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BEST OF GREAT CAREER Koufax"s 4th No-Hitter rilliant 'Perfect Game By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS & F It was Sandy Koufax' finest, ~ hour---a perfect game and the fourth no-hitter of his major league career. ws He retired all 27 batters to face him as Los Angeles Dodg ers bested Chicago Cubs and the one-hit pitching of southpaw Bob. Hendley, 1-0, before a crowd of 29,139 Thursday night. Koukax struck out the last six batters in a row and 14 in all, But though the baseball world hailed Koufax and _ his: historic victory--the first time in the majors that a pitcher achieved Nhe a. fourth no-hit game--Koufax himself shrugged it offs not © pe quite his best game. " é . Koufax has always felt that RANDY KOUFAX , his third no-hitter, the one he) ' pitched last season at Philadel+/ pame at Dodger Stadium, "but tel was the best game of his/the no-hitter at Philadelphia career. F ig,' "Tt had the best fast ball in er the last three innings that I've!/ MAY GET BONUS had all year and also the best| Dodgers' owner Walter _ becoming : other no-hitters -- against the club-house and is expected to reward him with a bonus for the first major leaguer ever to hurl four no- hitters -- and only the eighth since 1900 to notch a perfect ) game. When Koufax pitched. - his the Mets in 1962, the Giants in 1963 / and the Phils last year--O'Mal- ley came up with an extra $500. "I thought this was the best of all his no-hitters,". said Dodger, manager Walter Alston, In other National League ac- tion Thursday, San Francisco Giants defeated Houston Astros 4-0 and Cincinnati Reds edged ' New York Mets 3-2. Philadel- phia at Milwaukee was rained out, Koufax, now 227, struck out 14 batters, including the last six in a row, to break a personal three-game losing streak and deal a heartbreaking loss to | Hendley, 2-3. The Cub left-hander allowed) control," said the 29-year-old| O'Malley had a bottle of cham-| left-hander after Thursday's' pagne' delivered to Koufax in| only two runners to reach base) st | 1Sth_WIN-FOR-KAAT | leant Minnesota Twins appear past the final hurdle as they head for their first American League and would have, matched Kou) ; ' fax's no-hitter except for a re ane = get wl a bibad out ge 4 --., pend John-| The Twins have a seven-game son in the seventh inning, edge over second-place Chicago BREAKS STALEMATE today following a two - game Johnson broke the stalemate|sweep of the White Sox, Each lafter opening the fifth inning|¢lub has 19 games remaining with a walk and advancing on|and any combination of 13 Min- Ron Fairly"s sacrifice, When nesota victories or Chicago de- Johnson stole third, rookie feats, delivers the flag to the catcher Chris Krug threw the! Twins. ' i ball into left field for an error) Third - place Baltimore Ori- that Iet in an unearned run, |0ldes, 74 games back, actually "T can sympathize with Hend-|is better off statistically than ley--it's a shame to lose a game|the White Sox, The Orioles have the way he did," said Koufax,|22 games left and Minnesota Only two other pitchers since needs any: combination of 14 1900 had hurled as many as|Victories and Oriole defeats to three no-hitters: Denton Cy|end Baltimore's chances, | Young and Bob Feller. | And not only do the Twins} | Koufax leads the majors injhave that fat lead, but 14 of | victories with 22 and in strike-|their re maining games are) | outs with 32 in 290 2-3 innings.|against the American League's) He is scheduled to make his|second division. next start in Chicago next Tues-|HALL THE HERO | day afternoon and it's likely) Jimmie Hall, who homered in| he'll face Hendley in @ Ye-\each game, was the hero of the| match. isweep against the White Sox.