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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 24, 1964
Yanks Jump Four Games Ahead
(By United Press International)
(By United Press International)
The massacre of Lake Erie is over and the American League pennant race has gone up in the smoke of New York Yankee firepower.
It's all over except for the popping of the champagne corks in the Yankee clubhouse because the defending champions have rocketed into a four-game lead over both the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox.
The Yankees have 10 games to play but their magic pennant-climbing number is down to six—meaning that any combination of Yankee victories and losses by either opponent totaling six will end the race.
PHRASED MORE simply in view of the Yankees' current nine-game whirlwind streak, the Yankees will win the pennant merely by winning six of their remaining 10 games.
The Yankees moved to the threshold of their fifth straight flag and first under Yogi Berra when they swept a twi-night doubleheader from the Cleveland Indians, 4-3
in 11 innings and 6-4 last night. Their second straight doubleheader sweep enables the Yankees to pick up a game and a half on the Orioles, who lost to the Detroit Tigers, 10-3, and a half game on the White Sox, who scored a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels.
The Yankees completed their mission of whipping the Indians four in a row in Cleveland with Elston Howard's 11th-inning homer breaking up the opener and a tattoo of four singles sparking a decisive three-run fifth-inning rally in the second game.
THE WHITE SOX pulled out their victory over the Angels when they scored an unearned run in the ninth inning against 19-game winner Dean Chance, appearing in a rare relief role.
In the National League, Cincinnati topped Philadelphia, 6-4. New York edged St. Louis, 2-1, San Francisco downed Houston, 4-1, Chicago drubbed Los Angeles, 9-6, and Pittsburgh whipped Milwaukee, 7-4.
ARE THE PHILADELPHIA
Phillies faltering or fainting?
Five Returning Veterans Form Nucleus of Cross Country Team
With five returnees from last year's Big Eight championship cross country team, Jayhawk coach Bill Easton is looking forward to another banner year for the KU team.
Harold Hadley, John Lawson, Tom Yergovich, Ken Holm and John Donner are returning to form the nucleus of the 1964 cross country edition. About a dozen freshmen are fighting it out for the remaining starting spots in the upcoming meets.
"They're a responsible team and are coming along real well," said Easton, who is making a habit of producing championship cross country and track teams at KU.
"OUR TOUGHEST meets will be the ones against Chicago Track Club and Drake," Easton said. The Jayhawks defeated both teams last year, and are meeting them on consecutive Saturdays this season.
Easton will conduct time trials Saturday morning, and is still inviting anyone interested to try out for the cross country team.
Four dual meets and four team meets are on tap for Easton's cross country charges. The schedule:
Oct. 3—Southern Illinois at Carbondale; Oct. 10—Chicago Track Club at Lawrence; Oct. 7—Drake at Des Moines; Oct. 23-Oklahoma at Lawrence; Oct. 31—State Federation Meet at Manhattan; Nov. 7- Big Eight Conference Meet at Manhattan; Nov. 13-Central Collegiate Meet at Chicago; and Nov. 23-NCAA Meet at East Lansing, Mich.
That's the big question in the suddenly-revived National League race today with the Cincinnati Reds back within striking range of first place but with the Phillies still enjoying a $3\frac{1}{2}$-game lead.
The question is not whether the Reds can keep winning but whether the Phillies can start winning again.
The Reds bounced smartly back into long-shot contention last night when their 6-4 victory completed a three-game sweep of the Phillies and dealt them their fifth loss in their last six games. The Reds, meanwhile, have won four straight and seven out of nine.
But pennants are won on the playing field, not in accounting departments, and the gallant Reds certainly played the part of the "hot club" in hammering out their victory last night. Vada Pinson hit two homers—one breaking a 1-1 tie in the sixth and the other snapping a 3-3 tie and boosting the Reds into a 6-3 lead in the seventh.
Supporting the Reds' hopes is the fact that they play five of their last 10 games with the last-
place New York Mets and also have two face-to-face meetings with the Phillies. Against this reasonably optimistic outlook is the simple mathematical fact that five Philadelphia victories in their final nine games would mean the Reds would have to win nine out of 10 to tie for the flag and create a playoff.
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