Show Comments Commends On Sports rs n By PETE FRiTCHiE This is the tim Urn c e of oC year ear sports writers start voting talking and writing about the greatest feats of or the year Looking over all the greats on the US U.S. sports scene the biggest biggest big bib gest item must be the sweep of oC the New York Yankees in in four straight games by the I ILos Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series THIS TIllS WOULD have been big sports news if the thc Dodgers had merely won But they scored an early knockout Yet it would not be right to sn say the Dodgers breezed through the Yankees They Every game ame played of oC the thc four was vas re re- The Yankees could have won any anyone one of them with one big inning late in the game They were consistently smothered with great pitch pitch- ing TilE THE STORY of oC this series was pitching and it is the old stOl story in baseball The Yankees Yankees Yankees' Yankees Yankees' Yank Yank- ees' ees Whitey Ford is as cool under the guns as anyone He lie didn't have ha the fine edge in inthe inthe inthe the first game though to beat Sandy Koufax though he could have won allowing a run nm or pitching a shutout Koufax was socked for a two run homer What many fans and some sports writers missed was the fact that Podres and Drysdale pitch pitched cd as well or better than Koufax Sandy was more spec spec- He deserved the honors hon hone ors for the overall rall performance perform perform- ance of the year But in the Series Drysdale didn't allow allowa a run and Podres departed in inthe inthe inthe the ninth inning of the second game with the Yankees at zero THAT WAS simply too good from Crom the number two and three men Downing and Bouton Bou Bou- Bouton Bouton ton could not nat match that even against the lighter hit t tin ting i n g Dodgers In the second game he worked Whitey F Ford For o r d shouldn't have lost He gave only two hits but should have given up Joe instead Ford really out pitched Koufax Koufax Kou Kou- fax if a choice had to be made though it was head to head hend The Yanks taken in four That has to be the big sports story of or 1963 THERE WERE other great stories Chuck McKinley l winning winning win win- ning the Wimbledon title was like the great old days But it has been a long time since anyone ran over the Yankees and rubbed their noses in the dirt |