| Meanwhile, the Dodgers have/The Twins squeeked by Wed-| snapped a two-game losinginesday night, 3-2, and ° then| streak and remain a half-game/ whacked four Chicago pitchers } gers of the Ameritan League Jimmie Hall Again Hero, srs: msi j= at Twins Sweep Sox Aside from Al Worthington for his 15th victory of the season, Willie Smith was the hero for California, unloading a bases- loaded double that drove in L three runs against the Athletics. Bobby Knoop had three hits and Ed Kirkpatrick a home run as Fred Newman cruised to his 12th victory. BLANCHARD S0LD KANSAS CITY (AP) -- Catcher-outfielder John Blan- chard was sold to Milwaukee Braves Thursday by Kansas City Athletics, Blanchard, 32, acquired last May 6 from New York Yankees, was in 53 games for the Athletics, batting .200. SCE OA AN OT INSULATE ey A top quality professional in- sulating service for new or old homes and other buildings fee- i (11 x KKH "First In Marine Propulsion" MERCURY '66 Now -- Most Powerful Outboard -- New Mercury 1100...110 H.P. NOW -- All Nine New Mercury's y ' So SSHAWAS TIMES) Pidey, September 10; 1965" 7 io purchase of the contract of|League. Outfielder Purn Goldy tcher Vern Holtgrave grom| was sold to Columbus Jets of yracuse of the International|the International OM ¥ x EAN AND RUGGED Oto 3.9H.P.) Are Quiet No Other Big Leaguer Had Four No-Hitters LOS ANGELES (AP)--Sandy Koufax has become the first pitcher in major league history to hurl four no-hitters. He put his name into baseball immortality here Thursday night by outduelling Bob Hend- lay of the Chicago Cubs 1-0 to pitch a perfect game before 29,139 National League fans. Thus he marked off his fourth|999 no-hitters for the Cubs, in|pinch-hitter Harvey Kuenn, for-| no-hitter in consecutive years) ll- year career, It was the eighth in modern history. ONLY FELLER A RIVAL Feller, the long-time Cleve- land ace, pitched no-hitters in 1940, 1946 and 1951 and was the only modern besides Koufax to have as many as three no- hitters, Corcoran pitched three pre- 1880, 1882 and 1884. Young inning by fanning Byron Browne, rookie left fielder. TENSION MOUNTS Then, in the ninth as the ten- sion mounted, Koufax fired a third strike past the young Cubs' catcher Krug. Pinch- hitter Joey Amalfitano also jwent down swinging on three pitches. And then it was up to American mer League batting and surpassed the record for|nitched his first no-hitter for|champion. multiple no-hitters held by Bob) Larry Corcoran. Koufax, a 20-year-old fire-| baller whose career was in) jeopardy three years ago be-) cause of circulatory ailment in} his pitching hand, achieved a baseball plateau as he set 27 Cubs down in order. | Koufax struck out 14, lifting his major league leading total to 332, as he posted the first Feller, Deriton Cy Young and|the National League, in 1897|ing and Koufax had his first| H Bi Off 'Has Big Offer, perfect game in his sparkling'struck out both, then ended the| pitched Cleveland, which was then in and pitched no-hitters for Bos- ton of the American League in 1904 and 1908. Koufax, bringing his record to 22-7, was overpowering with his assortment of fast balls and breaking stuff. In the eighth, he faced two of the Cubs' hardest - hitting players, third baseman Santo and Ernie Banks. PERFECT PITCHED GAMES SO FEW AND FAR BETWEEN | NEW YORK (AP)--Here is a list of perfect games pitched tn major leagues: 1880--John Richmond, Wor- cester vs. Cleveland, N.L., June 12, 1-0. 1880--John Ward, Provi- fence vs. Buffalo, NL June. 17, 5-0. 1904--Cy Young, Boston vs. Philadelphia, A.L., May 5, 3-0. 1908--Adrian Joss, Cleve- land vs. Chicago, A.L., Oct. 2, 1-0. 1917--Ernie Shore, Boston vs. Washington, A.L., June 23, 4-0 1922 -- Charles Robertson, Chicago vs. Detroit, A.L., April 30, 2-0. 1956--Don Larsen, New York, A.L. vs. Brooklyn, N.L. Oct. &, 2-6, World Series. 1989--Harvey Haddix, Pitts- burgh vs. Milwaukee, N.L., May 26, pitched 12 perfect innings before Felix Mantilla leading off in '3th reached base on third baseman Don Hoak's throwing error, After Ed Mathews sacrificed and Hank Aaron was walked in- tentionally, Joe. Adcock | doubled to score Mantilla, | ending the game, 0-1. 1964--Jim Bunning, Phila- | delphia vs. New York, N.L., | June 21, 6-0. 