIELD specifications. Adjust inspect steering. SCRAPER Si's only $139 gallon Limit 2 fats, per customer) General Tirt permanent type antt-freeze and coolant.

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