1965--Sandy Koufax, Los | Angeles vs. Chicago, N.L., Sept. 9, 1-0. Shore's 1917 performance is classified as a perfect game even though he did not start game, Babe Ruth, Boston's starting pitcher, was removed by umpire Clarence (Brick) Owens after giving a base on balls to Ray Morgen, the first hitter, Shore, /without warming up, to Ruth's place. Morgan was retired trying to steal second. From then on, Shore faced 26 bat- ters, with none reaching base. Ronjpitcher in the majors in 1963 He|when he posted a 25-5 record, no - hitter) BASEBALL SCORES, STANDINGS By THE CANADIAN PRESS | National League WoL Pet. GBL San Francisco $9 572 -- Los Angeles 61 567 & Cincinnati 567 \ Milwaukee 54 Pittsburgh 538 Philadeiphia Jl St. Louis 4196 Chicago ABR Houston 426 New York 315 Thursday's Results Houston 0 San Francisco 4 New York 2 Cincinnati. 3 Chicago 0 Los Angeles 1 Philadelphia at Milwaukee rain Probable Pitchers Today Milwaukee, Blasingame (16-9) at New York, Fisher (8-19) (N) 44 84 10% 18 0% 36% ppd, St. Louis, Gibson Philadelphia, Short (16-9) (N) Cincinnati, Jay (9-6) at Pittsburgh, Veale (15-10) (N) Houston, Roberts (9-8) at) i Angeles, Drysdale (18-12) (N) (17-10) at Minnesota, Perry (9-6) at Boston, Lonborg (9-15) (N) Detroit, Lolich (11-8) at Cleveland, Siebert (14-6) (N) California, Brunet (8-10) at Washington, Richert (12-10) (N) 2 New York, Stottlemyre (16-8) at ? Chicago, Peters (9-1) (N) Leafs And Jets Kuenn also went down swing- |perfect game. He also closed in on another of baseball's most spectacular jachievements, Feller's alltime |strikeout record of 348 in one jseason, Koufax now is 16 shy of matching that feat. Koufax, who won Young Award as the Cy the best his first against the New York Mets, June 30, 1962, winning 5-0, His second came May li, 1963, against San Francisco, with the Dodgers winning 80. Koufax made it three no-hitters last year, June 4, against Philadel- phia, winning 3-0. Koufax, whose career wag threatened following the 1962 season, also was presented with | Angeles Dodgers says he is con- behind San Francisco in the} National League race. Don Drysdale, 18-12, goes tonight! against Houston's Robin Rob-| erts in the opener of a three-| game weekend series. | Juan Marichal won No, 21 in a day game at San Francisco as he checked Houston on four jhits, It was the 10th shutout of the season for Marichal, Cincinnati pulled into a 2-0 lead on Deron Johnson's homer} in the fourth inning but the Mets tied it in the eighth on Roy McMillan's two-run single. Tor: Perez then won it for Cin- cinnati with two out in the ninth when he lofted a homer over the centre field wall. Don Drysdale | But Can He Go? LOS ANGELES (AP) --| Pitcher Don Drysdale of Los sidering a rich offer to play baseball in Japan, The big question is can he accept Baseball experts said Drys- dale cannot play in Japan un- less: --He is retired voluntarily by the Dodgers. --His club gives him an un- conditional release. --He is sold to the interested Japanese club, | The chances of the Dodgers! voluntarily giving up their No.! another chilling possibility when it developed this spring that he was suffering from) arthritis in the elbow of his| pitching arm. | Doctors at first feared that Koufax would be a once-a-week hurler, but the ace left-hander! |has managed to take his turn) Japanese club might every four days. However, he packs his arm in ice after the! game to guard against any seri- ous injury. Yankees Sign Johnny Keane NEW YORK (AP)--Manager| Johnny Keane will be back next! year but two other New York Yankee standbys, second-base-| man Bobby Richardson and| shortstop Tony Kubek, may not. At Wednesday's signing cere- monies in which Keane was re- tained for the 1966 season, the 53-year-old pilot acknowledged he has heard that Kubek and Richardson intended to retire at} the end of the current season. | "TL won't believe it until I see! it,"" he said. Richardson and Kubek have told team-mates they are at least considering retirement.) Third - baseman Clete RBoyer,) like Keane, said he had heard! both express those sentiments. Again, like Keane, he believes 1 right-hander are slim. EARNS $75,000 Drysdale is earning an esti- mated $75,000 a year. He has won 18 this season and is headed for a 300-inning pitching season for the fourth year in a An unauthorized jump to a bar him and his new owners from organ- ized baseball. A report of a $500,000 offer to Drysdale to pitch for an un- identified Japanese team ap- peared Thursday in a copy- righted story in the Los An- geles Herald.E-xaminer. 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